Curb your enthusiasm
Posted by SpikeNov 1
Driving home tonight, I stopped for gas at a Caltex station. Caltex recently started a promotion, 10% off on gas if you use an HSBC credit card on Fridays (6% on other days). And even though the price has dropped recently, it’s still quite high.
While the tank was filling, a young man approached my car to give me details on a Caltex credit card, the lure being a bigger than 10% discount on weekends if you use the card. Now most of the gas chains (petrol for those who speak British) in HK offer similar stuff, but only post signs about it in Chinese. Most don’t have English language web sites either. So I was quite happy that Caltex decided to post an English speaking representative at a station.
He seemed to be quite excited that I was interested in signing up for the offer. So excited, in fact, that as he was talking to me, his gum slipped out of his mouth and into my car – fortunately landing on the floor and not on me. After I’d signed all the papers and he used a digital camera to photograph my ID card and license plate, I got out of my car, pointed and asked, “And now would you please remove my gum from your car?” which he did.
Chill, Winston.
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In other less than enthusiastic news, Led Zeppelin are about to announce plans to embark on a world wide reunion tour – one that I’m certain will not land in HK. Excited? Don’t be.
It’s Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones and deceased drummer John Bonham’s son Jason. But there’s no Robert Plant, who is continuing to tour behind his excellent “Raising Sand” album with Alison Krauss and says he’d rather look forward than back. The replacement vocalist looks set to be Myles Kennedy, who most recently was lead singer in a group called Alter Bridge and is now nicknamed “Who?”
Meanwhile Yes becomes the second major band to find a substitute lead singer by watching videos of tribute bands on YouTube. If this is a growing trend, it is one that I do not endorse. (As if anyone cares.)
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Not many comments on my camera query but I’ll mention that I decided to go for the Canon G10 after all. I looked at the two recent Ixus ones and decided that each represented major compromises over the functionality and features of the G10 and that while the G10 may not be pocket sized, it’s small enough.
Tomorrow I’ll start playing with it.
And now it’s time for our daily MILF:
40 something year old Elle Macpherson
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