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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Conference freebiesConference trips are always good for freebies, from people giving them out at their stands etc, but one in particular stands out as it was in effect a whole free week.
I'll cut out the details, but suffice to say my mate and I got 6 nights in a 4 star hotel in a posh bit of Athens, free food and copious drink, views of tits on the beach every day as a bonus, and managed to accidentally (ahem) inflate our expenses claim so that we included our duty free purchases on it and made £30 profit each.
The best bit though was that when we got to Heathrow, we discovered the flights to Athens had been upgraded to business class. So we were sat there in jeans and t-shirts trying not to look impressed when the champagne appeared. Better still was meeting a bloke at the conference who had booked the same flights, but independently of the conference organisers, which had cost his company more and he ended up in cattle class.
Having landed at Heathrow on the return journey, we caught sight of him struggling to get his bag out of the overhead locker while we strolled off the plane at our leisure, with an Olympic airlines steward holding back the seething masses at the back until we had disembarked.
We made eye contact and waved cheerily!
There are many more details of this trip, but that's for another time.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 9 Nov 2007, 11:30,
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