Today, in a desperate attempt to get my business "out there", I dropped a few of my cards on a station floor. I got a call, even a quote. A $500 fine from the transit for public littering. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was walking through town when I saw a plastic bag on the ground. Trying to be a good citizen, I picked it up, intending on throwing it in the trash. When I looked up, there wasn't a trash can for another hundred feet. So I put it back down. Now I've got a $200 fine to pay for littering. FML
Today, I watered a dying communal plant. I was fined $250 for littering. FML
Today, trying to get to work just off Eglinton station in Toronto, I slept in, didn't shower, and didn't have money for an Uber, so I jumped on the street car. This was the only time they had people checking tickets. One 200$ fine later, I'm late for work, and after a warning for my tardiness, I was sent home for "stinking." FML
Today, I accidentally left my concession card in the photocopier. I then got fined for not having a concession card on the train. I was photocopying it for a letter to get out of a fine for not having a concession card. FML
Today, I thought it would be a good idea to Super Glue a couple of quarters to the sidewalk downtown and watch people try to pick them up. Unfortunately, street patrol was watching me glue everything the whole time. I was fined with public vandalism and defacing US currency. FML
Today, I got two pieces of mail. One was a fine for not presenting my concession card to ticket inspectors on a train. The other was my concession card. FML
Today, I hopped on a tram without a ticket to travel one stop in order to save 5 minutes off my walk. Instead, I got a $230 fine and ended up 15 minutes further away from my destination. FML
Today, I tried to help my community by cleaning up a patch of waste ground covered in litter. Instead of gratitude, I was reported to the cops and issued with fines for noise complaints, trespassing, causing a nuisance, littering, harming wildlife, and about 15 other offences. Screw this community. FML
Today, my card got declined at Subway, so I walked to the nearest cashpoint thirty minutes away to frantically figure out how much cash I had in my card. As I went to pull my card out of my purse, it slipped from my grip and fell into the sewer. The guy behind me snorted with laughter. FML
Today, after a long bike journey through heavy traffic in the pouring rain to deliver a coffee order, the coffee decided to fall out of the bottom of the now soggy paper bag I was carrying and land on the customer's floor. I cleaned it up with paper towels from the toilets. The delivery company didn't pay me. FML
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Top comments
DocBastard 40
How stupid are you? Are you in the habit of reading trash? No, and neither is anyone else. Your plan was idiotic, and you got exactly what you deserved - no new customers, and $500 out of your pocket.
NStarB 13
Atleast they saw ur card ;)
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Comments (71)
CrassKal 27
You should have tried saying that you were just handing them out, and it was other people who just dropped them.
structuredchaoz 4
Put your cards in businesses, and I drop them in the gas station cc app holders =)
bannedforlife 0
Like anyone Is gonna pick a nasty, trod upon, filthy card off the ground at a public trans station and exclaim, "Oh, good, just the business service I need. I'm going to call right now!" YDI for littering and for really bad marketing.
Freeze_fml 17
Businesses should rely on hearsay rather than card spam.
jakeshade11 8
If your idea of marketing is dropping business cards at a station... you're clearly not cut out to be an entrepreneur.
AnagenisisZagus 13
Yeah, that is certainly the best method. Rather than simply handing out business cards in a possibly busy area, you decide it would be best to drop them around where other trash may possibly reside to little notice of bystanders. Foolproof, man.
moomoomeow2 7
I'm really sorry.
nubx 0
Ur doing it wrong.
laclustervideo 2
y would u put them on the ground first of all no body would actually pick it up and second of all your retarded if u actually payed that fine because there is no way they could prove that u dropped the cards on the ground
iwadasn 33
So you've never heard of security cameras, then?
HomeAl0ne 20
Let me guess the business you are in: Marketing? Public Relations. No, no, wait, I've got it. You're a chiropractor and you treat chronic back pain, long sightedness, OCD related to germs and the fear of travelling in trains.