Business Card Bonanza
Lonely Planet is right when it says that Vietnamese hand out their business cards like candy. I mean, I suppose it would be expected at the kind of meetings I’m having anyway. But would American university scientists have had business cards on the ready quite so readily? In truth I don’t know; I just know that my folio is just saturated with these things in every available card pocket and then some.
And I have to tell you, my mischievous side is *very* tempted to take the whole lot of them and dump them into one of those fishbowl drawings for free lunches you see at places like Chipotle.
Think of it: “Hello, Mister… uh… Vice Minister of Agriculture? CONGRATULATIONS! You just won a FREE BURRITO at Chipotle… just come on down to Seven Corners and we’ll have you taken care of. Thanks for being a valued Chipotle customer!”
I guess that’s where I need to go to get rid of all my cards… the ones from jobs I don’t have any more, where I never used them. I get asked for cards more as a writer/reporter than as an IT geek. (And as a grad student? Never.)
Comment by pjm — July 19, 2006 @ 7:45 am