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Get 50 people to turn up to a shop wearing clothes that look a bit like the employee uniform.
It reminds of me of when I worked at Jaycar first. I didn't have a name tag. I'd go up to people and do the whole "Do you need a hand there, sir?" thing and after a while they'd suddenly say, "Oh, do you work here or something?"
No, I'm just some geek with no friends and an inferiority complex who hangs around in electronics shops being servile.
These guys didn't have the same problem, it seems:
wrote ...
I arrive at Best Buy and immediately have the chance to hold the door for a few customers. I step inside, cruise down the escalator, and quickly encounter an annoyed security guard. “May I help you sir?†he asks. “No thanks.†“What’s going on here?†“What do you mean?†I respond. “Is this some sort of event?†“I don’t understand.†“Why are you wearing that?†he presses. “Oh,†I smile, “These are just my clothes.†He shakes his head, and I wander off.
wrote ...
“Do you know where I can find a USB port?†she said.
“What is that?†I said.
“It’s a computer thing,†she said.
“What does USB stand for?†I asked. She gave me a strange look.
“I don’t know,†she said. “You just plug it in…â€
At that point a Best Buy employee wearing a black shirt came running over shouting “She doesn’t work here!†but the girl was already heading down the escalator.
He turned to me and said, “You can’t help her!â€
“Oh, believe me,†I said. “I wasn’t helping her.â€
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Opie and Anthony did it better.
They would get a busload of say homeless people, invite them on a ride giving them free booze, and then go to the local shopping mall on a shopping spree. And the best part is that they would announce their intentions on the way to the mall over the air. Funny as hell.
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I've been involved in a similar thing... no uniforms or anything, just about 20 people split into two teams of ten trying to get the most points...
Missions included: busking, getting people's mobile phone numbers, hugging security guards or cops, successfully enquiring old people about their sex life, obtaining a strand of someone's hair, etc...
No points unless it was on camera. An aged storemanager talked about his; "all the time", "she's good on a train, plane, anywhere" in front of his younger male employees... lol :P
I single-handedly got more gurls' mobile phone numbers than the summation of the other people involved, but didn't have the guts to ring any of them.
Strands of hair was easy... my favourite line (and generally this removed all hesitation) was to assure the person that they weren't being cloned. I always offered scissors, but females insisted on just yanking their hair out.
I was also the only person able to busk; I found someone with a 'cello (which I've been doing for about a decade, but haven't touched for some months now) and earned some money for them (didn't know their name, but I could play better, tee hee)...
Other stunts included eating a mcdonalds cheeseburger in a single mouthful, which was... offputting =P
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"Other stunts included eating a mcdonalds cheeseburger in a single mouthful, which was... offputting =P" Makes sense to me; some things are better if you just get them over and done quickly.
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Best Buy invasion
Boy, actually lucky enough to get someone's phone #... and then don't even use it??? Could you send them to me? 