Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

I've me a few stingey people from over the years:

Myself and a few friends were out in a local bar and noticed one of the lads robbing drink from the tables (same lad was very well off) After a while I was in the jacks and met one of the lads I was with, He had taken his pint with him to save it from being robbed, Drank half and lobbed out his knob and filled it back up He left it out for the other fella to see and after a few mins went back to the jacks, cue the other lad to steal the pint. Took about two supps and he puicked his guts up, never stole a pint since

Another fella I used to ive with would go online, copy the text on the page into word and log off to save him being charged for being online.

A lad I worked with recently would bring home the paper,leftover milk,sugar and butter from the canteen every day. Same fella got an old diesel generator from the pavies and used to syphon a supp of diesel from the company van to power his house for the night!! Fella never had a esb, nor did he have a wife or kids either. His brother told me a while later that he had nearly a million in savings and a car he had bought new 4 years before with only 850 miles on the clock because he didnt want to spend the money on servicing it and putting diesel in it.

In fairness I was a bit stingey in my day too I remember one time living on very small wages (about 6 pound left after rent for food etc) Stealing the salt and pepper,sugar etc from the canteen to bring home to use later. Used to call to my mothers and take a few cans of food home with me. For a few weeks I survived on bread,water and a pot of jam lost 3 stone in a month... Those were bad days and I never want to relive them again!!!!

Wow 10 o clock poor you...:rolleyes:

A guy I went to college was pretty bad.

After he came back from a trip to the UK he had 30 pounds sterling or something like that left over. There was a girl in our class who had a boyfriend in London who she used visit on a fairly regular basis so he asked her would she swap sterling for euro to do him a favour. She agreed thinking that it'd be a straight swap (think it was about 90c to the pound then) but he then asked 'So, do you you want to go by today's currency exchange rate or will we use the rate when I bring the money in on Monday?)

After college I was working in a company who offered a 1,000 euro gift to any person who recruited new employees. So , I got this guy a job and after 6 months I got the 1,000 euro finder's fee (which he didn't know about). I decided to give him 100 euro out of it but as a little experiment I just gave him the money and said 'Here's that 100 euro I owe you'. He just said thanks and pocketed it without any questions about when he had given me a loan.

Last year the two of us were living in different cities in NZ. To keep in touch I signed up for a 'best mates' deal whereby for something small like $3 a month you could make unlimited calls to nominated people. I put him down for it and would ring him fairly regularly. I suggested he sign up for it as well so he could ring me back. Anytime I said it he just changed the subject. In the 3 months or so that we were both in the country he never signed up and subsequently he never rang me once. However when I told him I was leaving he asked me for my SIM card so that he could use the same system for phoning his girlfriend. When I explained that it didn't work like that but he could ring her for free for just $3 a month he wasn't interested.

trustno1 wrote: »

My old boss (a multi millionaire) used to get me to steam off the stamps from his post that hadn't been franked so he could use them again.

would that not be defeating the purpose, paying you to do this and probably paying you more for the time it took

Dublin4Life wrote: »

Last year i got a car and the old man would not pay my tax and insurance the stingy ****er....

haha....so I startd using his new BMW , lets just say guys I'm driving my own car know !!

I consider drowning my children on a daily basis over things like this.

owenc wrote: »

No the person that gives you the car usually has a months/years insurance on it when they give it to you so you get time to insure it and get home.

Where the hell do you buy your cars?

owenc wrote: »

Not with a name like that you didn't.

Whats wrong with Pen Island? I like pens :P

Penisland wrote: »

You know when I was 14 I played football and tried to score a few birds! Definitely didn't have like 2300 posts on an internet forum!

Keep on topic please.

owenc wrote: »

A shop.. thats they work in Northern Ireland, i dinno about down south and how do you expect to drive your car home if its not taxed?

You didn't say tax you said insurance. Some cars still have tax on them when you buy them some don't. You can still drive it home if there is no tax on it. Technically its against the law but you're given time to sort out the paperwork.