Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

IvaBigWun · 05-01-2009 9:15pm #1

I hate mean people.

The really, really mean kind who always missed their round even before the R word was mentioned. The kind who always sit on their hands when the charity box went around the office.

My favourite was a friend of a friends Dad who had two TVs on top of each other. Because one had no sound and the other had no picture :pac:

So whats the worst you've ever heard?

Huggles · 05-01-2009 9:17pm

One of my mates is pretty bad. When we all go for a meal together she will take a calculator out and calculate her portion of the meal down to the last cent.

galwayrush · 05-01-2009 9:18pm

Once in a restaurant, 4 people at a table near us, three of them leave a tip at the table on leaving, last person at the table pockets tip without the rest noticing.

daveywavey08 · 05-01-2009 9:18pm

I have loads. One that happened yesterday was, one of my really tight friends charged another friend 3 euros for a slice of his pizza when they came.
He's such an unbelievable snake.

briantwin · 05-01-2009 9:18pm

my dad walked into my neighbours house one time and there were sheets of toilet paper all over the sitting room. The wife had bought 3 different kinds and was seeing which brand was the best value (ie which had more sheets per roll). I'm going to assume she would disregard such things as quality and texture.

Fizman · 05-01-2009 9:22pm

galwayrush wrote: »

Once in a restaurant, 4 people at a table near us, three of them leave a tip at the table on leaving, last person at the table pockets tip without the rest noticing.

Yoink!

LEIN · 05-01-2009 9:23pm

briantwin wrote: »

my dad walked into my neighbours house one time and there were sheets of toilet paper all over the sitting room. The wife had bought 3 different kinds and was seeing which brand was the best value (ie which had more sheets per roll). I'm going to assume she would disregard such things as quality and texture.

Is there not a total number of sheets on the packaging??

briantwin · 05-01-2009 9:25pm

Damo9090 wrote: »

Is there not a total number of sheets on the packaging??

When you'rer that stingey im sure you'd count the number of chips you'd get in McDonalds because you'd think they were trying to rip you off.

sweetie · 05-01-2009 9:25pm

my dad tells a story from when he was younger and he was drinking with some friends and one of them was teetotal. When it came to his round he bought 4 fizzy oranges for them.

Mont · 05-01-2009 9:29pm

Anyone notice that the meanest people are the rich ones - i have a mate whose family is loaded and the guy is the stingiest in the world - he would pick up 2c if he saw it on the street, always shops in the Somalia shop and is so proud when he picks up a top for under a tenner. One of the lads went shopping with him in Dunnes and he picked up a load of stuff but was too mean to pay the 22c for a bag so the 2 of them practically carried 15 items each for a half a mile

Sweeno · 05-01-2009 9:29pm

my friend bought some perfume or somethin for his g/f for xmas from boots, couple days later he heard there was 10% off so he brought it back, got a refund, then bought it again savin himself about 2 euro..

another one we were all sittin round the sittin room, couple spliffs goin round, same friend rang up mizonis pizza, asked what the minimum delivery order was, 8 euro was the reply, can i have 8 cans of coke please? nd they delivered em, we lived so close to mizonis we could see it out our sittin room windowand watched them as they walked over , they really hated us

funny stuff

05-01-2009 9:30pm

Used to work with the meanest woman in the world. She was going to the shop one day and asked if any of us wanted anything. I wanted something (can't for the life of me remember what, we'll say a bottle of Coke) so gave her €1.20. She came back five minutes later Coke-less, gave me back my €1.20. Turned out the shop had put Coke up to €1.22 a bottle and she didn't want to spend €0.02 of her own money in case she wouldn't get it back off me. :rolleyes:

Ste.phen · 05-01-2009 9:33pm

sweetie wrote: »

my dad tells a story from when he was younger and he was drinking with some friends and one of them was teetotal. When it came to his round he bought 4 fizzy oranges for them.

That could be more expensive than the Alcohol these days ;-)

Hank Scorpio · 05-01-2009 9:34pm

ridiculous stories :eek:

Sam Vimes · 05-01-2009 9:34pm

my gf's ex got two tickets for them to see a concert for christmas and they were quite expensive. Turns out they were his christmas present from his mother

cashville · 05-01-2009 9:38pm

00112984 wrote: »

Used to work with the meanest woman in the world. She was going to the shop one day and asked if any of us wanted anything. I wanted something (can't for the life of me remember what, we'll say a bottle of Coke) so gave her €1.20. She came back five minutes later Coke-less, gave me back my €1.20. Turned out the shop had put Coke up to €1.22 a bottle and she didn't want to spend €0.02 of her own money in case she wouldn't get it back off me. :rolleyes:

ha ha ah jaysus that's terrible!!!

great thread OP

Mossy Monk · 05-01-2009 9:40pm

Huggles wrote: »

One of my mates is pretty bad. When we all go for a meal together she will take a calculator out and calculate her portion of the meal down to the last cent.

In fairness I wouldn't pay for bottles of wine drank by others

Sam Vimes · 05-01-2009 9:41pm

a guy i know sent me a "call me" text once, you know those things that say "i'm out of credit, call me". But he's on bill pay. And the worst thing is i was the one who signed him up to the bill phone so it's not like i didn't know!

The same guy went into the off licence for a friend when he was 18 and the other guy was 17. He came out with only his stuff and said they wouldn't give him the rest because they thought he was buying it for someone. So the guy says fair enough, give me my money back to which he replied "i don't have it". A big argument followed where he eventually admitted he had the money and gave it back. He's not the brightest chap god bless him

Huggles · 05-01-2009 9:43pm

Should have specified, she also drinks plenty of wine!

Mossy Monk wrote: »

In fairness I wouldn't pay for bottles of wine drank by others

briantwin · 05-01-2009 9:45pm

my old next door neighbour once spilled a ton of crap on his stairs cant remember what it was. Anyway iot damaged the floor boards but he was too tight to pay to have them replaced so he put some reinforcing under the stairs himself. All was grand till one evening all we could hear was screaming like a banshee. My dad went around to find all 18st of him had fallen through the stairs and he was wedged up to his waste in his own stairs. My dad and our other neighbour had to go help him get out of his stairs.

Forgot that one.

LEIN · 05-01-2009 9:45pm

Sam Vimes wrote: »

a guy i know sent me a "call me" text once, you know those things that say "i'm out of credit, call me". But he's on bill pay. And the worst thing is i was the one who signed him up to the bill phone so it's not like i didn't know!

Can you send them on bill pay?

Shacklebolt · 05-01-2009 9:48pm

When my dad lived in New York he done rennovations a millionaires house... She never used central heating at all because she reckoned it cost too much. Also she reckoned gas was cheaper than electricity and therefore always used devices powered by that, even for things like making toast or boiling water for tea or coffee.

Sam Vimes · 05-01-2009 9:49pm

Damo9090 wrote: »

Can you send them on bill pay?

apparently you can:P

Senna · 05-01-2009 9:50pm

briantwin wrote: »

my dad walked into my neighbours house one time and there were sheets of toilet paper all over the sitting room. The wife had bought 3 different kinds and was seeing which brand was the best value (ie which had more sheets per roll). I'm going to assume she would disregard such things as quality and texture.

I though this was going to be a story about reusing toilet paper:D

There a fella that plays music in pubs around Letterkenny, his stingyness is legendary. He had just finished playing one night and he was standing at the bar chatting to people, one of them offered to buy him a drink, his reply was "cant have a drink i'm driving, but i'll take the money instead". The guy buying him the drink just sat there with his mouth open not knowing what to do.

Zebra3 · 05-01-2009 9:51pm

In work years ago and as the newest it was my job to go the shops for everyone for lunch, one miserable old cvnt (on way more £ than me) used to always give me 30p for a KitKat and then ask me for his 2p change. Went to a different shop one day where it was 30p and he started giving out to me.

That's only one of many stories about him.

consultech · 05-01-2009 9:51pm

Drinking with Ken Doherty n few others at UK Championship in UK few years back and his "round" costs £25 n he has £30 (20+10) on the table. So he asks his mate Mick if he has a fiver, which he gets, and pockets his tenner again.

Amazotheamazing · 05-01-2009 9:52pm

Damo9090 wrote: »

Can you send them on bill pay?

All he has to do is text "Call Me", it just means it wouldn't be free.

IvaBigWun · 05-01-2009 9:56pm

consultech wrote: »

Drinking with Ken Doherty n few others at UK Championship in UK few years back and his "round" costs £25 n he has £30 (20+10) on the table. So he asks his mate Mick if he has a fiver, which he gets, and pockets his tenner again.

:pac:

Sam Vimes · 05-01-2009 9:56pm

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

All he has to do is text "Call Me", it just means it wouldn't be free.

What i got was the standard meteor call me message, the one that says "the person at 085xxxxxxx has no credit and would like you to call them..."

View Profile · 05-01-2009 9:57pm

Used to work in a bar. There was this one tight bastard who would always ask for his pint of Heineken filled right to the brim, i.e. no head at all.
If it was served with the standard 4mm head he would send it back saying "I asked for a PINT of beer."

C0Ck.

Amazotheamazing · 05-01-2009 9:58pm

Sam Vimes wrote: »

What i got was the standard meteor call me message, the one that says "the person at 085xxxxxxx has no credit and would like you to call them..."

Really, must remember that next time I'm too stingy to pay. Was it o2 that used to just send the slightly creepy "call me" ones then?

ShagNastii · 05-01-2009 10:00pm

Really bad story but I once saw a women pick the sh1te out of a nappy and put it back on the baby again

seanybiker · 05-01-2009 10:00pm

One of the lads in me old local used to im into the chipper on his way home and ask for a frozen burger because he had buns and an oven in his own house. Sometimes he would ask just for the buns. Bloody neck on him like a jockeys bollox . Funny though.

CDfm · 05-01-2009 10:01pm

my ex-es mother on Chriostmas decided on a non-materialist christmas.

She gave everyone a single floating candle that came 6 for a pound at the pound store.:o

rednik · 05-01-2009 10:01pm

In work one day I saw a bloke reusing a tea bag. I thought it was a one off until somebody told me he does this every day.:eek:

sillymoo · 05-01-2009 10:04pm

rednik wrote: »

In work one day I saw a bloke reusing a tea bag. I thought it was a one off until somebody told me he does this every day.:eek:

Maybe he likes it weak

sunnyjim · 05-01-2009 10:05pm

View Profile wrote:

Used to work in a bar. There was this one tight bastard who would always ask for his pint of Heineken filled right to the brim, i.e. no head at all.
If it was served with the standard 4cm head he would send it back saying "I asked for a PINT of beer."

C0Ck.

Using a standard Guinnes pint glass, a 4cm high head would be roughly 113ml. Considering the pint is 568ml, thats roughly 20% of the pint as head.

In other words he's dead right to send it back, and you must possess **** bartending skills.

And no way is 4cm head the standard...:rolleyes:

badabinbadaboom · 05-01-2009 10:08pm

sunnyjim wrote: »

Using a standard Guinnes pint glass, a 4cm high head would be roughly 113ml. Considering the pint is 568ml, thats roughly 20% of the pint as head.

In other words he's dead right to send it back, and you must possess **** bartending skills.

And no way is 4cm head the standard...:rolleyes:

let the games begin!!!!!

Rusty Cogs 08 · 05-01-2009 10:09pm

The 'head' on a pint of beer is never as thick as the head on a pint of Guinness. About the only pint you'd get with no head is Bulmers, if I got a beer with zero head I'd send it back (as I would with Guinness) and ask for a proper pint.

(did I walk/run in to that one ?)

View Profile · 05-01-2009 10:10pm

Apologies. Typo. mixed my m up with my c. Meant to read 4mm!

Pyr0 · 05-01-2009 10:13pm

Man some of these stories are shocking, they're the type of stories you'd say "Are you ****!ng serious ?" to the stingy people involved. Seriously.

sunnyjim · 05-01-2009 10:15pm

That would make sense - I was picturing one of those really badly pulled pints that take an hour to settle, still leaving half of the pint glass filled with head :pac:

I was a lounge boy who became a bar man for 2 pints... I was subsequently demoted after disaster no. 2

Sam Vimes · 05-01-2009 10:19pm

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Really, must remember that next time I'm too stingy to pay. Was it o2 that used to just send the slightly creepy "call me" ones then?

must have been. that does sound creepy alright, you'd be afraid of what would be on the other end of the line. like getting a video call from a private number

FlutterinBantam · 05-01-2009 10:20pm

Knew a fella got short taken on a beach walk, dumped a load in the dunes, verrry messy, used a sock to wipe his hole and took it home with him to wash it"""

€1.99 for 3 pairs in Dunnes!!!

:eek::eek::eek:

bandit197 · 05-01-2009 10:21pm

IvaBigWun wrote: »

I hate mean people.

My favourite was a friend of a friends Dad who had two TVs on top of each other. Because one had no sound and the other had no picture :pac:

Thats not mean, thats genius!

Shacklebolt · 05-01-2009 10:21pm

It was actually vodafone who sent 'Call Me'. O2 were more mannerly and had 'Can you call me please?'.

LEIN · 05-01-2009 10:22pm

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Knew a fella got short taken on a beach walk, dumped a load in the dunes, verrry messy, used a sock to wipe his hole and took it home with him to wash it"""

€1.99 for 3 pairs in Dunnes!!!

:eek::eek::eek:

Did you have to travel in the same car home?

Quackles · 05-01-2009 10:23pm

ShagNastii wrote: »

Really bad story but I once saw a women pick the sh1te out of a nappy and put it back on the baby again

That could be more like 'caught out without a spare nappy' than stingy. Not that I've ever done it

I knew someone who removed light bulbs and picture hooks from his house before he moved. Reminds me of that Richard Prior film.. "We're taking it with us!!"

OPENROAD · 05-01-2009 10:23pm

briantwin wrote: »

my dad walked into my neighbours house one time and there were sheets of toilet paper all over the sitting room. The wife had bought 3 different kinds and was seeing which brand was the best value (ie which had more sheets per roll). I'm going to assume she would disregard such things as quality and texture.

As a matter of interest do you know which brand was the best value

View Profile · 05-01-2009 10:27pm

Another amusing one in this (hotel) bar was this middle aged women who would bring in her own tea bags.
She would then kindly ask the staff for a pot of boiling water and a cup. Then spend hours in the lounge sipping away at no expense.

BoardsRanger · 05-01-2009 10:28pm

Huggles wrote: »

One of my mates is pretty bad. When we all go for a meal together she will take a calculator out and calculate her portion of the meal down to the last cent.

In fairness, it can be alittle unfair if someone is only getting a cheap main course and others are getting fillet steaks plus starters and desserts.

Being a tight focker myself, late one night whilst staying in a hotel i was craving some coke- it was something like €10 for a tiny bottle. Drank it anyway, went across to the shop the next morning and bought a bottle, then filled up the glass bottle, put the lid back on and put it back in the minibar

:D

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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