Abusing freebiesA friend of mine recently attended a 'Champaign Lunch', where he was compelled drink as much fizzy stuff as he could between the first and last courses. In an ideal world we'd ask restaurant staff to tell us stories about fatties stuffing themselves at All You Can Eat places, but we recognise that our members don't all work in the catering trade, so for the rest of you - tell us something about abusing freebies. BTW: Bee puns = you fail.
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lizard, Thu 8 Nov 2007, 14:16)
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Friday was Christmas dayWhen I was wee nipper, my Dad worked in sales for a company called Kaleidoscope. They were kind of like Innovations (the little catalogue you sometimes get in the Times, full of crazy shit like nose hair clippers etc). This company was a little different as they sold loads more toys, but ones that where pretty technologically advanced for their time.
Apparantly the company had absolutely no stock control to speak of and he could walk into the warehouse at any time and just grab any "samples" that he wanted for "clients".
Every Friday, without fail, he would come home with a new toy for each of me and my brother. The toys ranged from space invader watches to laser shooting games. Bare in mind that this was 1980, so this stuff was pretty way out there. I think that they all cost an absolute bomb. No wonder they went bust.
(, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 15:49, Reply)
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