I have a few good uns, but one that really stands out is not exactly a standard barter…
I worked for an events company in Sydney for the big day out (a festival), setting up the fencing and suchlike… was good craic, but they then decided they didn’t need us any more in the middle of the night (the festival was in the Olympic park some way out of town) so the owners wife counted 20 of us to be taken to the site office for our details to be taken and our pay cut according to the hours we had not worked… I was at the back of the queue and snuck off into the shadows, finding the empty backstage lounge and mucking around in there for a bit.
A few weeks later, there was another festival, so I went to the backstage entrance and said I was there for the lighting… the security went and checked and said my shift wasn’t due for another hour~ in the meantime, I had clocked the wristbands everyone was wearing to get in, which were purple.
I then went to a craft shop in town and bought some card of a similar shade and some labels and with some scissors and a small amount of cunning and artistry, doctored some homemade wristbands, with some pretty basic scribbling to mimic the writing on the band I had left over from the previous festival, then phoned up a few mates.
We went in through the main entrance and no-one blinked an eye.
I’m having a proper giggle writing this, because I’d forgotten all about it and it was pretty frickin satisfying 😆