SWGA Politics

It Ain’t Easy Being Green

I was in Atlanta last week and heard a commercial for Hyundai. The commercial said that a customer could purchase a new automobile from now until June 30 and the company would actually send the customer a check back every month for the next six months. Plus if the customer loses his or her job within the next 12 months, the customer could return the car, keep the monthly payments, and not cause damage to his or her credit report.

That sounds like a pretty snazzy deal. It was followed by a tag line that went something like, “At Hyundai, we don’t mind spreading the wealth.”

I saw the exact same commercial in Albany an hour ago. The deal was the same, but the tag line was changed to something else that sounded a little less, ahhh, socialistic.

I suppose that is an example of the two different markets. Atlanta is like another state, almost like another country. There is a glimpse of Georgia hidden in the menagerie, but as quickly as they drive on 285, it is rarely seen.

Everything is green up there too. During our stay we visited the Georgia Aquarium, World of Coke, and Centennial Park. The rays in the touch tank at the aquarium were on a 15 minute break before they could be touched again. It was almost as if they had formed a union and brokered a deal with the sharks! The bathrooms at the aquarium and Coke museum featured waterless urinals. I was in a building that houses the largest aquarium in the world and they were worried about me flushing the urinal.

I told my wife that if I had another encounter with the word green, my head was going to explode. It was then that she pointed out a sign in Centennial Park that advertised their movies on the green—green referencing the lawn here.

To be honest, I started to miss home. I told my wife that staycations are just as much the rage as the color green. I could have had a similar experience in downtown Albany at the Riverquarium and Turtle Grove Park. She reminded me that we don’t have a World of Coke in downtown Albany, but I told her that the family could walk across the street and buy a Coke for less than the $50 it cost us to get into the giant advertisement called the World of Coke. That is being conservation minded and it would have saved a heck of a lot of, shall I dare say it, GREEN!