Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about the ways your parent's cheapness, during your childhood, negatively affected your life.
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00:00we were talking um on the show about the fact that a woman is getting married in mexico later
00:12this year and part of the deal for her to be able to book this mexican resort that she's making all
00:20of her friends go to there's like a destination wedding is that anyone going to the wedding has
00:25to sit through a timeshare presentation how horrible is that you have not only do you have
00:31to travel and pay to go to someone's wedding in mexico you then have to sit through a timeshare
00:37presentation but it actually brought up some bad memories for chuck the freak so uh we're going to
00:42talk about that here we also want to know from you how did your parents cheapness affect your life
00:48did you go through anything like this how did your parents cheapness affect your life
00:531-855-954-6969 is the toll-free number 1-855-954-6969 or text us at 46969 for me it was a shoe called
01:04la gears yeah i remember la gears uh i asked all i wanted was a pair of jordans i wanted high tops
01:13jordan high tops bryster came home
01:16boy get in here boy
01:23got you some high tops that you were after yeah
01:28like oh my god this is it he got me the jordans this is amazing
01:34and i saw the box oh la gear it's that little moment of excitement before oh you see the la gear
01:43but i wore those la gear and you know what i did i just instantly drew all over them
01:48to make it oh i was like listen i know these are terrible so i'm just gonna take a pen i've like put
01:55stuff how did your dad react to that you ruined a perfectly good pair of shoes
02:00my dad these were never perfectly good pair of shoes you've made me the laughing stock of the
02:07entire school yeah that was tough that was right in like uh you know james you know how this goes
02:15you're in like seventh grade or whatever you're just trying trying to be cool you want to try and
02:20be cool he'd get me the fake fake polo shirts oh the beverly hills oh my god beverly hills polo
02:27i got a pair of fila shoes one season too late and i thought i was gonna be the coolest kid in
02:32school i rolled up with my fila shoes look at my fila shoes and some kid comes up and goes
02:36those were cool last year i cried oh you got called out for it right away
02:40i mean they're still the right brand i had to wait for my birthday i got it as a birthday gift
02:46they got these fancy fila shoes oh my god i'm gonna be so cool these are the coolest shoes i've
02:50ever seen those are last years again the little bastards all the little bastards lisa's in boston
02:56hi lisa how are you hi good i love your show thank you so much so um you're welcome so um so
03:04my parents there were four of us kids and my parents would go to these little roadside motels
03:11at the triple a booklet when we were younger and our dad was very fiscally conservative so
03:18he would have us hide in the back of the car check in and then we get to the room and we'd all sneak in
03:24the room it's just so crazy that that's the way it used to be used to pay by the person pay if you
03:30had other people there i remember that did the same crap my family did that oh my god
03:36i'm gonna park around back
03:40linda i'm gonna hide the kids in the bushes
03:46i swear to god no i swear to god i i told this before but my family was notorious for this you
03:56guys because every summer we'd have irish relatives come visit and sometimes on mass like sometimes the
04:03entire families and they're irish people yeah they all have 15 kids right yeah yeah so i just i remember
04:09one of the couples would go check into the room as if it was just the two of them
04:12and then two by two we'd have to all hide out and sneak in oh yeah and the worst was 17 in one room
04:20one room two double beds horrible 17 people people slept on floors in the bathtub no way
04:27everywhere we had 17 people in one room it was insanity it was i mean back then as a kid it was so
04:34much fun yeah it was like a camp out with all your family it was a blast but i think of it now i'm like
04:39it was on the motel floor oh god oh my god and then we'd have to take terms swimming but because
04:47we couldn't all be in the pool at the same time oh my god you had to do it in shifts you had to do
04:51it in shift like you'd tag each other oh like me and my cousin they all look the same
04:55hey put on the you have to go the next guy has to put on the same swim trunks oh my god
05:03shay's in new hampshire hi shay hey how's it going guys doing pretty good talking about how
05:09your cheap parents affected your life okay so when i was about 10 we uh took this trip up the coast
05:18of maine to bar harbor with two other families so we're talking six adults seven kids we go into
05:25this restaurant and one of the families had been pretty financially successful so all of their kids
05:32are ordering lobster at the dinner table okay so i'm like i'll have a lobster too and my dad from
05:41the adult table looks over gives me that look you know like no you're not yeah yeah so i said okay
05:47i'll have the hot dog and fries and uh so when when our friends were done eating their lobsters they
05:55didn't eat the meat in the legs so they're like hey do you want these and i'm like sucking every last
06:00bit of meat out of the legs of the lake oh yeah no that's a little lobster legs i don't know
06:09you're not supposed to suck that out i don't know oh when the rich kids toss you the lobster legs
06:13yeah that's all you get you're like thank you talk here pedlin jeez enjoy the drink he's like i'll have one lobster please one hot dog yeah i guess i'll have a hot dog on the side of fries thank you i give my kids those i will admit because they're like uh filet mignon i'm like fries
06:30like an eight-year-old orders a filet mignon yeah hells no no i had a kid on my baseball team order surf and turf one time like at a lunch like it was supposed to be just a cheap it was just supposed to be a cheap lunch or whatever you got like a
06:46$43 surf and turf
06:48his parents almost passed out
06:52you know you put them at the kids table you don't know what's going on over there you expect them to order
06:58like you know chicken fingers or something yeah
07:01chick brings out surf and turf
07:03that's so funny i'll take your finest surf and turf
07:08it was so expensive
07:11it's definitely not
07:14definitely not uh trey's in boston trey what's your story
07:18yeah so uh ripcord ripcord
07:22um so my parents uh were cheap and uh i had staples put in my head after my buddy hit me in the head with a golf club
07:29and instead of taking me back to the er and the doctor's office and pay the copay they decided to take
07:36oragel rub it on my head and pull up the staples themselves they did surgery on your parents did
07:42homemade surgery staples though yep pretty much how's the head looking now you have
07:48yeah well when i when i cut my hair uh you can see a scar down the side of my side of my head
07:54oh yeah oh wow dude they orageled you and ripped staples
07:58the funny thing the funny thing about oragel is it's not for your head it's for your mouth
08:04yeah i really didn't know much of course not it's not the same aura as in oral
08:09yeah that's how it works all right trey oh homemade surgery jeez if you thought your parents were cheap
08:15this is probably making you feel better