He's a Nice Guy...
"Sometimes y'all mistake nice for soft..."
It's Tuesday night, about 2:30AM. I'm hungry. I'm parched. I need some damn peaches. But since none are available. I decide to head for the border.
I'm sorry, but the concept/marketing of 'FourthMeal' might be the most brilliant advertising campaign in recent history (Except maybe Chili's current Build-Your-Own Burger... but that's a story for a seperate time). I mean, granted for me, it's technically a 2nd or 3rd meal (depending on if I eat lunch or not), but the fact remains that it is brilliant marketing. That in addition to the fact that there is a Taco Bell about 2 minutes driving from my apartment means that I have had about four FourthMeal's in the past 10 days.
So this particular FourthMeal, I'm really thirsty, hence the use of parched in the first paragraph. Let me prefix this by saying I despise Taco Bell's drinks. Mainly because I think of their combo meals. Most of which are excellently crafted meals... except they give you a MEGA LARAGE drink. I don't want that big of a drink, so I never order a combo meal.
BUT... this time I was parched, so I did. Well I placed my order, she says like $4.26 or whatever it is. Except I forgot the drink. Well I'm starting to pull up when I see a sign that says "HEY! DID WE NOT OFFER YOU A DRINK? MENTION IT AND GET ONE FREEEEEEEEE!!!" Well, I don't wanna be "that guy" who was like OMG OMG OMG YOU HAD YOU OFFER ME A DRINK AND I DIDNT AND IW ANTZZZ ONE SO GIVE GIVE GIVE~!
So I pull up, and she's like $4.26, and I'm like "Oh ya, I forgot that I wanted a drink too..." thinking maybe she'd be like Oh I'm sorry, here ya go. But she responds with "What size..." ... I of course go LARAGE!. She hits a button adds the $1.39 large pepsi onto my bill, I pay her the $6.00 or whatever it is now and drive away.
Now, I blatantly could have gotten away with getting it for free. But from my retail background... I HATE tie-ins. Tie-ins are most often seen at places like Walgreens and such where there's stuff on the counter... "Your total comes to $8.56, but would you like to try a pack of these SUPER WASHABLE REUSABLE NAPKINS? As a special offer they're currently 2 for $1! Granted, if your good at retail, you know who to offer the tie-in to, and who will not buy it and just wants to leave faster... and if your REALLY good at retail, then you know how to offer it to the right people, and some of the others in such a non-annoying way that more people will buy it.
But oh god... Mandatory tie-ins (aka offer a drink or get it free...) remind me why I despise e-mail and why I'm glad I have this wonderful IT job in an office. So I just couldn't make myself ask for it.
On a completely unrelated note, I considered making the song of the blog be FreeBird. I decided against it, mainly because Roth can't stand the song. Which brings me to my question... Who started the drunken 'Play Free Bird!' at concerts/shows/gigs yell... and what's the joke/story behind it.
"So before I go off, I just... "
It's Tuesday night, about 2:30AM. I'm hungry. I'm parched. I need some damn peaches. But since none are available. I decide to head for the border.
I'm sorry, but the concept/marketing of 'FourthMeal' might be the most brilliant advertising campaign in recent history (Except maybe Chili's current Build-Your-Own Burger... but that's a story for a seperate time). I mean, granted for me, it's technically a 2nd or 3rd meal (depending on if I eat lunch or not), but the fact remains that it is brilliant marketing. That in addition to the fact that there is a Taco Bell about 2 minutes driving from my apartment means that I have had about four FourthMeal's in the past 10 days.
So this particular FourthMeal, I'm really thirsty, hence the use of parched in the first paragraph. Let me prefix this by saying I despise Taco Bell's drinks. Mainly because I think of their combo meals. Most of which are excellently crafted meals... except they give you a MEGA LARAGE drink. I don't want that big of a drink, so I never order a combo meal.
BUT... this time I was parched, so I did. Well I placed my order, she says like $4.26 or whatever it is. Except I forgot the drink. Well I'm starting to pull up when I see a sign that says "HEY! DID WE NOT OFFER YOU A DRINK? MENTION IT AND GET ONE FREEEEEEEEE!!!" Well, I don't wanna be "that guy" who was like OMG OMG OMG YOU HAD YOU OFFER ME A DRINK AND I DIDNT AND IW ANTZZZ ONE SO GIVE GIVE GIVE~!
So I pull up, and she's like $4.26, and I'm like "Oh ya, I forgot that I wanted a drink too..." thinking maybe she'd be like Oh I'm sorry, here ya go. But she responds with "What size..." ... I of course go LARAGE!. She hits a button adds the $1.39 large pepsi onto my bill, I pay her the $6.00 or whatever it is now and drive away.
Now, I blatantly could have gotten away with getting it for free. But from my retail background... I HATE tie-ins. Tie-ins are most often seen at places like Walgreens and such where there's stuff on the counter... "Your total comes to $8.56, but would you like to try a pack of these SUPER WASHABLE REUSABLE NAPKINS? As a special offer they're currently 2 for $1! Granted, if your good at retail, you know who to offer the tie-in to, and who will not buy it and just wants to leave faster... and if your REALLY good at retail, then you know how to offer it to the right people, and some of the others in such a non-annoying way that more people will buy it.
But oh god... Mandatory tie-ins (aka offer a drink or get it free...) remind me why I despise e-mail and why I'm glad I have this wonderful IT job in an office. So I just couldn't make myself ask for it.
On a completely unrelated note, I considered making the song of the blog be FreeBird. I decided against it, mainly because Roth can't stand the song. Which brings me to my question... Who started the drunken 'Play Free Bird!' at concerts/shows/gigs yell... and what's the joke/story behind it.
"So before I go off, I just... "
posted by Farva @ 1:34 PM
1 Comments:
At 3:53 PM,
luann said…
I have a nice friend,
James Traficant. He is nice, never soft.
He has been in prison 4 of the 8 years he has to pay for saying and doing the things he thought was right.
I have gotten 38 letters from him.
Anyone want to read them?
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