-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 05-07-19  07:45 <=-

 >  JM> The first thing I ever remember winning was a free pizza in
 >  JM> college on some radio contest.
 > Did you share it...?  

 JM> Nope, waited till I was really hungry to pick it up.  

Probably a good plan.... <G>
 
 >  JM> I entered a coffee contest from a well known expensive coffee
 >  JM> company. (No, not the one that starts with S).  
 > Was it a company that started with G.....?
 JM> Close.  It was Molita, I think.  Something like that.

Ah... that's an older company, I think.... 

 JM> One time on campus was a big event and we didn't ticket that day
 JM> since lots of vendors and so forth were around.  
 JM> I was sitting in the cart taking a break at one busy small pay lot*
 JM> and this fella gave me this sad story and I listened politely.  Then
 JM> acted like I was doing him a big favour and told him he could park free
 JM> for a couple of hours while he attended that event.
 JM> Time passed and I was back in that area (patrol days were very
 JM> boring) when he returned, again thanking me.  He went to the trunk of
 JM> his car and gave me several pounds of Starbucks coffee.

I guess he appreciated the favor he thought you'd given him.... 

 JM> The very few times I ever brought any of that on campus it was
 JM> always bitter and nasty tasting but at home it was perfect.  I think
 JM> their water was too hot, which causes bitterness.

Could be... and possibly also made in greater quantity than one would do
at home, as well...

 JM> (*While not a ticketing day people would see me near the pay box and
 JM> break their necks trying to be the first to pay.  Unless the machine
 JM> was broken I just sat there watching them put in the money.  I had a
 JM> don't ask/don't tell policy.  If they didn't ask if we were ticketing I
 JM> never told them. <g>.

Whether or not you were ticketing, it still was the policy that one
should be paying for the privilege of parking there...  
 
ttyl      neb

... Appetisers are those little bits you eat until you lose your appetite.

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