I love to watch people, it's a hobby of mine, be it listening to people talk at a bar or just watching them in a social setting, I find it extremely intriguing and many times humorous.

Yesterday I was at the post office mailing ATST's parcel, and as I'm filling out the address label, in walks this old broad who looks just like George Kastanzas mother, she's wearing every gold necklace she owns, a ring on every finger, big fur coat, and she smelled like she bathed in her perfume, it was so overwhelming.

So I'm not paying attention to her because I'm still filling out the address label, crossing the T's and dotting the i's, and making sure all is ok with my business.

All of a sudden I am completely wrapped up in the conversation between the old broad and the post office clerk:

Old Lady: Hi, I would like to buy a stamp so I can mail this letter to the United States please.
Clerk: That will be 80 cents please.

OL: 80 cents, are you kidding me (voice is getting louder and agitated)
C: yes ma'am, 80 cents is how much it costs to mail a letter to America

OL: but.but but, it used to be 65 cents!
C: Yes, but the rates just went up

OL: but the rates just went up a few months ago and now they are going up again by 15 cents? This is robbery! (old lady is yelling now, it's apparent she is upset both physically and emotionally)
C: Ma'am, this is the first rate increase in 2 years

OL: but 15 cents? Did they say why? They must've said why, did they give you a reason?
C: No, sorry

I follow the old lady out and she gets into her brand new Cadillac, LOL
Mow, am much as I love learning about the human psyche, I can not understand what makes people behave like this.

You had to see this old broad, she was physically upset, her face was red, she was short of breath, haha, what on earth makes people like this?

As I'm driving away all I could think of was if this is the ladies biggest problem in life, then imagine how upset she would be when a real problem comes up?

I suppose you had to be there but it was funny to watch.

 

Man Habibi, I'll tell you what. I started working at BK a week or so ago, becuase I needed a job until the pool reopened. To make my story short, I'm listening to this lady on drive through, she changed her order on me 3 times, to get her meal under $3, then bitched at me because of the high prices. Guess what she was rolln on? Escalade with at least 24's.

Come on lady, you cheap a$$

 

I can't stand penny pinchers! Nice story, Habibi. I enjoy people watching/listening myself. I bet the OL will be checking her Sunday paper for postage coupons. LOL!

I guess cheap wads believe they can take their money with them when they die. My sister's mother-in-law just found out that isn't possible. Once, she gave me and my other sister, for Christmas, $5- but it was $2.50 for the each of us- in an envelope. And that lady's not poor at all! Hag.

 

The simple answer is greed .

But what do I know, I'm just a lowly man in the employ of the US Gov't.

 

Joe my hat goes off to you for taking a crappy job at BK.
A lot of utes today are too lazy or proud to take a job like that, and it shows good form on your part.

Just don't make a career out of it!



About 10 years ago my buddy "Brian the Newfy" invite me out to the most expensive restaurant in town.

As soon as the waitress came to take our drink order, Brian says "separate checks please"
Well ok, I'm somewhat miffed because he invited me to dinner and in my book, when you invite someone, they are your guest and you pick up the tab - but that's just me, and maybe I'm wrong.

So no worries, I have money and paying for my own meal is not a hardship.

We are having a nice meal, entrees are around the $30 mark, shrimp ****tail is $12, you know with drinks and tips we will each pay around $100 each.

After dinner we are sitting there having a ****tail, leaning back with our arms crossed over our bellies, and everything up to this point was not out of the ordinary.

The waitress shows up with a desert tray, there's like 6 different kinds of pie on there, some cheesecake, and she asks me if I have room for some pie, I tell her no because I'm stuffed.

She takes the tray over to Brian, and to my horror he asks "how much is the apple pie?"
The waitress answers "$4.99"

Now to make matters worse, Brian the Newfie says "$$5 for a piece of pie? Are they out of their mind??"
Of course the young girl just stood there, not knowing what to say as I suspect she's never run into a clod like Brian before.

What is he hoping to accomplish by arguing with the waitress?
Here's a guy who then made $50,000 a year as a teacher, and is paying about $100 for a meal, and now all of a sudden he makes an *** out of himself over a $5 piece of pie.

WTF??

I will never understand people no matter how hard I try.
Some people are just aholes, and it's mind boggling how they made it this far.

 

Not to stir the pot or anything, but I heard rockpick buys Meguires by the 50 gallon drum because he saves $4.

That's just a rumor that I'm starting, err, I mean that I heard.

 

Cheap? How about sending me some of that $400 ... or are you too cheap?

RP

 

I'm SHOCKED!

 

55-gallon drum dillweed. Get it right.

 

There's the proof right there, lol

 

Well, I do buy it by the gallon... not 55-gallon.

RP

 

$100.00 bucks a head for a meal? Only if I'm getting laid afterward, or if it's a fund raiser dinner for a good cause.

 

That's called gratuity

 

Odin, you keep forgittin Habibi is up in Canada.
It would be about $27.50 US or

$138,647.50 in Confederate currency.

 

I failed to mention this was up in a town called Iqaluit, about 100 miles south of the circle, population 5,000.

Everything up there has to be flown in or sea-lifted.
To give you an idea, a bag of milk then was $14,00, case of pop was on sale for $35, you get the idea.
So $100 at the towns most fancy place was not unreasonable.