Kyle More wrote: » I'm not so sure if you'd call this stingy or just plain cunning, but here you go: I visited my friend in the UK recently and any time we went out during the day he would insist on paying for 'the small stuff' as we shall refer to it (cup of coffee, slice of cake etc). Then when the evening came and we went out for dinner, he would order a starter, main course, dessert and he even treated himself to a bottle of wine on one such outing. Then when the bill came, his response was 'I assume you're getting this since I paid last time'. Last time? For a cup of coffee vs a full three course dinner? I wasn't there long enough to raise the issue, but just long enough to notice the pattern emerging.
Hector Savage wrote: » People like this ^^ Is it a mental illness ?
suicide_circus wrote: » Basically yes. They are miserable grasping people who can never really be happy and who are shunned and laughed at by the rest of society. They have money but cant actually enjoy it.
job seeker wrote: » Well ya. When I first started working with him I was happy to help out! I'd never see someone stuck. because I may be in that situation some day. But I stop these things after a while when I find out more about the person. If there are just take advantage of people or if they are will to pay someone back for helping you out. My coworker was just a pric* who just took advantage of people. So that's why I stopped it. However, I wouldn't mind about the time, but if someone isn't willing to at least pay me back. I'm not gonna bother with them anymore..
fancy pigeon wrote: » It's a sad reality but there are plenty out there ready to be vultures on those who are kind to them. Many years ago I remember driving to a fellow I used to know in the Curragh... What was meant to be a visit for a chat and yip-yap (I'd the complimentary biscuits and all, set for a good yap) turned into me playing taxi to do their errands, thus they were saving on their own petrol (the sly bastard said sure lets go for a spin then landed this hatload of errands on me) going to several different places in the process. Bigger fool I was to agree To top it all off we ended up going to Subway in nawwwwbridge, where he politely asked me could he get a sub. I wasn't hungry but not to seem rude I decided to get something. Then he says he has no money... Foolishly I said I'd get this and he get the next one (never did, wouldn't you know...), he asks sheepishly could he get a drink to which I said yes. Turns to the cashier and says "Make it a large one and a cookie too please" This was an eye opener to what kind of degenerated, greedy, self centered wannabe hipster this chap was, and probably still is. Ostracized themselves over the coming weeks and months when they tried the same busload of crap on those that he saw as personal cash machines, not friends, all while trying to live in their perfect fantasy land
Bo Refined Snakebite wrote: » knew someone who would be watching every thing you'd buy like book then in a couple months want to borrow it. I once said to him i had got a cheap 8gig usb key and he wanted me to download a youtube to my pc on my download allowance, copy to new usb - i had not even used it-and give the new unused usb to him to copy to his pc. I was at a launch of a lady who published a book of poems. i bought one to support her effort even thought i am not into poetry. A couple of months later he wanted to borrow it even though he was at the launch and could have bought. That is what i mean by watching what you buy. he keeps a mental note of everything you would say for future reference borrowing. before i stopped hanging around with him i just stopped telling him anything i bought. once he was trying to get me to buy books so he could borrow them and he would be picking up one cent coins in the street
Mr.Wemmick wrote: » This is also true of people who listen to everything you say, only to you to find that they are using your anecdotes, jokes, facts/info to talk to people and brazenly do so right in front of you whenever you're out with them. It's like they have no ability of their own, or just plain lazy, and ride on your coat tails for everything.. at first you're just confused when it happens, wondering if you had heard the story from them rather than the other way round.. a real mind f***. And they remember every tiny detail of where you go and what you say, creepy. I have noticed a couple of people do this to varying degrees over the years. Now, at the first sign of anything like that, I'm out of there.
Mr.Wemmick wrote: I remember a girl in Uni, really got on my goat
jcd5971 wrote: » You dirty dog....... :-)
Mr.Wemmick wrote: » I remember a girl in Uni, really got on my goat at the time because I was young, polite and didn't quite know how to be assertive. If it happened now, haha, I'd tell her or anyone without batting an eye where to go.. more difficult then of course. She was doing research for her dissertation and went on and on about it, ad nauseam, like no one else had ever written anything before. Her parents had given her a lot of cash to fly to Europe as part of her history research and she was saving up the last amount herself to increase her spending money while there. Anyway, she began to help herself to the end of our cigs/roll ups, some of our drink.. finish a sandwich, call in when dinner was being cooked etc. But she was very subtle and cute about it, so got away without anyone fully noticing.. that is, until she started to ask people outright for stuff. One day she asked me in front of a crowd of people for a cigarette. I had only 2 left from a treat to myself pack as normally could only afford rollies so I told her that as a no. She then asked, looking dumbfounded at me: "But can you not buy more if you've only 2 left?" I muttered something or other still not agreeing to her cadging my last fag.. she then turned on me, got angry and gave off ****e saying I can well afford to give her fags as I work in a bar on weekends and have money. We all looked at her stunned - those of of us who worked while at Uni was so we could eat, go out and not be completely skint. She, otoh, didn't have to work as parents were wealthy.. clearly some people live on a different planet thinking the rest of us exist purely for their benefit. Anyhow.. that was the day I learnt to say F*** off rather eloquently, I have always thought.
job seeker wrote: » I done a catering course in Leitrim about 6 years ago and one such fellow who also done the course was a farmer! He was about mid 60's and wore **** stained slacks, tied with a baler twine keeping them up! A ripped jacket and a paddy cap! So, one day he arrived into the course late, holding an empty petrol can and explains to the course administrator that his car ran out of petrol 6 miles away and had to thumb for a lift.
check_six wrote: » A stingy farmer using a petrol engined car? Seems like he's missed a trick there with the aul' agricultural diesel.
job seeker wrote: » Out of the whole story THAT'S what you take from it!? :pac: Ano, he had a 97 1 litre opel corsa! He didn't have a large farm and because his brother had a tractor, he got the bother to do all the tractor work for free... Oh ya, that's another thing!!
job seeker wrote: » A few days later, when everyone was going home. I was talking to this same fella, we were the last two to leave. Then I started my car and he walked over to his. His car, it wouldn't start! :rolleyes: I started to drive off in my car slowly and noticed that he was running after me. :eek: So I thought "Not gonna happen mate!" and stood on the accelerator! With the tyres screeching like mad I continued to drive home.. So, yes, I left him there but felt awful for doing that! Fast forward two years, I was up in Killybegs enrolling in my college course. I walked into the computer room and there he was sitting on the computer reading the farmer's Journal online. :rolleyes:
Hector Bellend wrote: » I was at the match in Copenhagen. As you might imagine there was a fair amount of drinking done. I noticed that there was a really well dressed guy going through the bins regularly and he was taking empty cans out. I reckon he was collecting them for money. There was no reason for him to be rooting in the bins, he didn't look homeless or anything. If anything he looked really wealthy
artanevilla wrote: » You don't get wealthy by throwing you cans away sure.
SB_Part2 wrote: » Lived with a girl once who was using my Netflix account religiously every night. Raved about House of Cards (and most of the other Netflix's only shows). Always came home and sat down on the couch and watched something on Netflix for 3-4 hours every night. Both my BF and I had accounts and he said there was no point in us both paying so I closed my account. Housemate signed up for the free month of Netflix and then said she was cancelling it as 'It wasn't worth the money'. So it was brilliant when she wasn't paying for it but when she had to pay for it herself it wasn't worth it.
Hector Bellend wrote: » Years ago I was at a wedding. One of our fellow guests was a well known shop owner. What he did was take the hotels unused newspapers and cut the tops of them so he could collect the money on them. People still talk about it to this day.
pilly wrote: » I used to live in a bedsit in Dublin City and there was a lad next door who never came out except to ask me for a "loan" of a cigarette until Thursday. Needless to say I never seen him on a Thursday. God love him though, I didn't really begrudge him. On the other hand, my daughters friend sometimes uses my Netflix and when the 2 of them are logged in I can't get in so I'll give my daughter a shout to tell her friend to get off and she logs herself out rather than ask the friend to log out cause she'll "freak out". :eek:
