When I was in New York last week, I was walking around Times Square with this girl, and we wanted to get our characters drawn. The prices were all standard, here’s what they were:

Individual: $5
Couples: $15

It’s nonsense, of course. A $5 surcharge for putting a second person in the same image? Seems like it should be less than $10 for a couple—I mean, the artist saves two cents on paper, and the actual faces are smaller/less detailed because there are two on one sheet.

Maybe the thought is that if two people can afford to be together, they clearly have money to burn? Or guys are less likely to be stingy/question prices when they're with a date?

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After three years, I’m moving out of my awesome apartment. Probably. The rent is just too high. Management keeps raising the price higher and higher. They’ve raised it $340/month in the past three years. And I’m sorry but that’s just crazy. I asked the manager whether she’d be negotiable on rent, given that I’ve been such a good tenant these past three years, and she politely said no, citing the poor economy. Then, last week, she told me that she as going to be showing somebody my apartment today at 1:30. Now look, I’m not saying I purposely messed up my apartment to make it less attractive to the potential renter to thereby increase my bargaining position with management…but let’s just say I haven’t tidied up these past few days.

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