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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do
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Did you come to dinner empty handed?Now that I think of the subject of stinginess : When I was abroad on Erasmus an Irish ''friend'' invited me and a bunch of Spanish Erasmus students for an ''Irish breakfast'' or dinner at his apartment. When it was over he demanded 5 euro from each one to cover expenses. I was the only one there that actually got a bit angry over this. I told him that if I invited anyone for dinner at my place I don't charge them like a restaurant. Maybe I'm naive (and he didnt expect anyone to invite him back which was wrong in my case) but it just seems wrong. The Spanish and the Italian had no issues paying. I paid just because I did'nt want to make him think I owed him anything and we were in the middle of a boom anyway and my pocket was full of cash I had saved up before going away. I did however make a scene. Was I right or wrong ? I just can't see how it's right to invite someone over and then charge them otherwise it's not an invite but a form of extortion or a piss poor restaurant. I would have spent the money on a kebab instead and still have change left over
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There's nothing wrong with him asking for you to pay - the problem I would have here is that it wasn't made clear before accepting the "invitation" that you had to pay. I wouldn't care if I had just won the euromillions - I'd have told him to f$%k off.
Are you serious? You don't invite people to your house for dinner if you can't afford to feed them
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Now that I think of the subject of stinginess : When I was abroad on Erasmus an Irish ''friend'' invited me and a bunch of Spanish Erasmus students for an ''Irish breakfast'' ... Was I right or wrong ? I just can't see how it's right to invite someone over and then charge them otherwise it's not an invite but a form of extortion or a piss poor restaurant. I would have spent the money on a kebab instead and still have change left over
Ugh. Something similar happened to me over ten years ago, I was a trainee in recruitment company so not making even vaguely decent money yet, a woman on team invited us all to hers for BBQ. It was across town other direction, middle of week before payday so all a bit broke / tired but we thought it'd be rude not to go. This woman was one of the biggest billers in company and this was back in days when recruitment paid a LOT. We were still in office all chatting and working out who would taxi with who to her house when she walked into room and requested ten pounds from all of us. You can imagine my delight after I also forked out for taxi there to be greated by a few burgers (I'm veggie) and doritos which had apparently cost £140, I was asked to cough up more cash for my booze because the tenner only covered food (an expensive handful of doritos for me). Add £30 for another taxi hom total of £60 out of my pittance paycheque seemed a lot for sitting in aomebodys house. These days I'd tell her to get bent effectively tricking us into buying her weeks groceries but I was young / new in company and given how much money everybody was always throwing around I didn't want to make a fuss.0 -
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Things people do to try and save money is ridiculous
A few years ago I was working as a waitress in a pub when a group of four men came in. Two of them ordered steak and I cant remember what the other two ordered. So i took the order and gave them their drinks and brought out their meals when they were ready. now this was good pub food where you got value for your money and sides were not charged extra. About ten minutes after they received their food and went to check on the table, yano see if everything was ok, if they had enough of everything the usual! Then it began one of the men who had ordered the steak started telling me how disgusting it was, barely edible and slop for what he was paying now i was a bit taken aback not because he was complaining but because over half the food on his plate had been devoured and also because he didnt even stop eating the ''disgusting'' steak to complain...he had his mouth full the whole time :eek: :eek:
so i gathered myself and like all good waitresses I first apologised, then offered to take it away and get him somthing else from the menu that he might enjoy more! he declined!
When it eventually came time to clearing the plates I tried again to be pleasant...was everything ok? would you like deserts to which this man again replies how unsatisfied he was etc. at this point i found it hard not to laugh!! every single of morsel of food had been cleared from his plate and from his side dish...it literally looked like he had licked the plate clean
So again I apologised cleared the plates and went about my day...i thought it was over there! nope that was just the intro!
he eventually sauntered up to the till to pay...so i clock up the bill and he looks at me in disbelief...he then proceeds to have a ten minute argument with me that he shouldn't have to pay for his steak because he didn't like it to which i replied he wouldn't have been charged for the steak if he had not eaten it/accepted something else and the argument went back and forth for ten minutes until he realised I wasn't budging and he'd have to pay!!
The effort some people go to save money never fails to amuse me...if that's how he left a plate of food he didn't enjoy I'd hate to see how the condition of a plate that food he liked was served on!!!0 -
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