There is a peculiar advantage to driving around in a company vehicle that, for music choices, is equipped with only an AM/FM radio; if one chooses to listen to it, one is listening to the music, news, and ads at the whim of the particular station's programmer, be it human or computer.
In the early afternoon hours around Eugene, I'm usually listening in to the Dan Patrick show on 1320 The Score, and for the past couple of weeks, I've been hearing a radio spot for the Oregon Urology Institute’s campaign for men to get vasectomies before the upcoming NCAA Men's Basketball Tourney.
The "recovery kit" that the radio station is offering those who elect to have the procedure done is amusing, certainly fitting in with some of the ideas men might have about things that are needed to help in the healing process, the inclusion of a bag of frozen peas always makes me laugh out loud.
It's a radio ad that sneaks up on you, at first listen the topic of the ad combined with the light hearted tone taken up made me wonder if what I was hearing was a put-on. Repeated listens have made it clear that this is indeed something that a number of men must consider at some point in their lives.
In today's Register-Guard, columnist Bob Welch did a little behind-the-sceneS look at the ad, written in the same humorous way as the radio ad is. Nice job Bob, his story is HERE.
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