[grania]

if you don't intend to use (the card), give it to someone entering a Starbucks

Be selective. Give that gift card to the shabbiest looking person you can find. Starbucks will be SO HAPPY to have the opportunity to serve such a person!

[Calvin Locke]

A drive-time host in Boston once sent his interns out with some $5 bills, and some $10 food coupons.

They were to find bums, call the station, and put the bum on, and have the bum call the host "Cap'n" or the like for a choice of the $5 cash, or the $10 worth of food.

Unsurprisingly, there were no takers for the non-distilled/unfermented food coupons.