I've been a few hotels where they had condoms on mini-bar, sitting next to the chips, cookies and crackers.
Your inner cheapskate
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ZaZa has several adult items that can be purchased along with your macarons and Grey Goose
Hey, you never know.
Dear Penthouse,
I was relaxing in my hotel room one evening after a long deposition, eating mini-bar oreos and drinking a Coke, flipping between CNN and Man vs. Food, when all of a sudden there was a soft knock at the door...
There is/was an adult novelties delivery service that was operating in Houston and NOLA (so I was told). the company left their add with the stuff in the mini-bar. I guess for those situations where you need a personal massager, but don't want to venture out in a strange city to find one.
I have used the same "large" popcorn bag on more than one occasions.
How it works...the large is free refills. We simply clean it out, fold it up, hold on to it for next trip to movies, and when we return we ask for our free refill.
Easy Peasy
How it works...the large is free refills. We simply clean it out, fold it up, hold on to it for next trip to movies, and when we return we ask for our free refill.
Easy Peasy
My wife and I went to BurgerFi this past Saturday and we noticed they were charging $2.95 for fountain drinks. For something that costs the restaurant probably 10-20 cents a cup, that's a bit excessive.
I remember my first trip to a restaurant in NYC. Order an iced tea. $2. order at refill $2, order another refill $2.
Also, I don't get paying to use these boards. I was on this site when it was a single thread stream and Dotcom was still working at a law firm (or clerking - not totally sure) and running the board is his spare time. I never could get why folks would feel the need to pay for information that can be found mostly free.
Also, I don't get paying to use these boards. I was on this site when it was a single thread stream and Dotcom was still working at a law firm (or clerking - not totally sure) and running the board is his spare time. I never could get why folks would feel the need to pay for information that can be found mostly free.
this will tell you how big of a hayseed I am. The first time I was in a room with a minibar I thought it would be a good idea to use the fridge to store a bottle of water that I bought elsewhere. I paid $8 for nothing. Well I guess I paid $8 for a life lesson.
WiFi in airports, plans or hotels all annoy me. Also when the airplane makes you pay a fee to watch an old episode of Game of Thrones or whatever show. It should really be free.
I don't even look at the minibar hence I've never bought any of the ridiculously priced %**^ from it. But I'm never eating in the hotel room anyways, I can literally count the times (four) where I've eaten in a hotel room. Once was pizza during a Chiefs trip, once was in a Scottish castle where you had personal servants, once was in the Keys when we had a ton of leftover fried and blackened fish from a fishing trip and once was in Utah I'm between National parks. Now camping....I eat ^*%* all the time as that's the point.
You could have just told the front desk that you moved the bottles to store the bottle of water and they were still in the room--they would have taken off the charge.......that life lesson is free.
Birth control pills. Its not that I have to pay for them. Its that I have to pay full price for them since insurance won't cover them BUT insurance will cover Viagra, Cialis, Levitra etc. So, you will pay for the man to be able to have sex, but not to allow me to enjoy it without the worry of getting pregnant. Hummmm....Just chaps my cheeks every time I think about it.
on occasions, it has been awhile though.
And I'm not the first one to sneak my own candy in to the movies. I'm pretty sure this has been going on for a long time....and will continue to do so.
Wendy, have you ever put candy in your purse before a movie, and ate during the movie?
lol...we have been butting heads man.
Apple and Oranges, no way. It is maybe a little different being they are providing me the popcorn again and again. But they are both essentially the same in nature....which is unethical, and I have admitted to that.
I'm just teasing.
I don't think bringing candy into a theater is unethical. But bringing an empty popcorn bag and pretending you bought some is like taking an old McDonald's cup inside the store for a free refill. I'd consider both stealing.
Quit worrying. If your cheeks are that chapped, you won't be getting pregnant anyway.
Oddly, my wife picked up her prescription today and it was no charge to us. Our previous insurance didn't cover them, but CHP does.
Guess it varies by insurance. Maybe look at a difference insurance? I can't speak to why insurance covers impotence pills, I don't need those.
And it's definitely worth the price of the birth control pills, it doesn't matter how much they cost.
It's free refills. They don't limit how many times or when, just says free refill.
I think it's pretty different. In the candy case, you're just not buying something that you might or might not have bought from the theater, but the theater can still sell that candy to someone else. In the popcorn instance, you not only aren't buying something from the theater, you are getting an actual product from the theater that you should be paying for, for free. And product they can't sell to someone else.
In addition, unless you shoplifted the candy, you still paid for it, they appropriate price wherever you bought it. You didn't steal anything, you just broke a rule. You didn't get anything for free.
Bringing candy is unethical, but the popcorn example is flat out stealing a product. The first is like going to Best Buy and taking up a salesman's time to quote a TV, knowing you are going to take the price to Costco for a price match. The second is stealing the TV.
I feel like they are both an ethical thing. And remember, I did buy the bag. I'm not taking a counterfeit bag in and asking them to put popcorn in it, or a bag from another theater, or reaching around the counter and taking a bag and then having them fill, or not throwing the bag away when it says that you should. It's simply being a cheapskate if you ask me.
Oddly, my wife picked up her prescription today and it was no charge to us. Our previous insurance didn't cover them, but CHP does.
There are now generic BCP but there were not any when I needed them. I buy my daughter the $9/month generic at Target.
Guess it varies by insurance. Maybe look at a difference insurance? I can't speak to why insurance covers impotence pills, I don't need those.
And it's definitely worth the price of the birth control pills, it doesn't matter how much they cost.
For sure! I definitely wouldn't want another baby at this stage of my life!!
What if it is just a really tiny cup, like ketchup sized and you just get a little shot of soda from the fountain machine at BK?
At all you can eat crabs, is it wrong to put a few crab clusters in your cargo shorts?
Along these lines, the only thing I can think of that truly pisses me off are bathroom attendants. Why should I give you a buck just to wash my hands after taking a piss???
The rest of these things are really personal choices. I know if I go to a movie with the kids, I'm dropping a Hundo
Personally:
Cox Cable and/or Verizon Fios TV and internet complete highway robbery.
Restaurants - Even with just my wife, we drop $100 without blinking
Business:
Liability Insurance (Professional & General) - I pay close to 10% of my budget on this.
Employee Health Insurance - I pay 100% of this for my employees. It increased 80% last year and 6% this year.
Bank Fees - Money grab all the way.
Paying for insurance id by far the second highest expense I have after payroll. Between the insurance companies and the banks, they will bankrupt this country, its coming.....Thanks OH Blow Hole, dumbass.......
Cox Cable and/or Verizon Fios TV and internet complete highway robbery.
Restaurants - Even with just my wife, we drop $100 without blinking
Business:
Liability Insurance (Professional & General) - I pay close to 10% of my budget on this.
Employee Health Insurance - I pay 100% of this for my employees. It increased 80% last year and 6% this year.
Bank Fees - Money grab all the way.
Paying for insurance id by far the second highest expense I have after payroll. Between the insurance companies and the banks, they will bankrupt this country, its coming.....Thanks OH Blow Hole, dumbass.......
No crabs, but I HAVE sneaked an entire Wendys #2 combo into the theater in my pockets. That burger was HOT, too. Another time I had a small pizza from Mellow Mushroom.
Lately I've been just buying from the concession stands. Someone explained how much of the ticket revenue the theater actually gets to keep.
Our theater has a deal where we pay $20 for a bucket and get $4 refills all year. you can bundle it with two large (gargantuan) sodas for like $8 extra. Twelve bucks is worth it to keep my integrity intact
