To ask your stingiest stories?

[iLoveFoood]

Tell me some of your stingy stories. The ones where you've had a friend out to dinner and they inspect the bill down to the last €0.20.... or the guy at the office who refuses to bring in the Friday biscuits but eats everyone else's!

I know a guy at my work who is a full time smoker but never has a box of cigarettes. Just asks someone different every time. He gets away with smoking ten a day, one off a different person every single day!

I asked him for one before after giving him my last few a couple of times and he said 'no, these need to last me 2 days' 😆

I took charge of payment for a friends leaving do once. It was a pre order food thing so set price menu arrangement so we all had to pay £30 and drinks were bought ourselves from the bar. So I gather the money in and I'm exactly £30 short. I check if everyone has heard they need to pay. Still £30 short. I stand up and announce we are £30 short so one person hasn't paid. Still £30 short. I then announce that there is a CF amongst us and I'm off to the loo so if they want to skip their money under the plate while I'm gone there will be no more said in the matter. I return from the loo still £30 short. We all then throw in a few quid extra to make up the difference and then add in our tip. So coat covered but one of those bastards never paid for their meal and I'm still pissed off 12 years later!

My DM said that you don't give to receive and that anything she buys for DD she will take back when outgrown to give to cousin.

If she's given it to DD, thn she can't take it back as it's no longer hers. Keep the items and pass on to where it'll be more appreciated. Charity shop, even, rather than pass to cousin.

My DM said that you don't give to receive and that anything she buys for DD she will take back when outgrown to give to cousin.
Give your DM a present and then take it back.See how she likes it.

My mum was given a blender as a wedding gift... that had old food crusted onto it!!!

Worked at a pet shop. One rep offered staff free pet food once a month. New boss took over and the monthly orders went to 2, then 3 months. Eventually we realised we hadn't had a free order for over 6 months. I also realised the reps, who previously chatted to staff, brought in cakes were ushered straight into the bosses office for meetings. I waited for free food rep after a meeting, turns out boss was still ordering our food but keeping it for himself. I did wonder how they managed to have so many new pets. And he was eating the cakes and taking them home.

Now NC F offered me and my exp along with another equally poor DSis and Bil the chance to buy their local time share (not local to us) we would pay the transfer fee, maintenance fee etc and have 1 holiday every 3 years but they would keep the main card allowing them access to the timeshare facilities year round (only card with free classes etc) for them and 2 friends, we would have the visitor card (shared between 4 people) need to select one person to go on the photo card who would then need to accompany any of the other 3 who wanted to travel to actually use the facilities. They would keep one holiday every 3 years, while paying nothing as payment for allowing us to take on this money pit from them. Could not understand why I wasn't willing to pay for their use of a "club" and holidays. Called me every name under the sun when I pointed out their local paper had people offering their timeshares including transfer fee and years maintenance fees for free and even local people didn't want (sole use) them for free. Years later I was still hated for not taking it on.

We used to live in a communal block of flats with a charge for lighting, cleaning the landings etc. One resident kindly offered to maintain the outside paths with his power washer for free. The woman on the ground floor has asked him not to this year because she doesn't want to pay her share of the water. She also tried to work out how much the electricity for the lightbulbs on the top two floor landings was costing her.

My 4 year old found a pound on the kitchen floor ... which clearly isn’t hers

“ oh mummy I found a pound “
“ oh cheers hun “
“ no I will save it for the machine in Sainsbury whilst pocketing it “

Demel are you sure it wasn't you?? Not accusing, it would be n understandable mistake to make

Some wealthy (ex) friends of mine invited me and my OH to dinner. We took two bottles of really nice quite expensive wine. They put the wine we gave them away and served us their own (really cheap) wine. They proceeded to brag all night about their brand new car, how much they earned etc etc.

A chap i used to work for (who was extremely wealthy), overpaid a bill by 6p and the company wrote to him to let him know and that they’d donate the 6p to charity.

So far, so good.

He went doolally and wrote back and said ‘how dare you tell me what you’ll do with my money. You’ll send the 6p to me in stamps’.

And god bless ‘em they sent us the bloody stamps in the post.
They must’ve had a right laugh at him in their office!

He was truly tighter than 2 coats of paint!

I've heard of someone who brings alcohol when they visit but leave it in the car and go out to fetch it when they run out.

Guy I used to work with proudly told us his long term girlfriend had a Work event to go to in the evening and had asked if he could drop her there please as she wouldn't be able to Park. He worked out how much a taxi would cost and told her it was that much for the lift. She asked if he would do it for a £1 cheaper and he decided yes.. the fact she asked that and took it seriously shows he did shit like this all the time.

I used to have a job where I raised credit notes for customers sometimes it was for very small amounts ie less than £1 fair enough can up and I suppose they have to pass on costs to there customers . But sometimes it's been credit for 1p to 10p which I have refused to do it's not worth the admin time , they can just deduct the amount if they are that bothered .

I just recently got married and the amount of people who turned up without a gift let alone a card was surprising.

It doesn't take much to at least write a card

Springmachine It's a bit harsh to label someone a CF for not buying you a card/present. Them turning up should be enough. Not to mention they probably spent money on clothes, travel etc to go in the first place

I'm very glad they turned up, but I wouldn't turn up somewhere without a card.
It might not be cheeky to you, and maybe you go places without giving a card, but I wouldn't

I agree, massively cheeky to not give a card.

I think it's very CFery to go to a wedding without even a card! Takes little effort, costs little.

I've been married forever but was surprised when one of DHs best mates from school (they'd been in touch always) and he at the time was Group Director for one of the largest carhire firms in Europe, he turned up without a present or a card. Strange.

He and his wife, I should add. He wasn't a single bloke on his own, he was married.

I wouldn't go without a card, but I wouldn't berate someone who did

My SIL definitey qualifies for this thread. She's is a very high-flying position and is absolutey loaded:

She gave a gift of a salad bowl as a combined gift for:

• a significant birthday of DH
• our wedding
• Christmas, it was to be the present for both of us!

She also had a birthday party for her DC; she chose a park so the venue was free - and invited absolutely loads of people, and got everyone to bring all the food and drinks!!! I so badly wanted it to rain just so that I could see how she'd deal with it...

I would!

We used to call one of my dad's friends right for wrapping our presents in newspaper 30 years ago. Who knew he was just ahead of his time!

Went round to a school friends for tea...I suppose we were about 9yo. Her Mum was doing fried eggs... fair enough. Only she only cooked one, and cut it so we got half each.
I still remember the bemused hilarity when I got home and explained why I was still hungry. 😄

The other day I dealt with a difficult customer who had me refund all their tickets because I hadn't put his wife through as an OAP. We don't automatically do it if it's not really obvious the person is a senior, or they don't ask themselves, as customers have been offended if you assume. I didn't think this customer even looked 60. Also worth noting the discount is only 50p. After I did the refund and put the transaction through again, I accidentally short changed them by 1p. I apologised and explained I couldn't open my till without calling a manager down and he said go on then! I was mortified to call the manager down from 5 flights of stairs with the keys to my till to give this stingy bastard 1 pence.