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)

A friend of mine will order a dominos pizza and then call them complaining it's not what she asked for. No onion but onion was on it etc.
They will then bring the 'correct' pizza but not take the 'wrong' one so her DP gets a free pizza!

ThorsMistress

So some poor worker likely on minimum wage is at risk of losing their job for a mistake that didn't exist but hey, your friend saves a couple of quid and gets a free pizza. Stupid cow. (The friend, obv, not you)!

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I'm sad now that I'm at the end of the thread :(

An ex-colleague used to steal rolls of toilet paper from our work loo. A roll here, a roll there - never had to buy her own for home! And it was the horrible, papery cheap stuff. Grim. She wasn’t exactly hard up either, not that that’s an excuse. Same colleague also charged her phone under her desk so she didn’t have to use her electricity at home. we’re no longer in touch and have both moved jobs but I do wonder if she’s still at it.

I charge my phonevat my desk if it runs out...is this not normal behaviour??

I also charge my phone at work! Never thought of it as cheeky

Some of these are amazing and have been a great read

Another one- one of my friends joins a 24 hour gym for £17 a month. She sometimes goes to the gym to shower without actually exercising. 3/4 times a week What makes it even worse though is that she just had her bathroom redon!

I'd have no qualms charging my phone at work because I charge my WORK phone at home and my WORK laptop at home (see how I slipped in the WORK-Zilla )

CF bloke wanted my car park ticket at a local park (one of those Visitor Centres that are well maintained, have lovely clean walkways, big pond, trees, little cafe , deer ) because he didn't think he should pay the "Rip Off" ticket (it was 80p ).

Ermm that's a "No" you tight bastard.

I charge my phone at work too but think person Dozy meant only charged their phone at work and deliberately planned it that way to save on their own electricity costs. Which is different!

I've given my parking ticket to people and vice versa particularly at hospitals when you've paid an extortionate amount for 3 hours and you are out much quicker

Just stood behind someone at the supermarket making their broccoli into broccoli crowns. One is 99c/lb and the latter is $1.99/lb. CF was standing in my way while she did this. Then she went to the cabbage and did the same. Of course I wanted to pick up a cabbage.

I use broccoli stems to make broccoli slaw.

Disclaimer: I also charge my phone st work but Butterymuffin had it right - this person literally only charged her phone at work Even letting it go dead overnight and waiting until work the next morning to charge it up or at least she said she only did it at work, who knows.

There is a church near me which is open and unstaffed at weekends. They always used to do lovely local honey and homemade jams with an honesty box. We went at the weekend to get some and there was a sign saying that they had stopped doing it because so many people were just stealing the jars.

Another nice thing ruined by grabby cunts who don’t want to pay.

I remember thinking about trying the thing with the swimming bands as a kid...I never did though.

Escapepeas

They'll be smited with a bolt of lightning.

so many people were just stealing the jars

That's shameful! It's like stealing from a charity shop.

That's shameful! It's like stealing from a charity shop.

Yep I've witnessed one of them, (who put the item into bag) told shop assistant about it in a whisper.... low and behold it was there, back on the shelf.

The want to be thief denied all, of course

i usd to eithr not pay my train fare when i was a teen this was befor gates or got a child fare for about 4 years aftr i shouldnt

i dont do that anymore

my family used to take me into theme parks for free if the age was 5 i was 4 and so on i was very small and always looked younger

One of our old elderly neighbours is known as a professional morner in our area.
He and his lady friend regularly check the obituary pages and attend the funerals of strangers who seem to have nice wakes planned
He say someone will eventually gate crash his funeral and he won't care as he is dead

At my Grandmother's funeral back in 1996 the service was held in a city-centre church with the burial in a cemetery about 5 miles away and a reception in a nearby hotel.

A scruffy, elderly chap attended the funeral service and introduced himself to us afterwards as having grown up with my Gran in her home town about 20 miles away. One of the family gave him a lift to the cemetery and the hotel where he ate and drank alcohol at the free bar in large quantities.

We were concerned about how he was going to get home but he just asked for a lift back to the area near the church, which is notorious for it's vagrant population.

We realised at that point that he was just a chancer but none of us had the heart to give him a hard time about it. He didn't get his lift back though!

I don't see what's cheeky about paying for a gym but only using the shower. Sounds like more money than sense than cheeky.

I have a friend who drinks black decaff tea. At the end of a meal she asks if they have it and will order one...if not she asks for hot water and uses her own tea bag. I don't think thats so bad because we will have spent out on food and other drinks.
But if we go to a coffee shop she just asks for hot water straight off even if they sell decaff!! Her reasoning is that she won't pay their price for just a teabag. No matter that she's sitting in benefiting from their facilities and Wi-Fi.. .

Wow, @starfishmummy, that's cheeky! I sometimes ask for hot water so I can use my decaf tea bags, but only if I've checked that they don't sell it, and I always offer to pay for it!

Yep - I would hire a british au pair

Every Christmas, our team manager will buy the team a box of two of quality street or similar, to share in the week leading up to the holiday. I was working late and saw a colleague get a little plastic food bag out and start decanting chocolates from the team tub. I challenged his cheekiness there and then and he said "they are for my car share buddy to say thanks for all the lifts this year".

Cheeky fucker! I told him to buy his own thank you chocolates rather than stealing them from the team but he brazenly still took them! I feel sorry for the poor bastard who got 4 or 5 random quality street in a food bag as their Christmas present!