While on vacation, I saw the following public service announcement that took me on a roller coaster of emotions.
At first I thought, “Oh my god! What’s this? A promo for a new TV series in which Sharon plays a ball-busting attorney who pulls no punches? Or maybe she’s a man-eating executive who manages her lady business with an iron fist. Or maybe she’s playing a ruthless photographer who will stop at nothing to have all of her skin flaws washed out by a large floodlight that her personal assistant shines on her wherever she goes.” Then she said she could leave me weak, limp, twisted, and confused, and I was sure she must be talking about that aggressive girl I dated for a few weeks in 11th grade. Then I realized this was some weird PSA to help people learn the symptoms of a stroke.
I’m not sure what’s worse—the way she chokes up at the end or the bizarre flash bulb effect or the fact that her face is cropped so closely I was afraid it would come out of the TV and get me like that soggy girl in The Ring. But, in my ongoing commitment to no longer pity people who have more money than me, I refuse to feel sorry for Sharon. She probably made more money for kicking Arnold Schwartzenegger in the balls while filming Total Recall than I make in a semester of verbally abusing college students for building ugly websites. So, despite her battle with spontaneous brain bleeding, she’ll get no pity from me.