OT: What have you gotten for free ala Jameis Winston?

I once stole a miniature hammer from a Canadian woodworker in Quebec.   Does that count?

Used to talk to a girl that worked at A&W back in the day. Got all the root beer floats and burgers on the house.

at LEAST 80-85% of my sexual encounters have been free.

 

Used to walk into a Mexican themed nightclub in Lugano Switzerland and before I was done saying hi to everyone a shot of tequila and a corona was waiting for me at the bar

When at college at Alabama prior to the Vietnam war, I would get free 'things' from a woman named Jenny when she was in town to visit her boyfriend who was on the football team. I still think about her from time to time. Damn shame she passed away at a young age from a mysterious disease.

Sex the first year of marriage...now i pay for it.

I worked at the Halfass in East Quad. Our manager let us write out IOU's. A double burger with a triple load of tots and a milkshake would usually turn into a grilled cheese for the IOU.

Had an apartment above a bar right out of college. Pretty bartender would let me drink there for hours and only charge me for a couple. Of course after trying to leave an impressive tip, I'd end up spending about the same. So really, she was the one getting the free stuff.

And no, never happened. It wasn't for lack of effort though. Stupid English boyfriends and their cool accents

I had a friend who worked at a pizza place. Any pies that were not perfect (bubbled crust) were set to the side and not sold, and my friend would get to take them home at 8 PM when he got off shift. Usually a day out he would ask us "hey, what kind of pizza do you guys want me to mess up tomorrow?" That went on for a year. I never got tired of pizza.

I am honored and proud to hang out digitally with ya'll, a proud bunch of degenerates!

When my girl and I go to China, it is difficult for us to pay for anything. Everywhere we go, there is a driver waiting with a car and instructions that we never see a bill for anything. Hotels, restaurants, admissions to whatever, everything is already taken care of. She had a mid level position in a hospital there before emigrating, her brother is a provincial official, her late father was a high level communist party official at the municipal level. So she knows some important people, but it's also just the way they treat people. We once made a last minute decision to take the high speed train from Shanghai to Beijing, instead of flying to her city. I actually managed to buy the tickets. When the train arrived in Beijing, her phone rang, "there's a driver named Liu waiting for you..."

I have gotten an free pair of Nike Air Force 1's when i was working at Footlocker didnt get fired for that 

Circa early 90's.   I was close with a worker at an Ann Arbor ice cream shop.   I later married that worker.  Nothing like a closing time ice cream dish on the house.  

I was in a hospital gift store recently, and the lady ahead of me bought me a pack of M&M's for patiently waiting while her mother took a long time getting things together at the cash register.

Thankfully not crabs

Herpes

I worked contract archaeology for a summer in North Dakota about a decade ago. The first weekend we were there, one of my roommates and I went to one of the two local bars in town. Being North Dakota, they had some weird shitty beers we'd never heard of in the cooler, so we started ordering them. Each time we got a round of beers, the bartender gave us free shots because she "made too much for those guys down there who ordered them." For the last shot (after 6 rounds of beers and 5 rounds of free shots), she said we could order a free shot, whatever we liked. So I told the red-headed bartender that I like Red Headed Sluts. While I was genuinely not hitting on her, she must have taken it that way because she giggled and skipped off to make our shots. From that first weekend in May until we left in October, we were at that bar 5 or 6 nights a week and never once were asked to pay for our drinks. We were never even presented a tab. We just tipped the bartender somewhere between $20 and $50 depending on how much we drank. I saved no money that summer.

Side notes, when it was closing time at the bar, they would just pour whatever was left of your drink into a solo cup and send you out into the street. The bar had a blackjack table in the corner that only seemed to be live after midnight. The bars in town sold pint bottles of hard liquor - this bar would sell you a shot of Everclear, but not a bottle; the bar across the street would sell you a bottle of Everclear but not a shot. It was a strange place. 

I'm a nerd.

I used to get free cable. I really don't know how it happened. I never paid for it and never told anyone I was getting it. 

Well this was discovered today at Walmart at an disclosed locationin Ohio giving away free stuff to former OSU players.

 

I worked at Cedar Point for eight years. So I never had to pay for admission even when off work. Two of those years I was a VIP tour guide, so I never had to wait in line to ride a ride.

Nothing, really. Tried stealing some fruity life savers from meijers when I was 8, got caught by my mom. Recently I bought firewood from the gas station in a pinch, buy the dude didn't understand me and didn't charge me for it. I paid next time I filled up.

Did an IT project for Anheuser Busch back in the 80s. I was the pro from Dover sent in by the system vendor to make them happy and fix their problems. Spent many days and nights locked in the AB brewery and distributor building right next to Newark airport. They'd bring in beer and snacks to keep us working as late as possible. Once my coworker and I saved their project, an AB delivery truck would occasionally stop at my house and give me a case of beer. Free beer is always a good thing. Got the VIP tour at HQ in St. Louis and some nice meals in the executive dining room where every beer they made was on tap.

Dated a bartender at Scorekeepers, yes the only female hot one. Free drinks for myself at all times, and depending on her mood, usually for my friends as well. was amazing.