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)

I dont know how people can have such brass necks.

I struggle to complain in restaurants even when there is a genuine problem incase they spit in my food.

It's worked for n a restaurant and a couple of local cheapskates came in and ordered a soup each. Then they asked for more bread. Then more. Then more. They just wanted a free meal of our delicious freshly baked bread and butter. In the end the owner had to tell them to order their mains or go. They left. What was really frustrating was that we were next door to a shop and for the money they spent they could have bought a couple of tins of soup and half a dozen loaves of bread!

Some of these are .
Mine was coming out of the hospital carpark, pay on the card then card out as you leave . A car came screaming up behind me beeping to try to get through the barrier before it came down again.
They must have the timings down pat.

I've been out with someone who took the tip off the plate before giving it to the waiter - the tip that the rest of us had put in and was pretty much her meal for free.

I've got one of these too! She didn't want to tip, which was pretty shabby because the staff had worked hard and the meal had been lovely so we put in extra to cover her share of the tip. She added up what was on the plate, realised it covered the bill and announced that she didn't need to put money in because the bill was covered. She was most put out when she was told to pay for her meal! And now she wonders why nobody is keen to go out for a meal with her.

@Reboot, Have no fear, the spitting in food thing doesn't happen. Ever.
I've worked in grotty pubs to fancy restaurants.
The chefs might swear a bit, (but only because some of them don't like being called out when they've done something wrong) or huff because they have to squeeze in the remaking of dish with all the other tickets (when they should have done it right in the first place!) but I can definitely reassure you, that there's no 'extra ingredients' added.

I had a friend who did the pretend stuff hadn’t arrived thing and then wondered why when ever things got delivered a picture was taken by the delivery driver.

Most of these aren't cheeky, they're thieves.

My sister, if going on a long journey, would drive to my parents house and borrow their car as she didn't want to put mileage on hers as it would affect the resale value and she'd have to get it serviced more often! I pulled her up on it and it seemed to be OK as 'mum doesn't mind'. Must have hit a nerve as I've noticed she takes public transport quite a bit.

Also used to work somewhere with a company policy to buy lunch if you were required to work during lunch break. It was meant as a nice gesture for staff who pulling out all the stops (also applied if you worked past 6). However, piss taking Colleague used to book meetings more or less daily, always at lunchtime and would book lunch for everyone who was invited.

People who take food from the breakfast buffet so they don't have to buy lunch.

Couples who demand no boxed gifts and cash only so the wedding or honeymoon costs the guests rather than them.

People who get their children to lie about their age or do it for them to rip off an attraction.

It's also seems common to live the tag on an outfit or unpick a seam and take it back for a refund after it's been worn for an event.

I caught someone taking a box of wine from my wedding too!! Lots of booze stealing CFs out there!!

At my old workplace a fairly senior well paid man used to have a large Tupperware container on his desk in anticipation of there being any left over buffet if there were any lunchtime meetings.

If he attended the meeting he'd bring the container with him and load it up as soon as the buffet was done. If he wasn't at the meeting he'd get the receptionist to check the meeting room and soon as he knew there was buffet going he'd charge out of his office with the Tupperware tub tucked under his arm and hurtle down to the meeting room like his arse was on fire to get to the buffet before anyone else ( word got it quick when there was free food on offer).

It was a sight to behold and would crack us up over how determined he was to get to the curled sandwiches and chewy satay sticks. He'd even swoop up the parsley garnishes and dips.

At my wedding, one couple hid a few bottles of wine under the table to take home, the caterer saw them and said loudly, “There’s no need to hide the wine under the table, there is plenty to go around for everyone.”

I think they were embarrassed!

I'm no longer friends with a tip stealers/ thieves. We'd hung around a lot at each others houses and went to a pizza place with all of their DC. Their DC were wild, they wrecked the salad bar and were rude to the staff, (parents kept disappearing). At the end the other couples left a hefty tip and paid cash. They stayed back to settle the bill and were caught by one of the dhs pocketing the cash and pay the cost of the bill to the penny. They ate their meal for free, had more people in their group and stole the tip from the wait staff. Arseholes. They were adamant they weren't in the wrong. Some people see this kind of slyness as cleverness.

Also not friends with someone that we used to call Kerry the Buffet Slayer. If we went to a party ah would take the whole plate of whatever she fancied back to the table, prawn rings were her favourite. Totally saw nothing wrong. Even when someone put the buffet item back, she just went up to fetch it back. I left the table, sat somewhere else and never saw her again.

Don'tTouch I love your tales! Your nana sounds adorable and from an era and ethos that just doesn't exist anymore.

There's a farm/animal sanctuary near where I live that is great, lots of animals ranging from rabbits to emus and kangaroos, it's a charity and charges £2 each to get in. I went with friends and both ushered their children, five kids between them ranging from four to fourteen in age, through the gates ahead of them so they didn't have to pay for them!!!! I can honestly say I was disgusted.

Omg i can't read anymore of these they're making me cringe/angry!

All my in laws (MIL FIL BIL SIL Etc) are what i would call 'stingy' and invite you round for a party then give you a list of things to bring. They never offer to bring anything round to us and i think would be shocked if we asked.

The tesco one is genius! (and downright thieving obviously)!

Some of these aren't too bad to me, the nan saving 64000 in 2 years isn't being at all stingy just brilliantly frugal!

Worked in retail, customers ruining garments on purpose or coming up with an obscure fault to secure a discount

Customers trying to use their out of date student cards, getting aggy about being refused to use their mates/whoever’s student discount

Dodgy customers trying to return/exchange things they didn’t actually purchase

Also those tip thieves are vile

Friends of ours invited a load of people to a barbeque at their house and then proceeded to instruct different people what to bring - including all the meat. They supplied ketchup and mustard. They asked us to bring 'cheese board for 20'.

My lovely FIL actually falls under the heading of cheeky rather than just plain dishonest: DP and I were visiting PIL in their hometown and they took us to a local attraction. FIL offers to pay for everyone, walks up to the ticket counter and says "two adults and two (pointing at 30ish me and DP) children". The ticket salesman looks at FIL, looks at me and DP grinning weakly and shuffling our feet, shrugs, laughs, and sells him the tickets. So we both got in at half-price and were referred to as "the children" for the rest of our lives the weekend.

Not paying is theft, not cheeky. Start calling these people what they are, pull them up on it. 'That's stealing'.

The lady who brings her family to the hobby buffets, why do you all sit there and let her do it. 'Oi, it's members only!' 'Hey, you need to leave some for everyone else.'

Also retail, we use pink stickers on kimbles for items on sale and people would place them onto brand new items and insist that it’s on sale. No hun there’s no chance that new in £79.00 jacket is £10 ffs. Then you have the whole spiel about their ‘rights’

My friend manages a restaurant and the amount of people that wolf down an entire meal only to complain about something and get it comped is a joke

I get fillers done at a cosmetic surgeons, my dr was telling me about an event he held at the clinic where they were offering free champagne, refreshments and an information day sort of thing.A group at the event took it in turns to fill up their cars with all the bottles of champagne and food. Front isn’t the word!

People who take food from the breakfast buffet so they don't have to buy lunch
See I don't mind taking a snack. (Hides!)
My logic is I don't eat much on a morning so me taking a couple of pieces of fruit for a snack isn't cheeky.
Nobody bats an eye lid at people piling their plates sky high and stuffing their faces during breakfast like pigs in a trough. So to me a piece of fruit or a pastry for a snack still keeps me within a reasonable breakfast portion.

I'd think the people who do the all you can eat stuff your faces thing at breakfast are more CF than people who eat a modest breakfast and take a pastry or a piece of fruit for a mid morning snack.

When dh and I lived in Germany, his office was opposite the park and tram ride into town. The parking ticket was also the tram ticket payable on exit. One of the employees described how he used to drive to the barrier of the park and ride, take the ticket, reverse out onto a dual carriageway and then go and park at work to save a few euros.

A friend of dhs is really tight. Also in Germany. When he came over, he’d bring drink exclusively for him. Perhaps one for dh. Sod bringing a bottle of wine when you’re being invited over. We also put his wife up for two nights before we knew her and got nothing in return, once invited over for a meagre meal despite doing lots of entertaining. Played the poverty card despite being paid well yet not as well as dh.

Anyway, he’d return home with any full bottles and empties so that he could get the tiny deposit back on the glass bottle, I assume so we couldn’t get our dirty mits on his money. He also stayed with mutual friends abroad in their beautiful house a couple of weeks. Apparently didn’t put his hand in his pocket despite going out for several meals in really expensive restaurants. He wanted to go back and the answer was a flat no. Cheeky fucker of the highest order.

The only thing that astounds me more than these cunting thieves is how many people sit there and let 'em do it. Seriously! You see people walking out with bottles of booze and don't say, 'Hey, that's not for you to take'? or the like.