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WHIP IT! · 30-11-2017 10:41AM

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.

He would have had to prize the steak from my cold, dead hands...

WHIP IT! · 30-11-2017 10:41AM

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.

He would have had to prize the steak from my cold, dead hands...

jca · 30-11-2017 03:36PM

WHIP IT! wrote: »

He would have had to prize the steak from my cold, dead hands...

Ha ha!!

Mollyb60 · 05-12-2017 12:06PM

Have just heard from a friend who saw a guy in M&S yesterday hanging around the discount shelves when the staff member was discounting stuff that was going to expire.
This was his plan:
He grabbed as much discounted stuff as he could fit in his basket when it was initially discounted.
He then walked around the shop for a while until the next discounts were applied then took back all the stuff to the staff member so that they could mark the stuff down further. For the sake of 10 or 20p like. FFS.

Squall Leonhart · 05-12-2017 12:14PM

Our staff Christmas party is on this Friday night coming. We normally finish at 16:30 on a Friday afternoon. Staff who are going to the party are allowed finish at 15:30 this Friday to allow time to get home, clean up and head back out. The catch... the MD has circulated an e-mail saying that anyone availing of leaving the hour early on Friday must work an additional 15 minutes per day from Mon-Thu of this week to make up the hour.

I know workers are contracted to their hours... but come on.. the Scrooge-ness of that!

PeterParker957 · 05-12-2017 12:15PM

I once bought a relative headed stationery as she wrote lots of letters.

8 months later on my birthday - guess what my present was ???

Pyr0 · 05-12-2017 12:21PM

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.

Save you some steak?? What? I'd offer a chip and maybe even an onion ring but not a chance would they be getting any steak! Steaks are not exactly cheap when you're eating out so I'd be eating every bite of it myself!

kg703 · 05-12-2017 12:37PM

I was recently 30. I threw a party in my house, BYOB but I had plenty of drink, bought a couple of crates, had wine, spirits, provided food etc. One person turned up and brought 4 cans of Tuborg with them plus 4 cans to give to me as a birthday present. They drank their cans, someone elses prosecco, half the beer in the fridge, my wine and was opening and swigging from bottles of wine and gin at 6am and best of all - at the end of the night told me they asked could they take the four cans of Tuborg they had bought me for my birthday home with them for later. I said yes.

The time before I saw the person was the first time in a couple of years. We were at a bar and they said I'm buying everyone a round of shots, ordered them, we took them and then told us they had no money.

This is a consistent thing but I thought taking the four cans back was a pretty funny one.

Gwynplaine · 05-12-2017 12:59PM

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.

kg703 · 05-12-2017 01:02PM

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Lesson learned. Don't invite him to anything ever again.

Lesson learned indeed. Falls within a mutual group of friends so will see them again no doubt but won't be allowed in my house again. The amount drank also caused other problems, but that for another thread :rolleyes:

ButtersSuki · 05-12-2017 01:02PM

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.

....and likely spend €20 more on petrol/diesel than they need to negating any saving made.

Gwynplaine · 05-12-2017 01:19PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

....and likely spend €20 more on petrol/diesel than they need to negating any saving made.

Exactly. I remember one time the man in the family told be about the time the fuel was going cheap in the next town. He drove the 20+ miles to this town, filled up and drove home. He was delighted telling people this story. The petrol was about 3c a litre cheaper. I said to him "yeah but you had to do a 40 mile round trip to get it". It didn't click with him. Same fella hand delivers his Christmas cards when possible, sometimes could be a 10 mile journey. Oh and the Christmas cards are used, tipex over what was originally on them. This fella thinks we're all fools because we don't use his great money saving ideas (which are actually costing him more in the long run)
Funny though.
One time we were out, 3 couples, I got first round in, 3 pints, a wine, a vodka and coke, and a gin and tonic. Friend got next round, same again, when it came to yer man, we had to wait it out, he eventually got up at went to the bar, came back with 3 pints, a wine, a vodka and coke, and a glass of water for his wife. Around it came to my round again, and she says, "oh I'll have a gin and tonic this time". Friend got next round in, and that was it, they were leaving. So there was 5 rounds bought, and he bought 1, and it wasnt even a full one. Lesson learned. Never again.

frag420 · 05-12-2017 02:49PM

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.

Stop stinging on the stinge, out with it!!

PeterParker957 · 05-12-2017 02:52PM

frag420 wrote: »

Stop stinging on the stinge, out with it!!

I've worked with people who get gifts and take them home whilst expecting everyone else to open theirs and share!

missmatty · 05-12-2017 03:04PM

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 · 05-12-2017 03:04PM

I know a guy who took his kids to see Santa's grave.

PeterParker957 · 05-12-2017 03:06PM

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!

He'd have had to pay the 100 euro fee to A&E to have the bottle removed if he did that to me!!!

frag420 · 05-12-2017 03:12PM

I know the chap that killed him...

pawdee wrote: »

I know a guy who took his kids to see Santa's grave.

pawdee · 05-12-2017 03:18PM

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.

chewed · 05-12-2017 06:17PM

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.

How did he get the heart attack? Did someone say "It's your round"?

pgj2015 · 05-12-2017 06:38PM

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.

Birneybau · 05-12-2017 06:47PM

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?

PeterParker957 · 05-12-2017 06:49PM

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?

Hahaha I wish !!! The black one is cool !!

WHIP IT! · 05-12-2017 07:45PM

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.

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...

suicide_circus · 05-12-2017 07:46PM

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!

yes but no one will visit the tight fisted git at his plush address

WHIP IT! · 05-12-2017 07:58PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

yes but no one will visit the tight fisted git at his plush address

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 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!

pgj2015 · 05-12-2017 08:16PM

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...

I can imagine Larry David doing that ha. I just left it, knowing that I would never be in his company again.

chewed · 05-12-2017 08:51PM

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!

What was his name? Rob C Nesbitt?

WHIP IT! · 05-12-2017 08:57PM

chewed wrote: »

What was his name? Rob C Nesbitt?

His nickname was Swampy!

pawdee · 05-12-2017 09:55PM

This one is about myself I'm not too embarrassed to say.....

Ok. I had this ongoing problem with a public carpark in that when I'd put in my 3 euros to exit, the barrier had a habit of not rising. So, I'd have to reverse (often with a queue behind me...in the rain), park up again, go into a newsagents, buy a paper to break a fiver or tenner, go back and try again. In-fckn-furiating.

Anyhow, one day it happened so I pressed the intercom button to speak to the girl in the town council whose job it was to sort this out (presumably by pressing a button). It was exactly 1pm and she said she was going on lunch, couldn't help me until 2pm and the line went dead. I almost had a Michael Douglas in Falling Down kind of moment but I thought of my 3 beautiful babies at home, backed up and tried again.

Having successfully exited I was stopped at the lights adjacent to the car park. As I waited for green (and did my breathing exercises) I noticed the spacing of the the bollards on the tour bus entrance / exit. Then I surveyed the vast expanse of my VW Lupo bonnet. I didn't need a measuring tape to know that I'd never pay for parking there again. Funnily enough, the security man in the hut that I saluted on my way in (twice) every day never twigged that he never saw me coming out. I saved 30 euros a week for about 2 years like that.

ps. I didn't drive a Lupo cos I was tight.....I had a lot of outgoings.....plus they're a cute little car......and chape to tax!

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