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View submission: Strange habits on breaks/holidays.
We call that the father-in-law breakfast cos there’s no way he’s paying for food until 7pm on holiday so you have to eat as much of the free breakfast as possible. On a French hiking holiday he got caught filling his pockets with bread rolls and random meat
Comment by mandyhtarget1985 at 01/02/2025 at 14:00 UTC
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An old colleague tells this story all the time - welders and scaffolders working away from home in holland and the company had put them up in a hotel, breakfast and dinner included. Well they discovered they could liberate a few bread rolls and a Tupperware container of ham and cheese to make some sandwiches and save money on lunches, and would take it in turns to discreetly get this from the breakfast buffet. A new fella started and a couple of days in, it was his turn to get the rolls. He walked straight to the staff member in the restaurant and said “im here for the rolls, have you got them bagged up yet?” Ruined it for the lot of them as the manager patrolled the buffet every single morning from then on.
Comment by Ze_Gremlin at 01/02/2025 at 11:31 UTC
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he got caught filling his pockets with bread rolls and random meat
Comment by folklovermore_ at 01/02/2025 at 11:47 UTC
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There's a music festival in London every March that I go to with friends, and the last couple of years we've all stayed in the same hotel. You bet your life we absolutely rinsed the breakfast buffet so we didn't have to pay arena prices for two other meals a day.
Comment by G-ACO-Doge-MC at 01/02/2025 at 12:17 UTC
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On ski trips I make several ham and cheese rolls and wrap them in napkins to take back to the room along with fruits and yoghurt where they get packed in my bag for the day on the mountain.