Dave is most definitely a corporate whore (or bore, more like). One of the perks of this is invitations to free events. Our plans for dinner and supermarket shopping were put on hold last night as he rang me to ask whether I wanted to go to a presentation by LANDesk with drinks and canapes followed by a screening of Shutter Island. Never one to look a gift horse in the mouth I, of course, agreed. The event started at 6:15 with the film showing at 7:30. Dave said it would be full of boring IT people so we decided to get something to eat in town first (canapes never fill me up) and head over for about 7pm so we didn't have to spend too much time mingling. On arrival we were given various freebies including a USB stick which according to Dave was "very cool" and of course, our free drinks. We managed one canape: the waiters were crap only ever going in the same direction so by the time they got round to us the trays were empty. Good job we did have dinner before.
The presentation was held in one of the cinema screens, which was quite novel. They handed out free popcorn and drinks too. The next half an hour, for me, was spent wondering what the hell was going on - I couldn't tell you what LANDesk do or what they were trying to sell, surely a sign that the presentation was really bad?! Eventually it was time for the film, not before free choctops had been handed around though! My review of Shutter Island: not bad, a bit too long, and quite weird at times but definitely worth seeing. Lucky for us we even got four free cinema tickets for any film for filling out feedback forms - a nice cheap (well, completely free) evening out.
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