The Weekly Dose of Ridiculous

We're going to the small screen this week, for a commercial that I find totally ridiculous.  If you haven't seen it, here it is:

The person in this video wakes up in Los Angeles--after the sun has already come up--to find that she (I'm assuming from the way her hands look) is about to be late for her flight.  She frantically packs, impatiently mashes the elevator buttons, and gets in a cab.  She runs through the airport, relying on her phone to tell her what gate to go to, and is (apparently, since the jetway is empty) the last person--by several minutes--to board the aircraft (don't you just love those people?).

She then promptly falls asleep, and wakes up to discover she's the last person on the plane (guess she didn't learn her lesson from the night before).  As she struggles towards baggage claim, her phone tells her what belt to go to for her bag, and then we see her collapsing into bed at what we assume is her house (while it's still light outside).  At the end of the commercial, she's using her phone to plan her next trip.

I'm probably going to sound like a curmudgeon here, but I think a little prior planning on this woman's part would go a long way.  Why is she relying on a phone app to wake her up and let her know that her flight leaves in two hours?  What about traffic, security delays, etc?  What if your phone doesn't get the update for your gate/baggage claim/departure time?  (I've received messages before while traveling that my gate had changed--AFTER I landed at my destination). And then, at the end of the commercial, we see her planning her next trip--where she will (presumably) go through the same process.

All of this for a flight from Los Angeles to Seattle.  This is at most a 3-hour flight, that takes off and lands in daylight hours in this commercial (in case you couldn't see it at the beginning, when she got the reminder, it said LAX - SEA).  Not like she's crossing an ocean or the International Date Line.

We see a commercial like this and laugh at this bumbler, but the truth is there really ARE people like this out there, scrambling through life at the last minute with their hair on fire.  Showcasing their behavior, and basically saying there's an app for laziness and poor planning is, well...ridiculous.

Until next time, dear readers...please show up on time for your flights.