The Cost Of Free Doughnuts
Planet Money
NPR
4.6 • 29.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:07.0 | Quick note, this episode originally aired in 2012. |
| 0:12.0 | In 1996, British Airways started offering direct flights from my hometown Philadelphia |
| 0:17.1 | to London. |
| 0:18.1 | And as a promotion, they said the first 100 people to show up at the airport on a Tuesday |
| 0:22.8 | at 11 a.m. would get a free ticket to London. |
| 0:26.3 | My brother Benjamin was 15 years old. |
| 0:28.9 | I remember the problem was the car. |
| 0:30.8 | I needed someone with a car to take me from the school 45 minutes to the airport to get |
| 0:37.5 | the ticket and come back within two hours or so. |
| 0:41.3 | I could only miss one or two classes and not get trouble. |
| 0:44.8 | Were you thought he could take public transportation, but that would take a while? |
| 0:48.8 | I'd have to cut school for the entire day. |
| 0:51.3 | And mom would have killed me if I did that. |
| 0:53.3 | That was the problem. |
| 0:54.3 | So I went to the assistant's principal's office and I said, there's this deal they're |
| 0:57.6 | going to give a free ticket to London for $100. |
| 1:01.4 | All we have to do is get there at 11 a.m. this coming Tuesday. |
| 1:05.7 | And at first... |
| 1:06.7 | That school day. |
| 1:07.7 | In the middle of the school day. |
| 1:08.8 | You said to the assistant principal. |
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