Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

partyguinness

caspertheghost wrote: »

No way! My story is about a teacher too. They are a miserable lot.

Oh yeah teachers are notoriously miserable.

There is a teacher in the local national at the moment...he is prob the only one in the world without a mobile...as he lives next to the school he uses the school phone as his personal phone and spends half the day making calls it.

In the trade profession there is a saying:

"Never work for teachers and guards."

They are both as bad as each other and expect everything for free.

GA361

partyguinness wrote: »

In the trade profession there is a saying:

"Never work for teachers and guards."

They are both as bad as each other and expect everything for free.

Although part of that may be good money management,tbh.Yeah I know loads of the casses mentioned here seem to be extremes . . . but teachers and guards traditionally earned sh!t money.
(BTW I dont want a whole load of responses about public sector wages,this is a light-hearted thread)

JONJO THE MISER

trailerparkboy wrote: »

Well i admit im a big thight with money and so what i ask you. For example i will never go to the cinema at night just during the day so i can get it cheaper, will never buy coke or popcorn there will buy it at the nearest tesco beforehand. I will never pay for a bag at the supermarket never even if i have to walk 2 miles with shooping in my arms.
Also i will never ever get a taxi home on nights out i always walk home and that takes me a hour and a half to 2 hours, i just dont beleive in wasting money on taxis, before i go home i might get some chips which i haggle for in the chiper usually only pay 1 euro when they are 2 euro, and if i go to the local spar or centra and want wedges i dont ask for a portion i ask for 10 wedges which i get for 80 cent always the same price because they know me and laught at it, wheras the person who orders a portion gets maybe 12 to 13 wedges and pays 2 euro for it so basically im making a good saving.

Will somebody please give this guy a gold medal.

NedTermo

GA361 wrote: »

Although part of that may be good money management,tbh.Yeah I know loads of the casses mentioned here seem to be extremes . . . but teachers and guards traditionally earned sh!t money.
(BTW I dont want a whole load of responses about public sector wages,this is a light-hearted thread)

Yes it is a light hearted thread so dont sh!t on it with your 2 cents mr. teacher, bad pay my arse

partyguinness

GA361 wrote: »

Although part of that may be good money management,tbh.Yeah I know loads of the casses mentioned here seem to be extremes . . . but teachers and guards traditionally earned sh!t money.
(BTW I dont want a whole load of responses about public sector wages,this is a light-hearted thread)

Ah but you see...people who earn a lot less money never delay in paying their bills...teachers and guards are obsessed..they think everyone else is earning far more than them..but lets not side track the thread.

GA361

NedTermo wrote: »

Yes it is a light hearted thread so dont sh!t on it with your 2 cents mr. teacher, bad pay my arse

Yes,I'm a seventeen year old teacher:rolleyes:

partyguinness wrote: »

Ah but you see...people who earn a lot less money never delay in paying their bills...teachers and guards are obsessed..they think everyone else is earning far more than them..but lets not side track the thread.

I agree,let's not

CallMeMiss

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Another amusing one in this (hotel) bar was this middle aged women who would bring in her own tea bags.
She would then kindly ask the staff for a pot of boiling water and a cup. Then spend hours in the lounge sipping away at no expense.

I was in college during the year. At least 5 days a week I would be in the library from 10am - 8/9pm.

I love my tea and coffee and would have at least 5 cups a day. Now the canteen in college was charging about 2.30 per cup. So one day I said feck this and started bringing on my own tea bags and coffee.
Saved a bomb untill the ba£*%ds started charging for the hot water!!!

Anyway I dont think its stingy I think its smart....

GA361

CallMeMiss wrote: »

I was in college during the year. At least 5 days a week I would be in the library from 10am - 8/9pm.

I love my tea and coffee and would have at least 5 cups a day. Now the canteen in college was charging about 2.30 per cup. So one day I said feck this and started bringing on my own tea bags and coffee.
Saved a bomb untill the ba£*%ds started charging for the hot water!!!

Anyway I dont think its stingy I think its smart....

Ever hear of a flask?

Mayoegian

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Will somebody please give this guy a gold medal.

I ain't paying for it..

CallMeMiss

GA361 wrote: »

Ever hear of a flask?

Yes smartarse I have. But its much more convenient to throw a couple of tea bags into my bag than carry a flask around with me all day!

GA361

CallMeMiss wrote: »

Yes smartarse I have. But its much more convenient to throw a couple of tea bags into my bag than carry a flask around with me all day!

Ha ha,I joke . . .

Smushbush

one of my mates is pretty bad...we were waiting for a bus one day and the standard child fair is 80cent i think..my mate is 18, and he specifically took a shave to get a child fair down to dun laoghaire..i'll never forget that hahaha

GA361

Smushbush wrote: »

one of my mates is pretty bad...we were waiting for a bus one day and the standard child fair is 80cent i think..my mate is 18, and he specifically took a shave to get a child fair down to dun laoghaire..i'll never forget that hahaha

If ya can pull it off sure why not?:D

G_R

this is defo one of the best threads ive read in a long time. should be stickied.

i had a part-time job a while back, and when you do a 5 hour shift you were entitled to a paid 15 minutes break and you have to record in a book what time you took your break at. One day i was when on my break with X. as i was coming back in to work i got a phone call. Thinking nothing of it i answered and was talking for about 3 or 4 mins on the phone. Went back into work, the boss said how come X was back 5 mins ago and you werent? I said oh sorry i got a phone call. Then he says put down that you took a 20 minute break instead of a 15 so i said ye grand and did. Got my wage pack at the end of the week. I worked 21 hours...i got paid for 20.88 hrs or 20hrs and 55 mins. Stingy fcuk!:mad:

TomCo

CallMeMiss wrote: »

I was in college during the year. At least 5 days a week I would be in the library from 10am - 8/9pm.

I love my tea and coffee and would have at least 5 cups a day. Now the canteen in college was charging about 2.30 per cup. So one day I said feck this and started bringing on my own tea bags and coffee.
Saved a bomb untill the ba£*%ds started charging for the hot water!!!

Anyway I dont think its stingy I think its smart....

Hmmm, I think I spent 4 years in this college.

pebbles21

My ex boss and i were heading back to his car in a city centre street,he was just about to start the car when he takes the keys back from the ignition and says" what time is on that parking meter ticket?"

I said 2:15 ,he looks at his watch and says "its only five past sure we might as well wait for the extra ten minutes!"

I thought he was messing but no the stingy fecker sat there for another ten minutes!(this guy retired a multi-millionaire btw)

maninasia

nice1franko wrote: »

That's all well and good but this isn't England.

The bloke is French and in France a pint is about 8 euro (possibly just in the rip off tourist places I've been to).

In Ireland, 2.20 doesn't get you a pint. End of. Slamming yer pittance down and demanding it because it can be had for that in other places in the world is no justification. When in Rome....

For example, a tube of Colgate toothpaste costs about 25 cent in Thailand. March up to the checkout here (or England for that matter) slam down your toothpaste and 25cent and see what you get...

hint- nothin if you're lucky, squirt of toothpaste in the eye if you're not. and rightfully so.

No, but the pub should be able to provide some alcohol for 2.20, which is what he asked for. If I was the owner I wouldn't be happy that the barman is turning away customers.

useful_contacts

pebbles21 wrote: »

My ex boss and i were heading back to his car in a city centre street,he was just about to start the car when he takes the keys back from the ignition and says" what time is on that parking meter ticket?"

I said 2:15 ,he looks at his watch and says "its only five past sure we might as well wait for the extra ten minutes!"

I thought he was messing but no the stingy fecker sat there for another ten minutes!(this guy retired a multi-millionaire btw)

what a tit

maninasia

Here's my less than 2 cents.

I have a friend who likes to call and hang up directly upon hearing me answer the phone, first time I thought that was strange , happened lots of times after that and I copped on. This was the same guy who would call and 'miss call' me also so I would call him back. He stopped doing that when I refused to call him back at all...got the message I guess. Now he just texts me to call him back cos his credit is running out...

There's a good one in Seinfeld where Kramer is left alone in Jerry's room momentarily. Nothing's happening until you see Kramer rooting around in the back of Jerry's sofa for the next 20 seconds for loose change and finds a few choice coins. He hears Jerry coming back in and acts all innocent. Good one...

There are some great posts here, but it's good to know the difference between stinginess and economy...economy is not wasting stuff needlessly. There is also a rip-off culture in Ireland that is apparent more to outsiders than locals..for example the mention above of pre-paid hourly meters for city corporations in Ireland, in other countries they are often counted by actual time or up to the last ten minutes of use!

Victor

maninasia wrote: »

for example the mention above of pre-paid hourly meters for city corporations in Ireland, in other countries they are often counted by actual time or up to the last ten minutes of use!

??? Many of them are to the nearest 10c.

maninasia

Not in Dublin when I used them, they were pre-paid in 30 minute intervals.

nitrogen

An ex-colleague secretly boasted to me to never buying a round. His main secret was never entering the pub first, but holding the door for his mates, thus never getting to the counter first.

jayteecork

Really fecking annoys me seeing people open their palm and meticolously count the change they're given in shops.

Not only is it tight as fúck it holds up the queue.

Bren_C

I had a party in my new house a couple of years ago, was working in a wholesalers so got LOTS of beer (mainly miller and bud) which all were welcome to have. One of the lads arrives with 4 cans of Heinken, drinks all night until 3-4 am and when he's leaving in the morning takes the ONE can of heineken he hadn't drank home with him (he was too busy drinking everything else).He says 'sure no-one else likes heinken I wouldn't like to see it wasted' !!!

jayteecork

Bren_C wrote: »

I had a party in my new house a couple of years ago, was working in a wholesalers so got LOTS of beer (mainly miller and bud) which all were welcome to have. One of the lads arrives with 4 cans of Heinken, drinks all night until 3-4 am and when he's leaving in the morning takes the ONE can of heineken he hadn't drank home with him (he was too busy drinking everything else).He says 'sure no-one else likes heinken I wouldn't like to see it wasted' !!!

In my younger days I used show up with 6 Dutch Mould and plonk it on the table.

Then help myself to nice chilled bottles of Tiger beer or something, lol.

At least I'd leave the dutch there if no one drank it.

A_SN

Bren_C wrote: »

I had a party in my new house a couple of years ago, was working in a wholesalers so got LOTS of beer (mainly miller and bud) which all were welcome to have. One of the lads arrives with 4 cans of Heinken, drinks all night until 3-4 am and when he's leaving in the morning takes the ONE can of heineken he hadn't drank home with him (he was too busy drinking everything else).He says 'sure no-one else likes heinken I wouldn't like to see it wasted' !!!

You think that's bad? I make sure to never bring anything in the first place

iregk

Was at a 21st a while back. A woman (in her 50's) at a table next to us was filling her handbag with rolls and meats from the usual 21st buffet of cold salads and stuff.

When she caught us looking she said for the husbands lunches during the week. My wife laughed it off and while out of ear shot said to me: "what a stingy oul bag"

jenzz

A foreign national taking a balloon out of a bin on Henry St & giving it to his baby to play with. What ever about stingy - its rotten.........

Healium

Lynskey wrote: »

Once, while i was on the bus, i overheard two young lads(probably in secondary school), goin on how they had no money for drink this coming friday(alcohol, obviously). One of them suggested they do a "collection". Intrigued, i followed them off the bus for a bit. They went up to someone holding a collection bucket for the disabled who was apparently their friend and asked if they cold borrow his bucket. Again, i followed them to a corner of a street where they almost forced the money out of an old man's pocket, saying they were collecting money "for the victims of 9/11"-it was practically robbery. Disgusted, I approached them and questioned their "motives". One of them immediately produced a knife and told me to "donate" or i would soon be a victim of something else. I backed away onto the main street where there where lots of people and they soon backed away into an alley like a couple of snakes. This immoral and macabre display has stuck with me as a shining example of how most of today's teenagers are egotistical and corrupt-and for that they deserve something i rarely give out: FIVE frowny faces:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: also one for the poor man:(

Whoa whoa whoa! i just stumbled across this,and you can't stereotype us all! we're about 50 percent knackers,but the rest of us are model citizens!

Healium

Tags; cavan people. Hahaha!

chezzer

My uncle knew this guy .... from an area/country well known for their meanness .... can i mention it --- lets say it lies north of the USA and south of the north pole ...

anyway ... out for a meal ... he'd offer to pay for the meal with his credit card ... and everyone pay him in cash .. including the tip ...

what he wouldn't tell them was he'd pay for the meal ... and pocket the tip ...

baxstard!!

Porkpie

It's funny to see people walking past the homeless, not bothering to throw in any change and avoiding eye contact at all costs, but curiously reading the message written on the cardboard sign. What are they thinking? "ah, he spelled hostel wrong, God love him".

Bluefoam

Porkpie wrote: »

It's funny to see people walking past the homeless, not bothering to throw in any change and avoiding eye contact at all costs, but curiously reading the message written on the cardboard sign. What are they thinking? "ah, he spelled hostel wrong, God love him".

I never give to beggars on the street. I know people who work with the homeless & say that you are better to give the money to charity - beggars can earn up to a couple of grand a day... also there are a lot of people who are not homeless who beg to increase their income...

John-Holmes

Tight as a ducks ass. And thats water tight.

partyguinness

Whenever anyone asks me for change I always say:

"No thanks, I am good for change."

or

"Yeah I have loads of change actually, thanks for asking."

Said that one night to a bum outside the The Temple Bar pub. The bouncer laughed his bollocks off and the bum told me I was a smart cnut...:D

A_SN

partyguinness wrote: »

Whenever anyone asks me for change I always say:

"No thanks, I am good for change."

or

"Yeah I have loads of change actually, thanks for asking."

Said that one night to a bum outside the The Temple Bar pub. The bouncer laughed his bollocks off and the bum told me I was a smart cnut...:D

Hehe nice, I don't get the first one though

partyguinness

A_SN wrote: »

Hehe nice, I don't get the first one though

Well usually they hold out a cup saying "Spare Change"

And then I go:

"No thanks, I'm good for change." or a simple "No thanks" thus I give they impression that they are offering me something.

A_SN

partyguinness wrote: »

Well usually they hold out a cup saying "Spare Change"

And then I go:

"No thanks, I'm good for change." or a simple "No thanks" thus I give they impression that they are offering me something.

Oooh haha :pac:

Bluefoam

partyguinness wrote: »

Well usually they hold out a cup saying "Spare Change"

And then I go:

"No thanks, I'm good for change." or a simple "No thanks" thus I give they impression that they are offering me something.

Wow, thats incredibly witty. Did you think of that all by yourself?

A_SN

Bluefoam wrote: »

Wow, thats incredibly witty. Did you think of that all by yourself?

lol.

*grabs some pop-corn*

JONJO THE MISER

I ask this question because im really interested, i mean if your on the dole and also Beg i assume they would make a good few bob per week, ive heard of professional beggars before but i dunno how much one could make per week from begging.

SV

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

I ask this question because im really interested, i mean if your on the dole and also Beg i assume they would make a good few bob per week, ive heard of professional beggars before but i dunno how much one could make per week from begging.

I'd say they're earning hundreds of thousands a year.

A_SN

SV wrote: »

I'd say they're earning hundreds of thousands a year.

Really? I mean, I've heard that many times before, but it's hard to believe someone could make that much money from a legal low-qualifications job like this, and then if they make that much money that's surely not thanks to me :pac:

SV

A_SN wrote: »

Really? I mean, I've heard that many times before, but it's hard to believe someone could make that much money from a legal low-qualifications job like this, and then if they make that much money that's surely not thanks to me :pac:

Yeah, definitely*












* no :P

A_SN

SV wrote: »

Yeah, definitely*












* no :P

Mmmh, that was sarcasm the whole time? Damn those things can be hard to pick up sometimes.

BeQuiet

Sharpshooter wrote: »

My bro , whenever he's out with mates for a drink, is always the first to put his hand in his pocket , and keep it there.:(
My dad reckons he still has his Communion money:D.

Sorry bro.:P

That is a GREAT line :

xxxxxx is always the first to put his hand in his pocket , ... and keep it there

alipackers

Drinks with a mate in town. I got the first round. He asks for a pint of Erdinger I get a pint of Bulmers (dont drink beer) his round follows and he comes back with 2 Fosters!!! Fosters were on special for €3 that nite!!
What the hell??!?? Abuse followed!!!



Sadly the exact thing happened with the same person on 2 separate occasions!!!

Stinge!!!

dilallio

I shared a house wity 3 other guys in Galway a few years back.
One Fri evening when I returned home from work, I heard a scraping noise coming from the back.
One of the lads was shovelling the last bit of coal (which we all had paid for) from the bunker into a bag. I asked him what he was doing - he told me he was going home for the weekend, and was afraid that we would use the rest of the coal over the weekend, so he decided to bring it home with him.

pebbles21

partyguinness wrote: »

Whenever anyone asks me for change I always say:

"No thanks, I am good for change."

or

"Yeah I have loads of change actually, thanks for asking."

Said that one night to a bum outside the The Temple Bar pub. The bouncer laughed his bollocks off and the bum told me I was a smart cnut...:D

Few years ago my boss who was Indian used to get his Father (who was in his late eighties)to go to the bank with the cash takings from the following day

One day i with him ,he was struggling up sth william st with his bag of cash in one hand and his walking stick in the other ,when a beggar comes up to him and says "any spare change mister?"

In his finest Indian accent he says"im very sorry sir i have only fifty pound notes!!" and cackles to himself all the way to the bank

iregk

alipackers wrote: »

Drinks with a mate in town. I got the first round. He asks for a pint of Erdinger I get a pint of Bulmers (dont drink beer) his round follows and he comes back with 2 Fosters!!! Fosters were on special for €3 that nite!!

Similar thing happened to me. Was drinking is Messers Maguires. I got the first round, 2 x Heineken. His round followed, 2x home brew on special for €3 a pop. He was nearly wearing the pint!!!