Worst purchase I ever made.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I had three weeks of law school left and I needed water. A .5L water bottle on campus costs an insulting $1.50. I already let those money huggers go to town on me with my tuition. I refuse to pay $1.50 for their shitty water.

I live on campus and I don’t have a car. I do all my shopping when I can get a ride home (two hours away). Since I had finals to study for, I did not want to waste any time going home to buy water.

I noticed a store on campus was selling 24-packs of .5L Poland Spring. While I did not like paying $1.50 for one water bottle, I figured I could swallow their discount price if I bought their water in bulk.

The 24-pack cost $36.

Thirty six fucking dollars. They sell their water in bulk for the same price as they sell them individually. Cocksuckers.

The saddest part is that I bought the water. Most likely because when I saw the price at the register, my brain could not process the fact that my school was too cheap to lower the price of bottled water when they sold them in bulk.

This was in May. I’m writing this post now because I just saw a 24-pack of Poland Spring selling for – you ready for this – $3.99. Four fucking dollars! I could have bought 216 bottles of that water for that $36. I could have saved 216 Africans from dying of thirst for at least another week.* Instead I wasted the money on 24 bottles of water and some Ethiopians will have to die because I’d rather give my school an extra $34 for nothing.

  • This revelation made me give $40 to this charity.
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For buying any quantity of bottled water, you deserve what you get.

Don’t like tap water? Cost of a small Brita pitcher: $20.

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$1.50 is an outrage? I’m pretty sure you would be charged $4 or more for the same bottle of water in any number of places: sports stadiums, amusement parks, movie theaters, New York City, etc.

In any case, 1995 paged me. I called them and they said they want their bottled water rants back.

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No drinking fountains at school? You need to slip and fall on graduation day so you can sue them.

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You got off easy; my worst purchase was wedding rings.

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Back in 2002, I bought a car because I thought I’d get a job in a remote area with no bus service. My uncle (with whom I was staying at the time) talked me into buying a neighbors beat up '86 Tercel for $500. This idea was even worse since it was a stick, and I’d never driven a manual car even once. Plus, I live in an area of Tacoma that’s full of steep hills. My uncle tried to take the car for emissions testing, but it wouldn’t start. It turned out to be a bad timing belt–$800. I just sold if for parts, eating $500 for a car I never drove.

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Is there something I’m missing here? a 24 pack of bottled water runs about $4.50 at a local store here. Don’t they have any non-campus convenience stores within walking distance?

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Where are your classes held? The Gobi Desert?

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I used to drink and “ebay”. I got all you fuckers beat, HARD!

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Trouble is when you find yourself unexpectedly stuck someplace without your own water bottle, no obvious free potable water (and waterfountains or sinks are usually only good for a sip anyway when you don’t have your own bottle), and really need a nice glass of water to drink. I don’t mind paying a convenience fee of sorts for water in those circumstances, though often the pricing is truly outrageous and the packaging is regrettably wasteful.

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How’s a water fountain only good for a sip? If I’m thirsty enough, I bet I’ve drank 12 to 16 ounces at a time.

And it’s insane that the OP actually paid the $36. Somehow, in my weird mind, that act forfeits your right to complain about it.

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I have nothing to add, except: drastic_quench, great username/thread response combo. :slight_smile:

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Anyone who buys bottled water is a sucker. (Pun intended). At meetings with consultants the easiest way to work out how wankerish it would become would be to count the bottles of water on the table.

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Empty bottle + tap = refilled bottle. Perhaps a unique and somewhat subersive concept, but it has been known to work on occasion.

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Sure there are stores about 20 minutes away, but I wanted to avoid walking the 20 minutes back with a large pack of water.

This is a rant more about myself than the school and its price.

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I hope you take a basic mathematics class before you finish law school (and that it includes a unit on division–36÷12=1.5). How else can you know how to gouge people for filing papers?

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Did you ever take a basic mathematics class? 36/12 = 3. But that is not at all relevant here because he bought a 24-pack for $36. 36/24 = 1.5, and the OP acknowledges this. His point is that the bulk price is the same as the individual price, which ruffles his little tail-feathers.

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will the witness please take the stand?
Now, Mr Lakai:. On or about the night of Aug 1, did you or did you not experience thirst?
ah…I see…
And you yet you did not merely want some water…you, by your own testimony, admit that you had a need–yes, a craving for water…
and , so, by your own testimony, you admit that in craving this product, you began to take actions that you might not have taken under ordinary circumstances…
and, again by your own testimony, we have heard that you were willing to part with large sums of cash to meet your craving need…
And…yet…we have not yet heard where you intended to get this cash from. Certainly, you have shown the court no reason to believe that you planned to make a relaxed visit to the bank before satisfying your craving need…
No, indeed, it seems that you were under the influence of an uncontrollable craving, you were willing to ignore the basic rules of logic , and , indeed were willing to conciously defy your own previous intentions, and give into the immediate needs of your over-heated, and unrestrained urges.
(Your honor, we will soon present as an expert witness Professor of Psychology Dr. Wannabe Respected, who will elaborate on the severe dangers presented to society by individuals who lose the ability to act on their own intentions…)
But for now, we will remain focused on the witness himself, and let us hear once again in his own words, how delusional he is :

Yes, our witness genuinely believes that their water is contaminated by “Shit”. Not by flourides, not by pesticides, but by fecal matter. And in his craving, he is still willing to drink this water, despite the obvious contamination.This is illogical behavior, is it not?
So, we can see that our witness was now delusional, unrestrained, incapable of behaving logically .So, indeed, as Dr. Wannabe will soon tell us, he was about to become a danger to society.
So let us all have pity on the poor man, let us be thankful that society remains free from his ravages.

But most of all, let us wonder why a guy with 7 years of college can’t figure out how to turn on the faucet in his kitchen.
And, man, if you think it’s okay to waste $36 on something that I get for free (virtually), please, please don’t ask me to let you manage my estate and legal affairs, okay? :slight_smile:

(gee, that was fun…Carry on.)

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Then I’m a sucker for not liking the taste of my house’s tap water. But at least I buy water in gallon jugs, and refill the smaller bottles.

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Isn’t it amazing how judgmental and sanctimonious some people get, abut the silliest things?