This article is less interesting than the original, mostly because most of the stuff he gets isn't all that outrageous or interesting. Of course the hotel staff will bring you random objects for $20, and a stripper doesn't care if you want to talk about your dog. It's only interesting on those odd occasions where you get something which is worth, in some sense, more than $20.<p>The final paragraph, though, about the power of calling service staff by their names, is is interesting. Maybe I should try that. Anyone got any experience with habitually learning and using names (or just reading off their nametags)?
Bribing service employees to steal from the store for you (figuratively) seems like a good ROI:<p><a href="http://www.thetwentydollartrick.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thetwentydollartrick.com/</a><p>I'm not much for the false feeling of status resulting from bribery, though.
"So I went to twenty blackjack tables and offered twenty dealers twenty bucks for their best advice."<p>That would have made a fine N-List.<p>Also just noticed that Esquire has an interesting Javascript running if you copy text. If the text is long enough, it will add a link to the article to the copied text.
You could get much of what he asks for if you asked for it and told the people why you wanted / needed it. Doubtful? Look at what some will do for Mardi Gras beads.