AIBU to ask what cheeky things you've seen people to do in order to not have to pay

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First off, this is supposed to be a cheeky fucker thread. This is not a thread laughing at people making attempts to cut back to save money. Just want to make that clear!

This thread is inspired by my friend I went swimming with yesterday. Our local pool does wrist bands that indicate what time you entered, so yellow for 2-4, blue for 4-6, etc...

My friend was very adamant we HAD to go swimming at the 4-6 slot. I didn't question it but found her insistence odd.

It turns out she had blue bands from her last swimming session! She had just kept them and not handed them in

When we entered the pool she shouted "oh don't worry I already have the bands" to the pool employees. So not an outright lie but they assumed she paid!

It's a busy pool as well, so I doubt they notice she hasn't paid

I asked her why she did it and she said she'd paid once and if she could get in for free by keeping the bands, why pay?

any other stories like this?

My father also once said he went to a barbecue where the owner requested everyone bring a 'portion of coal' but I still think that was a joke (or hope)

The posts about people who are "helping" and actually coming in free to charity events really resonates with me as an ex chair of the school PTA and the summer fetes. Plus trying to sneak in at the disco. As PP have said, entry is only £1 or £2, and is for the benefit of the school.

With this, and the other things I've read on this thread I just have to tell myself that if you're THAT person, your life has to be shit. It just has to be. If you think you've 'won' by cheating, then you ultimately only cheat yourself. I have to say this to myself a lot, but I do believe it.

*She always produced some meat and seafood from her designer bag to plonk in when the waiters weren't looking

Isn't that reverse cheeky ?! She's bringing her own ingredients to a meal grin*

In this type of restaurant, you pay for the ingredients you cook. If you bring your own, you pay a lot less.

Many years ago, I was in a restaurant with a 'help yourself' salad bar that allowed one visit only. I watched in fascination as a young man filled his bowl with salad, then spent some time constructing an ingenious 'extension' to the sides of the salad bowl using sticks of celery, until he had a double-height bowl to fill with more salad.

Not surprisingly, in the end, he left most of the salad untouched, so it was a wasted effort, apart from the amusement he afforded his fellow diners.

I work in a bowling alley. Lots of customers with young kids pay for two games, kids get bored after one and ask for a refund. Company policy is to give vouchers for another time or a refund if pushy. That’s fine.
One guy came and asked to be refunded as his sister had been rushed into hospital and they needed to leave ASAP. Manager gave refund was very nice wished the sister to get well soon etc. I over heard the guy saying to his friend that he just blagged that his sister was ill to get a refund.
I know that it’s no where near as bad as any of the others but to lie about ah I’ll relative for a few quid back is a bit grim.

My sister drives me nuts because she always goes on about how her and her DH are doing so well yet they regularly get his mother to get free scripts for them. It's shameful what they are doing. Meanwhile they both complain bitterly that my father has had such a struggle getting treatment for his cancer on the NHS...... not that they would know because it's been DH and I who have been the ones who have done everything for my father from 3000 miles away.

A fantastic festival in the spring raising money for charity. There was a £3 entrance fee and I witnessed a gentleman refusing to pay and shoving past people with buckets on path. Just awful

Another so called 'friend' who stole numerous bottles of wine from my wedding and had the cheek to try and leave without even saying goodbye carrying various bottles under her arms

My friend - known for tightness - used to turn up on a girls' night at mine with a Panda Pops style bottle filled with enough Vodka just for her.

My other friends turned up with food and drink for sharing, which I provided also.

Some of these are fraud and deception! Price swapping, claiming for duplicates after claiming first item didn’t arrive, returning used stuff back to shops, etc. It’s disgusting. I can’t believe people like this exist and get away with their cheap behaviour.

There’s a reason why TK Maxx price labels are really difficult to remove (after you have bought the item and taken it home, I mean!). The labels are super sticky and are cut into sections to stop price switchers in the store. They have such a wide range of stuff that the staff wouldn’t be able to say, hang on, I know for a fact that bowl is £10 not £5.

I used to work in a restaurant and we had a CF who tried the 'my card is declined' trick 3 times. He walked out with his meal for free twice but on the 3rd occasion I put on my concerned face, took the card from him and entered the details in manually on the card machine, bypassing the need for him to enter his pin.
I told him that the payment went through fine, the look on his face was a picture. He never came back

My aunt tends to eat half her meal and then say it wasn't cooked properly or it's not what she ordered but she'd only just realised. Works almost every time. It's too embarrassing to go out with her.

If people were hard up I would almost understand but it’s ALWAYS well-off people who’re just tight as a duck’s arse.

Here’s another ‘taking the piss with public funds’ story for your edification.

One of the organisations I worked with offered lease cars (company cars, basically) to people who HAD to travel by car, ie mobile staff, and who had to travel at least 15,000 miles per year by car.

The lies people used to tell to get a free car were astounding. Their own line managers wouldn’t challenge the requests because they were up to the same ruses. They all thought it was great: free cars paid for by the taxpayer, and they wouldn’t miss it, eh?

Examples: inventing meetings at the far end of the country just to ‘get the miles in’. Using trips from the major Northern city we were based at to central London as part of the planned mileage (they would, of course, then take the train, which would have been the obvious thing to do, having already secured themselves a car).

One guy asked for a car ‘because I’ve got a family’, despite not qualifying for one. His fuckwit manager sponsored the request and they were both most put out when we squashed it.

Another woman claimed to be married to a senior police officer hence needed a car to get to work in ‘because my husband has made many enemies’. It wasn’t clear why he or she weren’t concerned enough about these ‘enemies’ to buy her a car themselves.

I could go on about the shameless abuse of public funds, but I won’t. It would depress you, and as other posters have noted, it eventually spoils things for the people who actually need to eg provide refreshments for foreign diplomats or drive to visit clients.

OMG I had a best friend about ten years ago and I kid you not during years of friendship she never had to put her hand in her pocket!
1- be in que for funfair she would randomly say she needed the loo and would disappear as I was about to pay !
2- in line at Asda que would “forget” something she needed and walk off to get it leaving me with a small bill!
3- stood at bar- would say “oh just get me what your having and walk to table!
4- would never pay her half of taxi saying she would get first round of drinks but would make sure was the cheapest!
5- would come over for tea but never did I get an invite in return
6- would come round on Tuesdays when dominoes was two for one on large pizzas but would contribute to bill!
The list goes on !
We are no longer friends

Cherry, that's why they're well-off!

Worked in a school, was in charge of getting the big xmas tree for the main hall (as has been the case for many year's) we usually get anywhere between a 12-15ft tree. Last year a parent who runs a xmas tree farm gifted the school a tree and gave me a date to come and choose it. A high up member of staff decided they wanted to come to the farm to "help" (they were much more senior then me so basically took over and got final say)
They picked a 7ft tree, because apparently they didn't want to take advantage of someone's good gesture. Well the tree looked ridiculous in our huge hall, and didn't fit 1/4 of the decorations the children made for it. Last day of terms comes around and the children are all gone, I see this member of staff shoving the xmas tree into their trailer and taking it home.

We usually donate the tree to a local zoo for the animals.....

My aunty took all the candles from my wedding reception. I had bought them myself and another guest collected them up for me to take home but she helped herself.
At work we do pick n mix fill a pot for a quid. People fill it so its poking out the top then complain the lid wont stay on and ask if we can stick it on or something. Cheeky fuckers. I say no sorry.
F.b always gets me when they ask for free stuff for a baby or a new flat. I just couldn't ask.

I see this member of staff shoving the xmas tree into their trailer and taking it home. How do you know they were taking it home? They might have been taking it down to the local zoo or somewhere else and offered to do it because they had a trailer.

My BIL is like this. They are not badly off but they used to sneak one of their kids into a hotel abroad - for a week! - you were supposed to show passports at check in and the other child just hid. I think it was when he was over 12 so would’ve been more expensive or not being allowed to share a room. They went there a few times and did this.

This could be a thread in itself but a rant about this has been brewing for so long!!!

My dfriend and I took our children to a safari park over the summer, she was insistent it had to be this particular one even though her children had already been about 5 times in the past month. At this park you pay per head to get into the actual safari, and then they also have a theme park where you have to pay additionally for a wristband to access the rides I did not necessarily think about this until we got there but I do get a discount through a scheme we are part of.

Anyway, I only have dd(4). Friend has 3 dc’s between the ages 2-6. We stopped at a service station on the way where df became insistent that her eldest dc (4&6) were playing up because they wanted to travel in my car. Cue lots of moving car seats etc. Soon realised why when we drove into the park, my cost had suddenly doubled and cf friend only had to pay for herself as under 3’s went free! Assumed she had done so because of discount and questionned why she did not just ask me, and she shrugged and said she would buy the wristbands for everyone (half the cost of the entrance fee) it was a horrible day, her dc’s were so bored having been so often that they were whiny and just not interested. Wristband time came and she was insistent we bought separately handing me the £13 (lowest cost level band) or so for dd’s band (I was pg meaning I couldn’t go on anything anyway!) I paid an extra £5 to upgrade dd’s wristband to to top access.

They then disappeared for about 15 mins. We caught up with her eventually and her chn all had their wristbands on, top access to all rides etc. Now the wristbands that this park offer are just plain neon coloured bands that you see at many events, no logo or anything. As I was left to look after stuff whilst they were on rides couldn’t help but notice her open bag was full of wads of these wristbands, every colour going, that she had clearly purchased on eBay. She had disappeared off to suss out what colour was that days colour before putting them on her dc! So her whole day out for all 4 of them cost basically £13. I have nothing against cutting costs and saving but I think this was cheeky fuckery at its finest!

I would have 'accidentally' tipped her bag out and loudly asked what all those bands were!

I assume you are no longer friends!

Local secondary to me the superhead was sacked for various things but one was that she would buy expensive furniture for the school (armchairs etc) but have them in her house and give the school her cast offs

Forgot to add that her ds(6) happily told me that on previous occasions they had gone in he and his sister had been hiding in the boot!! Wish she had tried that this time, I’d have been £40 better off! X

No, not friends anymore ...this was the straw that broke the camels back. Watch out for a whole line of new threads in the near future!!

I briefly worked for this Blair babe headteacher. We often commented on her private driver along with other things. Turns out excessive taxi use was one of her lesser crimes against taxpayers money. The full set of dining chairs she was testing out at home and the massive birthday party were more salacious. She is banned from teaching for life. I so wish I'd seen her the day after she had fallen asleep under her sunbed, apparently it was hilarious and her skin is really showing it now.

Ha ha scaredy - shap!

And this is a school where I remember they were pleading for money to build accommodation for homeless sixth formers (of which there were a few)