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)

Hoping, that is but glad he got his comeuppance. He probably thought he was better than anyone else because of his town councillor status.

I have another one. My dmum used to work as a checkout lady at a big supermarket chain and a lady came to her till and handed her a banana skin and said I ate this on my way round as I had no breakfast. Dmum calls for a supervisor to get a code for the banana to add to her bill. Supervisor comes back with a banana and dmum. Shopping lady says "The banana I ate was smaller than that". Supervisor gave her a stern look and said "How do we know that?" After a lot of arguing, she had to pay for the banana and left vowing never to shop with this supermarket again.

And people will be surprised when the genuinely needy have to jump through even more hoops to get food

It's the same as the arseholes who pretended to lose family at grenfell. All they're doing is making people more suspicious and more wary of helping. They should be made an example of

Wow after reading these I don’t feel like a massive CF. Took the kids out yesterday for lunch 9,7 and 1. Ordered kids meals (that includes a pudding) for all 3 even though the little one wouldn’t eat all of. When it was pudding time I eat the little ones pudding as she wasn’t interested and didn’t have a pudding myself.

I saw a bloke in Tesco swapping eggs, so putting the naice posh Burford Browns into the box of six cheapo caged hen ones and replacing the cheapo ones in the Burford Browns box.

And, I commute in central London and regularly see people getting on the middle doors of the buses and not tapping their Oysters and getting off a few stops later without paying.

It's the same as the arseholes who pretended to lose family at grenfell.

This happened more than I want to think about in New York after 9/11. Quite a few people were prosecuted for fraudulently seeking compensation or charity claiming they had losses.

9/11 scams

somedaysIwonder

on last day all kids followed me to get ice cream when their kids tried to place their order i said Oh have you got money, No daddy said you're buying safe to say I did not buy them ice cream.

Well done. As kids we wouldn't have dared ask someone for ice cream even if I my parents had told me to.

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I'm so glad the thieving women were caught! Waiting staff do now ask how food is in the UK.

The only time I complained about a weird tasting over-salted dish, I was told I just wasn't used to eating that dish

Can't resist sharing this BBC video interviewing a PYO farmer we know on the subject of scoffing as you go round.

I daren't remember how much we spent last time we went, mind you!

used to work for a lovely company who used to foot the bill for a local awards day. think awards, half day out, meal hotel overnight rooms etc. one year we were left in the bar for a hour and were told to charge our drinks. on the following monday we were all called int the manager's office and asked what we had been drinking.whilst most of us had drunk a couple of beers or glasses of wine a group of about 5 had been drinking triple jack daniels and coke and the bill for around 20 of us was over 2 grand. the next year they supplied pitchers and bottles of wine only

I remember the year some CFs were ordering rounds of absinthe on the free bar. I'm not sure we even had a Christmas party the next year partly because of the CFery but also the carnage you can imagine resulted from that level of alcohol intake.

I'm so glad the thieving women were caught! Waiting staff do now ask how food is in the UK.

I met a British couple visiting here many years ago who couldn't stop talking about how good the service was in American restaurants. They were asked if everything was okay with their order and it gobsmacked them. They said it would never happen back in the UK, so I'm glad to see that you've imported the custom.

And I'm glad the women got their comeuppance too. The look of shock on their faces as the handcuffs went on was priceless!

The (ex) friend who charged her 300 wedding guests £25 each (this is going back 20 years when £25 was £25 ) to come to her wedding. There was a little tear-off slip at the bottom of your printed A4 paper invite so you could enter how many people were coming - adults and children were charged the same - and send it back to her with your cheque. There was also a ticky box bit to add a further 'optional gift'. She was fucking chuffed to tiny little pieces that she'd got a deal whereby she paid the venue £8 a head, too, so a tidy profit was made. Oh, and when you sent back your 'remittance' you got a proper formal invite 'to keep forever' - with details of the wedding list, where no gift was under £50.

Needless to say they got divorced. She remarried a couple of years ago and this time guests were told to pay for her £10,000 honeymoon - she set up a GoFundMe and you'd only be able to accept the invitation if you donated ('helping me and DH to make magical memories which will last forever'). She graciously stated that further gifts of cash or 'shiny items for our shiny new home' were optional but welcome. She's 47 and earns almost £100k a year. Oh, and she wanted the hens to pay for her hen holiday (a week in Barcelona), too.

Can you see why she's an ex friend?

Ginfiend unfortunately I've seen a chef spitting in food, so it does happen. Not everywhere, but it does

What did you do.?

In my friend's restaurant, she (as manager) goes around all the tables after food is served, to check that people are happy with their meal. This is how she manages to not give people free food if they complain (however loudly). They've had their chance to have any mistakes rectified, if they didn't take it (and, usually, cleared their plates) then they really aren't entitled to complain afterwards.

I have a friend I know from uni, this is just one example from a very very long list.

During uni she'd dodge paying for taxis etc, she'd eat food people were throwing out, you get the idea. She didn't come from a poor background by any means.

Just after we'd all graduated we had a weekend down at hers, she lived in a very expensive part of the country but rent free in a flat a family member owned. She'd secured a very well paid job too so she was doing pretty well. I was still looking for a grad job so wasn't earning at the time. We went out for dinner having been out all day, we were STARVING so ordered starters and mains. She went to order and said she only wanted a starter (cheapest thing on the menu) and asked for tap water. The food came out, her starter was tiny and she was clearly starving. I sat eating my main and got about 1/2 way through but was stuffed, I put my knife and fork down and she sat and stared at the food, after a few minutes she said "are you leaving that?" I said "yes I'm full", she then said "well I hate to see food go to waste do you mind?" I said "well you are clearly starving so have it" she insisted she wasn't hungry and just didn't want it going to waste . Came to pay and we all put the meal drinks plus tip in. She paid for her bread sticks in 10 and 20ps, sat counting it out to the pence !!! This girl was not poor!!!

A few years later she tells us how she never touched her student loan and it was paid off for her by a family member, so she basically pocketed it. She bought a house a few years later with a 150k deposit which she proudly told us she'd been saving for since she was 16. We'd basically been subsidising her over the years so she could save for this house!!! She still cries poverty to this day even though her and her husband earn a lot.

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.

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I am obsessed with this thread.

I have a disabled friend who was complaining she couldn't go to a hospital appointment as she couldn't afford the fare. I offered her a lift and paid for parking. She then asked me not to tell anyone I had taken her, as another friend had given her money for a taxi.

I've just watched that food bank documentary. I can't believe that man happily watched a clearly starving person ask how he'd gotten so much and if he'd gotten his chocolate cake from the food bank.

Why was this man never even asked for a voucher whereas the black women never went back after being challenged for needing more than 3 vouchers.

I always use a tea bag twice to the horror of many of my friends and family.

What they don't know is I buy Sainsbury's Basics bags.

They have shot up in price though. They used to be 21p for 100g/40bags, now they are 50p.

I am obsessed with this thread.

I've gotten pulling in too, which is what reminded me of that story from my waitressing days.

I worked in restaurants a decade ago and always did checkbacks on people’s food. Thus, when someone cleaned their plate and then claimed they didn’t like it and should have a refund, I refused on grounds that they had more than one opportunity to tell me there was a problem. That they are the whole thing, told me all was good meant no refund. They didn’t like it, ah well ;)

I used to be a flight attendant and passengers would regularly try and eat the crew food. They would come in the galley and see our airline crew food or stuff we had purchased in the airport for ourselves and try and eat it.

Oh and the people who would try and sit in business class and think we wouldn’t notice. We always turfed them out!

The inlaws reuse tea bags. Dh tells how when he was a kid they cut a bag of crisps in half and gave him and his DB half each. Every school photo I've seen of him he's wearing P.E pumps as they never bought him shoes. Fortunately it didn't rub off on him.

MIL's best move was when I'd been given something to sell on by my DM. MIL told me I should sell it for £100 and tell DM it had gone for £50 and pocket the profit. She couldn't understand why I wouldn't rip off my DM. Weird.

Oh and the people who would try and sit in business class and think we wouldn’t notice. We always turfed them out!

DH used to have a job where he few a lot - over 100k miles a year, so he would regularly use his miles to upgrade from coach to business class on longer flights. He'd often find some CF from coach sitting in his seat and have to get the attendant to sort them out, and they'd usually wind up arguing with her too!

I'd never heard of passengers trying to eat crew food but I certain believe it.

Once worked in a (nice) shop where a lady came in to get a refund on something she'd bought. She didn't have a receipt but we could overlook that but couldn't find item on the system to check prices. When I appeared confused she stated she hadn't bought it from us but since we sold said items [just not that specific one] we could take it back!

Don't actually think she was being a CF, more just a bit stupid!

I work in a shop and if the card is declined they use another payment method. If they don’t have one we take ID and then they come back. If they don’t have ID then they have to wait and phone a friend to come and pay. They don’t get stuff for free.