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)

Dh and I were both unemployed having just moved from the other end of the country back to our home town, some friends of DH asked us to go for a group meal for their birthday.

There were about 20 people there in a chain restaurant. The chain had a set 2 course meal for £10.95 so we both ordered that and 1 soft drink each while they ordered 3 courses off the main menu plus bottles of wine (and probably got through a bottle each) so when the bill came I was quick to ask how much our soft drinks were because we’d had the set menu so we’d obviously just be paying what ours had cost - she replied ‘no, we’re splitting the bill, it’s £25 each’ and just ignored us when we asked the cost of the soft drinks so we just stood our ground, put in £15 each plus a couple of quid for a tip, no way were we subsiding their alcohol and starters when we were both unemployed! I couldn’t believe how cheeky they were, she kept huffing and puffing that there wasn’t enough money to pay the bill when everyone had put their share in until someone else pointed out that we’d only had the set menu and no alcohol!

Of course her and her husband had really well paying jobs and had just been given a large deposit to buy their house

I know quite a few cheeky people and have encountered so many in my time in retail.

A friend (usee that term loosely) likes to complain about any and every aspect of his meal. He complains so much that eventually he's given it free, like a 3 course steak meal. Then doesn't leave tips after making the waiting staff run back and forth heating his meal/removing the peas ect.

A family trip to Disney Florida. We rented one car to "save" money despite being 3 drivers in our group. Ended up with this fucking awful thing where you had to chamber over the seats to sit in the child sized seats In the boot. Sil who I call princess not once sat in that seat. Made mil who's 60 odd clamber in with me and let her teen children relax in legroom comfort while I was squashed (and fucking visibly unwell with undiagnosed thyroid complications,swollen legs and ankles) in the child seats
When it was a day she was required to pay for parking for one of the parks/water parks threw a tantrum and we ended up shopping. Still didn't pay for parking.
She made my dream holiday fucking awful.

But my favourite cringe moment, I was in one of the Disney shops buying trinkets. Saw this cute little photo frame priced up at $12. Showed mil and went to buy it. Cashier said that's $25. So of course I queried it as you do. Manager was all "of course, well honour the price" so mil and sil then came up and said oh well have one as well! But for the $12 price I was honoured. Manager was just like wtf no.

Have had people swapping prices to get double the difference back, now we make sure the barcode on the product matches the label on the shelf and ONLY honour it if it's multiple items there.
Also get people switching yellow labels into in date products. Have to check carefully now.

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I agree with other posters above-bad things happen in restaurant kitchens.
I worked with a waitress during Uni who would lick customers bread rolls if she didn't like them...

I used to work in a pub, and one man would always wait until last orders, position himself at the back of the queue, and order a pint, watch it be pulled from the pump, and then say "I asked for a half."

He was expecting to be allowed to just pay for half a pint but keep the full one, because we had nobody else to sell it to and would just have to throw it away.

He did this to every single member of staff, muttered his order for a pint and then lied about it after the pint was pulled, to save himself 96p.

What we actually did was poor half into a half pint glass and hand it over, and usually one of the other staff members had been bought a drink and would half the other half.

Also he liked to mess with people's heads though. He was a bit odd, and he liked to see people wrong-footed. He would watch the staff clearing up and deliberately open a door they had just closed, or turn a light back on that they had turned off. Just to watch them be confused for a moment that something they thought they'd just done hadn't been done after all.

Or he would claim he'd given them more money than he had and say his change was wrong. His pint cost £1.92 so he would give £2.00, then say "I gave you the 2p" when he got his 8p change, both to try and gain a 2p profit by conning a 10p piece out of us and to watch us try and remember if he was right and make us think we were in the wrong.

He enjoyed watching that moment of confusion and he knew we weren't going to shut the till down for the sake of 2p.

Instead we started to hold his money up after he gave it to us and say "That's just two pound coins you've given me" so he knew we were on to him.

Then we'd do the same with the change we gave him back, "That's eight pence change, a five, a two and a one I'm giving you."

I get the feeling that several CFs are following this thread to pick up tips

get the feeling that several CFs are following this thread to pick up tips

Right you are

My DH is quite the CF.

He gifted the girl at work an old Baylis & Harding gift set from a year previous, for Secret Santa

On the morning he left, I tried insisting he take a box of chocolates too. He refused, adamant the gift set was enough.

He himself received a San Miguel pint glass, with a bottle of the stuff included. Don't think he got his comeuppance

Friends of a friend uses Premier Inns who guarantee a good night's sleep or money back - they stay for two nights and then on the second night, complain about a lumpy bed and get their stay for nothing. They also complain about dirty cutlery to get a free breakfast although they could easily get their cutlery changed before eating.

get the feeling that several CFs are following this thread to pick up tips