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I have an undeserved and much maligned reputation of being a cheapskate.

I just see myself performing a Sisyphean task in a futile attempt to compensate for the extravagant spending patterns of the wimmin of the tribe.

Hence my constant requests for OAP discounts.

Normally don’t have much luck at the Museum of Applied Arts (they’ve got a choice exhibition on Dieter Rams, the head designer at Braun for over 40 years), but the lady kindly ran through the discount opportunities.

Unemployed?
Mobility challenged?
Student?

“Educator” I said.

“Educator?”

“Yep” I said with as much nonchalance as I could gather “Guest lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Pforzheim”

“Well, that must be worth something” she said

The ultimate discount….

Free.