Advertising is inescapable these days....
I'm sitting on hold waiting to make an appointment for a drive test at the DMV. I'm now up to almost 25 minutes of waiting, which is bad enough (for everything but drive tests, you can use either the telephone automated system, or the website), but they're playing an actual local radio station on the hold. What does this mean? Well, 25 minutes is enough time to get stuck in at least one many-minute-long commercial spree.
Since when should calling the DMV require me to listen to advertising? What, they're too good for muzak?
Ah, but there's a happy end to the story. After 25 minutes on hold, wasting my time in the morning, the DMV unceremoniously hung up on me, without so much as ever letting me hear a live human's voice. sigh At least I didn't have to listen to any more advertising...