MilesMorales1 wrote: I went to a Wetherspoons for something to eat with two of my friends recently, me and one of my mates ordered a steak and chips (each) and some onion rings to share. Friend 2 said he wasn't hungry, but ate most of the onion rings, asked us to save him some steak, and helped himself to our chips too.
WHIP IT! wrote: » He would have had to prize the steak from my cold, dead hands...
MilesMorales1 wrote: » I went to a Wetherspoons for something to eat with two of my friends recently, me and one of my mates ordered a steak and chips (each) and some onion rings to share. Friend 2 said he wasn't hungry, but ate most of the onion rings, asked us to save him some steak, and helped himself to our chips too.
Gwynplaine wrote: » Lesson learned. Don't invite him to anything ever again.
Gwynplaine wrote: » Lesson learned. Don't invite him to anything ever again. I know a family who when doing the shopping goes to at least 3 different supermarkets. Scans the lidl and Aldi brochure every week for the few bargains. Most of the afternoon is gone from travelling to each of the supermarkets to buy things they don't need. My mother told me, "it's not a bargain if you don't need it" But these people will buy ceiling paint in Woodies when it's the end of the line and are selling it for 25% of original price. The paint is never used. I've seen their shed. Full of "bargains" they'll never need or use. Then they buy tomatoes and spuds in Aldi, mince and apples in Lidl, go to Dunnes to buy fruit and meat, and go to supervalu on the way home for dog food and bin bags.
ButtersSuki wrote: » ....and likely spend €20 more on petrol/diesel than they need to negating any saving made.
bucketybuck wrote: » And before anybody asks, no it wasn't the actions of a desperately hungry but skint young woman. She just had meanness in her bones, I saw more and more examples of it the longer I knew her.
frag420 wrote: » Stop stinging on the stinge, out with it!!
missmatty wrote: » A friend of mine is a notorious stinge who wouldn't drink if he was buying it himself, or would often just order starters and the like. I nearly lamped him once on holiday when we were out for dinner. I ordered a half bottle of wine just for myself as he 'doesn't drink', and he helped himself to a glass of it. Which is half the bottle. I was raging the way other people are when someone helps themselves to their chips or steak :mad: Anyway he bought his first gaff last year in once of the most exclusive parts of the city so all his stingeing must have paid off!
pawdee wrote: » I know a guy who took his kids to see Santa's grave.
pawdee wrote: » When a stingy guy I know had a heart attack in his late 40s I remarked that "he wasn't overweight, he didn't smoke and....." before I could finish someone butted in and said "and he only drank what was bought for him". And it was true. Same fella still has his communion money I'd say.
PeterParker957 wrote: » I once bought a relative headed stationery as she wrote lots of letters. 8 months later on my birthday - guess what my present was ???
Birneybau wrote: » PeterParker957 wrote: » I once bought a relative headed stationery as she wrote lots of letters. 8 months later on my birthday - guess what my present was ??? A new Spidey suit?
pgj2015 wrote: » I met an old school mate a couple of years ago on the street, had not seen him in years, we got chatting, we decided we would go for a drink, got to the pub, and both of us at the counter, I said what are you having? a pint he said, ok, so i bought a pint for him and a coke for me, as I was driving. he finished his pint, and was looking at me as if to say I will have another one, obviously I didn't go near the bar, we chatted for another couple of hours, in which time he drank another 4 pints, never offered to buy me back a drink. he rang me a few times after this day, looking to meet up for pints etc i always had an excuse ready. no chance im hanging around with a scrooge like him.
suicide_circus wrote: » yes but no one will visit the tight fisted git at his plush address
WHIP IT! wrote: » Incredible... I'm at a stage in life now where, not that I would have caused a scene - I wouldn't - but, before I left, I would have had to say "Do you really think it's appropriate to sit in someone's company like this and not reciprocate after they've bought you a beer?" People like that should be told...
WHIP IT! wrote: » Reminds me of a Scottish chap who once worked with a mate of mine in said mate's father's business. He was a bit of craic etc but unfortunately endorsed some of the sterotypes that abound about his countrymen - ie, he was tighter's than a duck's a*se... At a pal of mine's 21st birthday, I was there with my GF and we had just found out she was pregnant. I didn't know this chap too well but he came over to have a chat and we did - he could be a laugh, not the worst company in general. He asked my GF why she wasn't drinking and we explained that she was pregnant etc. He insisted on buying us a drink, which was a tiny bit awkward as I didn't know him so well but he did and we said thanks very much and off he went... only to return about 20 minutes later to, somewhat aggressively, tell me it was "my round"... for the sake of an easy life, got him and a pint and he seemed to calm down from his agitated state. Another occasion, another birthday night out, he insisted we all go back to his for a late drink. He lived in a tiny place so it wasn't a thrilling prospect, but a gang of us did. He then produced a tray of cheap beer (not that we were at all the fussy types) and there was enough for a can or two for everyone... only for him to, as you can probably guess, then individually badger every single person - again, somewhat aggressively - into giving him €2 for the beers... made himself a profit no doubt the miserable b*stard!
chewed wrote: » What was his name? Rob C Nesbitt?
