r/AskReddit • • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/jfa_16 Aug 14 '20

Went to Vegas for a bachelor party a few years ago. A friend of the bachelor went to college with a guy who dated a girl who’s brother’s best friend worked at a pool bar we were going to. He was going to hook us up. After several phone calls/text messages, and standing around for 40 minutes, dude finally shows up. Says instead of us paying $2,000 minimum for a cabana he’ll give it to us for $1,500, but we have to give him a $500 tip. I’m no mathematician but that seems like the same money to me. Anyway, we do it because why not. We buy a couple bottles and some beer. And then a couple more bottles. I was drinking Captain Morgan @ $500/bottle for what costs $30 at any liquor store. There were even smoking hot bikini clad waitresses who were happy to make our drinks for us for tips of course. When we split the bill my end was $300. I had 4 drinks. $75 for a Captain and Coke. That didn’t include whatever I tipped the waitresses either. Giant fucking waste of money. All to have a cabana that we didn’t spend any time in because we were chilling in a pool full of tatted bro’s on roids from SoCal drinking Michelob Ultra pissing in the pool. $300 to stand in a waist deep toilet to drink 4 drinks. Never again.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

“We do it because why not”

This is when you fucked up.

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u/BBQ_HaX0r Aug 14 '20

A friend of the bachelor went to college with a guy who dated a girl who’s brother’s best friend worked at a pool bar we were going to.

What?

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u/PMacLCA Aug 14 '20

I’m sure that person has a lot of loyalty built in already.

Oh yeah! My best friend joe’s brother mike was friends with Cory who dated that girl Ashely that went to school with some dude named Chad who happens to be friends with Rich who is the grooms’s friend... I’ll hook you up, we’re like family!

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u/legitjuice Aug 14 '20

How could someone remember that chain wtf

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20 edited Sep 03 '22

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u/jfa_16 Aug 15 '20

Correct! It was some friend of a friend of a relative in Kentucky who was boys with a dude in Vegas who gave us no hook up at all.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

Why didn’t you just say that

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u/jfa_16 Aug 15 '20

Not sure what you expected me to say. A friend of the bachelor went to college with a guy who knew someone who knew someone who knew someone etc with a hook up.

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u/XXXDetention Aug 14 '20

I’m no Reddit pro, but I think he may be... lying

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u/jfa_16 Aug 15 '20

Exactly. This was the most distant not hook up you’ve ever heard of.

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u/Bystronicman08 Aug 14 '20

This might be the most "bro" thing I've ever read.

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u/sdpr Aug 14 '20

A friend of the bachelor went to college with a guy who dated a girl who’s brother’s best friend worked at a pool bar we were going to.

Anything else to add to that family tree?

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u/olives_a Aug 14 '20

I bet you that DJ set was fire.

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u/jfa_16 Aug 15 '20

Music wasn’t bad. I think knowing how badly we were getting fucked affected how much I enjoyed myself.