A couple of weeks ago I was having a nice relaxing lunch with a couple of old buddies. We all decided to go to the famous restaurant downtown that is popular with movie stars and astronauts. You can listen to guitar music while you eat your vegetables. You can either order off the menu, or you can ask the chef to prepare something for you that is completely unique.
All of a sudden, they said they were going to give away lots of prizes and gifts. We weren't aware of it, but this was the restaurant's one year anniversary. The gift giving was to thank all the customers for being loyal, and allowing the restaurant to stay profitable in these tough economic times. 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. Right on top of the heap was this shiny 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 many people besides families use these as well. Anybody who finds themselves in a boring situation can easily save themselves some grief by using one of these fantastic portable DVD players. This was illustrated to me in a story by my dining companion. When he was in college, you could rent lectures from famous professors 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. I'm sure you can see how useful this can be to keep your sanity while waiting in that utterly boring jury duty room.
Naturally I hoped that I would win the portable DVD player, since I didn't have one, and both my friends did. And to make a happy day even happier, my name was called, and I won the DVD player. I will be a loyal customer of that restaurant now for the rest of my life.
All of a sudden, they said they were going to give away lots of prizes and gifts. We weren't aware of it, but this was the restaurant's one year anniversary. The gift giving was to thank all the customers for being loyal, and allowing the restaurant to stay profitable in these tough economic times. 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. Right on top of the heap was this shiny 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 many people besides families use these as well. Anybody who finds themselves in a boring situation can easily save themselves some grief by using one of these fantastic portable DVD players. This was illustrated to me in a story by my dining companion. When he was in college, you could rent lectures from famous professors 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. I'm sure you can see how useful this can be to keep your sanity while waiting in that utterly boring jury duty room.
Naturally I hoped that I would win the portable DVD player, since I didn't have one, and both my friends did. And to make a happy day even happier, my name was called, and I won the DVD player. I will be a loyal customer of that restaurant now for the rest of my life.
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