Published 2025-06-07
tag(s): #useless-facts
Last week, we were waiting at a traffic light and I noticed one of those electronic billboards
that rotate between several ads.
A dark background, in somber tones, got my attention. In BIG letters, "To stop drinking is
only the first step". As I am about to read the second, smaller, sentence, the billboard
switches to the next ad.
Colors! A party! Only two words, right in the middle: "Happy Vodka".[1]
There's these billboards all over the place "i got hurt in jersey dot com".
Actually, there are so many of them, that I knew I would very quickly find a
picture online.
We assumed (because we have lived in the US for more than five minutes) that these are ads for a law firm.
Once I told Maria, imagine a dude going to their website, sobbing and alone at night, and typing in their contact form: "I thought we were meant for each other, but she left and I am so sad now".
And since the day of the initial joke, I can't help but imagining a poor intern filtering all the incoming messages to remove the ones about heartbreak, or friends drifting apart, etc. as if people were using their website as a confessional of sorts.
If any reader needed something to keep their heads busy when the NJTP traffic is bumper to bumper, you are welcome. =P