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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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I've mentioned Mo in a couple of previous QotW posts - one of them's in my "Best of" if you check my profile.
Anyway, a few years ago when I worked in London I was in a band called The Morgan Elliots. One week Mo came to rehearsal with us and filmed the whole thing on a hand-held camera. After taking it home and editing it a bit, Mo burnt us a DVD each of it and so we had a damn good little film of us rehearsing, messing about etc.

A couple of years pass, I move and change jobs, and don't see those guys so often.... in true Professor Kenny Martin style, I lost my copy of the DVD and was quite gutted about this - I mentioned it to the other guys from the band, who didn't have (at the time) any way of copying their discs.

A couple more years pass and I see Mo at the birthday party of a mutual friend and mention that I lost my disc.

"Why didn't you phone me?!" he asked indignantly. "I can burn you another one!"

Overjoyed at this, I gave him my address and laughed when he mentioned it would be £5 to cover the disc, postage and his time.

So, how pleased was I when I got a new copy of the rehearsal film a few days later? Very, and it was just as good as I'd remembered.

Even though there was an invoice accompanying it in the envelope...
(, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 18:03, 3 replies)
Ha ha
I'll need to remember to include one of those next time I send you something in the mail
(, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 18:41, closed)
Have a click
now where do I send my bill?
(, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 18:48, closed)
Heh.
You still owe me £16.99 for that tape of my magnificent 'experimental' 90s stuff, and I've kept quiet about it 'til now...
(, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 0:01, closed)

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