'Honesty' water - do you pay?

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

There are water fountains in Dublin airport. Why would anyone buy it?

Or am I mixing it up with another airport??

My daughter had every water fountain in Dublin Airport mapped out before we left on holidays.. she couldn't understand why I took €2 from car ashtray when leaving it at car park.. Cause I wanted to be honest and get my 2 bottles of water once thru security and not have to watch her looking for the water fountains... of course she still went and found them, even though she arrived to departure gate 10 mins after rest of us.

OP is trolling.. but agree that it take a special type of skinflint skanger to think to drop 1c in just to hear the money drop.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If you get a buzz out of it, then you’re a piece of filth I’d spit in the face of, and find more value in the spit than you.

Say what you really feel!

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Spitting on someone's face is a bit scummier than taking a bottle of water to be fair.

They wanted water, give them some water.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If you get a buzz out of it, then you’re a piece of filth I’d spit in the face of, and find more value in the spit than you.

Why not just shoot him instead, he'll defo never do it again.

o1s1n wrote: »

I think in the likes of Burger King, KFC and their ilk, the amount of time it takes to pick your tray up and place the contents in the bin on the way out is so minimal, it seems lazy not to do it.

It's more like just leaving a pile of rubbish behind. Bit different than plates having to be returned to a counter etc.

It's people that leave a pile of crap on the table behind them are often the very same people as the ones leaving the pile of crap behind them at the beach or campsite because shur it's someone's job to pick it up.

kweeveen86 wrote: »

Every time I'm in Dublin airport, I get a great little buzz out of picking up a couple of bottles of 'honesty' water and putting in a 1 cent coin, just so that there's the tell-tale, signatute sound of a payment being made...but I get a 99.5% discount.

My girlfriend, on the other hand, is very honest and conscientious and would always pay full price - even if there was nobody anywhere nearby to see her just take the bottle.

What are people's thoughts on this? What percentage of people are immoral and unscrupulous like me?! :-)

Well done OP. When I turn up some day thirsty and there’s no water there, well I’ll know the reason why

OP, why even pay 1c for a bottle? Surely the buzz would be even greater if you waited for an elderly or handicapped person to buy one, then simply stroll over and snatch it out of their hands?

Currently, you're actually wasting €1 for every 100 flights you take, and therefore I have no respect for you :rolleyes:

o1s1n wrote: »

I think in the likes of Burger King, KFC and their ilk, the amount of time it takes to pick your tray up and place the contents in the bin on the way out is so minimal, it seems lazy not to do it.

It's more like just leaving a pile of rubbish behind. Bit different than plates having to be returned to a counter etc.

As a teenager working in a pub (which is different to fast food I know), the boss used to tell us off if any customer brought their own empties to the counter because it meant we weren't quick enough. In any case, the idea of begrudging a customer for leaving a table dirty never crossed my mind.

So I've always been in two minds about whether to do it in fast food places. Plus I'd say it's a matter of hygiene rather than laziness - why put your hands all over the grubby bin before going outside, when there's staff with gloves on who can do it? And if the staff clear the table, they will wipe it down too, whereas you can easily end up sitting at a table that's not as clean because a customer took away the bulky stuff and it never got disinfected.

kweeveen86 wrote: »

Every time I'm in Dublin airport, I get a great little buzz out of picking up a couple of bottles of 'honesty' water and putting in a 1 cent coin, just so that there's the tell-tale, signatute sound of a payment being made...but I get a 99.5% discount.

My girlfriend, on the other hand, is very honest and conscientious and would always pay full price - even if there was nobody anywhere nearby to see her just take the bottle.

What are people's thoughts on this? What percentage of people are immoral and unscrupulous like me?! :-)

My thoughts are your girlfriend can do better.

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

But why those ones and not Eddie Rockets for example. Where is the line? Also why do none of those places ask customers to clean up after themselves?
Is it actually an expectation of the company or is it just one of those things that some people do like thanking a bus driver?

Why would we do it? Is it because the food is cheap? Are we trying to keep costs down for McDonalds but don't give a crap about TGI Friday's?

Genuinely interested in the logic here given the strongly worded post that initiated this aside.

I tend to clear off my place in any spot that gives me a tray with food. I think Eddie Rockets does too? Can't really remember as I tend not to eat in places like that. I'd imagine if they did I probably would bring it to the counter on the way out.

Maybe the tray is the common denominator? The fact that you have a tray means you can easily, within seconds, clear your spot off?

You're all failing the experiment. Thanks to you suckers they can be absolutely sure there is no need to employ a human.

Some amount of crybabies and whingers in this thread. I grabbed four of them the last time I was there, oh boo hoo for Dublin Airport and Ballygowan or whoever it is.

FTA69 wrote: »

Some amount of crybabies and whingers in this thread. I grabbed four of them the last time I was there, oh boo hoo for Dublin Airport and Ballygowan or whoever it is.

It's just sad, really. An honesty system works for a very large percentage of people, however they just can't really exist because of the few people with this attitude.