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Originally Posted By eagarminuteman: I mean if it lets him work a half hour, his wage may make up for the money he spends versus taking a break. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By eagarminuteman: Originally Posted By StephenNW: Wait, wait… Did you just say you actually pay to have food delivered to you from a restaurant that’s 600 feet away from your house??? Wow. That is…just stunning. I mean if it lets him work a half hour, his wage may make up for the money he spends versus taking a break. If it lets him work an extra half hour he’s the world’s slowest walker. I’m pretty sure I could walk 600 feet in about 2 or 3 minutes? Likewise, most people who work from home are salaried. They get paid the same either way. At least, I don’t know anyone who works from home who clocks out to eat lunch. Even our non-exempt (hourly) employees who worked from home during Covid didn’t have to clock out for lunch. Aside from that, everyone I know who rationalizes “all the time I’m saving” like to pretend they’re actually doing something productive with that time. I’m sure that’s occasionally true. I’m equally sure it’s often not true and they’re just too lazy to go pick it up themselves. That’s fine…but in that case just admit it and don’t pretend like you’ve made a calculated and deliberate economic rationale. |
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I have never used a service like this, and never will.
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Originally Posted By StephenNW: Wait, wait… Did you just say you actually pay to have food delivered to you from a restaurant that’s 600 feet away from your house??? Wow. That is…just stunning. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By StephenNW: Originally Posted By beitodesstrafe: Originally Posted By Voland: Originally Posted By beitodesstrafe: Meh, I use door dash fairly often. With Dash Pass ($100 a year), I don't pay the delivery fee and the fees going to Dash Pass are also reduced. That adds up. ... Say I want Poke for lunch... I could take the 20 minutes to walk the couple blocks, order the food and wait for it, and walk back. Or pay the extra $3.15 in fees and a couple dollars in tip. So it costs me $5 extra to use DD... but I am able to work an extra 20-30 minutes. Assume I make more than $10-$15 dollars an hour. So... it's worth it. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/138374/Screenshot_20240328_124459_DoorDash-3171807.jpg for a $2 tip, they will spit in your food... I tip appropriately for distance and price. The poke place is 600 feet from my house. Anyway, just using that as an example. I always do at least the default 15%. Saying "a couple bucks" is an expression. Wait, wait… Did you just say you actually pay to have food delivered to you from a restaurant that’s 600 feet away from your house??? Wow. That is…just stunning. In all fairness if you saw what driving in Northern Virginia was like, you’d probably want to be paid $20 to make that trip. |
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Originally Posted By StephenNW: If it lets him work an extra half hour he’s the world’s slowest walker. I’m pretty sure I could walk 600 feet in about 2 or 3 minutes? Aside from that, everyone I know who rationalizes “all the time I’m saving” like to pretend they’re actually doing something productive with that time. I’m sure that’s occasionally true. I’m equally sure it’s often not true and they’re just too lazy to go pick it up themselves. View Quote I don’t know, I’m a poor so even the thought of using uber eats makes my bank account cry. |
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Originally Posted By Apec: In all fairness if you saw what driving in Northern Virginia was like, you’d probably want to be paid $20 to make that trip. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Apec: Originally Posted By StephenNW: Originally Posted By beitodesstrafe: Originally Posted By Voland: Originally Posted By beitodesstrafe: Meh, I use door dash fairly often. With Dash Pass ($100 a year), I don't pay the delivery fee and the fees going to Dash Pass are also reduced. That adds up. ... Say I want Poke for lunch... I could take the 20 minutes to walk the couple blocks, order the food and wait for it, and walk back. Or pay the extra $3.15 in fees and a couple dollars in tip. So it costs me $5 extra to use DD... but I am able to work an extra 20-30 minutes. Assume I make more than $10-$15 dollars an hour. So... it's worth it. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/138374/Screenshot_20240328_124459_DoorDash-3171807.jpg for a $2 tip, they will spit in your food... I tip appropriately for distance and price. The poke place is 600 feet from my house. Anyway, just using that as an example. I always do at least the default 15%. Saying "a couple bucks" is an expression. Wait, wait… Did you just say you actually pay to have food delivered to you from a restaurant that’s 600 feet away from your house??? Wow. That is…just stunning. In all fairness if you saw what driving in Northern Virginia was like, you’d probably want to be paid $20 to make that trip. Except that poster explicitly said he tips “a couple bucks”. Also, if you’re driving to go to a restaurant 600 feet away from your house…something has gone terribly wrong. |
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Originally Posted By eagarminuteman: I don’t know, I’m a poor so even the thought of using uber eats makes my bank account cry. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By eagarminuteman: Originally Posted By StephenNW: If it lets him work an extra half hour he’s the world’s slowest walker. I’m pretty sure I could walk 600 feet in about 2 or 3 minutes? Aside from that, everyone I know who rationalizes “all the time I’m saving” like to pretend they’re actually doing something productive with that time. I’m sure that’s occasionally true. I’m equally sure it’s often not true and they’re just too lazy to go pick it up themselves. I don’t know, I’m a poor so even the thought of using uber eats makes my bank account cry. I’m not a poor and I would never use Uber Eats. Probably just one of the reasons I’m not a poor. |
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I've never used it and I never will. I have only had pizzas delivered a few times in the past and not since they started adding on a surcharge. I'll get in my truck and pick up my shit myself.
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Originally Posted By fttam: My kid was home from college this holiday. He’d sit in the liquor store parking lot so he could snag every Door Dash for alcohol that came in. Kick ass tips. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By fttam: Originally Posted By PR361: My college student son makes his spending money driving for uber eats. Pretty good gig for him. My kid was home from college this holiday. He’d sit in the liquor store parking lot so he could snag every Door Dash for alcohol that came in. Kick ass tips. Legitimate question as I've got a much younger sibling that's been talking about it. Had I not just shopped insurance I'd never have wondered, but almost every one of them asked if I was using, or sometimes used any of the vehicles on my policy for food delivery or ridesharing. Is that not a concern if your kid hits somebody while toting a bag of Wendy's or a couple six packs? |
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Uber, Lyft, Doordash, they were all excellent in the beginning.
You could catch an Uber across town for less than half of a taxi ride. And the cars were clean, prompt, etc.. Same with meal delivery services. Your order could come out to $20, pay a $5 delivery fee and another $5 for a tip and that's it. Plus the menu prices were the same in store and on the app. Now? Everything is ridiculously expensive. The menu prices are significantly higher than in person, then you have delivery fees, then state fees, then tips, etc.. The other day I wanted a couple of Egg McMuffins, hashbrows, and an orange juice. It was going to cost me $45 with the tip! All of these start up companies are awesome in the beginning. Then they go public, have to answer to shareholders, and the prices skyrocket. |
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Originally Posted By SuperHeavy: I'd rather drive to Wendy's buy the same stuff for probably $16 out the door and throw the Uber credit away. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By SuperHeavy: Originally Posted By Joe_Pennsy: In before the Kool Kids mock you for not pissing money away. I'd rather drive to Wendy's buy the same stuff for probably $16 out the door and throw the Uber credit away. I'd rather spend $75 on food components to make food prep to last 5 days for lunch and dinner for 2. |
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Originally Posted By Burnsy: I can tell you where part of this price hike comes from too. It's not even JUST the delivery fees and service fees and then tip on top of all that. It's the price of the product. At least with instacart I have proven it out. I knew for a fact that some meat I wanted did NOT cost what it said it cost on the site were you select the products for delivery. So I took a screenshot and then immediately drove my ass to the same store I was getting the service from to look at the sticker in person. It was in fact....cheaper in person. They were/are price hiking the actual cost of the product, above and beyond all the fees. View Quote So at no point during your intense investigation did you see the disclaimer that says "prices higher than in store prices" within the app, and then when you select your store.......... |
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Originally Posted By sq40: I cant even get pizza delivered where I live. City problems. View Quote Living with zero convenience for a bit would probably be beneficial for a lot of people. |
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Bringing a ham and cheese sandwich from home is too "poorish" for modern Americans I suppose. We're spending ourselves into poverty, and very likely peasantry. All by design...
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I'm a lazy bastard with money to waste on food and delivery. That means I have time to drive to the restaurant to obtain the garbage myself.
The fact that entire YouTube channels are dedicated to delivering food says a lot. https://www.youtube.com/@LondonEats |
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But those poor millenials (or whoever the fuck they are) can't get by on their slave wages!
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Originally Posted By Rugerlvr: So if you go to a restaurant, and buy $50 worth of dinner and have a half-off coupon, you'd only tip on the money you actually paid? That's fucking cheap. The wait staff delivered you a meal worth $50, so you tip on the $50 it would have cost you without a coupon. Jesus, some people. View Quote Did you actually read what you just wrote? You really expect someone to tip on taxes and service charges? |
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Originally Posted By JVD: An 18% tip is $3.44. People are tipping fees and tax? https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/175941/derpzoom-680280.gif View Quote Exactly-I'm not tipping on their BS fees. Next they'll add a 4% fee for using a card and expect a tip on that amount. |
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I use Uber eats. I get a $15 credit from American Express every month for using it.
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Originally Posted By 170Driver: There was a thread on here a year or so back about someone who spent $25,000 in one year on Door Dash. ETA: found it. https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/Spent-25k-on-DoorDash-last-year-how-do-poors-survive-/5-2665752/ View Quote We have a hoggish fellow in our department whose wife surprizes him evey day of the work week with Door Dash. I happened to get a look of one two bag delivery one day a few months back. The total on the receipt was $94+change. Unreal. |
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$19 at Wendy’s?! Wtf you ordering?!
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"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery". - Thomas Jefferson
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I live way out in the boonies, haven’t had food delivered in over 25 years.
Used to get pizza delivered on very rare occasions back in the day. |
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Originally Posted By Pokernut: He ordered non spicy Thia I am not sure he does. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Pokernut: Originally Posted By beitodesstrafe: Originally Posted By D_J: Originally Posted By SuperHeavy: I have $25 on Uber Eats to spend. So I tried to order $19 worth of Wendy's. Total price is $43 if you do the recommended 18% tip for the driver. What would cost $20.50 at pickup is $43 delivered. I know people who order using this multiple times a week and complain they have no money. Here is what they charge. Mind you the taxes in this area are only $1.51, so they even inflate that. The food prices are also about 15% more than instore pricing. https://i.imgur.com/50A2NWn.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/mWEjLjz.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/5uMveXV.jpeg Make better choices. $20.45 in food $26.44 delivered to my door https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/174335/IMG_9791-3172105.jpg ETA - Grubhub, not Uber anything You get it. I like my Thai spicy, just not my rice. |
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I like cars.
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Lazy millennial here who knows how to work the system.
I tried your order. I have Uber+ that’s costs me $0 via my capital one card. Attached File Let’s add 2 JBC and another fry. 40% off promo kicks in. Attached File $20.59 before tip and I have enough food for 2 people now. |
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What is written is my opinion, and my opinion only.
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Originally Posted By exponentialpi: Lazy millennial here who knows how to work the system. I tried your order. I have Uber+ that’s costs me $0 via my capital one card. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/200878/IMG_3812_jpeg-3172380.JPG Let’s add 2 JBC and another fry. 40% off promo kicks in. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/200878/IMG_3813_jpeg-3172381.JPG $20.59 before tip and I have enough food for 2 people now. View Quote $21.73 w/out promo and with 20% tip. |
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I like cars.
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Originally Posted By D_J: $21.73 w/out promo and with 20% tip. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/174335/IMG_9793-3172397.png View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By D_J: Originally Posted By exponentialpi: Lazy millennial here who knows how to work the system. I tried your order. I have Uber+ that’s costs me $0 via my capital one card. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/200878/IMG_3812_jpeg-3172380.JPG Let’s add 2 JBC and another fry. 40% off promo kicks in. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/200878/IMG_3813_jpeg-3172381.JPG $20.59 before tip and I have enough food for 2 people now. $21.73 w/out promo and with 20% tip. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/174335/IMG_9793-3172397.png I did a baconator meal to try and match the original $19. 4 JBC doesn’t sound too bad about now. Reminds me of college nights. |
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What is written is my opinion, and my opinion only.
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I'm just glad my EBT benefits cover bottled water.
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We have takeout night at our house. Mostly, I use drive thru's or counter service depending on the place. Only place I did delivery was this one pizza place. Semi-national chain, they had their own drivers. Prompt delivery while the pie was still hot. What's not to like? Then their quality started to slip, then they went to OoberEats or whatever. Biggest complaint was slow. Hour and a half? LOL. Yeah. I found a "new" pizza place. Five miles round drip. Worth it. All them add-on fees? Not worth it.
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Originally Posted By SuperHeavy: I have $25 on Uber Eats to spend. So I tried to order $19 worth of Wendy's. Total price is $43 if you do the recommended 18% tip for the driver. What would cost $20.50 at pickup is $43 delivered. I know people who order using this multiple times a week and complain they have no money. Here is what they charge. Mind you the taxes in this area are only $1.51, so they even inflate that. The food prices are also about 15% more than instore pricing. https://i.imgur.com/50A2NWn.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/mWEjLjz.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/5uMveXV.jpeg View Quote |
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Originally Posted By MikeJGA: $8.83 is a po white trash tip. I tip $10 to $20 depending on the traffic and how quick the food is delivered. View Quote |
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Originally Posted By SuperHeavy: I have $25 on Uber Eats to spend. So I tried to order $19 worth of Wendy's. Total price is $43 if you do the recommended 18% tip for the driver. What would cost $20.50 at pickup is $43 delivered. I know people who order using this multiple times a week and complain they have no money. Here is what they charge. Mind you the taxes in this area are only $1.51, so they even inflate that. The food prices are also about 15% more than instore pricing. https://i.imgur.com/50A2NWn.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/mWEjLjz.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/5uMveXV.jpeg View Quote Wow tax on fast food here in MO is 4.43% or .85 cents for your $19.09. Seems to.mw that company is grifting |
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That is stupid enough to actually anger me. Why the fuck would they base the tip on a 49.xx when.. the fucking bill is not 49.09.
Seriously, wtf is wrong with people? "Your bill is $128.95. based on a $3,000,000 arbitrary fucking hypothetical bill that you aren't being charged, your recommended tip is $98,000." Fucking vermin. |
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Originally Posted By SuperHeavy: I just noticed they are lying on the tip too. Wendy's has buy one get one free, so they are doing 18% ontop of $49 instead of $34. Their entire business model is fooling dumb people. View Quote |
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Only time I use that shit is when I'm traveling for work and I'd rather stay connected to the laptop in my room than fumble around the local area hoping I find something worth a shit.
The only time it's of use to me. |
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Originally Posted By CanaryCamaro: My next door neighbors do this every fucking night. I swear no one knows how to cook in the house. They’re also renters who spend about $4k a month just in rent alone. They’re good people, both retired Air Force so I guess they have money to burn. View Quote Very healthy too, I bet..... |
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Originally Posted By Joe_Pennsy: In before the Kool Kids mock you for not pissing money away. View Quote It aint pissing it away if it gives me what I want and it is an amount of money I dont even have to think about. ....Most people have more problems than money. ....A few people have more money than problems. They both still have problems.....but.... |
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Originally Posted By Bronsonburner: Bringing a ham and cheese sandwich from home is too "poorish" for modern Americans I suppose. We're spending ourselves into poverty, and very likely peasantry. All by design... View Quote Yeah I don’t get it. My total food expenditure today was under $20. I also can’t imagine how fat and medicated most of the people in this thread are Edit: and somehow I managed to not lose any work time in the process |
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There is no way I'm paying double for fast food so some moron can drive around with it smoking weed and eating my fries.
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As for my people, children are their oppressors and women rule over them.
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Originally Posted By KitBuilder: Why? lol They're poor because they're dumb. We have a dispatcher who orders from Door Dash (or something). He's surrounded by patrolmen (and others) who would go pickup his food free for the asking. View Quote Yep. Poor is not just a state of not having money. It's being dumb and doing dumb shit that results in not having money. I have never used any of those delivery services because the cost is ridiculous. I could afford to, but that would be stupid. Fuck that. I'll go pick it up myself. |
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Now she's making $15 an hour as a 'tard wrangler with a degree in women's studies... - tommytrauma
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Originally Posted By neshomamench: It aint pissing it away if it gives me what I want and it is an amouint of money I dont even have to think about. ....Most people have more problems than money. ....A few people have more money than problems. They both still have problems.....but.... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By neshomamench: Originally Posted By Joe_Pennsy: In before the Kool Kids mock you for not pissing money away. It aint pissing it away if it gives me what I want and it is an amouint of money I dont even have to think about. ....Most people have more problems than money. ....A few people have more money than problems. They both still have problems.....but.... I don't have fuck you money, but I promise that I've spent money on shit that some would balk at. There's always a bigger fish, there's always a smaller fish. Just spent $200 on a new set of sockets because I spent $900 on something that may save me $50 every 1.5 weeks. There's other benefits, but it probably sounds stupid as shit to some people. And others look at that and pull that out of their cushions. |
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Post Y2K example - tenant would take taxis (pre-Uber/Lyft days) to go anywhere. Apparently that tenant (not mine) never read the Richest Man in Babylon.
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#53 says, "Take 22 mg absorbed Vit C per lb plus 1 gram Chaga daily. Don't forget 2000iu Vit D-3 & K-2, 30 mg Zinc and 2 mg Cu."
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I did it twice while staying at a friend's house in Vegas and I swear to Christ I felt like I was in the poorhouse both times. I hate ordering from those services
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"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
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$40 avocado toast crisis….
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Originally Posted By exponentialpi: I did a baconator meal to try and match the original $19. 4 JBC doesn’t sound too bad about now. Reminds me of college nights. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By exponentialpi: Originally Posted By D_J: Originally Posted By exponentialpi: Lazy millennial here who knows how to work the system. I tried your order. I have Uber+ that’s costs me $0 via my capital one card. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/200878/IMG_3812_jpeg-3172380.JPG Let’s add 2 JBC and another fry. 40% off promo kicks in. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/200878/IMG_3813_jpeg-3172381.JPG $20.59 before tip and I have enough food for 2 people now. $21.73 w/out promo and with 20% tip. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/174335/IMG_9793-3172397.png I did a baconator meal to try and match the original $19. 4 JBC doesn’t sound too bad about now. Reminds me of college nights. Oh, sorry. I thought you had 2 JBC and then added two more. |
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I like cars.
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Originally Posted By Pokernut: I love Thia and Indian soup. The next day or two can be rough. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Pokernut: Originally Posted By D_J: I like my Thai spicy, just not my rice. My problem is that I don’t like curry, so that leaves out a lot of dishes. |
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I like cars.
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Originally Posted By Rugerlvr: So if you go to a restaurant, and buy $50 worth of dinner and have a half-off coupon, you'd only tip on the money you actually paid? That's fucking cheap. The wait staff delivered you a meal worth $50, so you tip on the $50 it would have cost you without a coupon. Jesus, some people. View Quote Except the Uber people are delivering $19 of food and want a tip on $43. They want a tip on the taxes your are paying. |
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We have a guy who lives a few blocks from my house who used to pick up cans on the side of the road for money. He used to drive around on an old lawn mower. One day I see him driving a new little economy car. It was a nice little car. He said he started doing Door Dash for money because "People are dumb...". He works hard at it and says it justifies having the car. Shoot, he even mows his yard a few times a year now. If that ain't gentrification, I don't know what is.
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Originally Posted By Rodent: If you are poor in modern America, it's probably because you have a long history of making bad financial decisions. No racism or privilege involved. View Quote I am poor. I have never ordered Door dash or Ubereats. I haven't ordered Pizza in so long I don't even know if they do that anymore. I'm poor because inflation is insane and employers are refusing to increase salaries to compensate. I have NOTHING financed and zero luxuries. |
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