This is Optimal Finance Daily, Episode 1785, The Tale of Two Cabrides by Jay Money of

budgetsorsexy.com. And I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast, Diana Mariam.

Let's get right to today's post as we optimize your life.

The Tale of Two Cabrides by Jay Money of budgetsorsexy.com

Today's post is about two cabrides. One, I gladly accepted in order to better my life.

And the other, I was forced into in order to help my wife. Bear with me here.

The time I took a $65 cab instead of an $18 super shuttle.

Last week, at this time, I was getting pumped up about our financial blogger conference

starting the following day. I had taken a look at the schedule to semi-plan my first few days

there and was elated to see that one of the things the organizer had put together

was a free tour of the Denver Mint, where they make tons and tons of money, as well as tons of

tons of financial bloggers, tons of happy. The only problem? My flight was getting in exactly 55

minutes before the tour. And if you've ever been to the Denver Airport, you know it's at least

a 30-minute trip to the city on a good day. Not including the time it takes to get from terminal

to terminal or the weight you have to do to pick up your bag. So needless to say, I was pretty worried

of missing this golden opportunity to be with my fellow coins. As luck would have it though,

it happened to be a good day. We landed right on the scheduled minute. My bag was waiting for me when

I got to the carousel, unlike on my return flight where my bag got lost. And I had approximately

35 minutes left to pick out my transportation and high-tail it out of there. The only problem

was the major discrepancy in cost. Route 1 was the most convenient and also the most direct,

a cab. At $58 plus tip, we'll call it $65. The other, a slow as molasses blue super shuttle,

which would have saved me some pesos to the tune of $40, but would have also cost me the tour in return.

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