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April 15, 2005
Tax day
It's April 15. Have you filed your taxes yet?
When I was in college, the local Dairy Queen ice cream stand would give away free chocolate sundaes from 10pm to midnight on April 15. You see, it was just a couple blocks from the post office (and the college). But the event became a college tradition (even though none of us actually waited until the 15th to file our taxes).
The line was longer at the Dairy Queen than at the post office. Much longer. And much happier!
I hope they still do it. If you're in Moorhead, Minnesota tonight, have a sundae for me.
UPDATE: The free sundae tradition continues!
Posted by William Polley at April 15, 2005 11:25 AM
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Ice Cream. Mmmmmmmm. True story about long lines and rationing straight from Arts & Sciences at UC-Dublin. Libraries are normally free to enter but at finals time, the students would line up an hour before opening. As soon as it opened, all the chairs would be filled. So I used this to recommend free market pricing as in having the library charge for seats. One kid who knew I loved the lunch deal at Dunkin Doughnuts asked - "don't they have free market pricing". His point was that the lines were very long there too. Of course his American guest lecturer suggested we should pay more for our sandwich, doughnut, and coffee special. My class was not amused.
Posted by: pgl at April 15, 2005 2:42 PM
Great story!
Posted by: William Polley at April 15, 2005 3:11 PM