A couple of weeks ago I was having a nice relaxing lunch with a couple of old buddies. There was this massively cool restaurant downtown, and we decided to go there. You can listen to guitar music while you eat your vegetables. And you can either order straight off the menu, if that's your style, or you can order the mystery meal, and be surprised when it comes.
Then they announced that they were going to give away several prizes. We hadn't realized it, but this was the restaurant's one hundred year anniversary. They wanted to thank all the customers for being loyal for the last year. There was this huge tank of fish swimming around, they were going to use them to somehow determine who the winners of the various prizes were going to be. I could hardly contain myself, I was so excited.
And with a big clap of artificial thunder, they revealed the magical prizes. And the biggest prize was a fantastic looking portable DVD player. In recent times, these technological marvels have become exceedingly popular, and for some very good reasons. One reason is that they can be used on long car trips. If you have kids, then you know important it is to keep the kids quite in the back seat, while mom and dad are in front talking about grownup stuff.
And not only families can benefit from these fantastic things. They are for anybody who wants to pass the time while in an otherwise boring situation. This was illustrated to me in a story by my dining companion. At his University you could rent lectures on DVD. If he ever started dozing off during a boring lecture, he would simply watch one of these educational DVDs while the professor was droning on about something.
Another fantastic example is when you get called for jury duty. Instead of sitting around all day wondering if they are going to call your name, you could use a DVD player to help pass the time. If you've ever been to jury duty, then you know how incredibly boring it can be.
Naturally I hoped that I would win the portable DVD player, since I didn't have one, and both my friends did. And much to my surprise, I did win it, and went home a very happy man. I will be a loyal customer of that restaurant now for the rest of my life.
Then they announced that they were going to give away several prizes. We hadn't realized it, but this was the restaurant's one hundred year anniversary. They wanted to thank all the customers for being loyal for the last year. There was this huge tank of fish swimming around, they were going to use them to somehow determine who the winners of the various prizes were going to be. I could hardly contain myself, I was so excited.
And with a big clap of artificial thunder, they revealed the magical prizes. And the biggest prize was a fantastic looking portable DVD player. In recent times, these technological marvels have become exceedingly popular, and for some very good reasons. One reason is that they can be used on long car trips. If you have kids, then you know important it is to keep the kids quite in the back seat, while mom and dad are in front talking about grownup stuff.
And not only families can benefit from these fantastic things. They are for anybody who wants to pass the time while in an otherwise boring situation. This was illustrated to me in a story by my dining companion. At his University you could rent lectures on DVD. If he ever started dozing off during a boring lecture, he would simply watch one of these educational DVDs while the professor was droning on about something.
Another fantastic example is when you get called for jury duty. Instead of sitting around all day wondering if they are going to call your name, you could use a DVD player to help pass the time. If you've ever been to jury duty, then you know how incredibly boring it can be.
Naturally I hoped that I would win the portable DVD player, since I didn't have one, and both my friends did. And much to my surprise, I did win it, and went home a very happy man. I will be a loyal customer of that restaurant now for the rest of my life.
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