Andrew & Karita at a Volkswagen commercial shooting
A few months ago, Clay wanted some company to go check out the Eat Real Food festival in Jack London Square. Being the good friends that we are, we took him up on his offer. Besides, it was a lovely August summer Sunday. We couldn’t let it go to waste!
After getting off of BART in Oakland (& singing like crazy people on the train), we happened to take a side street on our way to the festival. Little did we know that we stumbled in the middle of a Volkswagen GTI commercial for the European market.
Of course, as an owner of a GTI myself, I was compelled to stay, probably spent 15 minutes just watching the filming. Pretty interesting stuff. We’ve been there long enough that people came up to us & started asking us questions. A lady came up to Andrew & started making conversation, going something along these lines:
Lady: What’s going on here?
Andrew (with a British accent): Oh, they’re filming a car commercial to be shown in Europe.
Lady: Oh, are you visiting from the UK?
Andrew (with his regular accent): Nah. Actually, we’re from San Jose.
Andrew’s quite the charmer. It didn’t take long for him to make a new friend.
We did get to the festival eventually.
Volkswagen commercial in Oakland
