What's the best freebie you've ever had?

Parents bought a kitchen from mfi years ago. Thought there was rather a lot of stuff as it was being loaded into the van we'd borrowed, then the second kitchen sink went in :p

Tried to say something, but they weren't interested. So we ended up with two kitchens and kitted out the utility room too :D

No wonder mfi went out of business.
 
Jean-F said:
I don’t think so, I asked my non French speaking wife if she hears me saying “er” a lot when I make a phone call to France.
She said “I don’t think you do, but you said “Palmer” a few times when Véronique called you the other week.”
I said, “Palmer? Palmer? are you sure? I don’t know anyone called Palmer”
She said, “You said that Véro was talking about when she, you, Henri, and Robert were kids, and the antics you all got up to, but you had told her that you hadn’t done most of the things she said.”
Then it came back to me, I had kept saying, “Pas moi” (not me), when Véro said, ‘Remember when you hid grandpa’s bicycle?’, or “Remember when you wedged a potato in Pascal’s exhaust pipe?”
My wife thought that I’d been saying Palmer, when I was saying pas moi.
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Haha that’s great. Pas moi aussi
 
£400 Panasonic TV.

Day after black Friday, went to Tesco to buy TV, didn't have any stock, said they'd deliver it on the Monday.

Monday came and went, no delivery, rang them Monday night said they would deliver Wednesday.

Rang them Wednesday morning, said they couldn't see it was due for delivery and couldn't seem to tell much.

Went in store that Wednesday, explained the situation and they had one in store, rang the delivery people on my behalf, cancelled that let me take the TV from the store.

Friday the TV turned up by courier.

:D
 
Got a weekend's tourist bus ticket for 2 for San Francisco back in 2010. I was travelling the US with my ex on a shestring budget and we'd just arrived in the city after a 55 hour Amtrak train ride from Chicago, so we were pretty grouchy. Ended up having a mini-argument (fairly quiet, we probably just looked like normal animated Americans) on Pier39. A lovely old couple just stopped us (don't think they even knew were were arguing) and just handed us them. They'd bought them for 1 trip across the bridge first thing on the Saturday morning and didn't want anything else out of them. We ended up using that bus as free transport around the city for the entire weekend as it was hop on hop off. Reckon we saw way more than we would have otherwise!
 
A piano. A nice Yamaha upright too.

Strictly it's being loaned but as the owner is moving to France I suspect we'll have it for quite a while.
 
Jean-F said:
I don’t think so, I asked my non French speaking wife if she hears me saying “er” a lot when I make a phone call to France.
She said “I don’t think you do, but you said “Palmer” a few times when Véronique called you the other week.”
I said, “Palmer? Palmer? are you sure? I don’t know anyone called Palmer”
She said, “You said that Véro was talking about when she, you, Henri, and Robert were kids, and the antics you all got up to, but you had told her that you hadn’t done most of the things she said.”
Then it came back to me, I had kept saying, “Pas moi” (not me), when Véro said, ‘Remember when you hid grandpa’s bicycle?’, or “Remember when you wedged a potato in Pascal’s exhaust pipe?”
My wife thought that I’d been saying Palmer, when I was saying pas moi.
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as soon as you said Palmer I thought Robert Palmer...then you mention Robert :o

freaky **** man
 
Fluffybob said:
Offered to repair a PS3 for a mate (new DVD Drive) by the time it arrived he'd bought a PS3 slim so gave me the old one which was working pefectly :D:D:D
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Similar here but with a laptop. My parents' P4-M 2.4GHz Dell Inspiron wouldn't boot and I figured it was the hard drive. Parents asked - "can you fix it?" I was like yeah, and they said - "well it's yours". This was the era when laptops didn't rely on a recovery partition, so I grabbed a new hard drive for £30-odd, used the original OS installation CDs, and boom, a good-as-new laptop for me. This was 2008 and a P4-M 2.4GHz was probably 2004 territory so it was already 4 years old, but I was happy because it was my very first laptop.

When I bought my house, the previous owners left their white goods behind. The cooker was already knackered and the fridge/freezer had about 8 months left before I replaced both, but the washing machine lasted 3.5 years before I needed to replace that. They left a few random items in the loft as well, including an oldskool Mustek scanner :D I just threw that out because it didn't have the leads with it. There was also an Acer-branded laptop box, but obv no laptop inside it :p The garden shed (same house) had a working lawnmower and I got 8 years out of that before the motor went.
 
My current Monitor, First one developed a thin wire line down the left hand side after a year, you would never notice it really if you didn't know it was there, I emailed Philips and a month later without notice a new one arrived at my door, but without the power adapter, so had to buy one of those. I used both for a while but the 2nd one started to bug me and now it's unplugged but still on the desk. Sell it?
 
Does unexpectedly being bumped to Business Class count?
My wife and I had a flight to Tampa FL booked on United Airlines, it went via Dulles International, Washington D.C.’s airport.
When we checked in at Heathrow, the agent said that the flight was overbooked, and they were seeking volunteers to go on a B.A. flight that would get into Dulles in time for our onward flight to Tampa.
They said that they would give us $800 worth of airline tickets each if we went on the B.A. flight, so we agreed.
In the event, we went on the UA flight, but at the gate, the agent noted the large V for volunteers on our boarding passes, and directed the flight attendant to put us in Connoisseur Class, UA’s version of Business Class.
That was great, wide leather seats and champagne all the way, we were gutted at sitting with the po’ folks on the return leg.
We had a similar thing another time, with Delta Airlines, we were flying from Tampa FL to Gatwick via Atlanta GA.
The plane from Tampa had a fault, so another plane was brought from Miami to take us to Atlanta, this necessitated us taking a later flight from Atlanta, which got us into Gatwick at 10.00 a.m. instead of 07.30 a.m. big deal.
We were bumped to Business Class for the Atlanta to Gatwick leg for that.
 
Malevolence said:
A nosh from a drunken 'off duty' hooker and a Triumph Stag, although not both at the same time.
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When I was driving a Black Cab, I picked a woman up at the rank at Hammersmith Tube station one evening, she asked for The Vale, Acton.
When I got her there, the meter said £5.60 or £5.80, (it was years ago).
She said, “I haven’t got any money, drive round behind the shops and I’ll blow you.”
She was maybe 60 plus, I was around 40-42, I said, “No, go on love, have this one on me.”
 
Got to fly a 747 on my 8th birthday. Obviously it was on autopilot i just got to sit in the co-pilot seat and act cool. This was long before in flight security was taken seriously.

Oh and a few years wages from crypto but that wasn't exactly free.
 
Name said:
Got to fly a 747 on my 8th birthday. Obviously it was on autopilot i just got to sit in the co-pilot seat and act cool. This was long before in flight security was taken seriously.

Oh and a few years wages from crypto but that wasn't exactly free.
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I'd completely forgotten about that - I got to sit in the cockpit and play co-pilot a few times as a kid on 737s, etc. one flight from Gatwick to Aberdeen other than take off and landing I was in the cockpit for most of it - even got to adjust a few controls, etc. under strict supervision (I wasn't even 13 at the time as I wasn't even allowed on the adult go-karts at the event we were going to). It is weird how that has changed - these days all hell would break loose if that happened (and probably rightly so).
 
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