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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Yowies... gotta get 'em all...Coming from a big family of kids we used to get very little in the way of sugary goodness, as generally by the time any arrived it was already half gone.
Chocolate, therefore, was to die for. And when the local supermarket ran a promotion for kids with some strange chocolate delicacy called a 'Yowie' (chocolate with toys inside) we were right on board.
Now, the general order of proceedings was that they'd announce on the PA when the game had started, then you'd run all over the store looking for special flags, grab them, and then claim them at the front desk. There were about 6 in all.
Unfortunately for them there were about four of us and we made it our mission to be there on time each day for the 'go' signal and beat every other single kid in the store to the flags. We got expert at scoping each aisle out as we flew by and rarely missed a flag, though in some rare cases another kid had it and we went on feeling righteously indignant.
After a few days of this the management got wise to us and began to clamp down on our little scheme. Something about leaving them for the other kids... suckas. Anyway, one thing lead to another and we had to skip town. Still, we got close to 40 or so of those things...
(, Fri 9 Nov 2007, 22:01, Reply)
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