Does pulling the stalks out of mushrooms in the supermarket make me a tight arse?

[Troy711]

Well..?


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[TVR-190]

i work in a supermarket and i wouldnt call it stingy. every bit helps

why pay for the bit u dont need

[MR_VX]

lol im gonna try that one but it would be shameful having people watch you do it

[Jordan [VN]]

Option 1 and 4.

What a joke.

[Troy711]

i work in a supermarket and i wouldnt call it stingy. every bit helps

why pay for the bit u dont need

I totally agree.. I don't eat them so why bother giving my hard earned money to a supermarket?

[AirStrike]

Why do you pull them out? You can eat them you know.......
Do you peel all of your fruit and veg in there as well?

[ClairBear]

Cheap bastard.

[Troy711]

Why do you pull them out? You can eat them you know.......
Do you peel all of your fruit and veg in there as well?

It's usually only the flat brown ones I pull the stalks on.. you know, the massive ones that are awesome on the BBQ? And no, I don't peel everything there haha.

[Reaper]

lol - jc has so many shit threads that even the mods are getting in on the act.

Reaper

Ps. You are a cheap bastard!

[alien]

I reckon you are a tight arse for doing that. But maybe because i eat the stalks, BBQ or not.

But each to their own, i'd be too embarassed to do it in a supermarket with others around! :P

[Troy711]

I try to be sly about it... I know I'm not the only one because when you get to the bottom of the box there is usually nothing but stalks left!

[axemurderer101]

Its worse when somebody in front of you at the checkout only buys stuff that has those markdown stickers, had on guy in front of me in the express lane and everything he bought had those reduced price stickers, so the check out chick had to pull all these stickers just to scan each item. basically wasting everybodys time just to save a few bucks, turned the express lane into the slow lane.

[Troy711]

lol - jc has so many shit threads that even the mods are getting in on the act.

Reaper

Ps. You are a cheap bastard!

Just so you know, I also voted for the 4th option

[Lumps of cheese]

Yes, you are a cheap mofo.

[Troy711]

Damn, I was hoping I wasn't alone on this one!

[ClairBear]

I am sure the day will come when there are security cams in the fruit & veg section monitoring the cheap bastards that snap stalks off broccoli and pull stalks off mushrooms etc.

On a similar topic, I was in Coles yesterday and standing by the magazine rack was two young girls about 4 and 6 years old. Both had pulled out magazines and were flicking through the pages, but holding them roughly. One of the girls tore a bit of a page at one point and the other girl was crumpling pages while turning them. I was looking around for the mother or at least a staff member to witness this.

Suddenly the woman in front of me turned around and said quite calmly 'girls put the magazines back'
The obliged. Got to feel sorry for the people who buy those copies and end up with crumpled ripped pages. I am still kicking myself I didn't say something to the mother to the effect 'how about you buy the magazines your brats just destroyed.'

[gopher]

is that how you're paying for the statesman?

and yes i think you're a tightarse

[TVR-190]

Its worse when somebody in front of you at the checkout only buys stuff that has those markdown stickers, had on guy in front of me in the express lane and everything he bought had those reduced price stickers, so the check out chick had to pull all these stickers just to scan each item. basically wasting everybodys time just to save a few bucks, turned the express lane into the slow lane.

worse when everyone spends 2 bucks and pays by credit card in express lane.....

[Troy711]

Actually the Statesman costs me 70 bucks a months less than the ute!

[Kikki]

I remove the stalks and anything I don't use when paying per kg, to me it like buying a half rotten apple, your not going to eat it so why pay for it?

[coolvxss]

Gee Im only an apprentice but still dont want to waist the time or the embarrassment to save 20c haha.

[nemesis_adrasteia]

... and i thought i was cheap.... i just eat the stalks

[Julie]

lol i thought it was only my nan that did that! actually with the brocolli I noticed a local fruit market wise up to the tightarses and now on the price card it has 2 different prices with or without stalks the without stalks is always $2 a kg dearer.

Heres another tightarse tip from my old man, when u buy tomatoes pull the expensive yummier ones off the stalk and chuck them in the bag, the checkout operator will be clueless and will only charge u for normal cheap tomatoes lol

[Kikki]

Heres another tightarse tip from my old man, when u buy tomatoes pull the expensive yummier ones off the stalk and chuck them in the bag, the checkout operator will be clueless and will only charge u for normal cheap tomatoes lol

hahaha *yoink* so stealing that!

[Grennan]

lol i thought it was only my nan that did that! actually with the brocolli I noticed a local fruit market wise up to the tightarses and now on the price card it has 2 different prices with or without stalks the without stalks is always $2 a kg dearer.

Heres another tightarse tip from my old man, when u buy tomatoes pull the expensive yummier ones off the stalk and chuck them in the bag, the checkout operator will be clueless and will only charge u for normal cheap tomatoes lol

Or you can do what all the asians do at my store, and come in at 11:30 pm when noones around, taken down the sign with the numbers from the expensive vegies and replace them with other numbers. Then they make a huge scene at the register because we are trying to rip them off, untill I get a service call and find the correct sign stashed away under the shelves or something then tell them to GTFO.