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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Blagging the riderSeveral years ago, I was playing a gig (DJing) at a festival in New Orleans. I was one of 3 DJs headlining the night. The organiser was kind enough to give us a free tab at the bar as he was very happy with how things were going.
Now the only problem with a free tab while you're playing is you can't actually get there to use it. And the night was becoming quite mad, often with two of us playing off each other at the same time. So we got a couple of people to help us, doing bar runs and so forth - after introducing them to the bar staff, they got put on the tab too. So they brought us a bunch of drinks, had a couple for themselves... soon they were pretty paralytic too, so they needed to get people to bring THEM drinks...
In the end, apparently, the bar tab totalled 160 drinks for about $1000 - quite impressive for 3 DJs. I'm pretty sure no more than 12 people were involved in total, making it a prodigious amount of alcohol drunk (and they don't mix them light there, either). Still, the other 1000 people at the event were also drinking like mad, so I'm sure the promoter ended up on the night :)
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fross Read your email on, Fri 9 Nov 2007, 10:45,
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