snubbleste wrote: » Now that is definitely stingy! Maybe boardsies could pick one person each and issue an FoI for expenses: ...
Odyssey 2005 wrote: » Has to be one of the stingiest things in the world for Government ministers to get the citizens of the country to pay for his/her passport photos. A whole €12/15 when their wages is circs €157k. Wonder what else was pushed through.:(
snubbleste wrote: » That is not stingy, that is stealing.
cazzer22 wrote: » I worked in a supermarket for years and everytime I passed the serve yourself deli counter (with salads etc) I would see people using their hands to pick up coleslaw and shove it into their mouths. Disgusting and also very stingy. If you want to eat it, pay for it. Also some mothers were very bad for giving their children bread rolls and not saying a bit to you at the till. You'd blatantly see the child covered in crumbs, finishing off the end of a roll. STINGE.
gutenberg wrote: » Currently staying in the States, and have watched several times as a woman takes blatant advantage of the frozen yoghurt shop across the street. They give you one or two 'sample cups' when you arrive as they have 10+ flavours. This woman moves methodically up and down the machines and 'samples' each flavour 3 or 4 times. Doesn't buy anything, and is careful to leave when a big crowd is arriving in. Have seen her do it 2 or 3 times now, last time she stayed 'sampling' a good half-hour.
Deleted User wrote: » Similar story, but the "hotel" was in Glasgow. Selection of cheeses was yellow and orange easy singles. I sh*t you not.
Justin1982 wrote: » I stayed in a B&B in Belfast which was run by an Indian family. It was absolutely dreadful to stay in but the next morning they really showed their colours. The full Irish breakfast was absolutely manky. Sausages were worse than the cheapest sausages I'd come across before. But I broke my ass laughing when they replaced the grilled tomato with a cherry tomato. But not just a cherry tomato. The stingy hures cut the cherry tomato in half and gave me one half and my friend the other half.
Dan Jaman wrote: » Frugal? or Stingy?Prace your bets!
gutenberg wrote: » The hilarious thing about this woman is that I also see her at the gym very often. She's a 70-something-year-old lady, but she has clearly had an insane boob job done very very recently - everything else about her is skinny and saggy, except for these super-perky breasts (in case you were wondering, she likes to wander around naked and was drying her hair next to me for a good 10 minutes once, which is when I noticed). Clearly the message is that if you stinge on paying for frozen yoghurt, you can afford that boob job
duchalla wrote: » dunno if I'd call this stingy. I actually do something similar, I ask for extra ketchup when ordering my Qtr pounder with cheese meal. what ever I dont use, I bring to work with me. Canteen at work charges 30 cent a sachet...:D
smash wrote: » In McDonalds a woman who's finished her meal went up to the counter and asked for some ketchup. Threw around 5 or 6 sachets in her handbag and walked out.
ihavenoname3 wrote: » yeah, they are the worst kind of people to hang out with, you would wonder where it comes from, I see it runs in families a lot, tight dad usually equals tight son.
cazzer22 wrote: » I agree with you. Lots of us in our group of friends only realised how stingy she was and how ungrateful also. I don't speak to her anymore and have never really explained why I've just slowly reduced contact over the years. It was difficult at the time however, because I lived with her and it would only create unnecessary friction. She will never change though. God it's the worst trait for anyone to have isn't it?
ihavenoname3 wrote: » you are ridiculous for letting her walk all over you, we have all had "friends" like this in the past but you have to either pull them up on their behavior or cut them loose, driving her on a 4 hour journey which is an 8 hour journey as you have to go home is totally taking the pi$$, she wouldn't drive you 5 minutes down the road if you needed her to, and if she did she would look for petrol money.
chewed wrote: » "yoked them"????
cazzer22 wrote: » Same friend I mentioned above will invite herself to my house in Cork and stay for the whole weekend. My parents are generous and would frequently have given me money to take my friend out for dinner, given her plenty of wine, cooked vegetarian food for her and the whole lot. I'd drive her the whole way down (4 hours) from where I live and back- no mention of petrol money. She never invites people back to her house which is 45 minutes from Dublin (a lot closer compared to where we live). The thing that really took the biscuit is a recent wedding I was at. It was one of our mutual good friends. She happened to be at my table and piped up loudly ''would anyone like a drink, I'm heading to the bar'' to me and eight others. I said I'd love a glass of wine and I'd buy her next drink etc. A few others also said they'd love a drink. She went to the bar and came back with the drinks. I was very taken aback as she has never once offered me a drink, let alone lots of others at the table. I thanked her and she replied that I was welcome and discovered later that she never paid for the round of drinks at all. One of the lads did instead as she claimed she didn't have enough money. I could write a book on her- she's absolutely ridiculous.
chewed wrote: "yoked them"????
Hollister11 wrote: » I hope you didn't pay her. The cheek.
cazzer22 wrote: » Loving this thread! I shared a house with four of my friends in college. I drove to college (half hour drive) and back every day and brought them and they NEVER so much as offered any petrol money. They gladly took the free lifts. I was babysitting for my aunt during college as well and my ex friend kept complaining about how bored she would be when I was babysitting (we're both from different counties and were staying up the weekend). Feeling bad I offered for her to come with me. At the end of the babysitting she expected half the money!! Ridiculous.
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