2nd income opportunity

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Mon, 2006-11-06 22:47

I'm the first to admit I'm not the greatest driver.

I'm always cutting people up, jumping lights, doing illegal U-turns, driving the wrong way down one-way streets, making obscene gestures at other motorists, mounting the pavement to pass cyclists, taking shortcuts through pedestrianised precincts, refusing to give way to people on zebra crossings, wrongfooting other road users by indicating right when I mean to turn left.

I rely far too much on wheelies to get me through tight gaps and on handbrake turns to change direction when travelling at speed. It's fair to say I take my driving to the boundaries of acceptable motoring and a little beyond.

It recently occurred to me there's an earning opportunity here.

What if I slapped a big "How do you rate my driving?" sign on the back of the car with a premium rate phone number?

I could clean up.

Anyone got any other ideas for how you can turn a personality defect into a business opportunity?

Mon, 2006-11-06 23:06

yan

Yes! Charge people to slap me - with reprieve There's nothing more mind-teasing than the incomprehensible eagerly avowed - Dennett

There's nothing more mind-teasing than the incomprehensible eagerly avowed -
Dennett

Tue, 2006-11-07 09:54

archergirl

'What if I slapped a big "How do you rate my driving?" sign on the back of the car with a premium rate phone number?' LOL! what a fab idea!

Tue, 2006-11-07 11:49

markbrown

In an example of the phenomena of great minds across the globe arriving at the same solution to a particular problem in isolation from each other, there was a letter in the Viz suggesting this idea a few years ago. Given that we swim the same waters, it's not unreasonable that the same idea occurs to different people at around the same time. I'm all for it. Bizarrely, we used to get offers from companies who wanted us to set up a premium rate number on all of our work phones, so that everyone calling us put money into our bank account. It's a not uncommon practice. Cheers, Mark

Tue, 2006-11-07 13:24

maddan

There used to be a classified ad in the back of Private Eye that read "get rich quick, send Â£2 postal order to PO BOX [something]." Apparently, if you sent the money, you received a panflet with the instructions: In order to get rich quick place an classified ad in Private Eye ...

Tue, 2006-11-07 18:09

brooosh

Very tactfully put Mark. I guess it's a fairly obvious idea which just popped into my head last night apparently from nowhere. I'm not a Viz reader, but I could have got it 2nd or 3rd hand from them without realising it. When I write song lyrics and think I've come up with a brilliant chart-toppingly original phrase I always Google it in quotes. It's depressing the number of times it turns out that 8,000 other people have already had that idea. It's a wonderful feeling though when just occasionally I get the: "Your search for XYZ did not match any documents". How did poets and lyricists manage before search engines?

Tue, 2006-11-07 19:34

hox

Last year I approached IKEA with the idea of setting up a video website showing clips of how to perform various DIY tasks, including how to assemble their bloody furniture. No interest. Now look here www.videojug.com/category/diy Je suis malade comme un parraket.

Tue, 2006-11-07 19:42

hox

Oh, and to answer your original question about turning personality defects into cash: if you are easily led, lack self awareness,and have no sense of morality, try becoming an MP.

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