Results: Unusual Requests

See how other clients find enhanced Quality of Life by using Best Upon Request's Concierge Services to satisfy their unique needs.

Featured Request

Zak Heimerl, assistant concierge for Wheaton Franciscan-St. Francis, was asked to deliver a retirement gift to a customer’s husband. The gift was a trip to Colonial Williamsburg and other historical eastern US sites. The customer asked Zak to dress up like a Revolutionary War Minuteman and deliver the gift. The customer wrote out a script and Zak read the script when he delivered the gift. This request was right up Zak’s “alley” as he is taking coursework in acting!

Business

• Deliver Lucky Charms cereal and skim milk to a visiting associate.
• Purchase a stereo and some popular CD's for a group that was going to work through the night at the office.
• Water the Christmas tree in a client's reception area two times a week.
• Pack up entire office and move to new location.
• Put together 29 Secretary's Day gift baskets.
• Create a newsletter about China for employee transferred there.

Home/Personal

• Find a tasteful gag gift ideas for a man's 40th birthday. Ideas included: flamingo surprise; custom made "Everything I know about" books; and an over-the-hill survival knife.
• Purchase a chain saw for a wedding present.
• Find a small gong that says made in China.
• Locate five full dress Scottish kilts for wedding party.
• Find information on a teeter-totter with shredded tires around the areas that was seen at a rest stop outside of Chicago.
• Photocopy deed and mortgage records at town hall for employee considering a purchase.
• Purchase a wire basket filled with three dozen warm bagels and assorted cream cheeses and deliver for a funeral reception.
• Rush house key to baby-sitter and baby who were locked out of the house in the middle of winter.
• Go and make sure iron is unplugged.
• Book flights from Chicago to Minsk, Belarus for a Buick Riviera key.
• Find energy sports.
• Look for a gag gift.
• Write a treasure hunt poem to lure husband home early.
• Decorate 10ft Christmas tree.
• Within 24 hours arrange a 30-person engagement party in a city thousands of miles away.

Animal

• Purchase a dozen crickets for a frog.
• Locate a two-bedroom apartment that would accept a VERY large dog.
• Find a stuffed animal that looked exactly like "Morris the Cat" after an employee's cat was hit by a car.
• Find and buy prairie dog food.
• Deliver fish bowl and one fish for Valentines Day.

Other

• Fill tailgate party hot tub with 1,600 gallons of water.
• Find a Catholic Church in Kusadasi, Turkey.
  
• Research the import ratio of tomatoes into Florida.
  
• Find and buy Argon-Co2 welding gases.
  
• Find costumes, including wigs and hats, based upon the characters from the game Clue.
  
• Meet client at transferring airline gate and bring cooler filled with assorted ice cream from famous St. Louis vendor.
• Find documents in apartment to help customer out of a tough situation in France where her passport was stolen.
  
• Find articles, materials, books, etc. on "microbiology of acid mine drainage waste water."
  
• Track down an out of print movie and have it copied to VHS.
  
• Buy saxophone reeds.
  
• Research Wisconsin weather from 1998.
  
• Get overnight letter delivered to United States Navy submarine.