Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

Helena Pitiful Keynote wrote: »

Not true. Common sense dictates that you either:
1. Go to the event and take someone with you so you can enjoy the event in good company.
2. If you are not interested in the event, give both tickets to a family member/friend if you know they are interested - FOR FREE! It's called a gesture of good will... it's the kind of thing people do for other people!
3. If you or anyone you know is not interested in the event, then by all means sell both tickets.

Who writes these stuff for you?? Just because steps 1 and 2 are what some people do does not mean you have to follow to the letter.. didn't anyone tell you, you can jump from step 0 to step 3 right away and it does not have to be in the order you listed.. While it is a nice thing to do with step 1 or 2, it is not always the be all and end all rule or the case..

Helena Pitiful Keynote wrote: »

You can't know that for sure. I'm sure in the majority of cases where a person wins 2 tickets to a match they generally use the 2nd ticket to take someone with them. Although, going back to the original point... in this case (as he is CHARGING HIS FRIEND for a ticket) maybe he would have tried to sell it anyway.

All I can say is that if one of my friends said "do you know of anyone selling a spare ticket to the game?" and I happened to have a spare ticket (whether I won it or not) I'd go "Ah sure I've a spare one, you can have it"

I won't know for sure but if you have such a strong feeling that friendship mean giving stuff for free and he sold to his friend, i think i can confidently say he will sell it anyway friend or otherwise..

you see you keep saying you'd go do this and that.. I have to agree, it is a nice gesture, no doubt but not everyone's take on this is like yours whether in the situation that started this debate or any other in life.. everyone have their own circumstances and their own take on dealing with these situations.. just because it is not up to your expectation level of doing things, don't try to impose/force your view on others.

Helena Pitiful Keynote wrote: »

It's only an issue if you make it an issue...

Not an issue, I'm just saying it happens and you won't know it until it all blows up in your face in some argument.. ergo i do everything fair accordingly when it comes to money and friendship, all is good.

My uncle was the executor of my grandparent's estate. When they died they were cremated. My mother wanted to take their ashes and scatter them someplace that was very special to my grandparents.

My uncle said that since it was not included specifically in the Will he was not required to pay for it out of the estate. He said that he was perfectly happy to throw their ashes in the bin so ANY funeral expenses at all would have to be payed for by my mother.

My mother ended up paying for all of the expenses including having the ashes delivered from the funeral home (far away from where we lived) just so that my uncle would not throw my grandparent's ashes in the garbage.

i have to say i used to be mates with a girl who could win an award for being tight her mum taught her well.

she would drink in her house till twelve then go to pub chat up some poor bloke and then he would pay her way into club and pay her drink all night.
she even used to get them to pay her taxi home while all over them and then say she lived an estate down from where she really lived.
she would hop out of the taxi say sorry ya cant come in or say hold on il go in and get money to pay the taxi an off she would run in behind some neighbours house and jump the fence to her own house and hide inside till the poor fecker got wise and left. i cant tell ya how many fellas she done this two she used to always "forget her purse". anytime we were ment to go anywhere she would hold off till the last second regularly she was hours late for stuff so she wouldnt have to part with her cash.
she was banned from so many taxis from jumping the bill.

the girls mother would drink hot water as tea was to expensive.
she used to work as a waitress and would bring home the salt/ketchup/jam/sugar packets and even towels and shampoo/soaps.
toothpaste was used with hot water as they thought it would last longer that way.

the two of them live together and had moved house due to not paying any of the bills and being evicted. the both of them work all the time and swap shifts so they dont pay a baby sitter. the kids father is used soley as a bank poor fella. she only got pregnant cos she was taking the pill once every two or three days so she wouldnt have to pay more for another packet.

i stopped talking to her when one day i offered to bring her and her one year old son to galway for the day herself and the mother had a limit on the bottles and nappys the kid was allowed to have during the day. i couldnt hack the idea that she was not feeding her own son due to money cant talk to her since.

once upon a time she was such a nice normal girl she was my best friend.i have no idea what happened. she kept herself in VERY expensive clothes though although i wonder if some of her strung along fellas werent paying for that too.

Samhain wrote: »

Not necessarily stingy but one of the worst stunts i have seen in a long time.

A guy called into work last Thursday to pay a bill for us getting him out of the s**t when his server broke down. The bill was for €135 and was 3 months overdue. We received an invoice in the post yesterday from him for €90 for dropping off the cheque! :eek: I have no intention of paying it, just going to sit on it until he has the neck to ring up chasing the bill! Will be an interesting conversation to say the least!

Send him a 55c stamp to reimburse him for his trouble, and a small note to inform him that we have in this country for nigh on 200 years, a thing called the postal system. It could have saved him €89.45 in expenses on calling into you if he thought to use that instead. Well, either a 55c stamp, or a dead messenger pigeon.

All I know is I've had the same rolls of wrapping paper for years.:D

jujibee wrote: »

My uncle was the executor of my grandparent's estate. When they died they were cremated. My mother wanted to take their ashes and scatter them someplace that was very special to my grandparents.

My uncle said that since it was not included specifically in the Will he was not required to pay for it out of the estate. He said that he was perfectly happy to throw their ashes in the bin so ANY funeral expenses at all would have to be payed for by my mother.

My mother ended up paying for all of the expenses including having the ashes delivered from the funeral home (far away from where we lived) just so that my uncle would not throw my grandparent's ashes in the garbage.

dont worry, what goes round, comes round,
that was a nasty thing to do to anyone,

ProudDUB wrote: »

Used to live in the US. Noticed recently that of my American friends don't send out traditional Christmas card anymore. They take a Xmas themed family photo with their own digital cameras & configure it with Merry Xmas/Happy Holidays etc etc from the Such and Such Family on the top or bottom. They then print off a batch of them on their own computers using photo paper. That is the so called "card" that goes in the envelope. Nothing gets signed or personalized in any way.

When it arrives, there is not much you can do with it. As it is not a card, you can't display it on a mantle piece. Prop it up against a lamp or something, and it just falls over. I have a few taped on my fridge door, but it not ideally where I like to display my Xmas cards. They are usually not standard photo size, so you can't even display them in a frame. I think its a cheap and shabby substitution for the real thing. Am living in Ireland again now. I love it that (so far) all of my Irish friends and family have sent me real cards this year. And even better, Irish charities are benefiting from it. Rock on my fellow Paddies !

Sounds like a lot more effort and thought goes into taking a photo and printing it out dozens of times as opposed to buy a 50 pack of generic cards from the euro store

goat2 wrote: »

i get these so called cheap skate cards from relatives,
in my view they are much dearer to make and time consuming, there is a lot of thought put into them, i love the idea, and i do appreciate these pictures, also they are about ten times dearer than those you buy from shops.

+1
The price of glossy paper is ridiculous and then a photo printer on top of that, they definately cost far more than generic cards.