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At the end of every month I create a little list of possible BlogHer blogging topics. I do this because I'm a busy woman and my blogging for women's health days can sneak up on me faster than the darn dog who tries to trip me every time I'm carrying a cup of hot coffee. I don't usually stick to my schedule but it gives me things to look for while I'm reading blogs and news items. For June, I dropped "blog about PSAs" into the list. I have no idea why I put that on the list, probably because it's a throw away topic - easy to blog if I'm stuck or behind schedule and easy to toss away if I find more interesting things to blog about. Sure enough, before the first week of June was through I had decided to toss PSAs out for this month. But then weird things happened.
First weird thing, while I was blogging about Pandemic Flu my s/o looked up and said "I wonder how many cities and communities have civil defense sirens nowadays". Hmmm I had no idea, but now I do. I wasn't sure these still existed in communities, except for military communities. I grew up with them and so did my children but we also grew up ignoring them because they were always "just training" when we heard them.
Next weird thing, I found myself at the mall! That never happens and I like it that way. I was there with TW for the Hurricane Awareness event and guess who was there with us? Smokey Bear! Only you can prevent forest fires! I don't watch much TV anymore so I have no idea if Smokey Bear even does PSAs for TV anymore. Does he?
Oddly enough, I started hearing a PSA about Florida Wild Fires on the radio. Only noticeable to me because the PSA wasn't directing folks to the Solutions For Your Life website (which is what TW does for a living) but to another UF website: Fire in Florida. (Though once I actually explored it I realized they were just trying to confuse me with the domain name and a redirect.)
Next oddity, my boss who is alwasy amusing and entertaining and a pleasure to work for made a little marketing joke about a potential offering and it sent my co-workers into hysterics. They found her idea to adapt the old Your Brain on Drugs PSA amusing and I found it a sure sign that the stress of recent weeks has finally gotten to her. It did give me the chance to suggest she go to work for the folks at the Ad Council and point out that THEY have a very nice blog.
Last sure sign that I really NEEDED to write about PSAs was my friend Em blogging about smoking PSAs that are on TV now. I have no idea which spot she and HJ are enjoying together, but I wish I did.
There you have it, PSAs entered my world in a lot of ways. How do they enter yours? Do your kids see and hear these and realize what they are? Did you understand them for what they were when you were a child? And just for fun, do you have a favorite PSA?
~~Denise
Flamingo House Happenings and Fast Times @ Homeschool High
