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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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    #1862
    pebbles21
    Registered Users Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    brayblue24 wrote: »
    A fortmnight in a bar-that's my kinda holiday


    Dont forget about the lovely view of Darndale aswell:D


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    #1863
    brayblue24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭brayblue24


    pebbles21 wrote: »
    Dont forget about the lovely view of Darndale aswell:D

    After a fortnight in a bar a think I'd have forgotten most things:D


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    #1864
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,531 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    Must admit I do perk up when this threads is revived! :D

    Girl i know - I happen to be out of toothpaste so borrow hers couple of times to tide me over until i can make it to the shop

    Its now kept in her room since! :eek:


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    #1865
    Raspberries
    Registered Users Posts: 122 ✭✭Raspberries


    I was the stingy one in this story and I feel incredibly bad about it!

    I work in a shop, and a nun came in to buy a few bits in the sale, but she was about 70c off. There was a lengthy queue forming behind her, but for some reason I wouldn't let her off the 70c. I said as nicely as possible that she would have to take an item out and while she was humming and hawing over this another customer gave her the 70c. I felt so terrible about it, but I had let a few customers off that day already and had told myself I had to stop, or I would be out a few euros myself.

    I felt so bad about it and will probably get a bollicking for this but maybe that will make me feel better! :o:(


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    #1866
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,525 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Ah, don't feel bad- I work in retail and the amount of people asking 'can I owe you a few pence' is crazy. That's the PRICE. If you don't have it buy something else! There's only so many people you can let off a few cents before it adds up and you end up getting in trouble for cash shortages.

    Besides, she was probably paying you with money she stole from the collection box.


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    #1867
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    My last boss was a total scab.
    Gave out to me one day for taking two biros out of the stationary closet. Asked why i needed two. Cos customers were always fcukin robbing them and i don't have time to walk up a flight of stairs to the stationary, every time i need a pen :mad:
    Then he was looking at me pouring a cup of tea one day,and had a go at me for having a big mug!! It wasn't like a novelty mug or anything,it was just a small bit fatter than his mug. But apparantly i was using more water for my tea in said mug than was needed :rolleyes:
    There's loads more,but they're the two that amazed me the most!


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    #1868
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    alwaysadub wrote: »
    Then he was looking at me pouring a cup of tea one day,and had a go at me for having a big mug!! It wasn't like a novelty mug or anything,it was just a small bit fatter than his mug. But apparantly i was using more water for my tea in said mug than was needed :rolleyes:

    ...but water is free?! :confused: What a d!ck


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    #1869
    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    Fishie wrote: »
    ...but water is free?! :confused: What a d!ck

    But the electricity to boil it is not.......... :o


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    #1870
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Posy wrote: »
    Ah, don't feel bad- I work in retail and the amount of people asking 'can I owe you a few pence' is crazy. That's the PRICE. If you don't have it buy something else! There's only so many people you can let off a few cents before it adds up and you end up getting in trouble for cash shortages.

    Besides, she was probably paying you with money she stole from the collection box.
    How about those people who ask 'can I take it now and drop you in the money later?'

    Um, no. No you can't. Don't be stupid.


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    #1871
    Dancor
    Registered Users Posts: 3,623 ✭✭✭Dancor


    Raspberries wrote: »
    I was the stingy one in this story and I feel incredibly bad about it!

    I work in a shop, and a nun came in to buy a few bits in the sale, but she was about 70c off. There was a lengthy queue forming behind her, but for some reason I wouldn't let her off the 70c. I said as nicely as possible that she would have to take an item out and while she was humming and hawing over this another customer gave her the 70c. I felt so terrible about it, but I had let a few customers off that day already and had told myself I had to stop, or I would be out a few euros myself.

    I felt so bad about it and will probably get a bollicking for this but maybe that will make me feel better! :o:(

    Dont feel bad. Nuns are loaded.


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    #1872
    Dardania
    Registered Users Posts: 3,612 ✭✭✭Dardania


    Victor wrote: »
    Did I? The discussion is about MPG (Miles Per Gallon), not miles per trip to the petrol station.

    I think it's time for Mythbusters to take this filling the car half or fully - what's more fuel efficient challenge on!


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    #1873
    Shelflife
    Registered Users Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭Shelflife


    Dancor wrote: »
    Dont feel bad. Nuns are loaded.

    Esp if the are in the Habit of not paying for their stuff.:D

    Ill get my coat :o


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    #1874
    SIX PACK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭SIX PACK


    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.
    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

    Aw ****ing legend LMAO:D:D:D:D:D


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    #1875
    danslevent
    Registered Users Posts: 893 ✭✭✭danslevent


    My friend was in charge of organising his school Debs so he charged everyone an extra fiver on top of the actual price of the ticket to make a profit.
    The same guy also spent all the money they raised fund raising for their Debs on drinks and cigarrettes! He really is milking the whole debs thing to the last!
    I could write a book about his sneaky scheming ways! Once he took around 3 fags from my box without even asking.It was creepy becaus I knew he must have gone into the drawyer I had them and sneakily taken them! Now I just tend not to invite him to things because I know I will have him scabbing off me the whole night.


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    #1876
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    brummytom wrote: »
    Really nice bar there actually, stayed there last year

    God no...really stale atmosphere. It's like drinking in an airport


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    yuloni
    Registered Users Posts: 2,040 ✭✭✭yuloni


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    #1878
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users Posts: 9,697 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    Condi wrote: »
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    I really doubt that.


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    #1879
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    I really doubt that.

    I'll second that. And how would the mate know unless he watches him having a sh1t


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    #1880
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,245 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    danslevent wrote: »
    My friend
    Don't confuse friends and acquaintances.


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    yuloni
    Registered Users Posts: 2,040 ✭✭✭yuloni


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    #1882
    gogo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭gogo


    Local bar-man is a legendary tight arse, drinking there last summer and took a notion to drink tia maria and milk, asked for it and he told me to fook off and get my own milk that he wasnt supplying me with it. Just to best him i headed off and bought a litre. Was in rounds so it was a only a while later that i noticed he was charging me 30c for a dash of it.
    He keeps a list of names at christmas of who gets a christmas drink, in case heaven forbid, someone might get two. Its a small pub, no need for it.

    Local guard gets him off a late night drinking charge a few years back, he gave him a bottle of wine in thanks. Local poker players come in a few hours later looked for the prizes for the tournament they had left behind the bar, prizes included wine they bought in the supermarket, when they questioned was there not another one, he says no thats all that was left in. Jesus he's sitting in his own pub full of drink and he nicks a bottle of wine from people holding a tournament in his pub.
    Its just legendary now how'll far he'll go. If he was a ghost he wouldnt frighten you out of mean-ness.


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    #1883
    Omar guest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭Omar guest


    Copper wire was invented by 2 Cavan men fighting over a penny. And theres the old fork in the sugar bowl trick as well.


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    #1884
    Omar guest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭Omar guest


    pebbles21 wrote: »
    A Friend of mine lives a two minute walk from the Hilton Hotel on the Malahide road

    Whenever he goes on holidays with his family he brings them all into the hotel bar for five minutes then out the other door through reception and uses the courtesy bus to the airport .......and when he comes home he does the same from the airport

    Ledgend


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    #1885
    Omar guest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭Omar guest


    needaname wrote: »
    One of my 'friends' who had been stingy throughout college outdid himself on the final day of college when we were all in the pub celebrating our achievement. The whole class were in the beer garden and a couple of guys bought themselves some food... a big carvery dinner. One guy ate most of it and when he was full wiped his mouth etc and threw dirty hanky, knife fork and any other pieces of rubbish lying around on the plate and pushed it aside. Cue my friend pointing to the food and sayin... you gonna finish that? Picking off the dirty hanky and proceeding to eat the food to the horror of the rest of the class. same guy clearly havent had enough of peoples leftovers picking up a glass and picking out the leftover lemon and eating it and then I kindly pointed out that the dirty glass was not in fact belonging to any of us and he had just eaten a strangers leftover lemon... soo not cool

    I ate some left over chips out of a bin b4, i was hungry after my driinking session. A few words of wisdom 4 any would b pint snatchers, apparently people are filling pints up with half piss 1/4 beer then putting it down 4 the beer theif 2 quench his/he thirst.


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    #1886
    Omar guest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭Omar guest


    Lo23 wrote: »
    If I ever call over to my mates for a cup of tea she'll make a few of us (3 or 4) share the same teabag! Pretty stingy!

    Oh and she NEVER has biscuits!! :(

    Maybe u should bring some biscuts, seeming as shes paying 4 the tea bag and over heads. HA HA HA.


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    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    danslevent wrote: »
    My friend was in charge of organising his school Debs so he charged everyone an extra fiver on top of the actual price of the ticket to make a profit.
    The same guy also spent all the money they raised fund raising for their Debs on drinks and cigarrettes! He really is milking the whole debs thing to the last!
    I could write a book about his sneaky scheming ways! Once he took around 3 fags from my box without even asking.It was creepy becaus I knew he must have gone into the drawyer I had them and sneakily taken them! Now I just tend not to invite him to things because I know I will have him scabbing off me the whole night.

    St. Joeys school, right?


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    #1888
    friendface
    Registered Users Posts: 812 ✭✭✭friendface


    Not really stingy but I remember my granny would always keep the fat out of the frying pan and reuse it. Used to cook with Frytek cooking fat and would pour it into a small glass bowl after cooking until it went solid. It would then be re-used next time. It wasn't out of stinginess though. She was actually the kindest most generous person you could meet. I guess it was just a habit she grew into during her childhood and living in the UK during the war when food was rationed.

    She would also keep a jar which she would put twisted pieces of bread wrapper in to. They would be used instead of matches for lighting the fire, etc.

    She would keep and re-use EVERYTHING. Old newspapers, plastic bags, teabags. She had a use for all of them. I miss Nana :(

    Some of the stories on this are priceless :D


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    #1889
    Stuffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88 ✭✭Stuffy


    Was on a trip to LA around a year ago for a UFC event, after spending a night out on the town, my friends said we would do a bit of shopping. Purchased a few items anyway and I was trying on a pair of shoes in a shop and I looked over to see my friend putting on my timberland boots that I had just taken off. I said, "what are you doing?" bemused, he replys "just trying these on incase you don't want them anymore". I laughed and looked over again, to which he put his head down and went bright bright red :eek:

    They were a fabolous shoe in fairness tho :pac:


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    #1890
    danslevent
    Registered Users Posts: 893 ✭✭✭danslevent


    discus wrote: »
    St. Joeys school, right?

    Nope, but did it happen there too? I just think its lousy becuase Debs tickets are expensive enough as it is!


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    #1891
    Penisland
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭Penisland


    Usually they just get free tickets and maybe free drink?


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