Blog CemeteryToday's Special - interest free loans
September 14th 2006 06:30
Day 10 - Weirdly Inebriated
Have you ever come across those local "travelling salespeople"who go into office buildings dressed in suits so as to blend in? Only, if you look closely, the bags they are lugging around have their really crappy and useless wares overflowing out the top. Things like the mug that doubles as a torch for only $5...you know for when you are drinking in the dark and can't find the sugar. Or the calculator that speaks in an impressive ten languages....none of them English. Ten dollars today, twelve if you want the plush teddy bear corkscrew.
Anyway, this morning a little after 9, two kind of scruffy guys came up to me and started off with the exact opening line these guys usually use....."We are just in the area today doing a promotion...." One of them then handed me a Westpac Bank business card with the name of a loans officer on it and said they were offering interested free personal loans of up to $20,000 and then continued to ramble for a bit.
What!!
I'm pretty sure my eyebrows involuntarily raised five centimetres toward my hairline at that, but I continued to listen. It was only after a few more seconds that I "smelt" what was going on. Alcohol. They reeked. And sensing I wasn't falling for it, they stumbled back outside and began hassling a group of smokers on the footpath. I was quite happy to let them continue, considering my disdain for smokers, but my boss made me call the Police. Party pooper.
So, I rang a station direct and the guy who answered told me that I had to actually ring 000 but he'd transfer me. So I get transferred to the wrong place and the second guy tries as well. Three times. So I ask if he'd like me to just hang up and dial bloody 000 myself. "Yes please." came the reply. Far out. Glad this wasn't a real emergency.
I found out that they caught the guys a few buildings down the road. And it was pretty easy to figure out that they had gone into a bank, which is two doors away, and just taken a heap of business cards from the Customer Service desk. Then in their drunken state, they decided to go on their merry way and pretend to be bank salesmen for the day.
Very original. Very amusing.
Have you ever come across those local "travelling salespeople"who go into office buildings dressed in suits so as to blend in? Only, if you look closely, the bags they are lugging around have their really crappy and useless wares overflowing out the top. Things like the mug that doubles as a torch for only $5...you know for when you are drinking in the dark and can't find the sugar. Or the calculator that speaks in an impressive ten languages....none of them English. Ten dollars today, twelve if you want the plush teddy bear corkscrew.
Anyway, this morning a little after 9, two kind of scruffy guys came up to me and started off with the exact opening line these guys usually use....."We are just in the area today doing a promotion...." One of them then handed me a Westpac Bank business card with the name of a loans officer on it and said they were offering interested free personal loans of up to $20,000 and then continued to ramble for a bit.
What!!
I'm pretty sure my eyebrows involuntarily raised five centimetres toward my hairline at that, but I continued to listen. It was only after a few more seconds that I "smelt" what was going on. Alcohol. They reeked. And sensing I wasn't falling for it, they stumbled back outside and began hassling a group of smokers on the footpath. I was quite happy to let them continue, considering my disdain for smokers, but my boss made me call the Police. Party pooper.
So, I rang a station direct and the guy who answered told me that I had to actually ring 000 but he'd transfer me. So I get transferred to the wrong place and the second guy tries as well. Three times. So I ask if he'd like me to just hang up and dial bloody 000 myself. "Yes please." came the reply. Far out. Glad this wasn't a real emergency.
I found out that they caught the guys a few buildings down the road. And it was pretty easy to figure out that they had gone into a bank, which is two doors away, and just taken a heap of business cards from the Customer Service desk. Then in their drunken state, they decided to go on their merry way and pretend to be bank salesmen for the day.
Very original. Very amusing.
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Weird, eh? You'd make a wonderful candidate for my site!