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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Running a conferenceFor about 18 months I was the IT bod for a dept of the open university that was running these training conferences in hotels all over the UK. We typically did about 1 a month or sometimes 3 or 4 back to back then nothing for months.
Anyway, I discovered that the hotels would supply stuff like pens/pencils etc to the rooms used for group sessions. I was responsible for a PC & projector in each room so after the conference had to clear up.
Thanks for hotel provisions some 9 years later I still have a plentiful supply of pencils, biros, felt tip marker pens and small notepads. All bearing the name/logo of major hotel chains! I reckon they'll last me about 20 years!
(, Fri 9 Nov 2007, 12:39, 1 reply)
LikewiseI have a desk drawer with about 40 misappropriated pens advertising hotel chains from around the world. Being left handed, and a rubbish writer anyway, it's pointless my spending money on a pen. So my freebies will do me nicely.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 9 Nov 2007, 12:41,
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