He chuckled “Many times. The first few were in disbelief. Picture it.” He invited her “In class, he’s been going on about ads and the sanctity of brand recognition for 40 minutes already. He knows the ad is dropping and makes us do a countdown to the new coke ad release.” Nero rolled his eyes at the memory, as he had done at the time “The ad drops… and there’s silence. Not everyone in the room got the significance of how bad she’d just ruined her own image with the misplaced cultural reference. The professor is confused by it. We watch it three more times before he looks up who the girl is, to find her to be just a media influence and saw the backlash. His heart was crushed that coca cola would do this to him. The net ten watches he critiques every frame of the ad and on the eleventh watch he converts to Pepsi.”
Lottie’s laughter increased as she heard the rest of the story. “I have to admit to feeling a little sorry for your professor. To have all your hopes and excitement not only crushed but publicly in front of his whole class can’t have been easy. Especially if humiliation isn’t a turn on for him!” Shaking her head with amusement she looked up at the man, “And did you switch brands on the basis of that tragic advert too?”