I think you Aussies are on to something

So smokedamage has mentioned many times about how much he misses walking into a pub with various colors of bills in his pocket. Without thinking he has associated different colors with an approximate different number of drinks, thereby bypassing having to use the brain while in the pub. He also misses the coins left in the pocket at the end of the night, the better to buy a kabob with, my dear.

I think this is such a great idea, the cash bar, because it would keep a person like me from continually forgetting my debit card at the club. I always forget to close out my tab before leaving and did not disappoint my adoring fans last night.

So, seci, it looks like I will definitely be going back out there tonight so that I can get my card back before it gets lost to card oblivion again.

*headdeask*

I am continually amazed at how many urban legend emails get tossed around at work by seemingly intelligent people. Today's message came directly from our Exec, who got it from an Exec at another branch, and was forwarded to everyone with an email at this branch.

Of course, a quick Google search for 90# led straight to my favorite urban legends page. I forwarded the link back to the Exec. I was tempted to forward it to everyone at the branch, but I thought twice about that. For good measure I also used my cell phone to test our own lines - nope, I just get button tones in my ear and then hung up on.

Tuesday's email was about a quest to stop the gas price hikes. Unlike trying to not buy gas on a single day, as emails a couple of years ago were proposing, this one wanted buyers to take control and buy gas that didn't come from the top three companies. "Buy from a different gas station" it proclaimed. "If we no longer buy their gas then they will be forced to bring the prices down to entice us to return our business to them. In this manner we will be taking charge as consumers and forcing prices down." Then comes the pyramid tell-all-your-friends plan - if every person tells 10 people, and those tell 10 people...

Oh, bother. Just typing this out is making my head hurt.