Swag

I feel like a celebrity being showered in products by companies grateful for them to advertise their logos. In addition to the countless pieces of my own company paraphernalia I've been gifted with over the past year (Baseball Caps, Tshirts, A Lunch Cooler, Mints, Keychains, Pens, etc), I have now begun to acquire a fair amount from the oil companies whose rigs I've been working on.

Recently I received a very nice, very expensive looking windbreaker embroidered with a colorful logo apparently designed for the particular well I had been working on in Wyoming. I had once put my name, address, and jacket size down on a piece of paper sometime back in October, and this was the result. (Unfortunately this jacket is actually waaaayyy to big for me. Any interest in it, Dad?)

I've also gotten these forms in the mail for "Safety Points" I can redeem in reward for my participation at all of the Wyoming Rig's safety meetings. I ordered a set of coveralls with my name and the Evil Oil Company's logo embroidered on them. I figured I'd wear them to my own office one day just to weird everybody out. These coveralls, unfortunately, have yet to arrive.

One thing that did arrive from my safety points form, however, was a 48-quart Coleman Cooler. There was a really random selection of items to choose from, and I found that to be the most potentially useful. It's currently sitting in a closet awaiting summer tailgate season.

The biggest surprise, however, was also sitting on my doorstep yesterday. It was a small box addressed from the same company that sent out the other safety awards, and until I opened it I thought it must contain the missing pair of coveralls. The unexpected contents, however, included a travel coffee mug with the same colorful logo that had been embroidered on the expensive jacket. What really made my jaw drop, however, with the incredibly un-useful awesomeness of the gift, was the high quality pewter belt buckle in the image of that same logo.



Oh yeah, and my mail arrived with another form for 30 more safety points to redeem for anything from a crock-pot to a pair of Evil Oil Company Logo-embroidered overalls.