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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I used to do this!Whilst working at the Open University, a sizable campus, without the inconvenience of actual students!
I used to do just this. I'd go for long walks down forgotten corridors etc and note the location of "interesting items".
It netted me;
- A large amount of that white shelving rail & bracket stuff you get in B&Q.
- An apple PowerMac 7200 & monitor & speakers (it was 1998 and they've decided to go all PC on site...).
- a slab of Granite (it was outside the materials lab for about 6 months, made a nice water feature in the back garden!
- an oak desk
- wheeley chair
- About 5 PC's (Pentium II 350's)
- Monitor plinth/stand (using it now!)
- Coffee machine
Some might call it theft, I like to think of it as "freecycle" just ahead of it's time!
(lets face it, all that stuff would end up in a skip anyway!).
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