My best mate
is extraordinarilly thrifty. Many's the time I've sent lots of texts to him only to finally receive the reply "you bastard, I had to top up my phone' two days later.

About six months ago, he decided to get his driveway mono-blocked. He does a lot of favours for people in his line of work and knows a lot of tradesmen, so a few strings pulled here and there and he wangled the blocks for free and someone to lay them for a few cups of tea and ham sandwiches. I helped him unload the thousands of blocks from the truck, during which he gave me a bottle of mineral water from a crate in his shed. He told me he'd picked these up cheap, at about 12p a bottle.

Fast forward to a week later, the job is done. The drive looks great, but there's dust everywhere from the cut blocks, especially over the white garage door. "I'll soon fix that" thought my mate, retreiving a bottle of water to spray the door down with.

What he did next is the scroungiest, meanest thing I've ever heard of.

Pausing for a second to think about it, he then drank the mineral water in one gulp, went indoors, refilled the bottle from the tap and sprayed the door clean.

Afterwards, you could see the shame on his face as he realised what he'd done.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 18:34, 1 reply)

Hmmm
I don't get it.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 22:06, closed)