Northwestern Mutual Eliminates Worries. ‘Bob Garfield’ Comments

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An Adrants reader sums up this Northwestern Mutual site perfectly, writing, “It won’t make me buy their financial products but it’s fun.” Visit Wreck Your Worries, type in a worry and choose from four tools you can then use to destroy your worries. It was very theraputic but we’d agree with the reader. After we finished hammering away all our daily worries, we just left. Yup, we didn’t buy any life insurance. Not a bit.

Looking over our shoulder as we wrote, our blowup Bob Garfield doll, standing stoically but mildly deflated from all the darts we’ve tossed while in the corner of our office, was heard saying, “Oh shut up Adrants! You guys are idiots! I know what you’re all about! You’ll do anything to piss people off with your lame-ass commentary!” OK. Sorry, Bob. We promise we’ll read your Chaos Theory piece now. [Ed. To be clear, the real Bob Garfield didn’t say this. He gets mad when you put words in his mouth so we thought we’d be clear on that point. OK? Good.]

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