A friend, who has always been single, no dependents, house owned outright, well paid career and receiving a large final salary pension.
All in our friendship circle have noticed she never has offered and in fact finds an excuse to go home when others have already paid for drinks, snacks, coffee etc. She measures everything by monetary value, for example, she mentioned the time she picked her nephew up from an open air music do and said 'He was late coming to meet me, but there was still a band playing, so I got about half an hour of free listening'.
When offering her a drink in a coffee shop, although I offered to pay and did so, she said to the staff that she doesn't see the point in buying drinks as she can fill a flask and sit in the town gardens for free'.
She used to buy pasties from a very nice local bakery, but stopped and now buys from a chain which has opened in town as their mass produced pasties are all of 10p cheaper.
I guess we have all met 'em?
Whenever she sees the price of things I buy or look at in town, she says Quidland shops sell them cheaper or I could have saved 5p buying it online.
She often says it in front of strangers too, which is very embarrassing.
How have you handled situations like this?