Trying to do the unthinkable!

This morning, I'm scheming, coniving, working my tail off, trying hard-----to be cheap!  You see, in my year's I've become cynical in "deals."  I've tried the get the free bottle of champage for looking at our seaside property and walked out after writing a down payment on a condo (luckily, I stopped payment on the check after i drank the bottle of champage AND that was a long time ago when I was young and naive) this time I'm holding the coupon in my hand thinking hmmmmm.....

Kids get in free to the circus and it's buy one, get one free for adult tickets.  What a deal!  My champage experienced minds stops immediately and says, "What a minute, how do they make any money?"  I go and start trying to get my BOGO adult tickets and figure one way.  The computer won't let me get the GO ticket (get one) it keeps telling me that I owe it 36 dollars for two tickets.  I politely inform it that it doesn't understand BOGO but with what is the equivalent of a finger back, it tells me to just shut up and put my credit card number in and just buy it.  Now I'm picturing kids standing behind a parent crying about the circus and can see said parent getting to the,"screw it, it's only 36 dollar" phase and just buying the tickets.

The computer also then displays some very nice Circus T-shirts and Cups and crap and I find another way they'll make money.  I sit my boys down and prepare them,
"Do you want to go to the circus today?"

"YEAH!"  One is now dancing around the house.
"If we go, there's no buying stuff, no souveniers, nothing."
"What?"  little one stops dancing, "No swirling lights?"
"No"
"No elephant head snow cone cup?"
"No"
"No cotton candy?"
"well....."
They both dance that they are going to the circus.

So here we go, trying to get something for nothing.  I'm going to buy my tickets there and bringing my coupons for free kids tickets, if I can keep them on bread and water rations at the coliseum then maybe we can do the impossible........