What's The Least Expensive Thing You'd Stand In Line to Get Free

[leigh.bess.toad]

Today is one of my high holy days: 7-11. As someone who apparently lives at 7-11 (I'm a double gulp addict, what can I say), who can find a 7-11 like a dog can find a bone and as someone who has closed 2 of them (last guy out of the store at 2 closing stores), it's also an annoyance. Because it's free slurpee day. There hasn't been a parking space at any of the 4 stores I've been in today. There have been lines 20-30 people deep at the slurpee machine of every store I've been in. All to get a free $0.49 or $0.59 worth of slurpee for free. People drive in their car and spend at least that much in gas to get something, and wait 5-10 minutes to actually get up to the machine, all just to get something for free. I don't understand the penchant to go out of your way to get something just because it's free.

 

So I was wondering, is there anything inexpensive you'd stand in line for just to get it because it's free? What's the minimum dollar value of something you'd be willing to spend 30 minutes of your life to get just because it's free.

 

Thank God there's only a few more hours left of this nonsense.

[KMEM]

Is this similar to how small a coin (if any) you would bend over and pick up if you saw it lying on the ground? I used to pick up pennies but now it has to be at least a nickel.

 

I wouldn't GO anywhere to get any inexpensive thing free. It isn't free, as you noted, when you go 10 miles round trip at 55 cents a mile (the govt #).

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[MsGuy]

There hasn't been a parking space at any of the 4 stores I've been in today. There have been lines 20-30 people deep at the slurpee machine of every store I've been in.

 

LOL, what can I say man, it was hot today.

[+ deej]

lol, what can i say man, it was hot today.

 

rofl!

[gcursor]

I always go out on National COMIC BOOK Day to get my free comic book

Gcursor

[bluboy]

Summer Shakespeare in Central Park. I wait for several hours.

[Guest countryboywny]

I'm afraid I'm not very patient. I wouldn't stand in line to meet the president.

[KMEM]

I am not sure any poster on this board has the where with all to be able to afford to "pay" what it must cost to meet the president; therefore, it isn't a choice of an inexpensive item being free, is it? I would think meeting the president is either free on the face of it because of some "situation" or VERY expensive. Now, most posters herein no doubt could afford tickets to see Shakespeare, therefore free in the park is a choice of your time vs. your money, so to speak, although maybe not as inexpensive as the original poser had in mind.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[jjkrkwood]

Theres FREE stuff out there ???? Who knew !

[Diverdan]

I basically NEVER wait in lines for anything "free"... but I did sit at a Rose Garden "signing ceremony" and then stood in line to shake hands with the President... who at the time was Bill Clinton. His party affiliation was not a factor, he was signing a bill that took ten years to get through Congress to rectify a "mistake" that had limited certain groups to establish 401(k) retirement programs. I have a signed picture to prove it too! But most things are not really "free" as someone or some group has to pay for those items to be given out. On the other hand, I might stand in line to see or hear someone I really admired (not a politician) and have stood in a line to pay respects to someone who was deceased because I admired them... but sorry, Lee, nothing could get me to stand in line or drive around for a free slurppy ! But I will be glad to buy you one if you are that desperate...

DD

[orbital sander]

The First Sunday of every month is free at the Louvre in Paris. Get there early and the lines will not be too bad at all, get there late and you will wait and wait and wait....