How to be Funny with a Good Message

The first thing that grabbed my attention about this commercial was the song, a classic in the hip hop world. It was more entertaining as other people in the car started singing the words and then the final scene with the driver singing made me laugh out loud. At first I was like "why is the old guy hanging out." but alas, he is the taxi cab driver. If only all taxi cab drivers were that cool with drunk people in their cars at 2am.

True story: two friends of mine were leaving my birthday party a few years back, one of those friends being WASTED. They were being smart and getting a cab home but when the driver saw my said wasted friend he said "is she going to puke? If she's going to puke I'm not driving you." My semi sober friend assured the cabby that no puking would be taking place. And it didn't....until they got to their stop, open the door and semi sober friend put one foot outside the door. Of course, they gave them all their money to pay for the trip and the future detailing and airing out of the cab.

Hey but that's better than a d.u.i. or killing somone in an accident.

Getting Out of the Straitjacket

I am thinking more and more that non-profits, charities, city governments, schools, etc really need to start thinking about revamping their missions, goals, and ways of doing things.

I feel like the school system is failing not only it's students more and more but it's teachers as well. And non-profits are holding on my the skin of their teeth right now. Of course the economony doesn't help, but this would be a great time for those organizations to take a look at what they're doing and really see if it has been working, or at least working to the best of thier abilities.

The country has changed. The world has changed. The people these organizations cater to have changed. And yet the organizations don't seem to be moving quite as quickly.

I know we all like our comfort zones, and change is scarey, but my head is exploding with ideas about how so many problems could be improved with just some tweaking.