So, I'm driving to work this morning, listening to the radio, and I hear this... unusual advertisement.Valentine's Day is coming up, so of course we're being bombarded with ads telling us to buy this or that for our significant others; everything from handmade teddy bears to cars is fair game. Buy her a diamond ring! Buy her flowers! Even "warming" K-Y jelly is getting its time in the sun.
So, this one was a little weird.
This year, for Valentine's Day... get her a vasectomy.
Yeah, it was for a local vasectomy clinic. Now, I'm all for vasectomies. Frankly, I think the world is overpopulated enough as it is. But hearing a vasectomy advertised as a romantic gift was a little bizarre, even for me.
"If your family is complete... why not a vasectomy?"
Edit: I should have mentioned that the procedure is described in the ad as "virtually painless." Yikes.
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