Unreal caller to my door

ROCKMAN

Right at 5.30 this evening , answered the door to find a nice elderly woman doing market research (nothing strange about that,)
The research was for a major cigarette company (bit weird )
I take part and answer a few pages of questions etc and at the end I'm handed 40 CIGARETTES (:eek: now is it me or it that weird .)

A major cigarette company going door to door given out free fags , ASH will spontaneously combust.


She's coming back in a few days to see how I got on.
And I am ask to follow the following instructions (word for word from leaflet )

# Please smoke all of the cigarettes yourself without offering them to others, as we are interested in your opinion only.

# Please do not smoke any other cigarettes until these are finished .

# Please keep empty packs until I return.

# Please try to smoke all of the cigarettes.

Opinions ?

ASIL1983

Is one of your friends playing a joke?? It doesnt sound right to me

AlmightyCushion

Sell them and tell her to fúck off when she calls. Who cares if it's a bit odd as you've just made a few quid.

antodeco

This isint your front door is it?

ROCKMAN

Not a joke , I'm a smoker so not going to tell her to F**k off , In fact I may even give her a cuppa when she returns and see if I can get more freebies

mickdw

That cannot be for real. Is it even legal to give out free cigarette for promotion?

antodeco

ROCKMAN wrote: »

In fact I may even give her a cuppa when she returns and see if I can get more freebies

ie:

Handjob from the elderly. Thats plain sick.

Tha Gopher

This reminds me of stories you were told in national school of lads hanging around street corners offering free starter hits of heroin to kids.


Ive never been offered free heroin

antodeco

FREE TIBET!!!!!

Sharpshooter

ROCKMAN wrote: »

Right at 5.30 this evening , answered the door to find a nice elderly woman doing market research (nothing strange about that,)
The research was for a major cigarette company (bit weird )
I take part and answer a few pages of questions etc and at the end I'm handed 40 CIGARETTES (:eek: now is it me or it that weird .)

A major cigarette company going door to door given out free fags , ASH will spontaneously combust.


She's coming back in a few days to see how I got on.
And I am ask to follow the following instructions (word for word from leaflet )

# Please smoke all of the cigarettes yourself without offering them to others, as we are interested in your opinion only.

# Please do not smoke any other cigarettes until these are finished .

# Please keep empty packs until I return.

# Please try to smoke all of the cigarettes.

Opinions ?

Did you ask her WHY regarding any of the above?:pac:

ejmaztec

ROCKMAN wrote: »

Right at 5.30 this evening , answered the door to find a nice elderly woman doing market research (nothing strange about that,)
The research was for a major cigarette company (bit weird )
I take part and answer a few pages of questions etc and at the end I'm handed 40 CIGARETTES (:eek: now is it me or it that weird .)

A major cigarette company going door to door given out free fags , ASH will spontaneously combust.


She's coming back in a few days to see how I got on.
And I am ask to follow the following instructions (word for word from leaflet )

# Please smoke all of the cigarettes yourself without offering them to others, as we are interested in your opinion only.

# Please do not smoke any other cigarettes until these are finished .

# Please keep empty packs until I return.

# Please try to smoke all of the cigarettes.

Opinions ?

Get somebody else to answer the door when she comes back. They can tell them that you died of smoke inhalation after getting through two packets of weird fags. :eek:

antodeco

ejmaztec wrote: »

Get somebody else to answer the door when she comes back. They can tell them that you died of smoke inhalation after getting through two packets of weird fags. :eek:

Just goto The George for that.

Setun

ROCKMAN wrote: »

Right at 5.30 this evening , answered the door to find a nice elderly woman doing market research (nothing strange about that,)
The research was for a major cigarette company (bit weird )
I take part and answer a few pages of questions etc and at the end I'm handed 40 CIGARETTES (:eek: now is it me or it that weird .)

A major cigarette company going door to door given out free fags , ASH will spontaneously combust.


She's coming back in a few days to see how I got on.
And I am ask to follow the following instructions (word for word from leaflet )

# Please smoke all of the cigarettes yourself without offering them to others, as we are interested in your opinion only.

# Please do not smoke any other cigarettes until these are finished .

# Please keep empty packs until I return.

# Please try to smoke all of the cigarettes.

Opinions ?

Was there a camera crew outside your house hiding in a van with Naked Camera written on the side of it?

Holsten

Now if only they done this with beer.....

marcsignal

fckn hell! send her around to me when she comes back the lithunanian bloke I usually buy mine from is late this week

Rhyme

They're not cigarettes.

Zillah

That is seriously bizarre. What brand are they?

dr.bollocko

Finally someone's sticking up for the little guy with a cough.

antodeco

Zillah wrote: »

That is seriously bizarre. What brand are they?

Rohypnol

ROCKMAN

Zillah wrote: »

That is seriously bizarre. What brand are they?

I doubt I can name the brand on here ,

Zillah

Of course you can. Look I'll do it first.

I smoke Marlboro Lights. Benson and Hedges is a brand of cigarette. Someone gave you some free insert the brand here.

Pretty damn certain there's no rules against simply naming a brand.

Sharpshooter

ROCKMAN wrote: »

I doubt I can name the brand on here ,

But they were seriously strange instructions , did you not ask her why she wanted you to follow them?

Jet Black

ROCKMAN wrote: »

Right at 5.30 this evening , answered the door to find a nice elderly woman doing market research (nothing strange about that,)
The research was for a major cigarette company (bit weird )
I take part and answer a few pages of questions etc and at the end I'm handed 40 CIGARETTES (:eek: now is it me or it that weird .)

A major cigarette company going door to door given out free fags , ASH will spontaneously combust.


She's coming back in a few days to see how I got on.
And I am ask to follow the following instructions (word for word from leaflet )

# Please smoke all of the cigarettes yourself without offering them to others, as we are interested in your opinion only.

# Please do not smoke any other cigarettes until these are finished .

# Please keep empty packs until I return.

# Please try to smoke all of the cigarettes.

Opinions ?

Are you sure she did not hand you a bit of paper saying 'I am a deaf, dumb and blind. Please buy these cigs for 20euro to help support me and my 20 kids and dogs. Thank you'

ROCKMAN

sharpshooterH wrote: »

But they were seriously strange instructions , did you not ask her why she wanted you to follow them?

Did not read/see them until after she left , Just taught it was a piece of paper with her name and No. on it


And for other posters

There was two brands ,same company Benson's and SC purple

Cuddlesworth

mickdw wrote: »

That cannot be for real. Is it even legal to give out free cigarette for promotion?

Yes, a marketer for a tobacco company in Ireland I knew had a house full of cartons of ciggerettes simply to give away for free to get people to smoke that brand.

avillan

sounds weird you smoke any yet ?

ScumLord

ROCKMAN wrote: »

# Please smoke all of the cigarettes yourself without offering them to others, as we are interested in your opinion only.

The cigarettes are prisoned. Oldest trick in the book send the nice old lady they won't suspect a thing.

Aidric

It's a new government initiative to entice people to take up smoking, thus increasing the coffers in these times of recession.

xbox36016

lol the same thing what my sister and the woman said do you whant 10 euro than she handed her a 300 page book of q and a

poison, without doubt. Or heroin. Or poisoned heroin.

super_furry

antodeco wrote: »

This isint your front door is it?

No, this is http://tinyurl.com/5uzqs8

Sharpshooter

xbox36016 wrote: »

lol the same thing what my sister and the woman said do you whant 10 euro than she handed her a 300 page book of q and a

Have you been smoking those cigs that ROCKMAN is talking about.:D

monkeyfudge

Do you even smoke?


They may not have tobacco in them... perhaps you're in the control group.

gerrycollins

This is for real cannot find the link anywhere but its coming from USA.

Cig companies are been hit hard because old/dead smokers are not been replaced by new younger smokers because of the negative publicity cigs get(wow no stuff sherlock)

anywho the cigs companies are now trying to convert current smokers to their brand by this method. the actual method I read about was targeting clubbers and pubs where its easy to identify the smokers and they get two free packs but not the Q and A session.

The whole idea is that somkers stay with their brand for quaility first then price so they are out to try and prove theirs is betters. Most smoker will not buy a differnet brand for fear of not liking it and wasting the money so a few free pack gives them the obvious free trial.

oeb

Holsten wrote: »

Now if only they done this with beer.....

They used to run trials in the metropol in cork. I went to one at one stage, you go in two nights (a week apart) and drink 5 pints. After each pint you fill out some questions. After the first pint it was 5 or 6 pages, then 1 or 2 pages after each of the others. I think I got 20 pounds for it (and a nice start on two nights out)

petethebrick

Seriously send her round to me, free smokes-sweet.

Was walkin past a hotel in the city centre recently and was in a bad mood due to a few things. Some old one approached me at the door with a clipboard obviously doing market research and i told her to get lost (politely). next thing i see is ones emerging with free packs of beer after havin taken part, sickener^^

Mimikyu

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sdanseo

Wouldn't touch them. Probably drugged.

The_B_Man

they probably have extra cancer in them...

_blank_

I've had loads of free smokes in the past. They are in plain white packs, with a number on them, right?

Of course, nobody knocked on my door, my friend's mother works for a Market Research Company and often asks us to do the research for her.

Other freebies have included several nights on the beer, testing new products (one I remember is two nights, a week apart, testing some new lager, free taxi home too after 8 pints)

I get paid for this too.

Biggins

Never invite anyone into your house our not comfortable with.
They (or their friends) might be scoping your property out to see if you have any thing worth breaking in for!
...believe it or not, that includes the dog which in some homes, they have been know to steal!

Not saying the old woman is the above case but the Op case does sound VERY strange!

Dave!

Quite strange....

Sell the story to a newspaper! I'm sure the Herald would run it on the front page for weeks.

"DRUG DEALER GOES DOOR TO DOOR GIVING FREE SAMPLES"

Karoma

Just wait until she returns; stare blankly and calmly tell her: "They were good. Thank you. Yes; I will vote for Fianna Fáil.". Close the door gently.

brendansmith

antodeco wrote: »

This isint your front door is it?

Didnt get this at first!
Very good!:D

Sharpshooter

Des wrote: »

I've had loads of free smokes in the past. They are in plain white packs, with a number on them, right?

Of course, nobody knocked on my door, my friend's mother works for a Market Research Company and often asks us to do the research for her.

Other freebies have included several nights on the beer, testing new products (one I remember is two nights, a week apart, testing some new lager, free taxi home too after 8 pints)

I get paid for this too.

* Sighs *

Knock knock :
Who's there?
Depression
/ come on in , Des sent you yeah!:(

lostexpectation

do you reckonise the brand at all?

Riddle101

The first thing that comes to mind when i think about what the OP has said is, Satan. I mean it's one thing to turn up at someone's door at 5:30, but it's a completely different thing to give away Free Cigarettes. Sounds like The Devil is trying to tempt you, it's what he'd do

An other idea i had was maybe she's laced the Cigarettes with poison and is trying to kill you, why else would she insist that you smoke them all and not to give anyone else. Seems shifty, have you angered anyone lately?

Turd Ferguson

What you should do is prepare you own 3 hour long questionaire and when she comes back, invite her in and make her answer it all.

And have the questions really personal and/or disgusting and/or offensive for extra lols!

antodeco

When she comes back, pull down your pants and ask her to to take a "drag on your cigar".

giggsy664

Get a gun/airsoft and when she comes back, go to the door and stroke your gun while saying "I am the angel of death. The time of purification is near."

GhostInTheRuins

Have you smoked any of them yet?

I presume the op is dead.

RIP op