Those Despicable Wrap-Around Ads

In a word, I hate them. Yeah, yeah, I know … that’s three words.

But that only goes to stress the point that I hate wrap-around advertisements that come in the newspaper. They intrude on my sense of well-being.

At first it was just in the Sunday comics section, but more recently the wrap-arounds have been impinging on my ability to read the front page without distraction.

So you know what I do? I immediately remove the front-section wrap-around and toss it. It usually is a separate sheet of paper, thank goodness.

The comics section wrap-around is attached to the back sheet of comics, so I have to tear it off, which leaves a ragged edge on the last pages of comics and offends my sense of propriety.

If the ads are meant to catch my attention and implant the advertiser in my self-conscious, it doesn’t work.

Except for the fact that I took a picture of today’s wrap-arounds and it’s posted here, I wouldn’t even know who the advertisers are.

I hate wrap-around ads in the newspaper.