Author: Matt Gilligan / Source: did you know?
We all love free stuff, but have a little bit of dignity, amiright?
Sadly, if there are corners you can cut to get free stuff, there are people out there who are gonna do it, no question.
These AskReddit users shared stories about people going a little too far to get things for free.
I’m SMH…1. Cuttin’ it close
“My grandfather used to own a small grocery store back in the ’50s. In the store was a payphone where you could make a call for a dime.
As my grandfather told it, there were quite a few people who would file down pennies to the size of a dime so they could save nine cents on a phone call.
My grandmother always used to say: ‘Filing down a penny is hard work. In the time it takes to do it, you could have gone out and earned a dime.’”
2. Not a good time
“I bought tickets to a Lady Gaga concert and brought who I thought was a friend. She wasn’t impressed with the location of the seats and for the entire show, she was trying to convince security at stage level checkpoints that she had cancer and was dying and her last wish was to get up close to Lady Gaga.
It didn’t work. We don’t speak now, and I was angry at the time because she was so wasted I missed the show I paid for to try to keep her out of jail or being thrown out because she was my ride home.
She was supposed to be my designated driver, but with all the antics, I didn’t drink and just drove her home afterward!”
3. Acted like an idiot
“When I was in the Army, I received orders to attend a training course for six months. One day, we had a guest lecturer come in. She was tossing out free stress balls that looked like globes to people who answered a certain number of questions correctly. I’m not sure why, but it got my blood going. I was going to get one of those balls.
What followed was a fairly intense competition between myself and two other soldiers attending the course, with all of us vying to get more correct answers than the others.
And, in the end, I got my squishy globe.
I held the thing in my hands for a couple of seconds before it suddenly dawned on me that I was a 25-year-old man who had acted like a complete idiot for the honor of owning a thirty-cent toy.”
4. That’s a lot of gift cards
“One of my friends has always been stingy. He’s always trying to make money by scamming or reselling stuff at a profit, and he won’t buy something unless it’s cheap. He’s also obsessed with getting free stuff, especially free money.
A few years ago he realized that if you call Amazon and complain that you lost a gift card, sometimes they’ll give you a free $50 gift card. He also realized that when you make an Amazon Prime account you get a free $50 gift card and that you can transfer to another account.
He decided that this would be a great way to spend his summer, so he started making Amazon accounts, transferring the free gift cards to his main account, calling Amazon and fake crying over voice and video chat in order to get another $50 gift card, and then transferring that additional gift card to his main account and canceling the subscription to Amazon Prime. He did this for about a month and now he’s got about $4,000 in Amazon gift cards that he has never used.”
5. Scammer
“I was a movie theater ticket ripper/doorman.
I once had a guy who tried to walk past me without stopping. I called him back, he shook his head no and waved his hand and tried to keep walking. I raised my voice and pointed at the ground in front of me. He was all smiles and came over saying his girlfriend had his ticket and was already in the theater.
I told him to text her to come out and to have a seat while he waited. He said he didn’t have his phone. I told him she would come out when he never showed up.
So he was sulking on this chair next to me. Trying to talk his way out of my sight. The second I had to help someone…
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