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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do
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I posted before about this student who rented a room in my mam's house, Stinky. Used to wear the same clothes every day and never showered.
Anyway, one night, he's on the train home from college and the train broke down at Broombridge. He decides not to wait for it to be fixed, gets off and hops in a taxi. He gets home, my mam's away and he asked my sister to be reimbursed for his taxi. She laughed and said no, he comes up to my room (now, I'm a 19 year old student at the time, same as him) and he asks me to give him the 15 quid. His logic was that he was told the train service was reliable before he moved in when actually, it wasn't. I asked him why he didn't wait for the train to get restarted and he told me he assumed we'd have no problem paying his cab!
I don't think he understood the concept of renting and behaved more like an exchange-student during his stay.
Once, my mam asked him if he wanted anything ordered from Dominos pizza, as we were all getting it, he ordered a large pizza and 2 sides for himself. Fair enough, but when it arrived and my mam asked him for the money, he laughed and said 'haha, you're very funny', took his food and left. She didn't have to provide his food.
Another time, I was coming home late and asked him to give the left-overs of the stew (2 days old) to the dogs for their dinner. I came home and there was dog food cans empty on the counter. I said 'oh, did you forget to give them the leftovers?' 'No, sure I ate it myself'.0 -
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OK, an anti-stingy story first:
I was waiting at bus stop one Saturday night and there was a couple there too. We were waiting for about 25 minutes, and no sign of a bus, so the couple flagged down a taxi, asked me where I was going and told me to get in, "Sure there are only two of us and four seats". So in I get. Turns out they're from Glasgow, and apparently people share taxis all the time in Glasgow. Had great craic going into Dublin city. When we got to where I was going, I offered them a tenner (more than half the fare), but they insisted on not taking it cos, "Sure we'd have had to pay that anyway". The idea that Scottish people are scabby is so wrong...
Best stingy story I heard (from another boardsie), was about a farmer from the wilds of Wicklow who'd died without apparently any serious money to his name, and a grieving widow. In his will he gave details of a private bank account and asked for the entire contents of the account to be buried with him in the coffin. €500,000 :eek:
(The wife wrote him a cheque for €500,000 and put it in the coffin
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There's a couple I know who have a reputation for being mean. In their defence I've served them drinks a few times and they've usually given me a tip or bought me a drink, but some of the stories about them are quite unbelievable.
1) A friend of mine used to babysit for them for E7 a night. One night they only had a E10 note to pay her with. The next time she worked for them they only gave her E4.
(This makes me cringe)
2) The man in the relationship once bragged to my father that to save money, when he bought rounds he didn't get himself a drink! He was actually proud of this. (They're fairly well off btw. I could forgive someone who was broke and reluctantly roped into buying rounds for doing this.)
3) A friend of mine who drives a taxi brought them home once, they said they had no cash and they'd go into the house to get some. They never came out. :eek: He just drove off rather than face the embarrassment of knocking at the door.0 -
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I hate mean people.
Oh god I hate mean people. We had 2 relatives over from England for 5 days, not from my side or i'd clobber them hehe. Stayed in our comfy bed. I cooked brekky dins and waited on them like royals, Tea tea bikkies and more tea .-. fool i was and never again will they stay. We doing up the spare room i'll say every time so sorry piss off back to the B & B. They didnt treat us to a lowsy take away or meal out and never bought and small thing in appreciation before they left. Sure A bottle of wine, an apple pie which they enjoyed too and a brunch i got one day and rolos don't forgot them wooohooo oh they bought the food stuff for a currry one night and cooked that, it was lovely but what mean chancers there is in this world.
Who ever said the more money they have the meaner they are, that's 100% true, this lot proved that and have plenty of money but you see them ALWAYS skimping and struggling to part with a few pounds. It must give them an anxiety attack each time. They booked the cheapest flight over and had to get up at 3 in the morning to save a few pounds more oh god i'd rather pay extra and get a good sleep before i travel. The bridge is burnt anyway. They saved 300 on b n b and another 100 on food you think they would be more kinder and show it better, They said they had a lovely time and thanked me loads but usless that is, lucky i got that i suppose. It's not in some peoples nature that's all. Before theY stayed and they were alot kinder took us for a chinese and bought me a gift and i din't look after them half as well A cheap holiday they got but the last!!0 -
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I hate mean people.
Oh god I hate mean people. We had 2 relatives over from England for 5 days, not from my side or i'd clobber them hehe. Stayed in our comfy bed. I cooked brekky dins and waited on them like royals, Tea tea bikkies and more tea .-. fool i was and never again will they stay. We doing up the spare room i'll say every time so sorry piss off back to the B & B. They didnt treat us to a lowsy take away or meal out and never bought and small thing in appreciation before they left. Sure A bottle of wine, an apple pie which they enjoyed too and a brunch i got one day and rolos don't forgot them wooohooo oh they bought the food stuff for a currry one night and cooked that, it was lovely but what mean chancers there is in this world.
Who ever said the more money they have the meaner they are, that's 100% true, this lot proved that and have plenty of money but you see them ALWAYS skimping and struggling to part with a few pounds. It must give them an anxiety attack each time. They booked the cheapest flight over and had to get up at 3 in the morning to save a few pounds more oh god i'd rather pay extra and get a good sleep before i travel. The bridge is burnt anyway. They saved 300 on b n b and another 100 on food you think they would be more kinder and show it better, They said they had a lovely time and thanked me loads but usless that is, lucky i got that i suppose. It's not in some peoples nature that's all. Before theY stayed and they were alot kinder took us for a chinese and bought me a gift and i din't look after them half as well A cheap holiday they got but the last!!
Sweet Jesus, I pity them more than you!!!0 -
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So, aside from the bottle of wine, the apple pie, the brunch, the home-cooked curry and the packet of rolos, what have the British ever done for us!Oh god I hate mean people. We had 2 relatives over from England for 5 days, not from my side or i'd clobber them hehe. Stayed in our comfy bed. I cooked brekky dins and waited on them like royals, Tea tea bikkies and more tea .-. fool i was and never again will they stay. We doing up the spare room i'll say every time so sorry piss off back to the B & B. They didnt treat us to a lowsy take away or meal out and never bought and small thing in appreciation before they left. Sure A bottle of wine, an apple pie which they enjoyed too and a brunch i got one day and rolos don't forgot them wooohooo oh they bought the food stuff for a currry one night and cooked that, it was lovely but what mean chancers there is in this world.
Who ever said the more money they have the meaner they are, that's 100% true, this lot proved that and have plenty of money but you see them ALWAYS skimping and struggling to part with a few pounds. It must give them an anxiety attack each time. They booked the cheapest flight over and had to get up at 3 in the morning to save a few pounds more oh god i'd rather pay extra and get a good sleep before i travel. The bridge is burnt anyway. They saved 300 on b n b and another 100 on food you think they would be more kinder and show it better, They said they had a lovely time and thanked me loads but usless that is, lucky i got that i suppose. It's not in some peoples nature that's all. Before theY stayed and they were alot kinder took us for a chinese and bought me a gift and i din't look after them half as well A cheap holiday they got but the last!!0
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