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Last week, I noticed an ad on television for…umm…well, there’s never a good word for this product, but it’s pads. You know, maxi pads? Sanitary napkins, ect… Anyway, these three lovely young ladies were lounging around near a pool or wherever when one of the girls notices a water tower near by. And the water tower is about to burst.

She grabs a pad from her purse, leaps to the rescue and just as the water tower bursts open, she holds the pad up and captures the oh, I don’t know, few thousand gallons of water into the pad. Crisis averted the other girls congratulate her on a job well done and one of the girls marvels at how the pad, after taking in ALL that water, is still dry.

First of all it’s the stupidest maxi pad commercial I’ve ever seen. But besides that, the timing couldn’t be more dubious. After the news back on February 6th about astronaut Lisa Nowak and her 900 mile non-stop car trip, accomplished in part by wearing one of the NASA space diapers, I got to thinking: What if someone saw this commercial, believed the pad could hold THAT much water and instead of trying to get the special NASA diaper (or a pair of Huggies), wore one of these pads for their own 900 mile non-stop jilted lover car trip?

You think I’m kidding don’t you? I hear allegations of false advertising all ready…