A Little Fun -- The Lost Business Card

Some of you may know "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me," the funny news game on National Public Radio. This is my version.

You needed a business card to scan into your shop report, but it has disappeared before you got home. What do you say in your report?

I'm starting with the first 4 entries. My dear friend provided the first, a really creative entry.

1--I was sitting on the curb writing my notes when an 18'-long green dragon swooped down from the sky. The card was in my hand and I held it up to protect me, but the burst of flame from the dragon's snout left me holding just the charred lower right corner of the card which contained no information at all!

2--I was playing pinball, and grabbed a piece of paper out of my pocket to note the final score. It was the CD rate sheet from the bank I had just done. Score of 5,689,764 recorded, no card when I got home. The card had been tucked into the CD Rates. Oops.

3--I lost it in the dressing room when I changed into my outfit for my pole dancing gig. Hole in pocket.

4--That card was the only piece of paper I had when George Clooney offered me his number.

"My cat/dog ate it" isn't allowed. It's too old and no longer original.

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On my way home from the shop traffic was blocked by an ambulance with a flat tire. Inside a lady was giving birth to quadruplets. Using a piece of gum being chewed by the policeman directing traffic and the business card, they were able to patch the tire to get the lady to the emergency room. I understand the babies are fine and all of them will have the MSP name as their middle name.

flash wrote:
I understand the babies are fine and all of them will have the MSP name as their middle name.
..............................................................

In my case, that would have been XYZ Savings Bank. Long middle name.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/20/2008 06:16PM by sneakers.

Since I don't know which MSP it is, I can't get in trouble here . . .

Sally Secret Shopper Jones
Peter Secret Shopper Jones
Abigail Secret Shopper Jones
Bryan Secret Shoper Jones

I was right...

I wore one of my sneakers out shopping one day, and there was a hole in the bottom. I used the business card as a patch inside the sole. But my sock had worn off the print by day's end.

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Was in a parking lot when I saw a car back into and smash a parked car and then take off. I caught the tag number of the offending vehicle and wrote it on a piece of paper in my pocket, added a short note and put it under the wiper of the damaged car. Now that I think about it, it must have been the business card that I used. . .

I suppose you expect me to top that.

Sure, why not

? Ideas: the business card as a funnel, as a wrapper (joint roller?), supply for a mini-origami project, mini-shovel, separator? The world is full of wild and wonderful uses for a small piece of paper!

How about:

I was waving goodbye to the wonderful CSR, and not looking where I was walking, and then I used it to scrape the dog poo off the sole of my shoe.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/24/2008 05:01PM by sneakers.

With the price of gas, my $1 gas purchase was handed to me in a small plastic cup by the CSR and I used the business card as a funnel to make sure I got it all into the tank.

I can't stand it.

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I had trouble finding my car among the SUV's in the parking lot, so I made the business card into a little flag on my antenna.

I used the business card, folded, under the leg of a table at a fine dining restaurant shop to keep the table from wobbling and spilling my wine.

Fine dining places don't have wobbly tables!! You made that up!

I did a shop at Burger King, and the ketchup dispenser went wild. I used it to scrape the extra ketchup off my hamburger. Totally unreadable now.

Used the business card to slip the lock at Fort Knox. I've been released on bond but the Feds kept the business card as evidence?

Wonderful posts!!! I think I liked the last post by Flash the best about Fort Knox. There's no way I'm going to offer anything on this subject, I'm too busy laughing!!! Thank you.

Hi, LaGata. Start by guessing which of the 4 scenarios in the first post actually happened.

We've been waiting a long time for someone else to join in.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2008 12:56AM by sneakers.

Oh!!! I do hope it was #4!!! _^..^_

How many gatas do you have?
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We have 5 that are just house cats. They do not go out unless they're in their carriers. You can hold the door open for an hour, they'll go as far as the threshold, lay down or sit down, watch, sniff and go back to their couches or food dish, another one is an in/out cat and two outdoors only cats that have adopted my husband and claim his game house as their home. So we now have 8. None are related and all are rescues of one sort or another. I finally gave in and had to have one of the indoor cats "put down" just last week. I'm still having a hard time with that decision but it had to be done. Now, don't you wish you hadn't asked??? ;-)

No. You can never have too many cats, especially rescued ones.

I live in an apartment, but I also train them immediately not to go past the door. Many years ago, one of them tried to use the elevator, but couldn't reach the number buttons.

Letting go is gut-wrenching, and I understand.

The answer is #2. Can't you tell? It's the least ridiculous. Actually I was in a video arcade with a friend's granddaughter, trying to keep busy while I kept an eye on her. Luckily I was working for a very flexible MSP, but I didn't say where I lost it. But that's how the thread started.

Your turn.

I have no "good" stories about shopping. I've not done very many and outside of my frustration at some of the things asked of me during the shop and trying to log in the information afterwards, it's been a boring story. I like the ones I've read here, much better. _^..^_

You have to find a little fun where you can get it. I was doing a grocery shop today where you are supposed to be asking questions in the various departments. The associate gets credit for answering the question; looking up the answer or asking another associate for the answer for you. Your other choice is that they did not give you an answer. So how would you rate the following?

At the meat department there was a display of sausages with a price tag but no identifier. I asked the associate if those were Italian sausages. "No," he said, "they are made up in Lakeland." (Lakeland is the Florida location of this grocery chain's major staging point and food processing unit.)

He answered the question. the guidelines didn't say it has to be accurate.

The Lost Business Cards are tall tales, LaGata. Needn't be based on reality.

Yes, unfortunately he gets full credit, as did the guy who when asked if the cantaloupes were "Florida melons" smiled and condescendingly told that "No, those are cantaloupes." Or the seafood guy who when asked if the oysters were Apalachicola oysters (some good Florida ones) indicated, looking at the box, that, "No, these are Lakeland oysters." (Lakeland is that packing and processing facility for that chain and is inland.) Or the gal who told me that eggs don't need to be refrigerated because, "We don't refrigerate them in the back." Or the bakery gal who indicated that the carrot cakes with cream cheese icing don't need to be refrigerated (just what DO they put in that icing?).

But for the lost business card tall tales, somebody else needs to contribute some

They put unrefrigerated eggs in the icing, so it doesn't need refrigeration.

Maybe that is the answer!

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