Not just trying to make up for missing the last few QOTW, honest
I work part-time in a video store in an almost-posh part of town, where people have important jobs, huge paypackets and trendy apartments. Most of them are actually quite decent and are fine if you herrang them about late fees, though a few tightwads will argue over every red cent. A real estate agent and his wife are buggers for having a strop whenever I ask them to pay a $1 fee for a movie that was 3 days late, because they don't think it's fair to pay late fees for weekly hires, even though we don't start charging fees until day 3, which I think is pretty fair.

One time when the man of this horrible pair had just thrown a dollar coin at me in disgust ("Have your bloody dollar then!") and stormed out leaving only aggressive promises to complain to my boss in his wake, I noticed that he'd left behind his expensive looking pair of RayBans.

I think they suit me quite nicely.

Also found one of the coveted "HELL TOKE" lighters at work. Now, in case you're not a stoner who lives in the South Island of New Zealand, there is a Shell station in a town called Stoke, which happens to be on 666 on Whatever Street (I think it's Main North Road). This Shell sells lighters that say the address, so all you have to do is scratch off the 'S' and you have a lighter that says, in big, bold letters, "HELL TOKE, 666 MAIN NORTH ROAD, NELSON". Someone who'd probably just come back from a roadtrip left it behind, so I snaked it. The guy rung up a bit later and asked if I'd seen it. I told him someone must've got it.

My two favourites involve found money, though neither happened at the store. Firstly, there was the time my mate Kieran got excited when he found a $1 coin on the footpath. While he was doing a wee dance, I bent down and picked up the $5 note next to it.

The other one happened to my other mate Sam when we were doing mushrooms for the first time. We got the hungers but I had bugger all cash and he had none. Good thing Sam found a fiver in the gutter.

Might seem small in retrospect, but at the time they were the best things I'd ever found.

(Apologies for length)
(ElGranto, Tue 11 Nov 2008, 11:13, 1 reply)

hell toke
They allways make me snigger every time i come across one of those lighters.
(welgar, Wed 12 Nov 2008, 5:31, closed)