2005 Italian Festival Incident

We rock up to the Italian festival and immediately start pigging out on Italian food. Of course it’s an Aracini down my throat the instant we arrive. The next thing we discover is Italian pastry or that’s what we thought it was. Disclosed as Italian pastry we watch, as this pastry looks quite similar to a gozleme/Turkish pide.

As were about to place an order I question on why on earth they are putting kebab into the Italian pastry. We end up ordering the pastry as I realise that the guy making them is Turkish. Before we know it we realise that this is a Turkish scheme at the Italian festival. We end up throwing out half the pastry because it wasn’t cooked probably.

Just before we left we spot a promotional stand advertising cheap accommodation. You can travel to Melbourne. Gold coast. Brisbane, Perth etc for $29 a night at 4 to 5 star hotels.

We decide to ask about the offer. The woman begins to explain that depending on where you are going there may be a minimum number of nights you have to stay. We tell her that we are not sure where we want to go. She tells us that its valid for 12 months and that in order to get the deal we have to go to a presentation organised by the company.

So we agree to this and want to sign up for the presentation. She tells us that regardless we get the offer just by attending the presentation. Its something the company does for taking up your time. So she pulls out her book to sign us up and one of the questions ask for your credit card details.

So I ask her if we have to put our credit card details down and she replies,
“You can just pay me cash”.

We look at her thinking what the hell are you on about woman. She tells us that we have to pay her up front for the accommodation. We tell her that we don’t know where we are going. She tells us that we don’t need to know where we are going.

For fucks sake woman if we don’t know when we are going or where we are going how do you expect us to pay for it and then tell us that there may be a minimum night stay on the location were going to. After a heated conversation with her, she got annoyed and grabbed the book off our hands and yelled that’s fine.

You stupid inconsiderate bitch. What type of a sales assistant are you. If you cant even sell or explain your stupid promotion to us. What type of a sick company is this that takes your money before you make up your mind on where you’re going? What happens if the hotel is booked out on the dates you want to go on?

What’s the bet this bitch just takes your money and runs off with it. Watch out for the promo bitch! She’s out there.