It’s been what… 15-20 years since the ads ran but…
“I HAVE A STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT BUT I NEED CASH NOW!!
CALL JG WENTWORTH, 877-CASH-NOW!!”
It pops into my head at least once a month, and it sits for 1-3 days on repeat in my brain. I swear it was some MK-Ultra level psyops level writing, whoever came up with those commercials.
Damnit, I can’t unsee this comment. Now it’s living rent free. Yeah I remember this distinctly. Odd that better call saul didn’t remind me of this one though.
I also remember drivers ed. It was this enormous class of like 90 people over February break packed into the tightest room you can imagine. I sat in the same spot near the back every day. The girl in front of me also sat in the same spot every day, in front of me. She was extremely attractive and she wore a thong every day that stuck out of her low-rise jeans.
It drove me crazy. Absolutely insane. Every day, trapped in this stuffy room, with this insanely hot girl that drove me crazy. I couldn’t think.
On the last day, I asked if she wanted to go to the arcade or movies sometime. I had to take my shot. She said “No” with no emotion or any thinking really.
That is my overwhelming memory of drivers ed. The sexual frustration of my 16 year old body followed by embarrassment and failure.
Conversely, I haven’t thought about drivers ed in 25 years and you just brought probably 40 very distinct memories back to mind about everything related to learning to drive for me that I haven’t thought about in a long, long time.
In a drivers ed meeting.. teacher talking about stop lights, he mentions the cross walk signs and said “Well get to those soon..”. But he never did.
I think about this way too much.