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Headline of the week

May 15th, 2007 · Posted by Skuds in Life · 5 Comments

A bit premature, as our two local weeklies don’t come out until tomorrow, but I can’t see them beating this one from the Brighton Argus website today:

Restaurant boss shocked at size of marker pens packaging

Must be a slow week in Brighton.

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5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 The Art Poster // May 16, 2007 at 3:52 pm

    LOL! What a strange world. How could someone seriously send them out like that without thinking it might be a bit OTT???

    I like the last quote…
    “The next day I received two chairs in the post and they were just wrapped in bubble wrap.”

  • 2 skud's sister // May 16, 2007 at 10:17 pm

    We once got a consignment of display materials which contained the usual 4 large boxes, each containing two or three posters which could all easily have fitted in one box. The icing on the cake, however, was the box with nothing in it at all. To add insult to injury we are charged per box, as far as I am aware, on our profit & loss account for display materials…..

  • 3 Skuds // May 16, 2007 at 10:32 pm

    I was hoping someone would follow the link and pick up on that last quote.

    I have had the odd delivery from Amazon with a CD in a box big enough for a CD player but I never really considered it worth phoning the news desk and asking them to hold the front page.

  • 4 Canvas Prints // Jun 30, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    really odd…

  • 5 PooterGeek » Living In A Box // Jul 23, 2008 at 8:47 am

    [...] don’t have to be a restaurant boss to be shocked by the size of this packaging. « Master Of [...]

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