Showing posts with label Unbelieva-Perks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unbelieva-Perks. Show all posts

Friday, September 5, 2014

Perks? Yeah, right.

On Monday, Jeff was downright excited about the freebies we receive from various benefactors.
On Wednesday, Michael was kind of confused about some of them.
Today, I'm downright annoyed by a few.

That's because some (much) of what is presented to us as gifts are actually attempts to freeload an endorsement from us.

The two underwear designers who gave us these swell boxers expected us to promote their line of swim fins. Nice try, bozos. It takes a better effort than that for The Unbelievables to present your product in a catalog ad.


We've had people pitch us some wacky invention ideas but why this police officer thought we'd be interested in a case of his "window-safe" bullets is beyond all of us.
I like the name, but when are we supposed to wear these? When we pursue hackers across the World Wide Net? The Unbelievables don't cyber-surf, Charlie.
Sometimes, I think people just want to make us look silly. I mean, who eats pasta without a nice sauce?
All right, that's just... No. No, thank you. And why did you send us 287 of them? That's almost TOO GROSS!

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

But ... Are They *Really* Unbelieva-Perks?



Unbelieva-Perks? Oh, yeah. Comes with the territory.

But ...

In order for there to be rainbows, a little rain must fall. (Yeah ... I'm taking liberties with the saying.)

Here are a few "examples" ... 


A life time supply of curry

Now ... I don't know about you but I'm not particularly fond of curry.

I don't use it in anything I cook and, unless it's ordered for or presented to me directly, I won't eat it. But that didn't stop the good-hearted soul whose cats we saved from a backyard oak tree presenting us with a supply of the spice. We graciously accept it and continue to do so every time a package of the stuff arrives at our doorstep. And it arrives like clockwork at the first of each and every month. Then? We donate it to culinary schools, restaurants and other organizations willing to take it off our hands.

Yeah ... a life time supply of curry. Strange, no?


6,920 feet of retail space

One group of elderly ladies - after helping them get their car started - left us a deed to a second hand store.

Yes. An. Entire. Second. Hand. Store. Fully stocked with gadgets and trinkets and old clothing and shoes and unused baby stuff. Go figure.


"Thank you" wood

Yeah. Wood. It seems one of our do-good deeds set us up with the gift of left over tree trimmings, such that they were. While unexpectedly set in the firewood department for the next few years, the question naturally arose about how much firewood we actually needed ... in Stiletto Flats, Nevada. (Hint: Zero.)

Clark will wrap up the week with more Unbelieva-Perks. Though, of which variety is anyone's guess.