I was in Athens, Greece with my 18-year-old son celebrating his high school graduation by “broadening his horizons.” Even though Greece is going through financial crisis, I quickly learned that tourists were not seeing any savings. The Euro is still pounding the dollar, and broadening his horizons was going to substantially thin my wallet. Add to it that I fell from the frugal tree and, well, you get the picture. So when I got our dinner bill and it was 30% more than I expected, I didn’t just “let it go.”
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