Business Greeting Card by Adam, Tøm
September 29th, 2007 4:28 PMAfter enjoying a rather nice cup of tea at a different one of Yarmouth's many seaside café's we set out to find ourselves a place of business. (victim) And of course, being mainly food driven teenagers we soon foudn ourselves back at a café, this time eyeing up the rather mouth watering donut display cabinet.
Approaching subtley (thrusting the postcard at the cashier) we managed to exchange £1.50 for 5 donuts.
They were awesome.
For our failed attempt at this task, see here.
Headache
In this photo of our postcards, I have a blinding headache, having fallen over earlier with a box full of crime novels and smashed my head on the stairs.
The postcard in question
READS- Hi, Im conducting this transaction on the back of a postcard for reasons far too long to go into. I would like a £1.50 tray of your finest donuts please. Thanks.
The front of said postcard
A rather outdated photo of Great Yarmouth's nightlife.
The target
The lucky stall to receive our business.
The prepared card and monies.
Bring on the donuts!
Mmmm....
Donuts....
Approach subtley
*thrusts card in face of server*
Ok, heres your donuts.
...you flipping idiots...
Hurrah!
Donuts, and the postcard!
Sadly...
...Donuts were not enough to satisfy our need for desert, and we ended up in pizza hut (the same one we hit with labels) eating profiteroles.
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Say, Darkaardvark,
That's certainly not the way I read the task. I suppose I assumed an implicit, ". . . as a medium for communication" at the end of it.
If we're going super-literal here, then donuts (or any product) are also forbidden. Basically, you're limited to transactions involving just greeting cards.
Hmmm.... the prospect of requesting by greeting card that a greeting card shop exchange greeting cards for greeting cards is kind of interesting. Weird enough that I'm tempted to try it. But, surely that wasn't the taskmaker's intent.
Oh yeah - and, groovy tasking, Stanly and Greg. I like it.
And in any event, how could I stay upset with a task completion that features such tasty desserts?
I knew that would work to our advantage :)
You guys crack my shit up.
Vote for cracked shit!
Profiteroles?
That is a classy Pizza Hut.
All the more reason for hitting it with labels.
When I visit Great Yarmouth (as I am compelled to, after seeing that postcard), I want some of those donuts!
Every place along the seafront has them, these are the cheapest :D
profiteroles? they have profiteroles in great yarmouth? omg, I miss profiteroles. I haven't had them since I lived in amsterdam. no one makes them here. (if anyone knows where one can get profiteroles in san francisco, or nearby, I would be greatly indebted if you could tell me where to find such morsels of wonder).
I like the completion, even if it isn't quite supposedly a proper completion. it seems to me that it wouldn't be a proper business transaction without money, and no one complained about other praxis for this task being completed with money. good job.
I hate to be a stickler, but it appears you conducted a business transaction using greeting (post) cards AND money. No money allowed!