Drunken squandering
After a night out, it's typical for one to have their memory skip a few hours before coming to their senses to discover themselves armed with only an empty wallet and the remnants of a kebab as you balance a traffic cone on your head.

But not me. After hitting 'the wall' as my fellow students call it - the point where you know that anymore drink will equal hospitalisation and civilly stop for a takeaway - I become tighter than the Virgin Mary's arsehole when it comes to my pursestrings.

My most remembered moneysaving moment was refusing to spend a tenner on a taxi back home across Birmingham after a night out and decided the train would be the cheaper option. Sounds fair enough, but this was at 3am during a weatherstorm. The first train was at 6.50am. Lo and behold, I crawled through New Street station in the middle of the night to boast about the £8.20 I had saved to a bunch of equally-pissed Brummies.

It didn't help that I was dressed in a full priest uniform. Having a man of the cloth storm up to you at 3am while you wait for a train screaming 'EIGHT POUNDS TWENTY! THAT'S A FULL MEAL AT MANZILS!' (student curry-pad and simply awesome place) before falling asleep/passing in the middle of a platform hereby secured my title as 'raving pisshead' among my colleagues.
(FoxyBadger (try saying it backwards), Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:18, 3 replies)

I get terribly generous when pissed.
Oh ive lost so much money being pissed for doing totally expensive things. I was at a wedding reception not long ago and it finished a bit early and I offered to take a load of people into town and pay for taxis, drinks, club entry the lot for everyone. Thankfully came to my senses on that and fucked off in a taxi home before i lost a couple hundred quid!
But ive bought practical strangers drinks, over tipped taxi drivers, bar staff and allsorts.

Once I was running out of money, and drew some money out of a cash machine knowing damn well it would have blown over my overdraft limit giving me a lovely £40 charge from the bank for the pleasure. But sod it, did it anyway :)

Yup, once I'm out, i'm out and money is no object. I need to stop it though as its leaving me poor.
(Miggyman, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:23, closed)

I do like the generic term
'weatherstorm'

What could it mean? Sunshine?

'I was caught in a bombardment of photons!'
(Stu Moo winner of five nobble piece prizes, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:00, closed)

Ah Manzils!
I remember being shaken awake by the waiting staff there many a time!
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 17:21, closed)