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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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  • #1772
    bestie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭bestie


    charged for taking a bottle out of a minbar even to look at it?

    bizarre!


  • #1773
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,274 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    bestie wrote: »
    charged for taking a bottle out of a minbar even to look at it?

    bizarre!

    That's probably because even stingier people try and fill them back up with water / tea so it looks like they're still full.


  • #1774
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    I worked in a repair yard which had a trailer in that had been up in flames.
    The load was cans of Club Orange but as they were covered under the insurance so the customer didn't want them back.
    All the staff got to drink the blackened cans for free, they were fine to drink.

    Anyway, one Monday morning we came in & the 1000's of cans were gone.
    Turns out that one of the lads loaded up his van with them the previous Friday & brought them home.
    He then washed them & sold them outside the GAA pitch in Port that Sunday.
    He was charging €1 a can :eek::eek::eek:.


  • #1775
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,677 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    I worked in a repair yard which had a trailer in that had been up in flames.
    The load was cans of Club Orange but as they were covered under the insurance so the customer didn't want them back.
    All the staff got to drink the blackened cans for free, they were fine to drink.

    Anyway, one Monday morning we came in & the 1000's of cans were gone.
    Turns out that one of the lads loaded up his van with them the previous Friday & brought them home.
    He then washed them & sold them outside the GAA pitch in Port that Sunday.
    He was charging €1 a can :eek::eek::eek:.


    Who the hell would drink fizzy club oranage after a GAA match? Spectators I guess?

    More to the point, who on earth would purchase blackened cans of 'mystery' fluid from some lad at a GAA pitch?


  • #1776
    vincenzolorenzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    noodler wrote: »
    Who the hell would drink fizzy club oranage after a GAA match? Spectators I guess?

    More to the point, who on earth would purchase blackened cans of 'mystery' fluid from some lad at a GAA pitch?

    Yes spectators, he'd sell an absolute rake load of them.

    We're told in the post that he washed them to get the black off before selling them


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  • #1777
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,677 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    vincenzolorenzo wrote: »
    Yes spectators, he'd sell an absolute rake load of them.

    Ahaahah. Okay, if nobody was disturbed by the odd man selling burnt cans of overpriced and warm orange.
    vincenzolorenzo wrote: »
    We're told in the post that he washed them to get the black off before selling them

    As in burnt black? I personally don't see how you could just wash that off.


  • #1778
    vincenzolorenzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    I'm assuming they were smoke damaged which would rub off. If they were actually in the fire they would have exploded with the heat


  • #1779
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    noodler wrote: »
    Ahaahah. Okay, if nobody was disturbed by the odd man selling burnt cans of overpriced and warm orange.



    As in burnt black? I personally don't see how you could just wash that off.

    They weren't scorched, only smoke damaged.
    Anyway, they were full of liquid at the time.
    Hold a lighter against the label on a full wine bottle next time you have one.
    The liquid absorbs the heat & you cant even scorch the paper label.
    Then repeat once the wine has passed below the label.
    Make sure you do it outside btw.


  • #1780
    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,164 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    My Grandmother, who wouldn't be short of a few quid, is stingy as all fuck. One time driving she pulled over on a small country road and walked back about 200 yards to pick up a block of wood she seen to burn in the fire. And her with half a shed full of wood back at her house.


  • #1781
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,787 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    me_right_one wrote: »
    She was right. Less trips to he petrol station.
    Wrong. Because one would be making fewer trips to the petrol station, one would be travelling fewer miles.


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  • #1782
    me_right_one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭me_right_one


    Victor wrote: »
    Wrong. Because one would be making fewer trips to the petrol station, one would be travelling fewer miles.

    You just reiterated what I said


  • #1783
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,787 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    me_right_one wrote: »
    You just reiterated what I said
    Did I? The discussion is about MPG (Miles Per Gallon), not miles per trip to the petrol station.


  • #1784
    Jordan Berbatov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Jordan Berbatov


    Where I work something was priced at €29.99, however because of some sort of technacality it was coming up on the till as €30, so one women fussed up over this and the guy on the till tried to explain to her the technacality, but she was having none of it and demanded that he take the 1 cent off, no word of a lie.


  • #1785
    L'prof
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,051 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    Jordan Berbatov wrote: »
    Where I work something was priced at €29.99, however because of some sort of technacality it was coming up on the till as €30, so one women fussed up over this and the guy on the till tried to explain to her the technacality, but she was having none of it and demanded that he take the 1 cent off, no word of a lie.

    Funny thing is, I read them both as €30!


  • #1786
    RustyBeanTin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭RustyBeanTin


    Victor wrote: »
    Wrong. Because one would be making fewer trips to the petrol station, one would be travelling fewer miles.
    me_right_one wrote: »
    You just reiterated what I said
    Victor wrote: »
    Did I? The discussion is about MPG (Miles Per Gallon), not miles per trip to the petrol station.
    I'm confused?:confused:


  • #1787
    Juwwi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭Juwwi


    Jordan Berbatov wrote: »
    Where I work something was priced at €29.99, however because of some sort of technacality it was coming up on the till as €30, so one women fussed up over this and the guy on the till tried to explain to her the technacality, but she was having none of it and demanded that he take the 1 cent off, no word of a lie.

    l think she was right.


  • #1788
    RustyBeanTin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭RustyBeanTin


    Jordan Berbatov wrote: »
    Where I work something was priced at €29.99, however because of some sort of technacality it was coming up on the till as €30, so one women fussed up over this and the guy on the till tried to explain to her the technacality, but she was having none of it and demanded that he take the 1 cent off, no word of a lie.
    If she handed you 29.98 you probably wouldnt sell her the item


  • #1789
    me_right_one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭me_right_one


    Victor wrote: »
    Did I? The discussion is about MPG (Miles Per Gallon), not miles per trip to the petrol station.

    No, its about MPG achieved from a full tank v MPG gained from several partially filled tanks. This was done, killed, MURDERED! Read back a few pages.


  • #1790
    Tail Wagger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭Tail Wagger


    While sweeping the floor in a Butchers shop about 100 years ago, I used to get a gentle clip in the ear from the owner who'd say "There's sixpence on the floor"
    I'd be looking everywhere for the sixpence,... he'd bend down and pick up a wooden skewer and dust it off and show it to me, there you are money saved he'd say... I'd be scratching my head looking at him as he'd walk away?


  • #1791
    RustyBeanTin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭RustyBeanTin


    Tail Wagger wrote: »
    While sweeping the floor in a Butchers shop about 100 years ago, I used to get a gentle clip in the ear from the owner who'd say "There's sixpence on the floor"
    I'd be looking everywhere for the sixpence,... he'd bend down and pick up a wooden skewer and dust it off and show it to me, there you are money saved he'd say... I'd be scratching my head looking at him as he'd walk away?
    aha, i get it

    the wooden skewer costed sixpence.


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  • #1792
    Jordan Berbatov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Jordan Berbatov


    RustyBeanTin wrote: »
    If she handed you 29.98 you probably wouldnt sell her the item

    Ah I would though


  • #1793
    hitman79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭hitman79


    A mate of mine used to always come over to my place and just drink my beer without ever bringing any. I got sick of this so one day collected him and said we were stopping at the shop to get beers as i only had 2 beers in my house. So the 2 of us in the shop looking at beer. I pick up a 6 pack of bud and say to the mate what you getting? He looks at me and says 'ah i'll do with the 2 you have at home'. Im still in shock!!


  • #1794
    Mal-Adjusted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,629 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    Jordan Berbatov wrote: »
    Where I work something was priced at €29.99, however because of some sort of technacality it was coming up on the till as €30, so one women fussed up over this and the guy on the till tried to explain to her the technacality, but she was having none of it and demanded that he take the 1 cent off, no word of a lie.

    so let me get this straight, you get caught falsley advertising an item...and she's the stingy one? :confused:


  • #1795
    piby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 539 ✭✭✭piby


    In the shop where I work I was giving somebody change one time, say €2.25, and as the coppers all look the same I gave her a 2 cent piece instead of a 5 cent piece. She obviously didn't notice and left the shop. About 30 minutes later she came bake having driven back down and politely informed me that I owed her 3 cent!! The stingy cow probably spent more on the petrol coming back down in the first place!!

    I also have a mate who's really bad. For example it's often happened that when we're drinking and he's had enough he'll offer to sell his last can or two. It's not a case of someoneeven asking can they buy it off him (any decent person would just give it away) but he'll actually try sell it. People like that do my head in!


  • #1796
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    grindelwald wrote: »
    My uncle once brought a medium chip and a loaf of bread and shared out out between himself his wife and their 6 kids.


    Very stingy - you would think he could have shelled out on a large chip. Or even a bag of chips.


  • #1797
    Jordan Berbatov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Jordan Berbatov


    Mal-Adjusted wrote: »
    so let me get this straight, you get caught falsley advertising an item...and she's the stingy one? :confused:

    yes because its 1 cent, i know she was well within her rights to get the item at the price advertised, but would you bother?


  • #1798
    Kersmash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭Kersmash


    Jordan Berbatov wrote: »
    yes because its 1 cent, i know she was well within her rights to get the item at the price advertised, but would you bother?

    Shes not. Under law, the price advertised is an invitation to treat. when she brings the item to the till she's making an offer to buy the item at that price. the shopkeeper is well within their rights to accept or reject this offer.


  • #1799
    Jordan Berbatov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Jordan Berbatov


    Kersmash wrote: »
    Shes not. Under law, the price advertised is an invitation to treat. when she brings the item to the till she's making an offer to buy the item at that price. the shopkeeper is well within their rights to accept or reject this offer.

    i did not know that, I just presumed, I'v never actually worked on the till before, the keep me upstairs away from the customers :pac:


  • #1800
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,948 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    When i was about 14/15 i went into a shop & had a sandwich made up for me at the deli. I can't rember the exact details but when i went up to the counter to pay i was about 30p (pre-euro days!) short.
    You know what they did? Took the sandwich back over to the deli opened it up & took out the cheese to square up the price.
    I was only a young fella but in hindsight it was quite a humiliating experience & i should have told em to fcuk themselves. Miserable bunch.

    Yeah yeah i know i should have had the right money but its a pretty pathetic thing to do.


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  • #1801
    Savage Tyrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,164 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    I have a cousin that smokes rollies. He will break up all the butts in an ashtray if he is at a party and put the recycled tobacco into his tin. If he's walking down the street and sees a large cig butt then he'll pick that up to break it up.
    He never refuses when offered a smoke from someone but never offers one out. (Though few would smoke what he has knowing what it's mixed with)


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