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 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. '

I had a date try that. Once. I didn't pay for his food. At the checkout, I'd ask the operator to pull out anything he put on it.

judy
Left over ones are fair game.

My school puts left over cakes anf scones from meetings/training events in thr staffroom with a sign saying 'help yourself'. That is always a nice surprise and goes down well.

Before hand? That is one seriously CF!!

Gobsmacked by some of these

In laws used to pinch spoons from American hotels. Don’t know why they couldn’t have left it. They gave me some so I took it to work as spoons disappear there.

I was in Pret A Manger recently and a woman pushed in front of me with an empty pasta bake carton. She'd eaten every last bit but complained it has been too crispy round the sides.

They asked her if she'd like another one and she pointed out she'd eaten one already but would like a coffee and a cake instead

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

I knew a girl who used to crash weddings.

She'd show up, dressed to the nines, with her pal and say 'oh yeah I know the groom' and get loads of free drinks, food etc.

I think she did it more from a fun perspective than money saving though.

DH's former work colleague was of the 'bring a bag of crisps and an empty tupperware' to works parties. He'd eat a huge plate then 'tupperware' enough to feed himself, wife, and his DD and take it home for their dinner.

The one that finally got everyone's goat was when the buffet contained a lovely pasta dish with huge grilled prawns across the top. He took the serving spoon and scraped it across the top and plopped it on his plate, leaving nothing but pasta, sauce, and 2 or 3 of the prawns he left for the others.

My friend used to work at pets at home.

She and several staff members watched a man carry a massive glass fish tank out of the store.

No one stopped him as they all assumed he had paid at one of the various tills.

I mean who would be brazen enough to walk out with something so big and obvious?

Wasn't until later, they discovered that actually he HAD stolen this tank.

The shop has been rearranged since so all the tills at the entrance of the store instead of at the back....

@donttouchthecharredcrotch your story is really the only one on here that is isnt stealing. Thread should be re titled: "how many common or garden thieves do you know?" Woman pissing in bike shop- crikey.

Op that’s not “cheeky” it’s criminal!

Does your friend not realise if everyone did that the swimming pool would have to shut down, all the staff would be unemployed etc

Some of these are fucking desperate...

I went out with a new friend for supper once. She claimed she had lost her debit card so I paid for her supper.

Waited for the cheque to come, it never did. Emailed her etc oh I sent it, she said.

Fucking wastrel.

Always posting pics of her boat etc on face fuck too.

@Soubriquet we need a new acronym, we've got CF but we need to add CT (Cheeky Thief)!

Years ago I remember something similar in Woolworths, there was a garden department at the back with a door onto the secondary road that served the backs of the High Street shops - the High Street itself was pedestrianised so all heavy loading took place on this road. Some bright spark selected a lawnmower, pushed it straight out the door and trundled off down the road. As in your Pets At Home place every one of the staff assumed he'd paid someone else for it. It's the crowd effect on responsibility.

Service industries are too sweet and kind. They put up with any old complaint, refund money, give a replacement meal, etc. etc. They make a rod for their own backs by having a no questions asked policy when someone complains.

Same goes for those who do not challenge colleagues, friends, family etc. for their stingy ways. I know it isn't easy, but where there is a pattern for this behaviour I would speak up (I think!). Some of the stingy fkrs are so brazen, they do not think they are doing anything wrong at all.

I'm trying to think of stingy cheeky behaviour, will be back if I get one!

not as bad as some ive just read (some pretty hilarious reading I might add!) I worked in a food shop and would find customers swapping reduced to clear price stickers onto more in date products to get them cheaper. It's so obvious that they have done it but found it's not worth the aggro to pull them up on it but just scan through at full price and hope they don't check their receipts!

I used to work in a fish shop (live fish, not food!), and someone managed to steal about 15 expensive lights for in the top of fish tanks. They were at least a metre long, I think everyone must have assumed he'd paid for them, as there was no hiding them!

This thread is really depressing reading! To try and balance things a little, I once sent my DM to exchange a shirt for me for the next size up but didn't have receipt - she wandered around the store for a while, couldn't find the shirt, panicked that if she left with the original they'd think she was stealing, and ended up leaving my shirt hanging neatly on a rail in the shop. Then tried to refund me herself. I didn't accept, it was worth every penny for the amusement value!

we need to add CT (Cheeky Thief)!

You are too polite AlpacaLypse - TF for "Thieving Fucker" would be nearer the mark

An ex work colleague used to take her kids to the cinema and buy a ticket for herself and then go on ahead. Then she would text the older DC to meet her inside so that she didn't have to pay for their tickets.

At my 18th birthday party, a man came to pick his dd up and helped himself to a beer and some food from the buffet table.

Also my ex friend would never buy me a birthday or Christmas present but expected me to buy her one. One Christmas, I arrived at school and she approached me with her hand out. I told her to jog on as she refused to buy me nothing then I wasn't going to buy her anything.

ShotsFired I work for a supermarket, that sort of thing isn't cheeky it's understandable, infact I've recommended it a fair few times. I think what bear was referring to was like in their example, people who buy two cheap items and want an expensive one free. Say you wanted to pay for 2x£1 items and have the £3 one free...

My parents join the Maltese National Trust every year as it allows them to visit all the UK National Trust properties too but only costs them about £20 a year.

Every time they visit a property they pretend they live in Malta.

Queenrefuesnik your DM sounds an absolute sweetie and I can sort of visualise this happening! Bless her

Walking out of a shop carrying heavy goods is/was a common form of shop lifting. We were just discussing last night how a hi vis jacket and some confidence will get you into many places and gain many things.
MIL is a thief like this. Working for the NHS she considered ambulances her personal taxis. She brags about being given FIL's disability tax breaks for her shoes, shop assistant offered apparently and uses FIL blue badge when he's not there. So long as she feels she has gained something that wasn't her's she's happy. So she was pleased that she got a large PPI payout, though a company that took a percentage that lost her thousands.

Good on you, Karma. That's just twattery on her part.

I knew someone who would buy a dress from M&S, bring it home and make a paper pattern to make their own version and then take the original one back.

She also told me about the time they went to Disneyland Paris with a large group of friends, one of which pretended they needed a wheelchair so that they could all go to the front of the queues.