Fukobukuro 19: Fools Rush In
Our Take
- This is a Fukobukuro, an unlucky bag
- That means it’s filled with worthless junk you wouldn’t buy knowingly, and you shouldn’t buy it sight unseen either
- We used to sell the same sort of thing as a “Fukubukuro”, or “lucky bag”, but the contents couldn’t live up to the name
- Before that, we used to sell the same sort of thing as a “BoC” (Bag of Crap) at Woot, but someone else runs that business now
- Long before that, you got your Japanese custom of Fukubukuro dating to the Meiji period, but all we really know about that is what’s on Wikipedia
- ONLY BUY ONE. Multiple orders will be canceled.
- (Or buy zero, if you’re smart.)
- Model: APRFU50
Mediocrebot's Prankstravaganza / Massacre
Conference Room Spock would not be big enough to host the entire company. Conference Room Spock was the “joke” conference room, a windowless closet with an ancient phone conferencing system on a lonely round table that no employee would ever use if any other space were available.
This meeting was becoming more and more peculiar, and I found myself almost more interested in it than my looming pranking!
Once I reached Conference Room Spock, I met Jeff.
“Jeff,” I said, “The entire company will not be able to fit in this room for the company-wide meeting. You should have used the Scheduling Assistant to find a different conference room.”
“Oh that’s the thing,” Jeff muttered as he stared at the floor, “There is no meeting. This is a prank.” What? Infuriating! What a waste of my time! I could have been anticipating the prank-
Wait. This was a prank.
I had been pranked!
Meh-rathon
What’s a Meh-rathon?
Normally, Meh is all about one deal per day—simple. But sometimes, we throw that out the window. A Meh-rathon is an all-day gauntlet of nonstop deals. One after another, untill we run out of stuff (or patience). It's chaotic. It's fun. It's a terrible way to shop responsibly. You've been warned.
