When I was a kid we very rarely had real orange juice. It was either from concentrate or, more often, something like SunnyD. I feel balla when we have something like MinuteMaid now and when my wife gets a real freshly squeezed orange juice - well, that's too much, I'm pretty sure that's driving us to the poor house.


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We also had artificially flavored ice milk.

This just came through on my Facebook feed:

I'm stupid, could someone explain the pic?

lol just keep looking at it

the african american gentleman in the red still has the security tab on his shirt.

loooooooooooooooooooool

Nothing will beat the katrina pic with the group of black guys holding about fifty football jerseys and the women carrying a stack of shoeboxes out of a store

I worked for AT&T wireless and received a call from some guy "What is this 0.10 text message charge?" I told him how text messaging works and how he's on pay per use, 0.10 per sent text message, free incoming. "I never send text messages, TAKE IT OFF!" i took 0.10 off his bill, he was happy. I checked the notes and he made that same call every month, he sends 1 text message and calls us to have it removed. Random customer 1 - AT&T 0!

in retrospect i should have removed the feature from his plan

my mom removed text messaging from her phone when she found out that a random spam text she got cost her $.10.

For sure, I wanted that jagoff to die a slow painful death.

You did well, my son, WTF are all these people defending a f*cking child molester?

***** hilarious / pathetic

BTW, after reading most of the thread, one lesson emerges: when someone tries to pull this stingy shiite on you, CALL THEM ON IT. A lot of super-stingy people are like bullies - they only do things because they get away with them. Some of the others are just psychotic, not much you can do about that.

Letting things go and then never having anything to do with those people is the easy path, but then they'll just prey on other people. Also, there's at least a slight possibility that when confronted with their douchebag behavior, they'll stop. Or at the very least, they won't wonder why they don't have any friends.

When my son was born 18 years ago, I was a poor grad student and my wife and I were living just on my graduate stipend and student loans, we got basically all of our son's powdered baby formula for free. There were coupons for free powdered baby formula in the pediatrician's office, so we took the whole bunch. These were Carnation brand. Then whenever we went to the store to get our free can of formula, a coupon for a free can of Gerber baby formula would print out at the register. Since my wife was mainly nursing and only used formula to supplement, we didn't spend anything on formula 8 or 9 months. I really don't know if this was considered stingy, or just the fact that we were a young family of 3 trying to live off of a 12 thousand dollar a year stipend plus another few thousand per year in student loans.

I also have this friend I've known since kindergarten, and we also went to college together and lived in the same dorm. He used to make money in the cafeteria by eating or drinking unusual stuff if everyone at the table chipped in some money. Like a bowl of mustard once, and a glass of A1 steak sauce another time. On the A1 one, somebody made him laugh while he was chugging it and it came out his nose. That was definitely worth the price of admission.

He heard that you could get high off of nutmeg, so he went to the store and bought some in bulk. He scooped a bunch into one of the plastic bags and when he went to the cash register to have it rung up, he told the cashier it was some other spice that looked like nutmeg, but was less expensive (like cumin or something I think).

He was also known to slam a bottle of Mad Dog in the car on the way out to the bars so that he would be drunk cheaply by the time he got there so he wouldn't have to spend as much on drinks. This was after he graduated and had a job, so it wasn't a case of being just a broke college student.

I've only made it as far as this so far, but this is the nastiest one yet.

ATM's charging for withdrawals?

*Head explode.gif*

I wouldn't consider that stingy at all.

Just completely immoral?

The **** does this mean?

One of my brother's friend's crashed at our place one night. He's basically homeless and spent most of the next day hanging round the house while my bro was at work. Eventually I offer to drive him to the train station to get rid of him.

"Hey man, can we stop for cigarettes?". Fine, okay. I stop at a store and wait for him to go in. "Nah, I meant like, can you buy a pack of smokes and then give me some?" FUUUUU

I got this one in reverse, once. Some girl was selling a textbook I needed, we agreed on a price and arranged to meet on campus. I turn up and she tries to add $10 to the price. No sale.

Read this post really carefully, or you'll read that as "soggy" and have to kill yourself.

At Christmas, the dentist I used to go to would gather his wife and children and go to the local CVS. Once inside, they would each pick out a Christmas card, gather at some spot in the store, and then read them to each other. When they finished, they would put them back on the rack.

lololol

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holy hell. that one can't be true.