How do they say it with a straight voice?

Every so often, I hear a radio ad which compels me to turn off the radio or change channels immediately. Currently, there’s an ad on KCBS which begins

It’s nice when neighbors share things. It’s even nicer when neighboring car dealerships do…

I’ve never heard the rest.

How can someone read that kind of copy with a straight voice? How can someone write it?

I guess that’s what they call “professionalism”.

Do they know something I don’t know?

I’m staying out of the hot sun and playing two month’s worth of catchup with Quicken. As part of that joy, I downloaded my last couple of months of credit card transactions — sometimes Quicken automatically assigns a transaction to a category. It’s usually correct, but not always. And sometimes I wonder…such as today, when it assigned meals at Waffle House to “Home Repair”.