This is the third and final event that occurred to me during the middle eighties, in which I believed to be just another every day normal event, however what set these experiences apart was the "information" I was receiving. In the first to events,nothing seemed out of the ordinary and it didn't hit me until at least a year later that something seemed odd.One thing for sure, nobody knew what I was talking about, and or had heard of the stories I was conveying. So I'll set up the main of this story before I get into the peculiarities of it.
Again this is back in the middle eighties. I'd say eighty seven. Junior in Highschool, and I'm getting ready for another day of school. I couldn't even say what day it was, as over twenty years has elapsed. Strangely enough I do remember I was eating breakfast and watching T.V. I'm seeing a commercial, and this is what I see. First an announcer comes on talking about something to the effect of, "Can you see yourself going to the grocery store..?"As he says this, a picture of the inside of a grocery store comes onto the screen. It's an angle shot taken from the view of behind a shopping cart, looking towards fruits and produce aisle. Next he says "...Now imagine stopping by a gas station and filling up your car." As he says this, a picture comes on the screen of a gas station with several cars fueling up. Once again the T.V. announcer chimes in. "...and now before you head home, you decide to rent a movie." The picture cuts to the front of a Video Store-type rental. Finally the announcer says, "Now imagine doing this all with one card..." At that last spiel, a picture of the planet is seen floating in space, from the bottom of the screen a card emerges, held by someones hand. The card is slowly rising in the forefront, from the bottom of the television screen. Eventually becoming the focal point of the screen, covering the scene of the blue planet spinning in the darkess of space. Finally, the voice says one more thing, "Soon, you'll be able to".
Now the last image of this commercial is the picture of this card with the word UNIVERSAL sprawled across the top. It was dark colored in nature, and didn't seem to have any other distinct trademarks. I recall seeing this commercial over twenty years ago. There was nothing unusual or "out of the ordinary" about the experience, in fact the experience was so ordinary that I never bothered to validate its existence with anybody else, and I think back to how that would sound; "Hey man, have you seen that debit card commercial that just came out?". Here's the thing that makes this mundane event odd. The fact that I only saw that commercial once in my whole entire life. That one time, back in the eighties, also the fact that I had never heard of UNIVERSAL, before or since. Actually, about fifteen years later it dawned on me that the claims the UNIVERSAL commercial gave, never came about.(UNIVERSAL card?) So I became curious to see if they even existed. I happened to be reading a newspaper at the time, so I turned to the Business\Financial page to see how "UNIVERSAL" stocks were doing, and lo and behold. UNIVERSAL credit\debit does exist.
So thats pretty much the story.I saw this commercial and the event seemed to be a real one. Just as real as any other typical ordinary daily event. After twenty sum odd years have gone by, I'm still waiting to see UNIVERSAL credit\debit come to pass, as the commercial said it would. Here's one more cool part of the story. Back in the eighties I was only able to relay my experiences with only a handful of classmates, as the inter-net super highway was not fully up and running. But now I'm able to ask literally billions of people, "Have you heard of the UNIVERSAL credit\debit card, have you seen their commercial?" Well maybe, in due time, you will.
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