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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TravellodgeRecently, I visited the Evil Company that sponsors my research. They paid for the whole thing of course, a few of us went up there to look at the shop floor and discuss various bits of stuff with them. Of course they don't listen to us, but it's meant to make us feel like we're contributing instead of just being trained research monkeys. Now, the hotel we were supposed to be booked into, right by the company (rather nice one) had a fire. And so we were shifted out into a crappy little travellodge an hour's drive away. I was stuffed into a smoking room that wasn't the cleanest of places (I'm asthmatic), and understandably wasn't happy about this. And so I decided to abuse the freebie. I took a leaf from b3ta, and went to write in the bible that every travellodge has, and then order a full English breakfast for the next morning.
... and on the first page was "Don't even think about it. Signed God."
Now, that on its own wouldn't have deterred me.
It was the fact that the handwriting was almost identical to my own. That unnerved me, and so, I meekly went along with the trip. I ate reasonably at the company meal, and didn't drink loads.
I fail at abusing freebies :)
(, Fri 9 Nov 2007, 15:49, Reply)
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