happyday wrote: » Is it really worth going out for a meal with her? Have you ever had it out with her? These people get away with murder. If you do go for a meal again I'd have change with me so I could pay for just my own share. You could tip the staff from your hand to theirs on the way out.
loyatemu wrote: » why though? I see a lot of cars driving about with one faulty headlight (or both!) - should bulbs be free? People will throw €60 of diesel into their car, but won't pay €1 to make sure their tyres are correctly inflated.
Katgurl wrote: » In fairness that sounds like a bit of a laugh at least. I have mentioned my friend of 20+ years before on this thread who is a notorious stinge. The etinge episodes are not so bad anymore purely because I simply don't ever get into rounds of any sort with her. This is an extremely mild stinge example with her but very recent. We went for dinner in a locsl Indian. A whole gang of us have been going there for well over a decade. The staff are always so nice, treat us like gold, the food is amazing and cheap as chips. They don't even charge corkage and allow any drinks you want. So this night it was just the pair of us, I wasn't drinking and she had 'stolen some booze' from her mum's. We are 40 btw. After much deliberation of the most economical combination of dishes we ordered and couldn't even finish they brought us so much. When the bill came It was just shy of 23€ so not even 12 each. I put €15 on my card and she said "ah thanks". I jumped in quickly "no, no. Im leaving a tip ." hoping that she would tip also but that's her call at the end of the dwy. We got up to leave and i saw her leave her money down. It was only as we walked down the road I registered she had left a tenner. And me like the Irish non-confrontational dope that I am said nothing and quietly seethed about the fact she had used my tip to partially cover her share. It just never seems worth it to have words over s couple of quid.
Stonedpilot wrote: » Use to go to a busy Garage in Waterford. Same thing happened me more than once. Ould stinges parking beside ya to stinge the last 2 minutes of air. I copped this ruse. The trick is to use 4.35 mins of the allocated 5. Then say to said Stinge "work away my friend plenty of time on her. God bless and have a glorious memory worthy day". By the time he gets to it time just about out. Mind you did see an ould stinge once with other driver pulling away pull in quickly dive on the hose rugby style engine still running and quickly connect it to a tyre to get the last few seconds on left it. its quite common. Seen some brazen stinges sit whole family in the car beside and seeing a fella with the coin operated power washer finishing up only to jump out and ponce on the hose and in a possessed manner tear around the car like the Flash as the family in the car exictedly and appresenively Point to spots the son might have missed and roar through the closed windows 'get the wheel arches too!" "rear window "as they know he has a minute flat to get every spot on their car.
Bosco13 wrote: » It was having to reverse blindly onto the road so that man could save 20p that pissed me off.
4ensic15 wrote: » Anyone selling petrol or diesel should be forced to supply free air. It is ridiculous that road safety is disincentivised by charging for air.
Bosco13 wrote: » Our petrol station had a tyre gauge machine that you put 20p into and it activated the air pump for a few minutes. One day this old sod parked right up my arse, hoping to get my remaining time and I had to reverse out on to the main road, not being able to see properly because his car was blocking me. Wish I'd just sat there til my time ran out.
Dan Jaman wrote: » There is a real cost to supplying 'free' air. Compressors aren't cheap, and every forecourt loses (has stolen) a couple of inflator gauges per year. Luckily for me, my local garages aren't charging yet, but I was used to paying for it in England more than 20 years ago, so if it happens, it happens. It's not the end of the world. I always carry a pencil pressure gauge, and have a compressor in my own garage, so not really that likely to need it. The real stinges are the ones who piggy-back on others' air payment.
Surreptitious wrote: » I know I have said this before but my housemate has been drying her clothes free for over two years now. She refuses to put money in to feed the machine. I was going to wash a load of clothes this evening but she decided to use the dryer. There was no money left in it yet she still put her clothes in and turned it on to get the very last maybe four minutes out of it before it shut off. So her clothes are in there now and still wet? She knows full well she needed to put money in for it to work yet she refuses to part with two euros? I am ashamed for her at this stage. There is no level of scab low enough to describe her.
Dan Jaman wrote: » The sort of miserable git who'd never buy an air pencil guage of his own, let alone a footpump at the minimum. It's hardly surprising there are thousands of cars on the road with dangerously under-inflated tyres.
Quazzie wrote: » Try leave your car parked on the road out touching the line, and see how far your deeds get you when it's taken away. :rolleyes:
amber69 wrote: » Other way around AFAIK. Council own about 6ft from the road into your property.
Dan Jaman wrote: » Not in my case, they don't. I checked the deeds, and it's exactly as I said. What you likely mean is that the Council take over enough land to enable the road, and that would likely include a strip adjacent to the actual tarmac surface. "Take over" is the operative term - they don't actually own it, I do.
Dan Jaman wrote: » Many, if not most, houses that border country roads own the road out to the centre line. This is a pure technicality, as the Council takes it over for the common good. I'm not a lawyer, so there's likely a more involved legal explanation about the circumstances and the law relating to it. If I decided to take full ownership of my part of the road, I'd be liable for its upkeep and damages should anyone trip in a pothole, for example. In that regard, the Council are welcome to it, and I regard it as an equitable trade-off. I get to travel on mostly decent tarmac to the shops in return, while traversing hundreds of other people's roads.
Quazzie wrote: » You own the road? You must be very rich.
