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Robsweezie

I was told this about a distant relative - when offering someone a beer, he'd take the one beer and share it with them. He wouldn't give them their own. And if there was some leftover in their glass, he'd pour it back into the bottle/can it came from.

Actually, I'm just assuming he gave them a glass, as anyone would. I hope he didnt make them take a sup out of the one beer...

4Ad

I drove about 20 miles in total out of my way last night for my brothers friend on the way to a gig..I paid for the toll / tunnel in Limerick..got to the gig no offer of a drink...I avoided the toll on the way home...I knew it would annoy me more.. he hasnt much money but the annoying thing is he bought a ticket for a girl he was trying to 'befriend' ( she never showed)....last time I ever give him a lift..

ScrubsfanChris

benjamin d wrote: »

The teabag itself is approx 1c of the cost of the cup of tea. Definitely not the sellers who are the stinges in these situations.

Agree.
When I was in college a tea from the canteen was 1.90 but a cup of hot water was 20c + milk was free. Its a no brainer really

Red Kev

Mother of Jayzus.

I work in an office Mondays and Tuesdays on a contract as an advisor. I'm usually in at 7.00 as I can get a couple of hours to myself. About 6 of us on the project have coffee and a snack at 10.30 with an informal chat on the project and any issues.

So this guy pulls out a wrapped napkin and in it is half a portion of butter (I see him do this every day). He then uses it on the scone that he buys with the coffee every morning. He stretches the portion of butter to last two days as they cost 10c each.

The odd thing is the coffee and scone is about €3.50 together and you're allowed to bring your own food in there. Two of the other lads have flasks with them, so there's no stigma attached to bringing your own (I bring my own breakfast and lunch with me, but buy coffee as it's lovely here).

One of the other lads said the guy with the half portions of butter started doing this a year ago after they started charging for butter. They started charging for it as so many people were taking 5 or 6 portions, using 1 or 2 and talking the rest home.

It's odd, as he spends a tenner a day there easily, but finds the extra 10c for a decent portion of butter on the scone too much. The fact that he goes to the trouble of Wrapping it up in a tissue and storing it in his desk makes it worse. He's on about €75,000 pa as.well.

benjamin d

That reminds me actually; in the cafe I worked in on a university campus, generally one person would be making the coffees and someone else would be on the till. Occasionally the one person would be doing both if we were stretched.
These two admin biddies ordered two americanos from me and queued on up to pay. By the time they got to the till I was manning it and one of them says that's two brewed coffees. When I told her she had americanos (1.60 vs 1.30 for a brewed coffee) she tried to start a full on row at the till over it, stamping feet and raised voices, the whole thing. When I pointed out they were clearly americanos she tried to say the server got it wrong and she'd ordered brewed coffees.
Needless to say I wasn't taking being called a liar lying down and got in a bit of trouble with the manager afterwards!

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Red Kev wrote: »

Would ye not just give them the one cup between them, so they'd have to pay for the second cup?

'Oul wans....they're either stinge or they're like this.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk3ds-VFKBs

Oh sure that'd just be a whole other argument. And that's before we get on to the "Yes can I get four scones to takeaway [and therefore at a far lower price] please. Thanks. Actually, this has just popped into my head, sure I'll have a cup of tea while I'm here. Give me a plate and a knife and nine butters please".

It was the attitude that used annoy me like, how they'd act so affronted when charged for perfectly standard stuff as though they'd never heard of such a thing, and how they seemed to think that the member of staff they were talking to was personally responsible and doing it out of badness rather than to avoid getting told off. They'd always try and go for the really young members of staff too, the ones who'd not stand up to them. And God forbid the member of staff who told them no wasn't Irish or you'd get a Brucey-bonus racist ramble on top of things. I let people away with stuff in that job all the time as long as they weren't like that about it, it's a completely counterproductive approach.

I was long enough in the game by that time that I could spot them a mile off, you'd know from the second someone walked in if they were going to be an awkward chancery stingebag.

benjamin d

Field east wrote: »

I think that the tea trolley gent/ /lady on a train are issued with a specific number of tea cups and must charge €2 for each one. They then return €2 for each cup sold along with the cups not sold. A very simple accountability/ transparency system. This was relayed to me some time ago as I love a cup of weak tea - and being stingy I thought that I could get two teas for the price of one. Not possible said the lady as I have to account for all the cups so a cup of hot water will cost you €2.
Next time when on the train I will bring my own cup and ask her to fill it up

Makes sense to me. I used to work in a cafe that charged 30c for a cup of hot water and the whinging about it was unbelievable. The cups themselves were working out at 10-12c each before staff ever put water in them.

Field east

benjamin d wrote: »

The teabag itself is approx 1c of the cost of the cup of tea. Definitely not the sellers who are the stinges in these situations.

I think that the tea trolley gent/ /lady on a train are issued with a specific number of tea cups and must charge €2 for each one. They then return €2 for each cup sold along with the cups not sold. A very simple accountability/ transparency system. This was relayed to me some time ago as I love a cup of weak tea - and being stingy I thought that I could get two teas for the price of one. Not possible said the lady as I have to account for all the cups so a cup of hot water will cost you €2.
Next time when on the train I will bring my own cup and ask her to fill it up

benjamin d

westcoast66 wrote: »

I had to get the train up to Dublin a few weeks ago. It was off peak and full of pensioners. This aul one sitting beside me had brought her own teabag and wanted a cup of boiling water from the girl on the trolley. This was refused stating that €2 was the minimum charge. The aul one wouldn't pay it and went without. I don't know who was the worse stinge!

The teabag itself is approx 1c of the cost of the cup of tea. Definitely not the sellers who are the stinges in these situations.

Barry Badrinath

snubbleste wrote: »

I've decided that I'm not going into all the consumerist nonsense surrounding the forthcoming midwinter celebration.
I've been labelled stingy for telling people that I don't want gifts nor will I be buying any.

Am I being labelled wrongly?

Arent you the unofficial Bargain King of Boards?

Also, I know a guy who proudly claims he takes 6 normal small eggs from the carton and replaces them with 6 large organic eggs.

**** sake like.

Red Kev

Amanda Screeching Housewife wrote: »

A café I used to work at, a pot of tea for one was €1.80, and a pot of tea for We had one auld wan who we all knew to watch when she came in and not give an inch with that sort of stuff, she came in with her friend and tried the tea thing, wouldn't back down. Manager was in a bitch of a mood that day anyway so the two of them ended up arguing about the rather Jesuitical distinction between a pot of tea for two and a pot of tea for one plus hot water plus another teabag for AGES.

Would ye not just give them the one cup between them, so they'd have to pay for the second cup?

'Oul wans....they're either stinge or they're like this.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk3ds-VFKBs

suicide_circus

Birneybau wrote: »

The aul wan.

The auld one for sure. She's not even paying a fare to be on the train. This is why the old age pension has been so protected. You have old people who would literally rather die of hypothermia than heat their homes due to their commendable but ultimately over the top thrift and stoicism. So we couldn't reduce their basic pensions even by 1% during the height of the recession for fear there would be a mass self inflicted cull of the elderly.

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westcoast66 wrote: »

I had to get the train up to Dublin a few weeks ago. It was off peak and full of pensioners. This aul one sitting beside me had brought her own teabag and wanted a cup of boiling water from the girl on the trolley. This was refused stating that €2 was the minimum charge. The aul one wouldn't pay it and went without. I don't know who was the worse stinge!

A café I used to work at, a pot of tea for one was €1.80, and a pot of tea for two, unsurprisingly, was €3.60. The amount of auld wans who thought they'd found a loophole of 'can my friend and I have a pot of tea for one and a pot of hot water and an extra teabag, here's your €1.80' was mad.

I didn't really give much of a shít, I'd let people off with it unless there was a manager watching (very stingy company) or the customer was annoying me. We had one auld wan who we all knew to watch when she came in and not give an inch with that sort of stuff, she came in with her friend and tried the tea thing, wouldn't back down. Manager was in a bitch of a mood that day anyway so the two of them ended up arguing about the rather Jesuitical distinction between a pot of tea for two and a pot of tea for one plus hot water plus another teabag for AGES.

Birneybau

westcoast66 wrote: »

I had to get the train up to Dublin a few weeks ago. It was off peak and full of pensioners. This aul one sitting beside me had brought her own teabag and wanted a cup of boiling water from the girl on the trolley. This was refused stating that €2 was the minimum charge. The aul one wouldn't pay it and went without. I don't know who was the worse stinge!

The aul wan.

westcoast66

I had to get the train up to Dublin a few weeks ago. It was off peak and full of pensioners. This aul one sitting beside me had brought her own teabag and wanted a cup of boiling water from the girl on the trolley. This was refused stating that €2 was the minimum charge. The aul one wouldn't pay it and went without. I don't know who was the worse stinge!

Stonedpilot

ncmc wrote: »

There's a different between stinge and theft though, my mum is in her late 70's and is very thrifty as she grew up with nothing. She'd never in a million years steal candles or sweets from a charity box!

Guarantee you she didn't see it as theft. Perception is an amazing thing!.

ncmc

Depp wrote: »

you do notice it being very prevalent with the elderly alright, to be fair to them though a lot of them have lived through times when stinge was fairly necesery so I usually just let them away with it

There's a different between stinge and theft though, my mum is in her late 70's and is very thrifty as she grew up with nothing. She'd never in a million years steal candles or sweets from a charity box!

Stonedpilot

ncmc wrote: »

Oul ones seem to be the worst for the stinge, they seem to think their age gives them carte blanche to do what they want. We have one of those charity baskets in work where you can take sweets/crisps/chocolate and pop a euro in the box. Now a euro is actually really cheap for a bar of chocolate, you'd pay more in the shop. But the amount of people who just help themselves without paying is unreal. I've caught a few people doing it and it always seems to be older people. The box was €20 short last week, which I had to top up from petty cash as I felt so bad about it.

True that. Seen an oul one make a song and dance over having to pay .20c per page to print scans. She had several to do and would have came to the roughly €2 in total. Kept harping on about it in the library you'd swear they wanted €20, what was she printing?. Letters concerning the land she owned!.

Grayson

Depp wrote: »

you do notice it being very prevalent with the elderly alright, to be fair to them though a lot of them have lived through times when stinge was fairly necesery so I usually just let them away with it

And they might be broke now.

Depp

ncmc wrote: »

Oul ones seem to be the worst for the stinge, they seem to think their age gives them carte blanche to do what they want. We have one of those charity baskets in work where you can take sweets/crisps/chocolate and pop a euro in the box. Now a euro is actually really cheap for a bar of chocolate, you'd pay more in the shop. But the amount of people who just help themselves without paying is unreal. I've caught a few people doing it and it always seems to be older people. The box was €20 short last week, which I had to top up from petty cash as I felt so bad about it.

you do notice it being very prevalent with the elderly alright, to be fair to them though a lot of them have lived through times when stinge was fairly necesery so I usually just let them away with it

LirW

snubbleste wrote: »

I've decided that I'm not going into all the consumerist nonsense surrounding the forthcoming midwinter celebration.
I've been labelled stingy for telling people that I don't want gifts nor will I be buying any.

Am I being labelled wrongly?

I strongly hope you tip your fedora while telling people.

Stingemeister

snubbleste wrote: »

I've decided that I'm not going into all the consumerist nonsense surrounding the forthcoming midwinter celebration.
I've been labelled stingy for telling people that I don't want gifts nor will I be buying any.

Am I being labelled wrongly?

Midwinter?

Yes, they should have labelled you a kunt.

ncmc

Stonedpilot wrote: »

Seen an ould one (elderly lady) stealing the candles from a church today as I was praying. That's pretty stingy!.

Oul ones seem to be the worst for the stinge, they seem to think their age gives them carte blanche to do what they want. We have one of those charity baskets in work where you can take sweets/crisps/chocolate and pop a euro in the box. Now a euro is actually really cheap for a bar of chocolate, you'd pay more in the shop. But the amount of people who just help themselves without paying is unreal. I've caught a few people doing it and it always seems to be older people. The box was €20 short last week, which I had to top up from petty cash as I felt so bad about it.

ScrubsfanChris

Stonedpilot wrote: »

Seen an ould one (elderly lady) stealing the candles from a church today as I was praying. That's pretty stingy!.

Why buy when you can just steal and ask God for forgiveness :P

Stonedpilot

Seen an ould one (elderly lady) stealing the candles from a church today as I was praying. That's pretty stingy!.

Birneybau

sunnysoutheast wrote: »

A couple of weeks ago I was in a cafe queuing up to get a coffee. This middle-aged woman was in front of me and had ordered (bear in mind the prices are clearly displayed behind the counter) something like three paninis, three hot drinks, couple of scones, couple of juice cartons whatever it was the girl behind the counter rang it up and it came to "€23.60 please". Not at all unreasonable.

The wagon offered her a twenty note and said "I think twenty will be enough for that". The girl was speechless, and the owner (I think) quickly came over and said "That's the price, if you don't want to pay it please just leave". The old girl turned on her heel and walked out with her chin in the air, followed by the others. It didn't seem like the first time it had happened with that particular individual, but I don't know for sure.

Hyacunt Bouquet

Dodge

snubbleste wrote: »

I've decided that I'm not going into all the consumerist nonsense surrounding the forthcoming midwinter celebration.
I've been labelled stingy for telling people that I don't want gifts nor will I be buying any.

Am I being labelled wrongly?

It's one of many words that could describe you based on that paragraph

But seeing as it's nearly Christmas, enjoy yourself this 'midwinter'

quickbeam

snubbleste wrote: »

Am I being labelled wrongly?

Yes.

snubbleste

I've decided that I'm not going into all the consumerist nonsense surrounding the forthcoming midwinter celebration.
I've been labelled stingy for telling people that I don't want gifts nor will I be buying any.

Am I being labelled wrongly?

jca

Field east wrote: »

The battery energy used up in starting a car is restored to the battery- via the car's charging system- by the car being driven for , I understand, circa 25 miles. So if a taxi driver starts his car and drives his car for an average of ,say, 4 miles between each start he could be looking for a new battery every two to three years instead of every circa 10 years. So it makes perfect sence to up the average mileage between each start.
Also it's free exercise if done carefully

Buy a hybrid....