A radio announcer, while doing a live commercial for a locally owned florist today, praised the family that runs the business. "I've met them, and there's not a clunker in the bunch," he said.
That made me wonder, "What if there were slackers who worked in that family business? Would the host have put a qualifier on the commercial, saying, 'Granted, John is frequently on his phone during work hours and might barely give customers a passing glance,' or 'Jane sometimes passes off plastic roses as real ones, telling unsuspecting customers that they just happened to grow with unusually rigid precision?'"
Obviously, he wouldn't have said that. Still, I wonder if his tone might have been a bit more restrained.
