MetaChat REGISTER   ||   LOGIN   ||   IMAGES ARE OFF   ||   RECENT COMMENTS




artphoto by splunge
artphoto by TheophileEscargot
artphoto by Kronos_to_Earth
artphoto by ethylene

Home

About

Search

Archives

Mecha Wiki

Metachat Eye

Emcee

IRC Channels

IRC FAQ


 RSS


Comment Feed:

RSS

29 March 2007

the return of the door to door salesman. What services would you like to have come by like the ice cream man? The eight o'clock beer bus? The midnight taco delivery?[More:] and of course, the sundowners pot and cocktail trolley, where young rave boys and girls can earn a few bucks before the parties start.
Booze Bus, please.
Cigar Car, too.
posted by CitrusFreak12 29 March | 22:37
This might be a little too local, but I sure do wish that Jones Barbecue and Ezell's delivered. I would be a very happy (and probably very large) man. Failing that, the beer bus sounds like an idea whose time has come.
posted by bmarkey 29 March | 22:46
AAAKK!! I had 666 comments and had to make this one to get rid of the number! Phew.
posted by youngergirl44 29 March | 22:52
i'd be happy to makes buckets of mojitos and take them around for sunday hangover brunch service.
Hear that funky jamaican beat coming down the street?
It's the mojito man!
posted by ethylene 29 March | 23:01
My mom used to have this dude come to our house monthly, he had a pickup truck with a freezer in it and she'd end up buying all this bacon-wrapped filet mignon, shrimp, chicken kiev, all this awesome frozen stuff. It sounds gross, but it was good stuff. He was the "meat man."
Anyhow, my point is that if someone came to my house like that but it was for beer, like different kinds of beer each month, microbrews and beers from different countries, that would just rock so much.

Also a van with the perfect suggestions for dinner.
"How about mexican? No? Well I also have this Pad Thai and chicken satay, how about that? Onion bhajis? Pesto Chevre pizza? Cheeseburgers? I have it all."
posted by chococat 29 March | 23:40
Lawyers, guns, reefer and cold ass beer.
posted by Divine_Wino 29 March | 23:46
Oh and fucking bacon and eggs.
posted by Divine_Wino 29 March | 23:46
We can be the Van Vendor Avengers. Out after dark to sell you a cigarette when you really need one.
Tonight we have three movies choices for your perusal: a thoughtful documentary, an action thriller, and an all purpose porn sampler.
Need to return any movies or library books?
posted by ethylene 30 March | 00:00
Drive by lawyers, guns, reefer and cold ass beer sounds too much like DC.
posted by ethylene 30 March | 00:02
You know what would be really handy? Condom delivery.
posted by bmarkey 30 March | 00:09
Ding Dong
-Yes?
-Tampons tonight, m'lady?
-Mmm....just let me check...well, yes, three box, please.
-Two pounds, six p'nce, m'lady.
-Here you are then, off with you now.
-'night m'lady.
posted by chococat 30 March | 00:20
A good delivery service will always be killed by its success. Gotta keep it small.
The Night Bus will have it all. One guy drives and takes car of visitors, the other makes deliveries.
You can even catch a ride along the route.
Now we need a double decker and a Smoking Level Band. It could be one of the things you do instead of the army, public service.
posted by ethylene 30 March | 00:31
Breakfast and dinner and fresh flowers and clean laundry.
posted by LoriFLA 30 March | 00:33
A Minute Maid! Need a quick floor sweep? Dishes washed? A quick pick-up and the trash taken out? $5, 5 minutes.
posted by mischief 30 March | 04:45
That beer bus sounds so sweet! You put that together with the weed and munchies van and everything is beautiful. Beautiful, man.
posted by hojoki 30 March | 05:14
The midnight taco delivery?

Only if it's Pink Taco.
posted by Eideteker 30 March | 05:40
Here in Baltimore the ice cream truck does deliver many more things than ice cream. Pot, heroin, crack are among the more illicit.
posted by omiewise 30 March | 06:12
When I stayed with my Nan in the 80s, the Pop Man would deliver weird regional colas, dandelion & burdock, cream soda, etc. and take away the previous week's bottles. Ace. I'd love a pop delivery - the polar opposite of an organic veg box!

My fave delivery service is Dial-a-Booze, though - operates 24/7, only sells vodka, whiskey, lager and fags. Very, very illegal, I imagine.
posted by jack_mo 30 March | 06:54
As I understand it from second- and third-hand sources, there is a functioning reefer delivery service in Brooklyn, at least. Apparently it has been going for, like, 20 years. By bike.

Delivery of goods is a great idea if it actually reduces other travel. Better to have one person tooling around in a van than to have hundreds of people drive separate trips to the market. The only thing is, since no delivery service can get you everything you'd buy, people would probably end up going to the store anyhow.

A couple guys at my college started a dorm-delivery service called "Moo Juice," where they would do a twice-weekly store run for things like milk, yogurt, ice cream, sodas - stuff from a limited list. They slipped the order sheet under your door, you returned it via PO box, they left the order at your door. Turned out to be quite lucrative for them. I think they sold the business when they left and it's still running there.

posted by Miko 30 March | 07:25
The BJ hotties?
posted by PaxDigita 30 March | 07:37
Oh yeah, lot's of reefer delivery services, but I'm talking about a dude in a truck blasting under mi sensi and ringing a bell.

Drive by lawyers, guns, reefer and cold ass beer sounds too much like DC.

Heaven forfend, DC is a venal city. I mean it in a nice, wholesome way.
posted by Divine_Wino 30 March | 09:15
Used to be that Charles Chips would be delivered to your door. Looks like that service has gone down the tubes, but there's still Chip of the Month.
posted by plinth 30 March | 09:19
Google maps || It's Friday Arvo Here

HOME  ||   REGISTER  ||   LOGIN