Free Stuff: Root Beer and Undies
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livingdebWarning: both of the offers below have now expired. However, these are both repeats of earlier offers, so you may get another chance later.
Although I'm the sort of person to be attracted to free things, I'm now rich enough that the attraction has lessened. I am no longer willing to stand in line for hours to see a movie for free (or at least the chance to see it free if there's enough room), for example. Nevertheless, this week people talked me into walking two gauntlets of free items recently, and it was okay.
First, S wanted to go to Sonic Wednesday night because they were giving away root beer floats. I would never do this myself because of long lines! in cars spewing poisons! But I had already set aside the evening for socializing with S, and she wanted to go, and I can socialize just as well sitting in a car, so we went.
Sonic had the usual parking spaces, mostly full, plus a drive-through with a line almost to the entrance, plus the path to the parking spaces and the exit (between the drive-through route and the parking places), also with a line almost to the entrance. The people in the last were attended by folks with trays of nothing but root beer floats, just handing them out. So the quickest way to get out was to just pick up root beer floats (they ask you how many, even when they can clearly see how many people are in the car) and drive off without making any additional purchase. And that's what we did.
I was quite pleasantly surprised by how smoothly things went, but surprised that they made it quickest to order nothing else. Their news release (linked above) explains that they are thanking their customers, although they did not request a receipt to make sure they were thanking the right people. I guess they're hoping this will give us a warm fuzzy feeling inside (or, rather, a cold fizzy feeling) and we will be more likely to go to Sonic next time we're thinking of that sort of food. Or guilty-feeling people like me can assuage their guilt by returning as a paying customer. And the news release implies that this happens regularly, so apparently they have done this before and not regretted it.
I didn't notice much fizz in the root beer but the float was heavy on the ice cream, so I just mixed it all together and called it a root beer milkshake. Mm.
**
R sent me a link for a coupon for free panties at Victoria's Secret. I printed one (should have printed at least 2, but I was just going to give it to D when we met to walk at the mall). I once had a generous gift certificate to that store, but it took me quite a long time to pick out anything because either too much of me was hanging out the top, too much was hanging out the bottom, or the sleeves were too long. Finally I went with too-long sleeves. Later I learned they have good opaque black tights.
The store was not packed at all--I don't know when that coupon came out, but it didn't appear to be causing a run on the store on the last day it was good.
D asked, and we were led to the "panty bar" from which we could choose just about anything without lace. D insisted we look for something I might like before she took the coupon and we did find something perfectly reasonable: hiphugger panties in a near skin-tone pink color. Then the very nice attendant answered more questions of D's in a way that showed she was very pleased with her store's offerings, even for people looking for practical items.
The cashier had no problems with me getting nothing but the free undies and even packed them a shiny but sturdy handled bag with tissue paper on top and included a coupon good during their upcoming sale.
I have now tried on the undies and they seem thin but good, but my size L pair was a little too small. I'll happily keep them, though, because I'm still a little too big. They might fit me fine later.
Now if you've ever seen me, you know that I am not large at all, yet this store thinks that I am a size extra large. So I'm very sorry about you regular-sized and large people who were hoping there would be something good there for you.
I often find undies and swimsuits to be sized too small, though, so maybe most people prefer these items to be very tight, digging into their skin, and/or riding up into their butts.
Another thing I learned is that the tissue paper is perfumed. Very fancy and special. And I hope to never get any again.
Although I'm the sort of person to be attracted to free things, I'm now rich enough that the attraction has lessened. I am no longer willing to stand in line for hours to see a movie for free (or at least the chance to see it free if there's enough room), for example. Nevertheless, this week people talked me into walking two gauntlets of free items recently, and it was okay.
First, S wanted to go to Sonic Wednesday night because they were giving away root beer floats. I would never do this myself because of long lines! in cars spewing poisons! But I had already set aside the evening for socializing with S, and she wanted to go, and I can socialize just as well sitting in a car, so we went.
Sonic had the usual parking spaces, mostly full, plus a drive-through with a line almost to the entrance, plus the path to the parking spaces and the exit (between the drive-through route and the parking places), also with a line almost to the entrance. The people in the last were attended by folks with trays of nothing but root beer floats, just handing them out. So the quickest way to get out was to just pick up root beer floats (they ask you how many, even when they can clearly see how many people are in the car) and drive off without making any additional purchase. And that's what we did.
I was quite pleasantly surprised by how smoothly things went, but surprised that they made it quickest to order nothing else. Their news release (linked above) explains that they are thanking their customers, although they did not request a receipt to make sure they were thanking the right people. I guess they're hoping this will give us a warm fuzzy feeling inside (or, rather, a cold fizzy feeling) and we will be more likely to go to Sonic next time we're thinking of that sort of food. Or guilty-feeling people like me can assuage their guilt by returning as a paying customer. And the news release implies that this happens regularly, so apparently they have done this before and not regretted it.
I didn't notice much fizz in the root beer but the float was heavy on the ice cream, so I just mixed it all together and called it a root beer milkshake. Mm.
**
R sent me a link for a coupon for free panties at Victoria's Secret. I printed one (should have printed at least 2, but I was just going to give it to D when we met to walk at the mall). I once had a generous gift certificate to that store, but it took me quite a long time to pick out anything because either too much of me was hanging out the top, too much was hanging out the bottom, or the sleeves were too long. Finally I went with too-long sleeves. Later I learned they have good opaque black tights.
The store was not packed at all--I don't know when that coupon came out, but it didn't appear to be causing a run on the store on the last day it was good.
D asked, and we were led to the "panty bar" from which we could choose just about anything without lace. D insisted we look for something I might like before she took the coupon and we did find something perfectly reasonable: hiphugger panties in a near skin-tone pink color. Then the very nice attendant answered more questions of D's in a way that showed she was very pleased with her store's offerings, even for people looking for practical items.
The cashier had no problems with me getting nothing but the free undies and even packed them a shiny but sturdy handled bag with tissue paper on top and included a coupon good during their upcoming sale.
I have now tried on the undies and they seem thin but good, but my size L pair was a little too small. I'll happily keep them, though, because I'm still a little too big. They might fit me fine later.
Now if you've ever seen me, you know that I am not large at all, yet this store thinks that I am a size extra large. So I'm very sorry about you regular-sized and large people who were hoping there would be something good there for you.
I often find undies and swimsuits to be sized too small, though, so maybe most people prefer these items to be very tight, digging into their skin, and/or riding up into their butts.
Another thing I learned is that the tissue paper is perfumed. Very fancy and special. And I hope to never get any again.
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on 2009-06-07 06:28 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-06-08 01:45 am (UTC)Back in my Sonic employee days, I dreaded the free food nights, though the Halloween free hot dog and orange-colored ice cream ones weren't quite so bad because we got to wear costumes if we wished (and anything could be explained away as a costume, even if you came as "person who doesn't really give that much of a shit about her job").
-sally