Unexpected Good FortuneTravelling through Seattle a good 15 years ago, I remembered an old friend I used to blow up Action Men with. We were bored, nothing to lose , so I looked him up in the phonebook. He was the only one of that name in there. "Come and stay," goes he.
Me and my mates were living in a car at that point so a bed was a novelty. After searching for a while, we rock up to a very posh mansion on Puget Sound with its own Helipad. "Come flying," goes he.
Has your luck held out recently?
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chthonic, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 18:43)
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Phone jamminess (it was orange, so I guess actually marmaladiness)when I got my first shitty mobile phone years ago it was on some stupid contract where you had 10 free minutes a day or some such.
after a while of using it, it became apparent that not only was I not being charged for my calls over these 10 minutes, but that they were in fact crediting the value of them to my account.
This seemed like an excellent state of affairs to me, but I didn't rinse them for all they were worth as I feared that they would inevitably come back to me and get me to pay these calls and as a poor stupid I doubted I'd be able to afford it....
come the end of my contract I was awaiting the phone call or letter demanding that I pay the amount required.
Lo and behold a letter from Orange did arrive, but not only were they not trying to get me to pay, they had sent me a cheque for the amount that had been credited to my account!
wish I had used the phone for all I was worth now, but I did end up with £70 of free calls, and a cheque for £70!
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 20 Sep 2006, 11:11,
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