"If you go to the barber. . . ."

Nice break.  I'm all ready for the future!  I was watching television with my mother last night after dinner and saw an advertisement for knee replacements.  When I watch television with my mother, I see all the ads, and it seems that the majority by a mile are for prescription drugs.  They are disheartening, but you might not know to ask your doctor if you hadn't seen the ad, right?  And they are up front.  If you are willing to suffer deafness and blindness and the loss of a some of your other body functions for sexual arousal. . . ?  Erections lasting longer than two days may cause kidney failure, etc.  I understand these sorts of ads.  But knee replacement?!

"Oh, shit honey, come look at this.  I hadn't thought of this.  What do you think?"

Is it something you have to think about?  Maybe it is reassuring to people who must have them, I don't know.  But as I heard a doctor telling a fellow at the gym, "If you go to the barber, you get a haircut, right?"  He kept saying this over and over to a fellow who was going to have knee surge.  I couldn't figure that one out and checked it off to him being decidedly Asian, thinking that it was some proverb he grew up with.  Maybe it was.  Maybe I'm just slow.  Awhile later, though, I realized if you go to the butcher, you get meat.  If you go to a car dealer, you get a car.  Don't worry, it will come to you.

All I know is that they don't seem to be advertising the things I really need when I'm watching television with my mother.