A commercial violator is a person who has a flagrant disregard for the unwritten laws of
TV commercials. To elaborate, the general rule is that when you are watching
tv with others and a commercial comes on, you are free to tell whatever idiotic story you
like, but when the commercial break ends, the story must be completely finished.
A commercial violator tends to have an endless supply of crappy stories about how their
day went. This person does not sit down with the group with the intent of watching
tv, but rather conveying some sort of story to the group. As the commercial violator begins their story, the keeper of the remote turns down the volume of the
tv to be courteous. The situation quickly goes awry as soon as the commercial is over and the end of the story is nowhere in site.
One must avoid watching
tv with commercial violators at all cost. However, if you find yourself in posession of the remote and a commercial violator's story is exceeding its alloted
time, it is adviseable that you very discreetly turn up the volume on the
television set until he/she stops.
person A: Yeah so I was trying to watch mythbusters the other day and my
mom was being a total commercial violator. She was telling some crappy story about something funny she saw on C-Span.
person B: God damnit. How was the situation resolved?
person A: It wasn't, she finished her story and I missed half the
fucking show. I did not get my Kari Byron
dose of the week.
person B: NOT COOL!
