'Honesty' water - do you pay?

kweeveen86

Every time I'm in Dublin airport, I get a great little buzz out of picking up a couple of bottles of 'honesty' water and putting in a 1 cent coin, just so that there's the tell-tale, signatute sound of a payment being made...but I get a 99.5% discount.

My girlfriend, on the other hand, is very honest and conscientious and would always pay full price - even if there was nobody anywhere nearby to see her just take the bottle.

What are people's thoughts on this? What percentage of people are immoral and unscrupulous like me?! :-)

Schnooks

kweeveen86 wrote: »

Every time I'm in Dublin airport, I get a great little buzz out of picking up a couple of bottles of 'honesty' water and putting in a 1 cent coin, just so that there's the tell-tale, signatute sound of a payment being made...but I get a 99.5% discount.

My girlfriend, on the other hand, is very honest and conscientious and would always pay full price - even if there was nobody anywhere nearby to see her just take the bottle.

What are people's thoughts on this? What percentage of people are immoral and unscrupulous like me?! :-)

You're a skanger for doing that. And you probably don't take your tray up to the bin either after you finish eating. Badly reared, well done to your parents!

BohsCeltic

And back to subject, I always pay the correct amount because i'm honest.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Apparently, while something like 94% of us pay in Dublin Airport, many overpay and the average paid overall is just short of €1.25 for the €1 bottle.

Anybody who deliberately doesn't pay is a tight fisted buffoon. I can accept somebody perhaps had no change but deliberately not paying is low.

Pawwed Rig

There are water fountains in Dublin airport. Why would anyone buy it?

Or am I mixing it up with another airport??

TheMilkyPirate

It's a euro ffs of course I pay it.

Phileas Frog

Schnooks wrote: »

You're a skanger for doing that. And you probably don't take your tray up to the bin either after you finish eating. Badly reared, well done to your parents!

Most places don't want you to bring the tray up anymore, they do it themselves and implement waste segregation

Timberrrrrrrr

I pay full price because I'm not a thief.

theteal

Where I live in the Essex wilderness, we're surrounded by farms and all that rural stuff on all sides of the town. I know quite a few of these farms that leave fresh eggs out at the side of the road with an honesty box in accompaniment. Stall it over OP, you'd make a killing. Personally I'm one of those shmucks who'd never dream of not paying for such.

gifted

I think the answer is somewhere in the Honesty word.....

enricoh

Nah, costs them no more than 10c a bottle - i give em 20.
Small farmer selling eggs as someone said adifferent story

Always Tired

It would take most people a lot more effort to find a 1c coin than a euro coin. It's probably the least likely coin to find in any man's pocket. In fact, there being phased out al along with 2c coins and many businesses are already rounding to 5 so you're discount is going to take a hit soon. And I'd say in the future when your woman leaves you, she'll point back to your water thieving ways and say, "I should have known."

Collie D

Always Tired wrote: »

It would take most people a lot more effort to find a 1c coin than a euro coin. It's probably the least likely coin to find in any man's pocket. In fact, there being phased out al along with 2c coins and many businesses are already rounding to 5 so you're discount is going to take a hit soon. And I'd say in the future when your woman leaves you, she'll point back to your water thieving ways and say, "I should have known."

If he’s getting a 99.5% discount on a €1 bottle of water he’s actually paying with an even rarer coin.

OP - Pay the €1, ya miser. You’ve probably spent hundreds on the holiday. You can afford it.

anewme

kweeveen86 wrote: »

Every time I'm in Dublin airport, I get a great little buzz out of picking up a couple of bottles of 'honesty' water and putting in a 1 cent coin,

Getting a great little buzz out of being a thief?

They say little amuses the simple.

Surprised you have a girlfrind either- nothing worse than a person with no integrity.

Friend of mine keeps rescue hens and puts the eggs out in an honesty box.

bucketybuck

If the honesty box was in the middle of the gobi desert and the chances of getting caught were zero, I would still pay the price. I don't pay the euro because I am afraid of getting caught, I pay it because my own integrity is important to me. The OP clearly doesn't value such things.

Murt10

Schnooks wrote: »

You probably don't take your tray up to the bin either after you finish eating. Badly reared, well done to your parents!

Why on earth would I clear the table, and bring the left overs to the bin, after I have finished a meal. I don't work there. Maybe you'd like me to go into the kitchen and russell up a meal, while I'm there. Maybe, I'll also stick a brush up my arse so that I can sweep the floor as I walk about.

Seriously though, why would I steal some persons job from them by doing it unpaid. It's not as if the owners are exactly giving away the food in fast food restaurants. They're charging top dollar.

With regard to the water bottles. Of course I pay. To do otherwise, would make me a thief. If I wasn't able to pay for a bottle of water, then I wouldn't just steal it. I'd do without.

If I was thirsty enough to steal, I'd go into one of the shops and steal a nice cold fizzy drink (the most expensive I could find) from the fridge. I certainly wouldn't steal some flat tepid tap water in a plastic bottle.

jim o doom

Murt10 wrote: »

Why on earth would I clear the table, and bring the left overs to the bin, after I have finished a meal.

To not be a complete ignoramus leaving a mess behind that you created?

I clear the table after food, and I pay the euro.

Sky King

kweeveen86 wrote: »

Every time I'm in Dublin airport, I get a great little buzz out of picking up a couple of bottles of 'honesty' water and putting in a 1 cent coin, just so that there's the tell-tale, signatute sound of a payment being made...but I get a 99.5% discount.

My girlfriend, on the other hand, is very honest and conscientious and would always pay full price - even if there was nobody anywhere nearby to see her just take the bottle.

What are people's thoughts on this? What percentage of people are immoral and unscrupulous like me?! :-)

And if you slip and fall you get free money as well! Even if you're not hurt!

And the best part is for all of these things, there's no victim!

riffmongous

I pay because I'm grateful that now I only have to pay a euro instead of getting gouged in some shop there

FluffyTowel

kweeveen86 wrote: »

Every time I'm in Dublin airport, I get a great little buzz out of picking up a couple of bottles of 'honesty' water and putting in a 1 cent coin, just so that there's the tell-tale, signatute sound of a payment being made...but I get a 99.5% discount.

My girlfriend, on the other hand, is very honest and conscientious and would always pay full price - even if there was nobody anywhere nearby to see her just take the bottle.

What are people's thoughts on this? What percentage of people are immoral and unscrupulous like me?! :-)

Don’t particularly believe it, but if that’s how you get your buzz, it’s a bit sad. The honesty water is cheap compared to the over inflated prices for most water that you buy after security controls. It’s convenient and quick. And it’s somebody’s business.

I don’t understand how somebody would get their pleasure from screwing other people over. Like those fake insurance claims.

Life is nicer if you consider other people and don’t get so petty.

Former Observer

I give as much as 50 cent as that's what I feel it's worth. Sometimes I'll take two for that cost though. I took a packet of crisps last time too.

Edgware

jim o doom wrote: »

To not be a complete ignoramus leaving a mess behind that you created?

I clear the table after food, and I pay the euro.

If I didnt do it they have to employ someone. Job creation, what wrong with that?
Where would northside Dubs get jobs otherwise?

whisky_galore

enricoh wrote: »

Nah, costs them no more than 10c a bottle - i give em 20.
Small farmer selling eggs as someone said adifferent story

Stealing is still stealing.

suicide_circus

Julio Salmon Batter wrote: »

Apparently, while something like 94% of us pay in Dublin Airport, many overpay and the average paid overall is just short of €1.25 for the €1 bottle.

i was told by a girl who works in the duty free that those stats released by daa are false. payment is around 65pc.

Edgware

suicide_circus wrote: »

i was told by a girl who works in the duty free that those stats released by daa are false. payment is around 65pc.

Are you Enda Kenny?

suicide_circus

Edgware wrote: »

Are you Enda Kenny?

nope

Effects

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

There are water fountains in Dublin airport. Why would anyone buy it?

They buy it so they can bring it onto the plane.

irish_goat

I never buy them because I don't want room temperature water when there's cold water for sale a few doors down.

Would pay the €1 if I was going to take one though.

D3V!L

Where are you getting the 1c from ?? They've been out of circulation for a while now.

Pawwed Rig

jim o doom wrote: »

I clear the table after food,

At what standard of restaurant does this stop?

KFC - Bring to bins?
Eddie Rockets - would you bring all the stuff to the counter?
TGI Friday? Is there anywhere to leave the dishes?
Rolys Bistro Refuse to allow waiters to clear your table?

Funnily enough I have never seen a notice up in any restaurant outside of a work canteen asking people to clear their table. Now I rarely do fast food but pop into KFC the odd time and the place seems adequately staffed to manage the few customers that are there. More so than the average restaurant where waiters are often rushed off their feet.

Chancer3001

I've never paid and I never will.

Free water innit.

Now it's in cans instead of bottles tho.

paddydriver

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

There are water fountains in Dublin airport. Why would anyone buy it?

Or am I mixing it up with another airport??

My daughter had every water fountain in Dublin Airport mapped out before we left on holidays.. she couldn't understand why I took €2 from car ashtray when leaving it at car park.. Cause I wanted to be honest and get my 2 bottles of water once thru security and not have to watch her looking for the water fountains... of course she still went and found them, even though she arrived to departure gate 10 mins after rest of us.

OP is trolling.. but agree that it take a special type of skinflint skanger to think to drop 1c in just to hear the money drop.

If you get a buzz out of it, then you’re a piece of filth I’d spit in the face of, and find more value in the spit than you.

the beer revolu

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If you get a buzz out of it, then you’re a piece of filth I’d spit in the face of, and find more value in the spit than you.

Say what you really feel!

Pawwed Rig

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If you get a buzz out of it, then you’re a piece of filth I’d spit in the face of, and find more value in the spit than you.

Spitting on someone's face is a bit scummier than taking a bottle of water to be fair.

bucketybuck

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Spitting on someone's face is a bit scummier than taking a bottle of water to be fair.

They wanted water, give them some water.

Shlippery

I'm telling ya €1 Honesty Water in Dublin is much better than a feckin bottle of water in Frankfurt Airport..about €4.50 for a bottle of water in the shops there. Lunacy.

enricoh

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If you get a buzz out of it, then you’re a piece of filth I’d spit in the face of, and find more value in the spit than you.

Why not just shoot him instead, he'll defo never do it again.

o1s1n

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

At what standard of restaurant does this stop?

KFC - Bring to bins?
Eddie Rockets - would you bring all the stuff to the counter?
TGI Friday? Is there anywhere to leave the dishes?
Rolys Bistro Refuse to allow waiters to clear your table?

Funnily enough I have never seen a notice up in any restaurant outside of a work canteen asking people to clear their table. Now I rarely do fast food but pop into KFC the odd time and the place seems adequately staffed to manage the few customers that are there. More so than the average restaurant where waiters are often rushed off their feet.

I think in the likes of Burger King, KFC and their ilk, the amount of time it takes to pick your tray up and place the contents in the bin on the way out is so minimal, it seems lazy not to do it.

It's more like just leaving a pile of rubbish behind. Bit different than plates having to be returned to a counter etc.

whisky_galore

o1s1n wrote: »

I think in the likes of Burger King, KFC and their ilk, the amount of time it takes to pick your tray up and place the contents in the bin on the way out is so minimal, it seems lazy not to do it.

It's more like just leaving a pile of rubbish behind. Bit different than plates having to be returned to a counter etc.

It's people that leave a pile of crap on the table behind them are often the very same people as the ones leaving the pile of crap behind them at the beach or campsite because shur it's someone's job to pick it up.

Ken Tucky

Shlippery wrote: »

I'm telling ya €1 Honesty Water in Dublin is much better than a feckin bottle of water in Frankfurt Airport..about €4.50 for a bottle of water in the shops there. Lunacy.

Yep, i agree.
One thing we get right here is a cheap bottle of water for people getting flights.
Prices in European airports are a total piss take so yeah, pay for it.

Wouldn't like to see it go because of a few tools tbh!

Pinch Flat

kweeveen86 wrote: »

Every time I'm in Dublin airport, I get a great little buzz out of picking up a couple of bottles of 'honesty' water and putting in a 1 cent coin, just so that there's the tell-tale, signatute sound of a payment being made...but I get a 99.5% discount.

My girlfriend, on the other hand, is very honest and conscientious and would always pay full price - even if there was nobody anywhere nearby to see her just take the bottle.

What are people's thoughts on this? What percentage of people are immoral and unscrupulous like me?! :-)

Well done OP. When I turn up some day thirsty and there’s no water there, well I’ll know the reason why

jaykay74

In Stockholm the cheapest water you'll get past security is the equivalent of 2.50 euro. Always gladly pay a quid when passing through Dublin.

Ragnar Lothbrok

OP, why even pay 1c for a bottle? Surely the buzz would be even greater if you waited for an elderly or handicapped person to buy one, then simply stroll over and snatch it out of their hands?

Currently, you're actually wasting €1 for every 100 flights you take, and therefore I have no respect for you :rolleyes:

ThunbergsAreGo

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

There are water fountains in Dublin airport. Why would anyone buy it?

Or am I mixing it up with another airport??

I do it mostly to get a bottle for the flight - always pay

quokula

o1s1n wrote: »

I think in the likes of Burger King, KFC and their ilk, the amount of time it takes to pick your tray up and place the contents in the bin on the way out is so minimal, it seems lazy not to do it.

It's more like just leaving a pile of rubbish behind. Bit different than plates having to be returned to a counter etc.

As a teenager working in a pub (which is different to fast food I know), the boss used to tell us off if any customer brought their own empties to the counter because it meant we weren't quick enough. In any case, the idea of begrudging a customer for leaving a table dirty never crossed my mind.

So I've always been in two minds about whether to do it in fast food places. Plus I'd say it's a matter of hygiene rather than laziness - why put your hands all over the grubby bin before going outside, when there's staff with gloves on who can do it? And if the staff clear the table, they will wipe it down too, whereas you can easily end up sitting at a table that's not as clean because a customer took away the bulky stuff and it never got disinfected.

Pawwed Rig

o1s1n wrote: »

I think in the likes of Burger King, KFC and their ilk, the amount of time it takes to pick your tray up and place the contents in the bin on the way out is so minimal, it seems lazy not to do it.

It's more like just leaving a pile of rubbish behind. Bit different than plates having to be returned to a counter etc.

But why those ones and not Eddie Rockets for example. Where is the line? Also why do none of those places ask customers to clean up after themselves?
Is it actually an expectation of the company or is it just one of those things that some people do like thanking a bus driver?

Why would we do it? Is it because the food is cheap? Are we trying to keep costs down for McDonalds but don't give a crap about TGI Friday's?

Genuinely interested in the logic here given the strongly worded post that initiated this aside.

kweeveen86

kweeveen86 wrote: »

I’m a thief and shameless about it

Fixed your post, OP.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

bucketybuck wrote: »

If the honesty box was in the middle of the gobi desert and the chances of getting caught were zero, I would still pay the price. I don't pay the euro because I am afraid of getting caught, I pay it because my own integrity is important to me. The OP clearly doesn't value such things.

Yup. I like to pay my way. It’s a matter of pride.

Earthhorse

kweeveen86 wrote: »

Every time I'm in Dublin airport, I get a great little buzz out of picking up a couple of bottles of 'honesty' water and putting in a 1 cent coin, just so that there's the tell-tale, signatute sound of a payment being made...but I get a 99.5% discount.

My girlfriend, on the other hand, is very honest and conscientious and would always pay full price - even if there was nobody anywhere nearby to see her just take the bottle.

What are people's thoughts on this? What percentage of people are immoral and unscrupulous like me?! :-)

My thoughts are your girlfriend can do better.

hynesie08

I just throw whatever change I have in there and don't worry about it. Sometimes it's less than a euro, sometimes more, but going out of your way to short change them is a bit dickish....