Monday, October 15, 2007

Gift With Purchase


So Sheena is out and about on the weekend picking up a few essentials (exactly as depicted) at her neighbourhood purveyor of ladies' foundations and as she walks up to the cash register she is cheerfully advised that she has spent just enough money to be eligible for the free gift du jour.

It's free, the clerk assures your jungle hostess... as the bar-code scans the little box and places it into the bag of goodies.

As I leave the store, take a look at my unexpected windfall. It is a travel mug. Why someone without a car needs a shitty ugly travel mug with the logo from some dirty old undergitch store is beyond me.

FCS. Gimme the cash equivalent you bastard regifters.

13 Comments:

At 10:30 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Grr. Eat shit and die you retard asswipes!

 
At 10:33 PM, Blogger Sheena said...

Sooey, SheenaVision is not a political blog. Quit wasting your best stuff on me.

 
At 10:46 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

When it's not "all caps", it's considered a term of endearment.

 
At 10:51 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

darn. I was hoping for something better. I don't know what... but not a mug. ripoff!

 
At 10:54 PM, Blogger Sheena said...

Yeah. At least if it was a thong I could kill birds out the window with stale Tim Bits or something.

 
At 11:03 PM, Blogger Romantic Heretic said...

That's one of the nice things about being dirt poor.

I never spend enough to get silly tchotchkes. Lucky me.

 
At 12:56 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

i'll take it. my address is....

oh,, famous stupid people on tuesday!

 
At 10:39 AM, Blogger Leatherhands said...

I deal with a lot of comapnies who give away incentives. It's not rocket science, but nobody ever listens.
People love: cool electronic LITTLE things i.e. calculators with Matrix-like casings, pens with multiple functions that look Matrix-like...you get the picture...and tasteful T-shirts in black, with a small company logo.
People HATE..big, cheap, useless shit....water bottles, cheap plastic pens, giant post-it notes with company logo scrawled over half the writing area...and yes, mugs or glasses. Nobody needs a stupid mug or glass, sitting oddly and alone in their cupboard after carrying the stupid fucking thing around all day.

Best giveaway I ever saw at a trade show....free shiatsu massage...on the spot. A line-up a hundred people long.

 
At 12:32 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

save it for my stocking Sheena. I use those things daily as I commute to work, use my reusable coffee mug as I perk my coffee at home, taking a mug full with me.
There is my enviornmental rant for the day.

 
At 4:09 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

is that like real polyester?

 
At 8:14 PM, Blogger Saskboy said...

Nominated you here
http://2007.weblogawards.org/nominations/best-food-blog.php

 
At 10:37 PM, Blogger Saskboy said...

Hmm, hasn't shown up yet, safer to nominate yourself at least one more time, anyone can do it.

 
At 10:35 PM, Blogger Mjölnir said...

I get tons of useless trinkets at tradeshows, this year as well as my annual trip so San Fran for the Oracle Open World monstrosity I am going to one in Vegas,(in 2 days actually) where I imagine they will be even tackier and more useless.

And I never win the stupid draws and get rewarded with mega-spam for the next year from all those badge swipes.

But they did have free massages last year at OOW, but the lineups were to long to bother with so I passed.

 

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