One more tale from my scavenger days.
The local pool hall offered an evening of pool for $20. My boyfriend and I, ever on the lookout for cheap entertainment went in.
Now neither one of us drinks, and even if we did, we could never afford it.
We stayed several hours and had a great time.
We went to the cash to pay and were informed it would be $52 because we did not order any food or drink.
Nowhere did it stipulate that we had to do that as my boyfriend pointed out to the owner. My heart was beating hard. We did not have $52 between us.
He yelled at us and said we should have the decency to buy food and drinks and not just play pool. That his business could not survive on people like us who bilked the system.
We paid the bill, just. I had maybe $2 left in my account afterwards.
Another place we never went back to. He went bankrupt a month later. Boo f’in hoo to him.
I do understand how business works, but false advertising is not the way to stay in business. You have to expect that you are going to attract people who have little to none disposable income and be upfront with them.
And poor people deserve to have some fun too. We were not taking advantage of you. You offered it and we came.