Women...I have a Question for you regarding Women's Safety.

[BlueJazz]

There's a new Ford (auto) commercial that I find rather unsettling.

In case you haven't seen it >>>

A Lady is pulling up to a toll booth...she spots this Guy in her rear-view mirror
(she thinks he's cute) ...She pays the toll-booth person her fee and his fee plus gives
the toll person her phone number to give to the Guy.

I guess I'd like to ask the Lady:

"Ah..so you think that because he's "Cute" that he HAS to be a nice person"?
Have you ever heard of Ted Bundy?..He was quite Good-Looking. He could have found your address very easy on the web (via phone number)....Are you F*cking Crazy?

I mean,if she had been introduced to this guy either at work or by a close friend, I could well understand her giving out her phone number but to a total stranger??

Maybe I'm being just "Weird" about this....

[Raine]

1. I haven't seen the ad but

any woman who would really do that would be a complete and total idiot! :-(

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. As a woman, I say chill. It's a commercial.

Getting upset about commercials is pretty pointless. I doubt anyone is going to give their numbers to strangers, because of a commercial, unless they would already give their number to strangers.

I'm a lesbian, so if I'm giving out my number, it's generally to a woman, but I've given it out to guys I barely know before. I'm pretty good at judging somebody's character, so I don't worry about it too much, and I've never had a problem.

[BlueJazz]

4. What you say is true but also....

..a lot of young women emulate actions and fashion...etc.
Your obviously are a hip person (You ARE on DU) but a lot of other women might not be as savvy as you.

[Breeze54]

11. Are you saying you've never heard of...

http://flirtingintraffic.com/

“pull up next to a car at a red light, and wonder is that my future spouse....
a Web site dedicated to helping people cash in on what are called chance encounters”

Flirting in Traffic.com

“think that driver in the other car is making eyes at you in your rear view mirror,
here is a way he or she isn't the one that got away ”

http://flirtingintraffic.com/press.cfm

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

12. Nope, I'd never seen that site before.

Pretty funny though. I've seen physically been part of it, but I didn't know there was a website for it.

[dflprincess]

3. There's another ad like that only in that one the woman

is picking up her dry cleaning at a drive up window and pays for a couple of shirts for the guy in the car behind her and, again, gives the clerk a note to give to the guy.

No, I would not do this. Not only is it isn't safe, but how do you know the guy is single? I can't imagine giving someone my number only because I liked his looks.

[uppityperson]

5. maybe she's giving him Mark Foley's number?

[Berry Cool]

6. We wish!

Yeah, the commercial is kind of dumb if anyone emulates it. The good thing is, she gives him "her card," which implies maybe it's her work number, not her home number. Not that she couldn't be harassed to death at work.

Nah, the safest way for a woman to play it is to ask a man for HIS number if she's interested. She could have done something like saying "Tell him if he'd like to thank me in person, I'm going to the coffee shop around the corner."

[Breeze54]

7. Why would you ask the actress?

Ask the idiots who wrote the ad! FORD!!

[sandnsea]

8. Is she "getting her girl on"??

Or whatever, I think it's the hummer commcercials. Anyway, I don't like any of them. Although I have flirted with guys driving down the freeway and a lot more than that with guys I'd barely met. What can I say, it was the 70's. :rofl:

[AlCzervik]

9. Ford can't get young woman to buy their cars, i doubt Ford could make

them imitate whats in their dumbass commercial.

[mcscajun]

10. Nope. You're not being weird about it.

I sure as hell wouldn't pass my phone number to a stranger via a toll-booth collector anymore than I'd post it on the 'Net for all to see.

But...in the world of advertising fantasyland, obviously, everything goes, and nothing bad ever happens, except in ADP Home Security Commercials. :)

[marions ghost]

13. what bothers me

is the promotion of the illusion that the world is safe enough to give your info to strangers.

Of course nobody who values their life would.

[pitohui]

14. saw it, thought it was odd too

but it's teevee, it's fantasy

teevee also advise you to order domino's or put shamu in the family swimming pool