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Originally Posted by EdFNJ
If we took advantage of every free lunch offer we get every week in the mail we wouldn't have to buy food for a year. Some of it looks pretty good too. Of course they are trying to sell you something because "there ain't no free lunch!" but if you have the power of "NO" you can get lots of free food with a little bit of wasted personal time.  Just toss it in the garbage and don't waste your time trying to get it removed. My father passed 3 years ago and I keep getting similar offers from him. |
Around 15 years ago we attended a free gourmet dinner seminar at the local "great food, but not exotic gourmet stuff" place.
The food was good, not great, and they wouldn't let us eat until after the seminar, which they prolonged til almost 9pm. By the time the food came out, the hot stuff had been kept under heating lamps for almost 45 minutes, and the salads had started to wilt in the bowls.
My suggestion, if you really WANT that free lunch:
Have a snack before you go, enough to tide you over for at least 2 hours. Also bring a package of crackers "just in case."
Bring a book, or load up a crossword app on your cell phone so you have something to do while you're waiting for them to finish pushing whatever product they're trying to push on you.
When it's time to fill in the post card (they come around and pick it up from you personally, so you have to do SOMETHING with it)...fill it in with obviously fake information. Like for your social security number it'd be 987-65-4321 or try for some variation of the fibonacci sequence in the phone number section. Give a false name, like Mick E. Mauz or Mr. E. Mole or Juan-Carlo Roberto Miguel de Silva Ruiz, Junior, Bitsy Heffernenstinbergersmith, or similar.