Most of us have that one commercial, or series of commercials, that absolutely makes us swear we will never buy the advertised product or service. For me, it’s the long-running string by Progressive Insurance featuring an overaged soyboy “counselor” trying and failing to convince new homeowners that buying a home should not automatically make them fall into speech patterns and behavior patterns mimicking the parents of boomers. The implication is you should do everything possible to avoid becoming the stereotypical image of 1950s to 1970s suburban Americans.
The problem is that unless your parents, singularly or together, were either absent or abusive, there are and forever will be cherished traits handed down from them to you that you wisely refuse to discard. I’ve never met a person with perfect parents, for they were or are as stubbornly human as…
