He asked me for the 34p - tight?

[GivemeNovocaine]

Sorry, have name-changed. Relatively new relationship, we went to the chinese last night and it was kind of pre-arranged that we'd just each buy our own. When we got there the place was really busy so I looked at what mine cost (£3.60) and gave him this amount exactly and told him to just get both to save time. He then counted it up and said "everything on the menu has gone up 30p" and stood there actually wanting the 30p. We'd agreed to buy our own but isn't it going a bit far to actually ask for the extra 30p?!

I couldn't handle this - tightness drives me mad! It is so petty & a very unattractive personality trait - and would be a deal-breaker for me.

"He then counted it up and said "everything on the menu has gone up 30p" and stood there actually wanting the 30p."

Why weren't you putting your hand in your pocket to give him the extra?

I would never just stand there knowing somebody else was going to have to pay extra for me and not even offer to give them my share.

It would actually irritate me if someone gave me money to buy them something and then just stood there looking at me when they heard it cost more than they had given me, and I'm not remotely tight.

You really do sound as bad as each other.

You know what, this may sound bad but in that situation I would have got the 30p out, but would have expected him to say 'no, no, don't worry, blah blah'.

I wouldn't expect somebody to give me 30p if they were short by that much - male or female. It's just too petty.

Tightness is just the most unattractive quality in a person. Right up there with racism.

Horrid.

Christ, these two sound as bad as each other.

They are obviously tight arsed going to a cat food purveyor chinese where the food is £3.60 (give or take 30p).

Loathe tight gits.

Why are you posting?, you know what to do. GET RID.
I dumped a bloke, who constantly moaned abou tthe price of food when we went out and made be feel so uncomfortable, that i found myself looking for the cheapest meal. I decided that i didn't want to spen the rest of my life always checking the price of things. I dumped him.
As others have said ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun.

And the pub meal, GOML. Probably a Wetherspoon's lunch special. So romantic :o.

Wetherspoons probably too expensive.

He will scoop out of date sandwiches from the skip behind Sainsbos and sit on a park bench.

I want to know WHAT the bloody hell you get from a chinese for £3.60.

It aint good, whatever it is.

LOL! I used to go on this now-defunct expat forum and this one gal joined who turned out to be mega cheap and precious, yet boasted constantly of their enormous savings and how they'd paid off all their student loans in record time. This was some years ago before I had children.

A mate and I asked her to lunch (we were planning to pay) but she hemmed and hawed about going 'some place cheap' that my mate finally suggested we share a bottle of DietCoke in the bus shelter in front of Tesco's so expat could smoke a cigarette outside it :o.

I asked about the Chinese, too, but no response. Even the chicken fried rice at ours is a fiver.

I know. Even the most disgusting meal in our local chinese (pork balls VOM) is a fiver.

lol at "nae shrouds in a pocket" :o

Op said it was a childs meal, that's why it was cheap.

Tbh tho there was a Chinese buffet place near where I used to live that was £3 per person

Never went in there myself but Dh had and he said it wasn't too bad. I didn't want to risk it myself

I can havre a big box of chicken wings in salt and chilli from my chinese for about £3.50