ParsimonyHullo tapirs, guffs Richard McBeef off the internet. One of my brother's friends once cycled from one side of London to the other to get some free lightbulbs from a condemned building, a 6-hour round trip. Tell us about the meanest, stingiest penny-pinching you've witnessed.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2016, 9:58)
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The tight meals thing has reminded me. My boss had got a grad in for me to be in charge of and this bloke had volunteered to be in charge of looking after new grads because he'd put his name to anything for a bit of recognition.
Anyhow, he asks me if I'd be up for going out for a lunch with the new start on their first day and naturally I agree because it's a nice thing to do, people did the same when I started there and any excuse to get out of the office, eh?
'oh that's good! The thing is the grad budget can only stretch so far so I'm afraid you'll have to pay for yourself.'
'...'
When the meal came he had an argument with the waiter because the receipt didn't have a vat number on it, presumably because he feared it's absence would leave him liable to pay for 30 quids worth of food.
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Slippery Mick ‏, Wed 9 Mar 2016, 20:40,
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