ArticlesA random memory from when I was a kid on holidays in Murray Bridge just occurred to me.
I was listening to a local radio station that was running a promotion with a baby food manufacturer. They called their listeners at random, and if they could read off the serial number from a can of the baby food, they would win a huge prize.
They called a number at random, and the woman who answered was distraught.
She explained they had a can of the product in the pantry, and her husband regularly listened to the radio station at work. He had hoped to be called, so he cut the label off the can and took it to his work, so he would be ready to quote it. If they were just to give her a few minutes, she’d call him, get the label number and call them back.
The manufacturer’s representative laughed, and thanked her so much for her effort, and explained their labels were printed directly onto their cans.
Comment by Sunny Kalsi on September 5, 2012
This kind of thing freaks me out. How did she come up with a lie on the spot like that?
Comment by John Y. on September 6, 2012
Interesting. So her plan was to either run to a store to find a can (if she was close enough) or frantically call an accomplice who would find one? Seems like a sketchy and fragile plan to me. (Or maybe just sketchy if her husband worked at a store that sold this product.)
Perhaps she was a compulsive liar? An actress trying to stay in practice? Or maybe the labels really were paper and this whole scenario was an elaborate and cruel scheme to make the woman go crazy.