Comprehension ftl. He is the sole owner of this privately-owned company. So, all the craziness originates in him.

And a couple of the administrative girls told him they will buy their own post-its (since they you know...like using them and stuff) and he said do not buy your own and bring them in.

Again, WTF? It should be noted that this guy 6 years ago had a nervous breakdown.

I'm pretty sure him and his wife are worth between 2-5 megas.

traditional western weddings are totally ******ed
/threadjack

LDO. Let me throw an enormous party for everyone I know that will cost me thousands right before I make a lifelong commitment that is normally broken apart because of financial issues.

Did this all the time in high school. We'd go by the grocery store and hit up the bulk candy aisle before going to the theater. It was a serious facepalm/laugh-fest when one friend, who hadn't done that much, snuck candy into the theater along with the rest of us. As we're all settling into the movie and enjoying our relatively cheap grocery store swedish fish, or what not, a horrendously loud crinkling erupted across the room. Friend had bought a whole bag full of individually-wrapped candies, and was opening them in a painfully loud, slow manner. Imagine ripping a sheet of notebook paper down the middle verrrrrrrry slowly, and then crunching it up. We ended up just taking the candy away from him.

Our crowning achievement was sneaking in an XL pizza and 3 two liters of soda. As soon as we started eating the pizza, the smell permeated the whole theater and everyone knew what was going on. "Everyone" was about 5 people, because it was a late showing of Aliens: Resurrection.

A good rule of thumb is to take a 2L bottle of soda, and drink/dump it down to about the top of the label on the bottle, then fill with your liquor of choice. Or at least that seemed right the last time I took a 26-hour Greyhound ride.

RDH how are you so god damn good at drinking? Is it a lifetime commitment or just something in your blood?

I've seen a couple of people pick popcorn bags out of the trash and ask for refills =(

I do this, except with empty milk 1/2 gallon milk cartons. It's more for the idea of conserving energy than any money I would get from it though.

They work great as ice packs to put in my cooler when I don't feel like running to the store for ice as well.

They are also my emergency water supply if @#$@ really went to hell.

You could save money by freezing them at someone else's house then bringing them back home.

Not worth the effort ldo. If I didn't have a ton of extra freezer space as it was I would have never even considered it.

standard bro, lay off

Because then it's legal.

And LOL to "embarrassing myself" as if they don't know I own a game store?

Lol seriously. Turning a regular lunch into a business lunch seems easier to me than trying to scam the receipt for an illegal deduction.

talk a little shop, record some meeting minutes on your iphone and you're good to go.

Indeed. Colbert did a hilarious bit a couple years ago in which he showed his vacation gear on the show, because if they were on the show, that's a business expense! I don't make the stupid rules, I just take advantage of them.

"Last time I went to the movies I was thrown out for bringing my own food. My argument was that the concession stand prices are outrageous. Besides, I haven't had a Bar-B-Que in a long time." - Steven Wright

Someone should inform both of you that sales tax and minimum wage laws vary state-to-state.

How did you sneak an XL pizza into a theater? Under a festive sombrero? If you divvied it up beforehand that's not much of an achievement imo.

Just remembered a story from a year ago. My friend was trying to embrace the hobo lifestyle and thus instead of packing a lunch decided to bum as much food as possible from us. He would also sell his dignity in exchange for money to buy tea biscuits and rolls at Tim Hortons. He agreed to lick the dirtiest puddle we could find in exchange for $1.15.
I forget which movie it was, but the seats were all full except for those at the front, thus I ended up there. Upon sitting down, my friends and I noticed a 300lb+ man enter with a small suitcase. Of course, he ended up sitting right next to me. I didn't make much of the suitcase, but he put it in the seat beside him and paid no attention to it until the movie began. About 10 minutes into the movie - probably in the middle of the opening action scene - he opens it to reveal the grandest movie food stash I have ever seen. Two or three 2 litre bottles of pop [soda], a stack of Solo cups, approximately $60 of bulk candy purchases and a few large bags of chips. Needless to say, he munched for the remainder of the movie, interrupting our concentration with loud crinkling and his general presence.

What a hero

that is awesome, especially if it had been like beer and mcdonalds

Had a psycho friend try to steal the tip money we left the maid when we were getting ready to check out. After he realized he couldn't convince us it was his money (as we just took it out of our wallets and laid it down), he tried convincing us not to tip the maid. "You don't tip maids man, no one does. They don't do ****, they're lazy"

Eventually the maid rolls around and we all did a pretty good job of pointing out to the maid what a douche bag he was, and how he didn't want to tip her.

"Hello, what's your name?"

"Barbara"

"Barbara, meet Bill. He doesn't want to tip you, he thinks you don't do anything"

she starts to laugh.

His attitude sure changed when we started ripping on him infront of her.


"I didn't know, I'm so sorry."

I think we shamed him pretty well. He needed it as he's one of those guys who thinks he's right 100% of the time and his ego is out in the stratosphere.

Hey now... I know there is very little I can do to persuade you of the truthfulness of this story. Never the less it is true.

Good job. I think you handled that one well.

My dad once brought up the use of toilet paper at a "family meeting". He thought we used too much and wanted to make some kind of rule about how much toilet paper we could use.
My mom told him to stfu and that clean asses takes precedence almost anything else.
He is normally not stingy at all. I guess it must be a northern Europe thing to want to conserve toilet paper.

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What is the deal with toilet paper? Of all the things to save money on...

This might have been me. Once in Vegas I was bombed and threw the cabbie $10 cuz I was too drunk to read the thing and he flipped out on me. "A quarter! Are you ****ing kidding me?!?! A mother-****ing quarter!". He threw the quarter at me and peeled out, making me look like an ******* in front of all the strippers.

I would go to house parties in college and not buy a cup saying I don't drink or something. I'd then go find an abandonned cup, crush it, and take it to the cup guy to get a new, clean one. I did this literally every Thursday my sophomore year at the same house party with the same cup guy and never got caught.

Me and my roomates were pretty epically cheap with our heat. We lived in Wisconsin (cold!) and only had electric heat which would have cost about $50 per person per month to heat the place. And we were all kinds of poor so that was not an option. But our water and water heating was free. When we'd get really cold we'd run the shower on full hot with the door open for a while to warm the joint up. We'd fill these plastic drawers to those storage things up with hot water and place them all around the living room to radiate their moist heat. Also handy for soaking your feet in. And between the 4 of us we owned 4 Xboxs and a PS2 (this is 2002).

Seriously poker is the best thing that ever happened to me. Instead of naturally worrying about every penny, every dinner bill is just a 2-outer the other guy didn't spike on me. Money has no meaning to a gambler.