the billboard

I drove to salt lake last night to take my visiting teaching to the airport to visit her boyfriend for valentines day. I had heard that there was snow coming, but it seemed like the sky's were pretty clear and so we headed out 2 hours before her flight was schedule to leave. We got a little past Orem center street on the freeway, and then traffic stopped. It just stopped. There were small flurries, but nothing really bad. It then took us 3 1/2 hours to get from there to thanksgiving point. I am quite sure I could have walked faster. It was snowing really bad at that point. After we got over the bug hill at the point of the mountain, all the traffic just disappeared. It was so crazy. I would have thought they were all abducted or something. they just ::poof:: and vanished. we got her to the airport and she got on a later flight. However, I was then stuck in SLC because the southbound traffic was going even shower than the northbound had been. I had to spend the night at my grandparents, and subsequently miss this class the next day. There is a media related point to this story, I promise. during the hours that we did not move, we were right next to a huge billboard for BYU. It was one for online courses and it had a big picture of Meg Moffets face on it, with something like, "online classes fit her schedule!" and it got me thinking... Meg has not taken online classes... ever. she is just cute. thats why she is on that billboard. Then I was thinking, how often does that happen? In my magazines, and on TV, the people are just good looking. they may never have tried the product, service, or company they are representing. It makes me a little more wary of advertisements that seem convincing because of the people.