Cheap Pilots

[Dizel8]

new or used?

One would think it should look like the NWA tail

 

[Tweaker]

I bought a new Dodge Dakota Quad cab in 2000. The loan was for only 3 years, with a big monthly payment.

I did the math and figured out that by bringing soda off the airplane for meal breaks and 2 at night for the overnight where I would eat takeout food only when practical I would save $1000/yr. This was two months of my truck payments!

I paid it off in 2 years.

I used to think of the exchange in Caddyshack between Danny Noonan and that Wop.

"I ain't payin' 50 cents for no Coke!"

"Then you ain't gettn' no Coke!"\

$2 x 3 x 200 days of work = $1200 year

 

[Amish RakeFight]

I knew a guy who would have a bundle of fast food coupons always in his wallet. After handing it over to the cashier, when possible he would reach over and yank it back as the girl usually just left it on the ledge of the counter. If she said something (so petty they dont usually bother) he'd try and smile making a joke out of it.

Same guy also used to switch the tags on clothes. He would go to a discount clothing store like MArshalls, TJMax, Centruy21, etc. where they get a lot of the surplus from full-scale stores like Ralph Lauren.

He would purchase these leftovers (usually oversized, ugly and obviously didnt sell well) from the discount store and take them home. Afterwards, he'd go to Ralph Lauren and remove the tags from say a rugby with a very high price. This was done in the dressing room. He then went home after collecting a stack of tags and use his tagging gun and retag the cheaper rugby. He would then take the cheap rugby with the expensive tag and return it to Ralph Lauren and reeceive a store credit. He wouldthen take this store credit and purchase things from them.

After accumulating all of these new expensive items, he'd go and sell them on Ebay.

I know it sounds like a lot of trouble and it certainly is, but he seemed to be making a business out of it.

BTW, he is a little on the eccentric side, if you hadnt figured out that laready. funny thing is, he's kinda wealthjy and his folks are milllionaires.

 

[Andy Neill]

I think we have just slipped over the line from cheap to criminal.

 

[N1kawotg]

Heard this one the other day. A Capt. @ XYZ had four bald tires on his car, so he goes to Budget rents his exact car for $49 bucks-goes and switches his tires for the rentals- Now he has a brand new set of stickers, thus saving a couple of hundred bucks. Could be urban legend, but cheap urban legend nonetheless.

 

[Beefy Botham]

There was once an American Eagle Captain who would show up to happy hour at the overnight hotel, order a glass of water from the cocktail waitress, eat all the free appetizers, take a sh1t and stink up the restroom and stiff the poor waitress on the way out. His wig is worthy of a seperate thread.

 

[clippyrip]

Now were moving into urban legends...

 

[DoubtingThomas]

One day I (UAX F/O) approached a crusty old NWA captain to ask him for a J/S home, handing him my ratty, been-through-the-wash-a-couple-times old paper license and medical.

Him: You know, you could send $2.50 to the FAA, and they would send you a new PLASTIC license card...

Me: You know, I'm just so cheap, I'm gonna wait til they have to send me the plastic one for free.

Him: Well, sounds like you're ready to upgrade!

That guy ruled.

 

[Uppercrust]

There is an Airtran Capt down the street who goes to the local Supermarkets and buys their meat (Steaks and chicken) they plan on throwing out because they can't sell it before the expiration date. He gets it at a huge discount, something like 75% off. He then freezes it and sells it door to door as Premium Steaks/ Chicken out of a truck with a logo on the side that says "Premium Meat". The truck looks like one of those Swans trucks with a converted Freezer in the back. Pretty funny stuff.

 

[donvag]

When I was at the regionals there was a captain who would save all the leftover little sandwiches and that was all he would eat on the overnights.

There was also an F/A who was going to make a ecipe book on meals you cna make out of the coffee pots a hotel overnights.

I was dumbfounded on how cheap some people are.

 

[Wankel7]

You know copper wire was invented after they gave two captains a penny.

 

[Soverytired]

When I was at the regionals there was a captain who would save all the leftover little sandwiches and that was all he would eat on the overnights.

There was also an F/A who was going to make a ecipe book on meals you cna make out of the coffee pots a hotel overnights.

I was dumbfounded on how cheap some people are.

You know, I seriously contemplated designing and selling a universal attachment that would hold a hotel-supplied iron upside down so it could be used as a jury-rigged "hot plate".

Then I realized anyone cheap enough to plan on doing their cooking on a hotel iron would definitely be WAY to cheap to pony up 5 bucks for a better way to do it.

Well, that and the fact that I've ruined way too many shirts with cheese-stained crew-hotel irons (god, I hope that was cheese).

 

[SpyFlysDOTs]

Not a pilot, but a former employees friend from primary school, became a teacher. Teach would have his third grade class bring in a letter, once a month to The President, The Vice President, The Mayor, congress, etc.
Each month, he would peel the stamps off these letters, never mail them and pay his bills with same stamps...

 

[southernpilot]

You are not suppose to touch those coffee pots with a ten foot pole! Those things are used as finishing pots.
SP

When I was at the regionals there was a captain who would save all the leftover little sandwiches and that was all he would eat on the overnights.

There was also an F/A who was going to make a recipe book on meals you can make out of the coffee pots a hotel overnights.

I was dumbfounded on how cheap some people are.

 

[aussiefly]

Not a pilot, but a former employees friend from primary school, became a teacher. Teach would have his third grade class bring in a letter, once a month to The President, The Vice President, The Mayor, congress, etc.
Each month, he would peel the stamps off these letters, never mail them and pay his bills with same stamps...

hahahahha thats priceless!