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 don’t think that’s so bad Hopping. A family ticket is for two adults and two children. If you and been a man I bet it wouldn’t have been questioned.

Holy fuck winky thats just downright vile!

I have also heard of people I know pretend that it’s their birthday or that they’re pregnant to get free cake/food/drinks at restaurants

Hopping, that's reasonable. It's two adults and two kids on a family pass. It is none of anyone else's business whose genitals are bumping whose. It's within the terms and conditions of the allowed people on the family pass.

Family railcards recognise this.

We're usually in a group of 8-10 people and I am usually the only one driving so I will drink a maximum of 2-3 soft drinks all night, cost max £8 normally. If I bought a round for everyone it would cost £35ish usually, and that's more than half our weekly food budget, I'm not working at the moment so I do have to watch pennies.

I'm teetotal and don't buy rounds. A lemonade is usually enough for me and others don't give me a chance to buy it or get someone else a drink. If I'm there for a while, I'll order chips and other nibbles for all to share.

I'm a bit sensitive to homosexual couples with children not being considered family - my friend and her wife have to deal with a lot of this sort of shit in our provincial little town

Someone I know told everyone with great glee that she’d been written up as dyslexic at university so had “blagged” a laptop to help her with her studies. I thought this might be saving face but she’s also rather proud of how she’s had said laptop replaced by insurance more than once because “the cats knocked it off the table”. All possible, I suppose, but she is also the person whose card gets refused when it’s her round at the bar, or will have had a direct debit go out early when she’s supposed to pay you for a ticket you’ve bought, so not entirely out of character.

I was selling tickets to kids at a primary school disco once. About half an hour in one mum turned up with her 3 kids and said 'we're here to collect their friends-in you go kids, go and find them'. Kids ran in never to return, mum fucked off and no-one ever paid. I think it was about a quid a ticket. PTA head got wind of this later and approached mum in playground the following week and she denied ever having been there. Cheeky F*er!!

karma it doesn’t quite make sense does it - hence I suggested she was saving face, but why mention it at all? It’s like she wanted to be seen as a CF rather than a normal human.

@Pollydonia 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.

That's easy to do. Just buy a Lamborghini and never pay for parking again

My ex used to walk into WH Smith, pick up a newspaper and then walk out with it.

My ex friend would go to Morrison's cafe and help herself to coke from the machine and not pay for it. She would also get refills 2 or 3 times too.

I work in retail, we regularly have people swapping price stickers to try to get something cheaper than it should be. I can only assume they don't realise how obvious it is when the edge of the label is all scuffed from being scraped off!

We get a lot of people trying to argue we have misleading labels and should let them buy items on a '3 for £2' offer No, it's three for the price of two...why they think we'd ever agree to sell three pens that cost £6 each for £2 total I have no idea!

Oh, and people who think they can pick which item in the 3 for 2 they can have for free as well! Had a guy trying to insist for 10 minutes just this week that he should be able to pay for the two £7 paperbacks and get the £20 hardback for nothing No, that's not how it works...

It's people like this who are destroying public trust and have wrecked our public services.

I used to know someone who regarded stealing printer cartridges from work as a 'perk'. She was very well-off, always had been, and looked down on those with nothing (older generation than me, she'd be late 50s or early 60s now). I used to push her out of the way to serve those she sneered at - she thought I was doing her a favour. I hope she and her ilk are happy now the entire service we worked for has been co-opted, privatised or dismantled as a waste of public funds. They gave all the professions a bad name and our politicians the excuse they'd always wanted to stop the rich having to pay taxes to support those of us they exploit.

@BearSoFair Oh, and people who think they can pick which item in the 3 for 2 they can have for free as well! Had a guy trying to insist for 10 minutes just this week that he should be able to pay for the two £7 paperbacks and get the £20 hardback for nothing hmm No, that's not how it works...

I have organised separate transactions to maximise a 3 for 2 though.
Say I had 9 things:
3 x £1
3 X £2
3 x £3

I'll do three transactions like that ^^ to get 1 x £1, 1 x £2 and 1 x £3 item free (saving £6).

If I did one transaction, it'd' be 3 x £1 freebies (saving £3).

I work somewhere (public sector) with very few perks, so if there is ever a catered lunch for a meeting, people come from far and wide to get any leftovers. One of my colleagues - who earns about £40k, so not on the breadline - was caught stealing sandwiches off a trolley sitting outside a boardroom before the meeting had started. He actually ended up in quite a bit of trouble.

In a previous post, one of the directors of housing presented himself at a homeless hostel after a boozy Christmas night out, asking for a bed for the night as he couldn’t get a taxi home. (In fairness, this was the year when it snowed for weeks on end, and transport had pretty much ground to a halt. I think he was genuinely desperate rather than tight.)

Some of these are just outrageous! 😂

I had a wine stealer at our wedding. I caught her trying to cram a cork back in a nearly full bottle and asked her what she was doing. She had the audacity to insist it was ‘free booze’. She and her husband disappeared sharpish when I corrected her that she was stealing from family. Rude bint.

Dh friend never buys the first round.
He only ever takes three drinks.
Dh buys first and last round EVERY time.

The thing with the couriers.... I just hope they don’t have to pay out of their pocket! Ffs!

Agree - they could even lose their jobs.

DD went to a BBC Question Time filming as part of the audience.
She is a student with not much spare cash.
They were giving out free packs of lovely Border Biscuits so when the audience was called through she ran round the room stuffing her handbag with all the unopened packs.

Then as she entered the auditorium a security guard asked to search her bag

That will teach her!!

I had an ex who would 'go to the toilet' just as the bill needed paying to in a cafe queue or at the checkout leaving me to pay. He did it twice then was an ex.

Went to the cinema last weekend with DH. The seats were numbered so when you booked you picked your seats. A group of four ladies came and hadn’t booked in advance so had to sit in lots of two. They then got the manager to come to them (we were sitting down and watching the film at this point) and complained and one of the women demanded a refund and they got it!!

Surely it’s a bit tough shit? You want to sit together at a popular film then you book in advance or just suck it up?

'My younger sister does that, you go to a restaurant, orders as many things as she fancies, she keeps ordering drinks and extra stuff and then say is your turn as she paid coffees last time.

She also does the same at the supermarket, keeps adding her things to your shop and then she says she is going to "fetch the car" and leaves you at the till.

She is in her forties, very well paid and has no dependents.'

Do you enable her, or not let her away with it? Why would you take that lying down? Fuck that.