Buy One Get One Free

Last week, I was listening to the radio and a commercial came on for one of those laser eye surgery clinic places. I forget how exactly the ad went, but the gist of it was "I bet you thought laser surgery was too expensive. Don't, we've got the lowest prices around, and the best part is, if you get one eye done, the second is always free!"

I don't know if anyone else has heard this same commercial (I think it was on B96 but I'm not sure, there are like 10 stations I regularly listen to), but hopefully someone out there is just as disturbed as me after hearing it. I mean, it's not like getting eye surgery is very comparable to buying tomatoes at the local supermarket, where they have buy one get one free. Admittedly, a big part of the reason I haven't gotten the surgery is the cost, but just as much a concern is the possibility that they might pork up my eyes and I would go blind for the rest of my life. So really, the last place I'd want to go to is somewhere that is advertising a Buy One Get One Free deal. I'm surprised they haven't sent out 30 cent off coupons in the mail yet, or maybe they have and I missed it. I can only imagine what kind of TV commercials they would do. It would probably turn out like those Eagle Man or Victory Auto Wrecker commercials, something so amateur it's a joke.

And shouldn't it be kind of implied that wherever you go for surgery, they would do both eyes, not just one? Who is gonna pay thousands for someone to fix one eye and not the other? I am guessing the one-eyed pirate portion of their customer population is very limited. Anyways, what am I supposed to do with one good eye, walk around with my hand over the one they didn't fix, looking like a flaming fool? Needless to say, you will not find me frequenting this organization for their services. I will continue to wear my nerdy glasses and struggle with the inconvenience of contacts until my trust is earned by the people in this profession.