I worked in an advertising agency so was used to strange requests.
The most odd, and most challenging:
about 4.30/5 pm one night was asked to find a sofa - Chesterfield type - not leather, but not fabric, which was to be used the NEXT DAY in a tv commercial we were making, but we were going to dye it so it had to cost less than £100.
This was pre-lots of late night shopping, but I rang round loads of places and eventually got a well known furniture retailer who had a vinyl sofa just what I wanted. I then had to arrange for it to come from near Stirling to Edinburgh (about 3/4 hour drive) by van, where it was sprayed and dried overnight to be used in the tv commercial.
The commercial, by the way, was for a bank and about bank loans. It was a really surreal ad, the client didn't like it much and so it was hardly used. But they coughed up the money for the sofa (and for making the commercial, obviouslyl!)
Jackie, Peer Moderator
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