If drinking on the cheap is wrong, I don't want to be right. http://divebardiaries./ en-us Webligo BlogHoster It's easy in this neck of the woods to feel like you're whacking your head repeatedly as you fall down the socio-economic ladder...but there's always someone worse off.<br /> <br /> I don't know my neighbors. This is not Mayberry: no fruit baskets, no cups of sugar, nada. Even in the odd chance we spot one another entering or leaving, warm greetings are not exchanged. So I don't have a lot of basis to draw assumptions about them; I mean, other than the fact they live in my building, which actually says a lot about a person. None of us are slumming for the fun of it. <br /> <br /> But yesterday I had to give one of them credit. It finally dawned on me that every night one of the units downstairs has an extension cord coming out of it; never thought much of it. Most of the units are being renovated, so construction paraphernalia is not out of the ordinary. But then I realized that every night it's plugged in to the hallway, but every morning it's neatly rolled up against the wall.<br /> <br /> The tricky bastard isn't paying for electricity!<br /> <br /> See, our main hallways have power, but each unit is separately run and metered accordingly. So instead of chucking the obligatory $20 or so dollars a month in to LA's coffers, he just plugs himself in every night and goes to town on the landlord's dollar. At first I was a little appalled...then I was just bummed I didn't think of it first.<br /> <br /> Well played...well played indeed.<br /> <br /> In the not-too-distant past, I would've been quick to criticize his thrifty nature...but people in broken down apartment buildings can't throw stones. <p class="MsoNormal">Sponsored by EnterTo.com the first REAL <a href="http://mail.enterto.com/signup.html">spam free email</a><br /> <br />Click Below to discover and share content from anywhere on the web<br /> <script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> http://divebardiaries.3steps.com/13877/