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I'm just amused that people make decisions on where to buy pizza slices on a 25 cent difference. Even the slightest difference in quality and I'll pay a quarter more.

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25 cents is a lot. If the difference in location/quality/texture/etc. isn't enough to favor the $1 pizza, I'll buy the cheaper pizza. And I'm different than you, a slight difference in quality isn't enough to shift me one way or another, I need a reasonably significant difference. Anyway, if I eat only 200 slices in a year (not unreasonable) at the cheaper place, I can buy a video game (or something else for $50) that I couldn't have otherwise gotten (all else equal) if I bought the more expensive pizza every time.

I don't see what's so amusing to you about saving money, even if $50 is a trifling sum for a programmer...

How does your body feel about all this?

Somewhere between http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tSyDHXViM and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUll5SnavOw Pizza rules.

On the other hand, the pleasure of eating something very nearly as good for 25% less money has value to me.

25% of $1 is really that big of a difference vs. say 25% of $500? .25c is nothing.

>.25c is nothing.

(25c, not .25c)

Hell, I'd pay 25 cents more just to have the privilege of not being handed back a quarter. Lugging around change is crap.

That's in the first-world problem hall of fame.

Heh, I suppose so. Bills are just so much nicer than change though.

I had 2 Bros pizza, at their original location, for the first time last month. It is literally the worst pizza I've ever had -- cardboard with flavorless cheese thrown on top. This was starving at 3am, and I couldn't even finish it. (And I'm not a food snob, give me any of the Ray's Pizza slices any day!)

Keeping this in mind, it lends this whole situation a bit more humor...

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