Today was very easy to spend less than $10 for lunch, because today is Melbourne Cup Day! Woo horse racing! Gambling! (slightly) Boozy lunch! Our office did a thing, where we watched the race and ate and drank champagne or beer, went in the office sweeps, and ate food. Now I don’t like horse racing or beer or champagne, but I still had a glass of bubbly and helped out with the office sweeps. Plus I ate the food of course.
But anyway, the main attraction for me was the food! Dips! Cheeses! Cabanossi! Crackers! Chips! I didn’t have to buy lunch at all, so I spent a grand total of $0 today! That means I can spend a bit extra and get bubble tea tomorrow, right?
No one in the office really seemed to care about the Melbourne Cup, really; most of us were too busy talking to even notice that the race had started! It was a nice break in the middle of the day, but I would have liked it better if we were doing it to socialise like when we had free lunch on the last Wednesday before we got paid. But costs were being cut and those lunches aren’t around any more, so we all avoid each other and stick to our own work groups for lunch. Oh, that’s a bit depressing now that I think about it.
Money remaining at the end of Day 2: $42.50