Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

Voodoomelon

bijapos wrote: »

It turns out I had driven about 200km out of my way to deliver his fcuking washing to his Ma and bring it back to Germany.

Line of the year, close the thread!

Capt'n Midnight

Orando Broom wrote: »

Stingy and ill-informed. The contraction and expansion does occur in areas the size of the hold of an oil tanker but not in a petrol tank. Also the tank in a petrol station is so far underground that ambient tmeperatures do not affect it.

http://physics.info/expansion/ gasoline 950 β (10−6 K−1)

so a change of 10 degrees would be nearly 1% difference
which is the annual change in soil temperature at a depth of 1m in these parts

ringadingding

bijapos wrote: »

So I took the box to Laois which was a 100km detour, and the mother said what day will I pick it up? I had no idea I was taking it back but I said if it fitted in I would.

I wish you'd have found out then it was only laundry, I know the box would not have been in my car on the return leg :pac:

Northern Monkey

I have a friend who will ring and hang up before you answer so you have to ring them back and then if you do the same back to her she sends a text asking if you phoned.

bijapos

ringadingding wrote: »

I wish you'd have found out then it was only laundry, I know the box would not have been in my car on the return leg :pac:

I helped him carry the box up to his apartment, there was other stuff in other boxes too, cakes, pies etc and ironically a couple of bottles of whiskey which was then a lot cheaper in Germany than Ireland. He told his parents it was impossible to get it in Germany so they bought him a couple, he only said it to save him the few quid of buying his own. Jameson and Tullamore Dew are available anywhere and Paddys could be found handily enough back then.

It was only when I was in his gaff that I found out it was laundry, but it wasn't just socks, jocks and shirts. There was all his bedclothes, curtains, tablecloths and even the covers off his 3 piece suite. He spent the Christmas with no curtains, the bare scratchy cushions on the couch and in a sleeping bag on the bed as he had no duvet covers.

Crazy crazy stuff for the sake of a few bob.:(

ToddyDoody

House beside my grandad's was owned by a man too stingy to put in central heating. Know of someone else too stingy to buy a new phone when 3 of the number buttons fell out -filled the holes with marla and continues to use the phone. Know of a man too stingy to pay the bin charges so goes around his town with a bag of his household rubbish depositing it in the public bins.

ProudDUB

bijapos wrote: »

It was only when I was in his gaff that I found out it was laundry, but it wasn't just socks, jocks and shirts. There was all his bedclothes, curtains, tablecloths and even the covers off his 3 piece suite. He spent the Christmas with no curtains, the bare scratchy cushions on the couch and in a sleeping bag on the bed as he had no duvet covers.

Crazy crazy stuff for the sake of a few bob.:(

I swear to God, this story just gets funnier and funnier. It is the gift that keeps on giving. Pity you don't keep in touch with this gob$hite anymore, just so that you can keep us lot entertained.

gizmorox

IvaBigWun wrote: »

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?

The worst I've actually witnessed was when I was on hols with my children,my best friend and her children.We went horseriding and because it was €10.00 cheaper for 30 mins than 1 hour she made her kids cut short their fun and they had to stand there watching my children until the end,her kids were very upset which made it worse,thing is she's hardly struggling either,have known her 20 years and that's only one example,most are funny!:D

gizmorox

gizmorox wrote: »

The worst I've actually witnessed was when I was on hols with my children,my best friend and her children.We went horseriding and because it was €10.00 cheaper for 30 mins than 1 hour she made her kids cut short their fun and they had to stand there watching my children until the end,her kids were very upset which made it worse,thing is she's hardly struggling either,have known her 20 years and that's only one example,most are funny!:D

I secretly call her 'Voucher Vera':D she won't bring her kids anywhere unless she has a two for one(e.g) voucher.

gizmorox

Northern Monkey wrote: »

I have a friend who will ring and hang up before you answer so you have to ring them back and then if you do the same back to her she sends a text asking if you phoned.

Don't we all lol:D:D:D

chimmy chonga

ToddyDoody wrote: »

..... goes around his town with a bag of his household rubbish depositing it in the public bins.

I thought everyone does that! oops!

Maedbhish

My housemates tried to get money off someone for charging their phone in the house.. They laughed it off as a joke but they are from Cavan after all... :pac:

CricketDude

When a gang of us meet up for dinner out one friend established whether we are all paying equally or separately before we order.

Sometimes, depending on who is there, we decide to pay equally, and yer man orders lobster or else the most expensive expensive thing on the menu. And expensive wine.

When we decide to pay separately he orders the cheapest thing on the menu and gets the calculator out at the end.

saa

gluckantanks wrote: »

A friend of mine (Johnny) was out on the dry one night and was driving. One of his friends (Jimmy) asked him for a spin home. Johnny's petrol was low and dropping Jimmy home was about an 8 mile detour. But Johnny said he would no problem.
Jimmy owns a shop and petrol pumps. When they got to Jimmy's house, the petrol was getting dodgy low so they said they'd throw in a drop from Jimmy's pumps. Jimmy went into the shop and turned on the pumps while Johnny filled €5 .01 of petrol.
Now surely you'd think Jimmy would let him off with the fiver. But he didn't. And then, unbelievably, he not only demanded the fiver but insisted on getting the 1 cent as well.
What a tight little c*#t.

Jimmy should have let him off the entire 5.01 on account of getting a free taxi home, ugggh. scabbiness that affects other people is scummy.

civis_liberalis

Rick Deckard wrote: »

Tight Stupid bastárd.

FTFY

cloud493

I was in the spar over the weekend, went to get a roll from the sandwich counter, 3 polish girls there, they ordered the 2 euro chicken fillet mega deal roll, the girl at the counter wrapped it all, then they asked her to cut it into three :pac:

civis_liberalis

bijapos wrote: »

On the other hand on the way back I picked up a few bags of food for an English guy I knew, his Dad drove to meet me in a service station on the M6, gave me a box of ales and bitters from small english breweries (I'm a big beer drinker) and said if I ever fancied a trip to an Aston Villa match he would give me 2 tickets for any match. Sound out of him, a real Gent.

This part of the story reminded me that not everybody is a stingy fecker and even strangers on boards can restore your faith in humanity a little.

Last winter my brother was sent abroad for a job on very short notice. Getting himself home to Galway and then his work tools and gear from Galway to Cork in time for an early morning flight was a bit of a problem.

I priced up the airport parking for him online, for the length he'd be gone. It would have cost over €300 and being winter time, the car probably wouldn't be inclined to start when he'd be arriving back on Xmas eve.

By the time we realised he would need a bus, it was actually too late to get one.

I posted on boards to see did anyone have any ideas. I didn't expect any response really tbh, it was fairly late in the day.

Boards user twowheelsonly offered a place to park the car at his folks place near the airport and a lift in plenty of time for the flight.

Not only did he fulfil that promise, but he met my brother and the other two that were with him on the north side of the city and directed him away from the early morning traffic, before heading off for work himself.

twowheelsonly's folks kept the car in a garage AND kept the car warmed up while they were away and none of them would accept anything in return when the lads came back. I think they managed to leave some bottles before tearing off in the car!

For every stingy fcuker like some on this thread, hopefully there's at least one like twowheelsonly and his aul' pair. Unfortunately this type of hospitality or whatever you want to call it isn't anywhere near as common as it should be.

bayern282

Dutch are unbelievable, they think it's a badge of honour to be stingy, gierig is their term for it, the Belgians loathe this quality in them.

clouds

gerryo777 wrote: »

Once worked for a builder and my exact wages after tax was £99.98 and that's exactly what he paid me, wouldn't even round it up to the £100 mark.

I used to do payroll for a builder and if he keeps proper accounts it's much much less hassle just to pay the correct amount. It doesn't matter if it's 2 cents or e200 of a difference, you have to do write offs and journals and all that to make your books balance, same as if he rounded down by 2 cents.

It would cost way more than 2cents of a bookkeepers time to correct an over/underpayment of 2cents, if you follow me. So he's not necessarily motivated by stinginess - I'd not rule it out of course.:D

Cedrus

Looong time ago I was working in a golf club, Bank Manager comes in with his missus and 3 kids. He ordered a pint and a small one for himself, a G+T for the missus and 2 oranges between the 3 kids. The eldest kid (14ish) instantly got up, ordered his own coke and paid himself. The *anker just laughed it off.

Northern Monkey

Not a friend of mine, but the best one I heard was on FM104 last year where there was a competition to win a ski holiday and the question was the same as this thread. One chap called/text in about how his brother used to get a pizza every Sunday and would always ask him if he wanted one (he usually did) The brother would then phone up and order and then get the money of him and go collect the pizza. One week the brother who normally ordered wasn’t in the house and the other chap decided to buy a pizza for himself anyway, so he phoned up to order. Once he ordered, the person in the pizza shop said, its buy one get one free on a Sunday night, what other pizza do you want?

He ended up winning the ski holiday as a result of it!

juan.kerr

Northern Monkey wrote: »

Not a friend of mine, but the best one I heard was on FM104 last year where there was a competition to win a ski holiday and the question was the same as this thread. One chap called/text in about how his brother used to get a pizza every Sunday and would always ask him if he wanted one (he usually did) The brother would then phone up and order and then get the money of him and go collect the pizza. One week the brother who normally ordered wasn’t in the house and the other chap decided to buy a pizza for himself anyway, so he phoned up to order. Once he ordered, the person in the pizza shop said, its buy one get one free on a Sunday night, what other pizza do you want?

He ended up winning the ski holiday as a result of it!

I think it's probably okay to be scabby with siblings and parents.

hypermuse

juan.kerr wrote: »

I think it's probably okay to be scabby with siblings and parents.

I'm gonna guess your either the baby of the family or an only child!!

Bottle_of_Smoke

juan.kerr wrote: »

I think it's probably okay to be scabby with siblings and parents.

That wasn't just scabby. That was getting his brother to pay for his pizza every week!

weeder

i know a guy, needed a book for college that was around 25 euro and 500 pages, what does he do only get a new ink cartridge and print out the book!

Hal Emmerich

weeder wrote: »

i know a guy, needed a book for college that was around 25 euro and 500 pages, what does he do only get a new ink cartridge and print out the book!

Hmm, would have saved €15.

Not bad!

civis_liberalis

Housemate tries to make grilled cheese by turning the toaster on its side. No prizes for guessing what happened.

He didn't replace it and none of us did either as we're not that bothered (I'm not anyway). Then a note appears on fridge saying everybody should chip in for a sandwich toaster because "everybody" using the oven instead isn't fair on the rest who don't.

It would probably be a couple of euro each so I don't give a damn, I might just make a point of picking one up myself, by I found it funny that the idiot I told not to turn the toaster sideways did it anyways, breaking it in the process and now is seemingly annoyed at having to use the oven for toast... and wants us to pay for a replacement.

Anyway, we never had a sandwich toaster in the first place, it was just a toaster.

An argos catalogue page was ripped out and pinned to the note on the fridge with a €65 sandwich toaster circled for our convenience...

I just thought that the thought-process there was quite funny.

massdebater

civis_liberalis wrote: »

Housemate tries to make grilled cheese by turning the toaster on its side. No prizes for guessing what happened.

He didn't replace it and none of us did either as we're not that bothered (I'm not anyway). Then a note appears on fridge saying everybody should chip in for a sandwich toaster because "everybody" using the oven instead isn't fair on the rest who don't.

It would probably be a couple of euro each so I don't give a damn, I might just make a point of picking one up myself, by I found it funny that the idiot I told not to turn the toaster sideways did it anyways, breaking it in the process and now is seemingly annoyed at having to use the oven for toast... and wants us to pay for a replacement.

Anyway, we never had a sandwich toaster in the first place, it was just a toaster.

An argos catalogue page was ripped out and pinned to the note on the fridge with a €65 sandwich toaster circled for our convenience...

I just thought that the thought-process there was quite funny.

Sounds like your housemate got his idea from YLYL. Be careful what you say about him because he's probably reading this too!

I really can't understand why so many people willingly associate with some of the people they have posted about here. You'd think that common sense would dictate that after experiencing one or two incidents of stinginess involving the same person that you would stop associating with them. Why invite someone to a meal out when you know that they will either abuse the groups decision to evenly split the cost or quibble over a few cents when each pays for what they eat/drank.

I've known some stingy people but once I become aware of their habits and recognize that it's a constant with them I just don't bother socializing with them unless absolutely necessary. Why put yourself through the annoyance of spending time with someone you don't like and will try to abuse any generosity you show them?

civis_liberalis

I agree for the most part, but despite our best efforts sometimes we get stuck in the company of these people. Maybe you have a group of friends or family that you really enjoy visiting/socialising with and but one person from the group is one of these stingy so and so's... do you give everybody a swerve because of that?

I have been stung by people like that in the past, having been made look like the bad guy when I don't want to associate with then or refuse to be scabbed off in the presence of others.

I'd agree that in a lot of cases though, these people are avoidable.