Today I got a phone call from a consumer survey group who I’ve signed up with. I normally hate people ringing me up for surveys, but sometimes these people call me into their offices to do surveys – and I get paid $40 for each survey so I think that’s pretty fair. So far I’ve only been called in to give my opinion on a proposed theme park for Melbourne, and to eat new chocolate flavours for an hour (mmmm, and get paid for it), but I got a call for another survey today.
Let me set the scene here. When you first sign up with the survey people, they ask you a few questions to get an idea of your personality and what products you’d be interested in. I said “yes” to basically every question, thinking I’d have a better chance of getting more surveys. For example:
Survey person: So do you drink beer?
Me: Yep!
Survey person: Do you drink Midori?
Me: Yep!
Survey person: Do you have children?
Me: Yep!
Survey person: Do you smoke?
Me: Yep!
Survey person: Do you shave your pubic hair?
Me: Yep!
Etc, etc. (Oh, alright, maybe they didn’t ask me that last one)
Now let me clear up something here. I don’t smoke. I did, however, tell them that I do smoke; thinking it might get me into some extra surveys or something. Today I got a phone call from the survey people to say they wanted to trial some new cigarettes, and could I come in this weekend? I made up a big story about how I’d bravely given up smoking with the help of close friends. She just grumbled “well you could have called us to let us know”, and hung up. Bear in mind, this company has rung me up once to update my details, and they asked me if “my birthday had changed”.
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I noticed that the 3 litre bottle size of Coke is back on sale in Victoria. The last time I saw these was when I was at uni in ’98. At the time I was living in a student residence of around 1000 students, and word got out that the 3 litre Cokes were being withdrawn from sale, and were going for $1.50 a pop at the local Coles supermarket. That’s the kind of thing uni students will go nuts over.
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I was talking with Adam last night about DVDs. One of the features of DVDs is that you can change the language of the movie you’re watching. This could lead to interesting porno DVD’s…
Throaty woman with inhuman breasts: Oh! Ohhh! Ohhhhh! Yes! Yes, goddamn it yes!!
(viewer selects French language button)
Throaty woman with inhuman breasts: Ah, OH, OH… Oui! Oui, l’cOh, oui!