Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

fasttalkerchat · 07-05-2012 08:17PM

I was running late one day and didn't have time to get change. Give the bus driver a fiver and said keep the change but he wouldn't take it. Going from that I would say that they aren't stingy, just have very strict rules. This was on a Dublin bus where you get a receipt for the difference.

Victor · 07-05-2012 10:06PM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

I was running late one day and didn't have time to get change. Give the bus driver a fiver and said keep the change but he wouldn't take it. Going from that I would say that they aren't stingy, just have very strict rules. This was on a Dublin bus where you get a receipt for the difference.

Drivers aren't allowed handle money and the machines can't.

Martyn1989 · 07-05-2012 10:26PM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

I was running late one day and didn't have time to get change. Give the bus driver a fiver and said keep the change but he wouldn't take it. Going from that I would say that they aren't stingy, just have very strict rules. This was on a Dublin bus where you get a receipt for the difference.

Not stingy, just annoying
This reminds me, recently I got on a bus on Abbey St, a posh woman with her young child who got on just infront of me was trying to pay with a note and seemed to be running late for something and was flustered etc.
I had alot of change in a pocket of my bag (for the bus) and I offered her the change, I wouldn't have minded just giving her the few quid for the bus but she insisted on taking €5 in change for her €5 note (the fare for the 2 was 4 something anyway). It wasn't all ridiculous stuff, 10c,20c and 50c and the odd euro coin.
Straight afterwards I got a snide 'Well thats your piggy bank empty' remark.
I didn't call her a gee-bag, which itself was my good deed for the day

weemcd · 07-05-2012 10:46PM

[QUOTE=Martyn1989;78553773posh woman with her young child[/QUOTE]

That's all you need to hear right there, anyone who consider themselves or is "posh" is a snide cúnt by absolute definition. Worst class of people to deal with in any walk of life:

sense of entitlement
stingy
sarcastic
brat children

how do you spot a snobby cúnt? you ask them what door number their house is, they will almost choke and go to great lengths to let you know their address has a name instead. You live in a 2 story detached house in an estate or just outside a fúckin town love, this isn't richard branson naming his estate. On the plus side though, anyone with no door number will have hell trying to get things delivered to their address

grindle · 07-05-2012 10:46PM

Martyn1989 wrote:

Straight afterwards I got a snide 'Well thats your piggy bank empty' remark.
I didn't call her a gee-bag, which itself was my good deed for the day

She might've been joking. Was she a stereotypical posh, snide cow?

efb · 07-05-2012 10:48PM

weemcd wrote: »

That's all you need to hear right there, anyone who consider themselves or is "posh" is a snide cúnt by absolute definition. Worst class of people to deal with in any walk of life:

sense of entitlement
stingy
sarcastic
brat children

how do you spot a snobby cúnt? you ask them what door number their house is, they will almost choke and go to great lengths to let you know their address has a name instead. You live in a 2 story detached house in an estate or just outside a fúckin town love, this isn't richard branson naming his estate. On the plus side though, anyone with no door number will have hell trying to get things delivered to their address

my house doesn't have a door number, I'm not posh, I'm a culchie

grindle · 07-05-2012 10:51PM

efb wrote: »

my house doesn't have a door number, I'm not posh, I'm a culchie

Your house isn't a house, it's a landmark.

Martyn1989 · 07-05-2012 11:04PM

grindle wrote: »

She might've been joking. Was she a stereotypical posh, snide cow?

Ok first off everyone calm down.

The way it was said was sort of belittling, dismissive in a 'I havn't been bent over in ages' kind of way. :pac:

It didn't seem to be said in any jokey way tbh

grindle · 07-05-2012 11:11PM

Martyn1989 wrote: »

Ok first off everyone calm down.

DON'T tell US to calm DOWN!!!

This woman needs to die. I wasn't even being post-ironically sarcastic, even.

I meet snobby, well-to-do bitches every day. Good kick in the gowl sorts 'em out.

fasttalkerchat · 07-05-2012 11:36PM

efb wrote: »

my house doesn't have a door number, I'm not posh, I'm a culchie

Mine doesn't have a house number. I removed it so the debt collection agency cant find me

efb · 07-05-2012 11:54PM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Mine doesn't have a house number. I removed it so the debt collection agency cant find me

hope you let the postie know:

Got your back Jack, bitches be crazy

MistyCheese · 07-05-2012 11:57PM

I spell my house number with letters.

BizzyC · 08-05-2012 07:50AM

weemcd wrote: »

how do you spot a snobby cúnt? you ask them what door number their house is, they will almost choke and go to great lengths to let you know their address has a name instead. You live in a 2 story detached house in an estate or just outside a fúckin town love, this isn't richard branson naming his estate. On the plus side though, anyone with no door number will have hell trying to get things delivered to their address

Having a house name does not make one snobby, being better than you does...

dr strangelove · 08-05-2012 10:11AM

Years ago..... many, many years ago, when i was at school, we had a system where if your families income was below a certain level you got "lunch tickets" that could be exchanged for £1's worth of food in the school canteen.

I noticed that once a year, all the Indian and Pakistani kids wouldn't be eating lunch for the whole month, and they explained that it was Ramadan, (but being 13 couldn't really explain what 'Ramadan' actually was, only that they couldn't eat until night-time)

So I used to buy their lunch tickets off them for 10p each and sell them to the kids who's families weren't on social for 50p - and everyone was happy.

Made about £12 one year.

Oh, the shame when i think about it now....

efb · 08-05-2012 12:38PM

dr strangelove wrote: »

Years ago..... many, many years ago, when i was at school, we had a system where if your families income was below a certain level you got "lunch tickets" that could be exchanged for £1's worth of food in the school canteen.

I noticed that once a year, all the Indian and Pakistani kids wouldn't be eating lunch for the whole month, and they explained that it was Ramadan, (but being 13 couldn't really explain what 'Ramadan' actually was, only that they couldn't eat until night-time)

So I used to buy their lunch tickets off them for 10p each and sell them to the kids who's families weren't on social for 50p - and everyone was happy.

Made about £12 one year.

Oh, the shame when i think about it now....

Denis O'Brien- welcome to boards!

Kenno90 · 08-05-2012 01:50PM

dr strangelove wrote: »

Years ago..... many, many years ago, when i was at school, we had a system where if your families income was below a certain level you got "lunch tickets" that could be exchanged for £1's worth of food in the school canteen.

I noticed that once a year, all the Indian and Pakistani kids wouldn't be eating lunch for the whole month, and they explained that it was Ramadan, (but being 13 couldn't really explain what 'Ramadan' actually was, only that they couldn't eat until night-time)

So I used to buy their lunch tickets off them for 10p each and sell them to the kids who's families weren't on social for 50p - and everyone was happy.

Made about £12 one year.

Oh, the shame when i think about it now....

You Monster :pac:

harperlee · 08-05-2012 04:30PM

I don't know who true this is, but I heard a story about a woman where I'm from who used to rinse out and hang her used sanitary towels on the line. She was quite smelly and lived in a mobile home, but I'm not 100% sure if she did that.

christmas2012 · 08-05-2012 04:32PM

hahaahhaa thats disgusting how would you know unless ur hiding behind the bushes..I didnt know you could wash sanitary towels ..
stingiest thing ive seen someone do recently is when they got on the bus (i was behind them) they handed out one and two red cent coins(all red cent coins i even had a peek over the shoulder) and it took forever!!!:mad:

Paddy Cow · 08-05-2012 10:26PM

harperlee wrote: »

I don't know who true this is, but I heard a story about a woman where I'm from who used to rinse out and hang her used sanitary towels on the line. She was quite smelly and lived in a mobile home, but I'm not 100% sure if she did that.

Probably about as true as this story

Paddy Cow wrote: »

The neighbours used to have toilet paper drying on the washing line.

:pac::pac::pac:

Paddy Cow · 08-05-2012 10:30PM

christmas2012 wrote: »

I didnt know you could wash sanitary towels ..

You can't. They're designed for single use only. The only way you could wash sanitary items is if you did like they did back in the good old days and used rags, hence the saying "on the rag" :eek:

bfocusd · 08-05-2012 10:53PM

Paddy Cow wrote: »

You can't. They're designed for single use only. The only way you could wash sanitary items is if you did like they did back in the good old days and used rags, hence the saying "on the rag" :eek:

It's not as old school as most people think..
http://www.ecomenses.com/

shopaholic01 · 08-05-2012 10:56PM

harperlee wrote: »

I don't know who true this is, but I heard a story about a woman where I'm from who used to rinse out and hang her used sanitary towels on the line. She was quite smelly and lived in a mobile home, but I'm not 100% sure if she did that.

You should have all chipped in and bought her a mooncup

shopaholic01 · 08-05-2012 10:59PM

bfocusd wrote: »

It's not as old school as most people think..
http://www.ecomenses.com/

:eek:

Jesus, you couldn't make it up

harperlee · 08-05-2012 11:00PM

shopaholic01 wrote: »

harperlee wrote: »

I don't know who true this is, but I heard a story about a woman where I'm from who used to rinse out and hang her used sanitary towels on the line. She was quite smelly and lived in a mobile home, but I'm not 100% sure if she did that.

You should have all chipped in and bought her a mooncup

What's a mooncup?

bfocusd · 08-05-2012 11:05PM

Edit: same link sorry

It's a plastic cup inserted into the vagina that collects your period blood and it can be reused! I probably should have put, don't read if your eating.before that..?

mrsdewinter · 08-05-2012 11:19PM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

I was running late one day and didn't have time to get change. Give the bus driver a fiver and said keep the change but he wouldn't take it. Going from that I would say that they aren't stingy, just have very strict rules. This was on a Dublin bus where you get a receipt for th difference.

'Keep the change...'
Gawd, it used to bug me when my then-boyfriend would say this to bus drivers.
Fasttalker, I'm sure you were perfectly gracious in that situation, but from my bf, he might as well as being urging the chap behind the wheel to help himself to some cake rather than putting up with that dreadful bread.
Grr

tok9 · 09-05-2012 09:39AM

bfocusd wrote: »

Edit: same link sorry

It's a plastic cup inserted into the vagina that collects your period blood and it can be reused! I probably should have put, don't read if your eating.before that..?

Sweet Jesus... Don't read if you've eaten in the last few hours :eek:

onlyrocknroll · 09-05-2012 12:43PM

My girlfriend's friends refuse to ever leave a tip when they're out. They usually give out to her for leaving something.

They were all put through college by their parents, they never had to work part time themselves. I think that's part of it.

She told me that a couple of times she left money on the table, made a point of explicitly saying ...

"I am leaving this as a tip"

... only to see total amount left by the group ending up being the exact amount of the bill.

As far as I'm concerned her friends practically stole her money and put it towards the price of their own meal.

onlyrocknroll · 09-05-2012 12:47PM

dr strangelove wrote: »

Years ago..... many, many years ago, when i was at school, we had a system where if your families income was below a certain level you got "lunch tickets" that could be exchanged for £1's worth of food in the school canteen.

I noticed that once a year, all the Indian and Pakistani kids wouldn't be eating lunch for the whole month, and they explained that it was Ramadan, (but being 13 couldn't really explain what 'Ramadan' actually was, only that they couldn't eat until night-time)

So I used to buy their lunch tickets off them for 10p each and sell them to the kids who's families weren't on social for 50p - and everyone was happy.

Made about £12 one year.

Oh, the shame when i think about it now....

The fact that you had the...

a) resourcefulness to think of it then
b) decency to regret now

... makes me respect you a lot.

ProudDUB · 10-05-2012 01:13AM

Ah entrepreneurship....you can't beat it !

When I was 10 I won a case of Jaffa Cakes from Big D, the pirate radio station that operated out of the old Regency Airport Hotel. It was some silly slogan competition sponsored by Jacobs, or whoever makes Jaffa Cakes.

Got them home, and my brother said he'd take them back to boarding school with him, as he knew I didn't like anything with jam in them. I probably would have given them to him if his attitude didn't piss me off. So Feck off sez I. What are you going to do with them, sell them? sez he. Great idea ! sez I.

So I put a sign up in my bedroom window saying Jaffa Cakes for Sale: 10p each or 50p for a packet. This was the 1970's. Jaffa cakes were seriously expensive. They were kind of things that your mammy would get in for visitors or the visit of the parish priest. They certainly weren't cheap every day eating.

Before too long, I had a big line of neighbourhood kids and some mammys too at my bedroom window, as I was selling them for less than half what they sold in shops for. Then my own mammy arrived home from her job hours before she normally did. She soon put an end to my sale of the century. She was mortified by what I did, and I was in serious trouble. Turns out one of the nosy neighbours thought that I had shop lifted the Jaffa Cakes, and called her at work to tell her what I was up to. :mad:

I had sold most of the Jaffa cakes by the time she showed up. Luckily I had the sense to hide most of my moolah before she demanded that I hand it over. It was 10 times what I made for my weekly pocket money. I thought I was the bees knees.

Later on, I did feel guilty about not giving them to my brother as he really did have crap food to eat at school.

Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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