Denied!
On the road for two weeks for work, we stopped at a laundromat to do laundry. Walking up to a drier, a woman across the room politely informs me that there are about five minutes left on her drier, and I'm welcome to them as she is done. Cheapskate that I am, I take her up on her kind offer.

Not five minutes later, a co-worker of mine puts his clothes into the drier I was going to use, and finds two $20 bills.

Denied $40 for five minutes of drying. That's $8 a minute!
( setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 18:19, Reply)