a flash of common sense

lately I have been noticing a lack of common sense being displayed on our televisions.

I mean I have seen a worse then usual display of idiocy.

First I want to address the issue/s with Toyota. While I understand that there are problems with Toyota and some of the issues that have come out of that, I have to take a moment to pause and say "but I would rather own A Toyota than ..." you see I look at the Ford pinto or the Crown Victoria and here we have two cars that have shown a tendency to explode when rear ended, there are several GM cars that have also, apparently, displayed some homicidal tendencies.
the worst people can say about Toyota is the vehicle/s may accelerate on their own.

my view is, there is very little I can do about getting rear ended by an idiot. (maybe he is driving the toyota?)but if I am driving a toyota and it starts accelerating I can do something about it.

Once, when I was a school bus driver, I had the throttle on my bus stick open while on the highway. I had a load of students on my bus and teachers as I was driving for a field trip.

When this became an issue I was able to put the gear selector in neutral and pull to the side of the road and come to a complete and safe stop.

I then proceeded to fix the problem and finished taking the students to their destination.
The teacher's comments were that they didn't even realize there was anything going on until we stopped at the side of the road. And I started working on the problem.

ANY good driver who has common sense ought to be able to do this.

You can ALWAYS put the car in neutral, turn off the ignition etc... I have NEVER experienced loss of control for having my vehicle in neutral. So anyone who is "capable" of driving the car they ought to be able to take control if something goes wrong.

It is plain common sense.

The other point is a commercial I recently have seen for a new, hands free, soap pump from, I think, Lysol which states that "you" can avoid the horror of contamination by getting the new pump.
My very first thought was "wait a minute, that doesn't make sense."

If I am using soap then I am already washing my hands. I do not make a habit of touching a soap pump AFTER washing my hands so to have the pump be hands free is ridiculous.
Any germs I MIGHT pick up off the pump will wash down the drain along with the germs already on my hands that caused me to be washing in the first place.

So please people get some common sense. stop letting the advertising people out there take away your intelligence.