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ZippoZ
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nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :)
#7676798 - 11/25/07 02:57 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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ill share one of my little nomad secrets with you all...
so many times i have been driving all night, and then seen the sun come up... it was time for breakfast...
so i found the nearest hotel, walked in the front door, and helped myself to a morning paper, a cup of coffee, and whatever breakfast they had available, which often times was damn good!
the continental breakfast hustle i call it.
and i always get away with it, primarily because 99% of the time the people working at the hotel front desk are fresh on the clock, not knowing who actually stays at the hotel, and secondly, and probably most importantly, the employees too underpaid to even care.
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a_guy_named_ai
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: ZippoZ]
#7676828 - 11/25/07 03:17 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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and how do you justify this?
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TurntableJunky
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: a_guy_named_ai]
#7676833 - 11/25/07 03:21 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Free breakfast.
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Psilobuds
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: TurntableJunky]
#7676841 - 11/25/07 03:26 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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why didnt i think of that
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: ZippoZ]
#7676846 - 11/25/07 03:29 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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maybe I should try that at the local hotels here 
I think I'm willing to try that sometime when I'm on the road
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Ego Death
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: ZippoZ]
#7676956 - 11/25/07 05:23 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Free pizza of your choice for tea...
Most pizza firms have a big metal bin out back where they chuck away pizza's that are not wanted.
All you have to do is ring up and order whatever free pizza you want. Tell them you will be there in half an hour to collect it. Wait an hour then goto the bin and collect your order.
Our pizza firm chucked them away in the boxes and there was nothing horrible in the bins that could possibly contaminate the pizza.
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: Ego Death]
#7676965 - 11/25/07 05:43 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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oh man im crying now
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: Ego Death]
#7676966 - 11/25/07 05:43 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: TurntableJunky]
#7676983 - 11/25/07 05:58 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Mojo
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: Ego Death]
#7676985 - 11/25/07 06:00 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Im totally going to try this.
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Great Scott
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: a_guy_named_ai]
#7677006 - 11/25/07 06:29 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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jonathan_206 said: and how do you justify this?
Know how much food is thrown out in the food and service industry?
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: ZippoZ]
#7677062 - 11/25/07 07:21 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ahhh the classic continental breakfast hustle.. works like a charm.. 99% of the time!
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: ZippoZ]
#7677116 - 11/25/07 07:56 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Although I've never done it myself (the 'continental breakfast hustle') I have thought about using it if I need to. I have stayed in a lot of hotels for my work and I always choose one that has the free breakfast. If you choose wisely many of them have a hot buffet-style breakfast now, not just the old muffin-n-juice combo. Of the Nationwide chains my favorite would be Holiday Inn Express. Hit 'em up sometime.
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: Ego Death]
#7677138 - 11/25/07 08:11 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Pizza dumpsters are often crawling with rats. Big ones. When I worked at pizza hut, I was scared to go out there at night. Dozens of rats were waiting for their dinners when I took out the leftover dough.
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Adom
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: ZippoZ]
#7677368 - 11/25/07 10:07 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Even when I was hiking the AT, nearly flat broke, I was man enough to pay for my own breakfast.
I've always had a few names for people who thought this was cute and none of them are very nice.
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kosmic_charlie
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: Adom]
#7677387 - 11/25/07 10:16 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I enjoy going to a fancy restaurant, racking up a huge bill and then vanishing without paying dues. I call it the beggars can be choosers hustle.
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: kosmic_charlie]
#7677396 - 11/25/07 10:19 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Oh, well that's different, at least you are robbing fine foods and not nasty imitation eggs and dry bagels from Holiday Inn.
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DieCommie


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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: kosmic_charlie]
#7677402 - 11/25/07 10:21 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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kosmic_charlie said: I enjoy going to a fancy restaurant, racking up a huge bill and then vanishing without paying dues. I call it the beggars can be choosers hustle.
Funny, but I hope you are kidding... Y'know they make the servers pay for those meals. Even at cheap restaurants like Dennys. I worked at IHOP and it got to the point where one table every night would skip on the bill. As their server I had to pay for it, so I was losing nearly half my wage to people who skip on bills. Then I refused to pay, so I lost my job.
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: Adom]
#7677408 - 11/25/07 10:23 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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People actually think this is bad..? ITS FOOD FOOLS, if I told you half the shit I have done you'd probably cry.
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DieCommie said:
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kosmic_charlie said: I enjoy going to a fancy restaurant, racking up a huge bill and then vanishing without paying dues. I call it the beggars can be choosers hustle.
Funny, but I hope you are kidding... Y'know they make the servers pay for those meals. Even at cheap restaurants like Dennys. I worked at IHOP and it got to the point where one table every night would skip on the bill. As their server I had to pay for it, so I was losing nearly half my wage to people who skip on bills. Then I refused to pay, so I lost my job.
Yeah that's true I have done this like over 50 times, we used to do it everyday at a different place. But then I did kinda start feeling bad for them, because the servers have to pay for it. The first place we started was IHOP, funny you mention that.
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jonathan_206 said: and how do you justify this?
How do you justify being a pussy?
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Adom
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: Caribou_Lou]
#7677495 - 11/25/07 10:47 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Petty thief, sweetness.
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kosmic_charlie
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: DieCommie]
#7677567 - 11/25/07 11:16 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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DieCommie said: Funny, but I hope you are kidding...
For the record, yes I was kidding.
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: kosmic_charlie]
#7677583 - 11/25/07 11:22 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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fucking classic
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ZippoZ
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: 2end4]
#7677725 - 11/25/07 12:27 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yeah, im all for the hustle, and usually the food that they put out, if not eaten is thrown away. i dont really think that im hurting any individual here.... probably causing less financial harm than someone stealing a towel from their room..
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zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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coda
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: ZippoZ]
#7677743 - 11/25/07 12:34 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i find it funny that people think taking a free breakfast is stealing. I mean, technically it's only free to hotel guests, but in the end it's gonna get tossed and like i already said it's free anyways. Stealing something that's free isn't stealing.
-------------------- To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe. And I think every human being should be a conscious tool of the universe. . . . -JG i really am glad you came back to us instead of taking the other path. *hug* -A_S (RIP your final words to me will never be forgotten)
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Cheezit
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: coda]
#7677762 - 11/25/07 12:43 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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food is food! Eat that shit! I often go to Wegmans and 1 am just to brows over the olives and other tasties. I'm a horrible person
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: ZippoZ]
#7677815 - 11/25/07 12:54 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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My grandpa is so into this scam he hits up all the continental breakfasts in the immediate area of his own hotel while on vacation.
And cmon people, a person who is hungry should take advantage of this shit. Going hungry or liberating some free food?...hmm....
And we all know the very low quality of these so called 'continental breakfasts.'
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: coda]
#7678053 - 11/25/07 01:55 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'll tell you why it irks me, when I was on the Appalachian Trail I stayed in hotels a couple times a month to shower, clean my clothes and gear. Hikers are always extremely hungry and every hiker knows this trick, mooching is rampant out there and many times assholes who weren't paying guests would clear out the food with this attitude, not only eating their fill but taking stuff for out on the trail.
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: Adom]
#7678095 - 11/25/07 02:06 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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It's always good to have a couple of bags of GORP for backup when you're out in the wilderness for a while.
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: coda]
#7678143 - 11/25/07 02:17 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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coda said: i find it funny that people think taking a free breakfast is stealing. I mean, technically it's only free to hotel guests, but in the end it's gonna get tossed and like i already said it's free anyways. Stealing something that's free isn't stealing.
Technically there’s no such thing as a free breakfast.
The cost of the meal is reflected in the hotels rates and people who stay there absorb the cost. That’s why it’s only “free” to paying customers, so it is technically stealing.
With that said, I have no hang-ups with it. Call it whatever you want, I call it free grub.
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: ZippoZ]
#7678342 - 11/25/07 02:39 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Why are some people such pussies? Fuck grow some balls.
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Adom
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: Caribou_Lou]
#7678359 - 11/25/07 02:44 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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cos someone took all my fucking hard boiled eggs one too many times
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coda
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: Adom]
#7678405 - 11/25/07 02:56 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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The cost of the meal is reflected in the hotels rates and people who stay there absorb the cost. That’s why it’s only “free” to paying customers, so it is technically stealing.
Heh, im a business major so yah i understand the true meaning of costs. But, you can look at it this way, if the breakfast is built into the rate structure and there is an excess, then someone taking some of the excess is not adding into the cost of running the business. So, for example, someone wandering in off the street to grab a few muffins and a cup of coffee is not going to make or break a business.
On the flipside, coming in and wiping out the buffet is rude and will fuck with the cost of running the business. To me there's a difference in grabbing a muffin or two because you're hungry and broke, and walking in with tupperware and trashbags to feed yourself for a week.
Adom- I can understand that, i hiked the PA section of the AT and the one hotel we stayed at had it's buffet cleared out 10 mins after it opened by greedy hikers. Like i said, it's one thing to come in and take what you need with maybe a tiny bit extra for the trail, but it's really shitty and discourteous to steal the whole damn thing leaving others to fend for themselves.
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: coda]
#7678653 - 11/25/07 03:54 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I like free breakfast better
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: Adom]
#7678710 - 11/25/07 04:13 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ha Ive done that many times and never felt bad once, there is a Holiday Inn right by my house, I just wake and bake and walk over.
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coda
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Re: nothing better than stealing a continental breakfast :) [Re: Adom]
#7679383 - 11/25/07 07:00 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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The pennsy section of the trail is where good boots go to die. Soooo many rocks on that part, almost broke my ankle a few times on some switchbacks i wasn't paying attention to. I have some pictures from around the del water gap area (we camped at kirkridge shelter a lot) but they're not digital. I miss the AT and the small excursions we'd take out there, never had the balls or the ability to hike the whole thing but i'd love to be able to one day.
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 Don't fuck with the laughing jesus.
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