art korner
The free-whore lifestyle is a refined skill. The booth master has box-loads of samples, but he feels a deeper connection to company promotions and a greater sense of power if he performs a preliminary patience test on prospective recipients. This process eliminates the uncommitted free-loader and allows the truly persevering free-whore to rise triumphant with his prized unpaid-for item of nominal and questionable value.
An untrained freeness-seeker is easily detected and cast aside. Starting off right away with "Do you have any free samples" smacks at "I'm impatient and only here for any and all free bullshit that I can pilfer from your old corporate clutches." Timing is everything. It you feign amusement and watch the old hack smear paint on his smock just long enough, he'll give you a little tube of oil paint. But I am too impatient to let the Jew in me escape, and today I ran away with some lesser-value crap that didn't require standing around and playing the game to obtain. I think I'd feel more thrilled right now if I had just stolen these things from the store.
An untrained freeness-seeker is easily detected and cast aside. Starting off right away with "Do you have any free samples" smacks at "I'm impatient and only here for any and all free bullshit that I can pilfer from your old corporate clutches." Timing is everything. It you feign amusement and watch the old hack smear paint on his smock just long enough, he'll give you a little tube of oil paint. But I am too impatient to let the Jew in me escape, and today I ran away with some lesser-value crap that didn't require standing around and playing the game to obtain. I think I'd feel more thrilled right now if I had just stolen these things from the store.