False Economies
Sometimes the cheapest option isn't the right one. I fondly remember my neighbours going to a well-known catalogue-based store and buying the cheapest lawnmower they stocked. How we laughed as they realised it had non-rotating wheels and died when presented with grass. Tell us about times you or others have been let down by being a cheapskate.
( , Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:42)
Sometimes the cheapest option isn't the right one. I fondly remember my neighbours going to a well-known catalogue-based store and buying the cheapest lawnmower they stocked. How we laughed as they realised it had non-rotating wheels and died when presented with grass. Tell us about times you or others have been let down by being a cheapskate.
( , Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:42)
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My friend - a deeply religious man called Gurdeep - was telling me about this time he went parachuting with a group, including our friend Tom, who is a a notorious coward.
He told it from the top - about the training they did the day before, the familiarisation with the aircraft, the various emergency procedures, etc etc.
On the day they flew, the weather wasn't actually that good - borderline for parachuting - and the group were quite nervous including, as Gurdeep masterfully put it, "One member, who did not have perhaps as much control over his bodily functions as he would have liked to have had."
Me: Let's face it - it was Tom, wasn't it?
Fall Sikh: Oh no - me!
( , Thu 26 Jun 2014, 10:19, 15 replies)
He told it from the top - about the training they did the day before, the familiarisation with the aircraft, the various emergency procedures, etc etc.
On the day they flew, the weather wasn't actually that good - borderline for parachuting - and the group were quite nervous including, as Gurdeep masterfully put it, "One member, who did not have perhaps as much control over his bodily functions as he would have liked to have had."
Me: Let's face it - it was Tom, wasn't it?
Fall Sikh: Oh no - me!
( , Thu 26 Jun 2014, 10:19, 15 replies)
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