Bad times?

Such an uncomfortable sight near the Curve on Sunday, a booth promoting the Isotonic drink Revive that states… to every empty can/bottle of isotonic drink you throw in, you get a 1.5l Revive Bottle FREE.
Okay, the uncomfortable part was the huge crowd and the fact that people were pushing into the booth till the promoters had to shout back at the public and that it looked a lot like a bad night market scene with people stealing bottles too!

I just cannot take it into logic the lengths and effort that people go to, just to get something so trivially “free”.

Really, what part of participating in a greedy mob of people makes getting a bottled drink worthwhile? Rationally thinking…

I realize the word “FREE” really gets to people easily. Just because it’s "FREE", people are willing to put on a thicker face and take that little effort to fully absorb the ‘free experience’ no matter how thriftily petty it might be. Are we really living in bad times?

Or am I just being a snob?
But just for a bottled drink? Come on now… seriously.

Ahh... this reminds me of the whole "petrol price hike mayhem" last year, where panicked people queued endless line just to get the last full tank of cheaper petrol. And how's the petrol price currently? HAH, look at you people now.
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