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This is a question Tightwads

There's saving money, and there's being tight: saving money at the expense of other people, or simply for the miserly hell of it.

Tell us about measures that go beyond simple belt tightening into the realms of Mr Scrooge.

(, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:58)
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If you're on Income Support and surviving on less than fifty quid a week
then ten pence on each journey makes a difference.

And it's HIS ten pence, not the bus company's.

I think as a bus company employee you should fill out a voucher for everyone who doesn't have the correct change and make it a complete bureaucratic nightmare for the bus company. Then it might work out cheaper for them to give customers their change rather than keep the unearned income for themselves.

But you call your customer a tight fucker. If you saw 10p lying on the ground, would you pick it up? If yes, doesn't that make you as "cheap" as him?
(, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 0:45, 1 reply)
^ This
But also it doesn't matter if you're on income support, poor or whatever.

It's your change, not theirs.

When you're 10p short of the fare, they don't let you on.
(, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 10:39, closed)

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