Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

Eroticfishcake · 14-09-2011 3:33am

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

There wasn't anything wrong with doing that. He only loaned the money off you, as long as he repaid you then he was paying for that rose himself.

He put himself into debt to you in order to get you a gift, presumably you got your money back plus you got the gift. That is pretty much the exact opposite of stingy. The poor bloke tries to make a nice gesture and gets mocked for it.

...And so he should get mocked for it. If you can't afford it, don't f^cking buy it...actually have more respect for him if he dropped the hand...:cool:

Pompey Magnus · 14-09-2011 3:41am

Eroticfishcake wrote: »

...And so he should get mocked for it. If you can't afford it, don't f^cking buy it...actually have more respect for him if he dropped the hand...:cool:

Obviously he shouldn't have bought it for all the thanks it got him, he spends his own money on a gift and gets criticised for it as being stingy!

Eroticfishcake · 14-09-2011 3:44am

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

Obviously he shouldn't have bought it for all the thanks it got him, he spends his own money on a gift and gets criticised for it as being stingy!

It wasn't his money

Pompey Magnus · 14-09-2011 3:48am

Eroticfishcake wrote: »

It wasn't his money

If he paid her back, which I assume he did as she said he loaned it, then yes it was his. He was free to spend it on whatever he liked and he decided to spend it on her.

Eroticfishcake · 14-09-2011 3:56am

Are you being serious? Ridiculous argument, he borrowed the money to buy her the rose so it all happened in the same night therefore he had NOT paid her back, it was her money.

Pompey Magnus · 14-09-2011 4:02am

Eroticfishcake wrote: »

Are you being serious? Ridiculous argument, he borrowed the money to buy her the rose so it all happened in the same night therefore he had NOT paid her back, it was her money.

Ultimately he ended up €5 worse off and she ended up €0 down but with a gift. Explain how, by any definition, he was being stingy?

Eroticfishcake · 14-09-2011 4:13am

She would have bought herself a rose if she wanted one. It wasn't a gift, she paid for it! She was a fiver down, how do you not get that?

Pompey Magnus · 14-09-2011 4:21am

Eroticfishcake wrote: »

She would have bought herself a rose if she wanted one. It wasn't a gift, she paid for it! She was a fiver down, how do you not get that?

You do understand the concept of a loan, don't you? She didn't just give him the money, he borrowed it with both people understanding that the money would be repaid in full. When a bank gives somebody a loan they don't just write off the debt as soon as the money has been handed over.

whatsamsn · 14-09-2011 4:25am

IMO,
The whole gesture of a rose is you buying it and giving it to someone. By him asking for money to pay for it, it tarnishes the gesture.

Is it him being stingy? a debate could be formed sure. He might of been foolish and didnt realise by asking he takes away from the gesture ... or look at it another way. He was on a night out. Did he really not have a fiver in his pocket? how was he going to get home if he was potless?

So I wouldnt put it past him (or anyone) wanting to buy a flower (to try and butter a girl up, aka try and get some sex) but think to themselves i dont want to pay for the flower / or give those 'romanian scum' a fiver! ... So some would say "here love, can i borrow a fiver? i'll give it back to you" - with no intention of giving it back. Sure most normal non-stingy people wouldnt have the neck to ask for the money back in this situation :P

Eroticfishcake · 14-09-2011 4:29am

Totally off topic and we're going to have to agree to disagree...time for snoozey snooze. I think he was a stingey f^ck, you don't...I can be pretty certain me and you will never have to deal with this together (you're not my type

).

Pretty sure you are mad after me though!

Pompey Magnus · 14-09-2011 4:34am

I think he was a stingey f^ck, you don't...I can be pretty certain me and you will never have to deal with this together (you're not my type ).

Gimme the lend of €5, I'll get you a lovely rose and you'll soon change your mind

.

Lanaier · 14-09-2011 6:21am

Ms. Pingui wrote: »

I was outside a nightclub at then end of the night a few years back with my then boyfriend. He asked for a lend of a fiver off me, which I gave him. He then proceeded to buy a rose from one of those romanian women in the steet to give to me.... The worst part was that he didnt think there was anything wrong with this! :eek:

Romance and spontaneity eh?
What scum!

Sounds like he dodged a bullet to me.

s_carnage · 14-09-2011 9:55am

Why the hell does every story in here have to be dissected to death?!?!

Could there not be a rule where you could only post if you have a stingy story as the nit-picking that has gone on in here has totally ruined what was an excellent thread.

Lanaier · 14-09-2011 10:00am

s_carnage wrote: »

Could there not be a rule where you could only post if you have a stingy story as the nit-picking that has gone on in here has totally ruined what was an excellent thread.

Well...there isn't.

Until there is, we have a right

Ms. Pingui · 14-09-2011 1:31pm

Lanaier wrote: »

Romance and spontaneity eh?
What scum!

Sounds like he dodged a bullet to me.

Ya its really romantic to be bought treats with your own money :rolleyes: ... especially when your're a poor student. He had loads of his own money as well!

I paid for everything for this guy and he never paid me back for the rose or anything else!

okeanes · 14-09-2011 5:46pm

i was drinking out my bottle walking home from school bout 2 years ago . with my jurnal in my hand i had no bag . i asked him can i put it in his bag and he said you can , both of them in my bag for 50 cent . 30 for my journal and 20 for my bottle i gave it to him but how stingy

sunflower27 · 14-09-2011 5:54pm

Ms. Pingui wrote: »

Ya its really romantic to be bought treats with your own money :rolleyes: ... especially when your're a poor student. He had loads of his own money as well!

I paid for everything for this guy and he never paid me back for the rose or anything else!

Be thankful you didn't marry him and let it go

wayfarers · 14-09-2011 6:10pm

okeanes wrote: »

i was drinking out my bottle walking home from school bout 2 years ago . with my jurnal in my hand i had no bag . i asked him can i put it in his bag and he said you can , both of them in my bag for 50 cent . 30 for my journal and 20 for my bottle i gave it to him but how stingy

What school was this? I can't make head nor tail of what you wrote.

Sam Vimes · 14-09-2011 6:41pm

wayfarers wrote: »

What school was this? I can't make head nor tail of what you wrote.

I'll attempt to translate:

I was drinking out of a bottle while walking home from school about two years ago. I had my journal in my hand and I had no bag in which to put it. I asked him [my stingy friend] if I could put the journal in his bag and he said I could put both the journal and the bottle in his bag but that I would have to pay 50c, 30c for the journal and 20c for the bottle. I gave him the money and put the journal and bottle in his bag but I perceived his demand for monetary compensation for carrying said items as being stingy.

Is that close enough?

sunflower27 · 14-09-2011 6:45pm

wayfarers wrote: »

What school was this? I can't make head nor tail of what you wrote.

It's fairly simple to work out. Maybe go back and read it slower.

Lanaier · 15-09-2011 5:39am

Yes simple to work out but you have to admit it was written extremely poorly.
On a phone perhaps?

DupsTheKid · 15-09-2011 6:23am

After a night out on the town, two of my friends decided they would get a pizza together and would pay half each.

When the pizza was ready they went to pay at the counter, one friend got out his half while the other whipped out a 50% off any pizza voucher from the back of a receipt and said that's for my half. :pac:

later12 · 15-09-2011 6:32am

okeanes wrote: »

i was drinking out my bottle walking home from school bout 2 years ago . with my jurnal in my hand i had no bag . i asked him can i put it in his bag and he said you can , both of them in my bag for 50 cent . 30 for my journal and 20 for my bottle i gave it to him but how stingy

Stay in school, kids.

Capt'n Midnight · 15-09-2011 9:15am

garv123 wrote: »

a pint of coke is 2 bottles in most pubs and they charge by the bottle. them small bottles are 2.50 ish in most pubs which is the RRP on them.

Is the RRP for 2 Litres of coke €2.09 or €2.15 ?

15-09-2011 9:17am

even i understood that post...

jimoc · 15-09-2011 10:58am

DupsTheKid wrote: »

After a night out on the town, two of my friends decided they would get a pizza together and would pay half each.

When the pizza was ready they went to pay at the counter, one friend got out his half while the other whipped out a 50% off any pizza voucher from the back of a receipt and said that's for my half. :pac:

Thats not stingy, thats genius !!!!

risteard7 · 15-09-2011 4:10pm

swallow your spit when thirsty:)

garv123 · 15-09-2011 4:18pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Is the RRP for 2 Litres of coke €2.09 or €2.15 ?

Probably. The small pub bottles are absolute robbery in all fairness. They pay 50cent per small bottle and make €2 euro profit off them. ( I was nosey one day bringing in the delieveries and read the slips with prices on them :cool:)

phill106 · 15-09-2011 4:58pm

DupsTheKid wrote: »

After a night out on the town, two of my friends decided they would get a pizza together and would pay half each.

When the pizza was ready they went to pay at the counter, one friend got out his half while the other whipped out a 50% off any pizza voucher from the back of a receipt and said that's for my half. :pac:

all those vouchers must be produced or mentioned when ordering, so I call shennanigans!

yesno1234 · 15-09-2011 5:32pm

garv123 wrote: »

Probably. The small pub bottles are absolute robbery in all fairness. They pay 50cent per small bottle and make €2 euro profit off them. ( I was nosey one day bringing in the delieveries and read the slips with prices on them :cool:)

Not €2 profit when you take overheads etc into account.

DupsTheKid · 15-09-2011 11:05pm

phill106 wrote: »

all those vouchers must be produced or mentioned when ordering, so I call shennanigans!

Maybe it was when they were ordering so. I had a few drinks down and this is going back a few months. Either way, I remember one friend with the voucher saying that's for his half. :P

wayfarers · 15-09-2011 11:29pm

sunflower27 wrote: »

It's fairly simple to work out. Maybe go back and read it slower.

Maybe I appreciate a bit of old school punctuation when reading a 'yarn'.

Michael Weston · 16-09-2011 12:13am

garv123 wrote: »

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Is the RRP for 2 Litres of coke €2.09 or €2.15 ?

Probably. The small pub bottles are absolute robbery in all fairness. They pay 50cent per small bottle and make €2 euro profit off them. ( I was nosey one day bringing in the delieveries and read the slips with prices on them :cool:)

Then they return the glass bottle and get a rebate for that and the same for the plastic case.

rebel.ranter · 16-09-2011 12:21am

A friend of a friend when sharing a square of his Yorkie bar used to break off the end squares because he thought there was more chocolate in that square than in the middle squares!
I mean, how much extra chocolate could there be!

Capt'n Midnight · 16-09-2011 12:27am

yesno1234 wrote: »

Not €2 profit when you take overheads etc into account.

What people really, really resent is that for many years publicans have been using excise duty as an excuse for the price of drink and yet the highest profit margin is on the cheapest drinks. There is no excise duty on soft drinks and the supermarkets charge three or four times the price per litre for beers.

Pure gouging. And I have very little respect for the publicans who should reduce the markup to the same level as alcoholic drinks.

Many's a time when I've bought a pint when I really wanted a soft drink because I just couldn't justify the cost.

Blackcurrant is usually watered down too much but it's price shows what sort of margin they should be charging on the minerals.

garv123 · 16-09-2011 12:28am

Michael Weston wrote: »

Then they return the glass bottle and get a rebate for that and the same for the plastic case.

in some cases yes, all the coke and diet coke went into the bin where i worked. happened for 7 up and club orange though.
Theres a smaller looking bottle with thinner glass which are dumped, theres a bigger looking bottle with thicker glass thats kept. same goes for coors and bud.
depends where you order from.

garv123 · 16-09-2011 12:34am

oh a stingy not about where i used to work.. After matches and stuff we'd head to the pub for the night to celebrate or drown the sorrows. about 7 or 8 of the lads on the team are under 18 and they'd be there with their parents and ask for a pint of mi wadi. before having a few drinks and crisps and paying for pool and songs on the jukebox. the owner wsnt happy with them drinking mi wadi so she stopped ordering it so they'd have to buy soft drinks or cider:pac: so now theres no mi wadi of any sort in the pub for people to have as a mixer.

onlyrocknroll · 16-09-2011 12:48am

My poor girlfriend, I probably shouldn't post this, she knows my username, but I'm sure she won't see it.

Once she took me out for dinner for my birthday, which is very generous of her and very much appreciated. I said I'd leave the tip, and as the service was very good I left more then I usually would.

All fine, until my girlfriend saw what I was leaving and to my absolute astonishment said "You're giving that much?" and picked up about half of it and put it in her pocket. :eek:

We still laugh about it now, and she gets embarrassed, but she still did it! TBF she's not generally stingy, a bit thrifty sometimes but more in a sensible way than in a mean way.

whatsamsn · 16-09-2011 12:53am

^ welcome to the doghouse. Population: You.

veryangryman · 18-09-2011 5:39am

whatsamsn wrote: »

^ welcome to the doghouse. Population: You.

Mmhmmm. The fact that he sugar-coated the reply just made it worse. Women are vultures for that. RIP your b0llocks.

mattjack · 18-09-2011 8:41am

onlyrocknroll wrote: »

My poor girlfriend, I probably shouldn't post this, she knows my username, but I'm sure she won't see it.

Once she took me out for dinner for my birthday, which is very generous of her and very much appreciated. I said I'd leave the tip, and as the service was very good I left more then I usually would.

All fine, until my girlfriend saw what I was leaving and to my absolute astonishment said "You're giving that much?" and picked up about half of it and put it in her pocket. :eek:

We still laugh about it now, and she gets embarrassed, but she still did it! TBF she's not generally stingy, a bit thrifty sometimes but more in a sensible way than in a mean way.

your ex girlfriend now...

Smuckie · 18-09-2011 4:07pm

I went out with a fella a few years ago who would head up to Tesco every night to buy dinner, but only after 7pm because that's when they put the yellow 'REDUCED' stickers on products about to expire. He would only buy food from this section, and when they didn't have anything at all, he would buy something else (never spending over €3) and lament for the whole night at how much money he could have saved had it been about to go off...

b743k · 18-09-2011 4:28pm

My friend's boyfriend at the time borrowed €80 from her while they were in town as he wanted to get some clothes for himself. A month later he gave her her birthday present, a €99 phone and said that's the money I owe you too. I'm sure that he pocketed the free credit too as they were the same network and she got none with the phone. He then had the cheek to show his friends her new phone while they were in the pub with a look what I bought her attitude. The poor girl was too embarassed to tell his friends the full story.

Gordon Gecko · 18-09-2011 4:44pm

For Christmas one year bought the ex a cheap ring, <10 quid, from Argos. Got a box from Weir & Sons on Grafton St. slipped in the ring and looked like a great boyfriend :pac:

Temptamperu · 18-09-2011 4:49pm

Gordon Gecko wrote: »

For Christmas one year bought the ex a cheap ring, <10 quid, from Argos. Got a box from Weir & Sons on Grafton St. slipped in the ring and looked like a great boyfriend :pac:

You are a hero:cool:

Esel · 20-09-2011 10:38pm

Gordon Gecko wrote: »

For Christmas one year bought the ex a cheap ring, <10 quid, from Argos. Got a box from Weir & Sons on Grafton St. slipped in the ring and looked like a great boyfriend :pac:

How long did it take for the other box to snap shut?

Honey-ec · 30-09-2011 10:16am

About 20 years ago my dad replaced all the radiators in our house. He put the old ones in the front garden while he was fitting the new ones. A few hours later a Traveller arrives and asks can he have them. My dad reckons it'll save him a trip to the dump, and says ok. So yer man stands there for a few seconds, thinking, then goes:

"Give us 50 quid for taking them away, so."

Needless to say, my dad invited him to have sexual congress with himself.

Abi · 10-10-2011 6:22pm

I was on my way home recently, and just on a narrow dangerous bend there was an '09 beemer with it's drivers door and boot wide open, facing me and on my side of the road - it just looked abandoned, no hazards, nothing. While trying to decide if I should take a chance over taking it on the bend and risking meeting something flying around on the other side, I was perplexed as to what someone would abandon their car for in such a dangerous spot.

I rolled down the windows to hear if there was any oncoming traffic, and took my chance. Well just as I had gotten around the bend I see this scruffy looking man carrying spuds back in the direction of the abandoned car. Where I live there would be a lot of agricultural machinery about, and obviously a trailer had off-loaded a few spuds as it approached the bend.

I couldn't believe someone would be that scabby and put other people in danger all for the sake of a few spuds =/

cocoshovel · 22-10-2011 6:54pm

I know this lad who puts his car into neutral when going down hills "to save petrol". Needless to say everyone thinks he's a gobshite.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 22-10-2011 6:58pm

cocoshovel wrote: »

I know this lad who puts his car into neutral when going down hills "to save petrol". Needless to say everyone thinks he's a gobshite.

A fella I was in school with would turn off the engine at traffic lights for the same thing.

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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