Miserly friends

aileth

purpleshoes wrote: »

I dont know what amazes me the most, someone could actually drink 20 JD and cokes and a bottle of wine or still stay standing or that 20 JD and cokes and a bottle of wine cost £300 posh restaurant or not.

Me thinks they certainly didn't order a bottle on the cheaper end of the wine list. Obviously didn't feel the need to rein themselves in and went straight for the decent ones! I know at our local 5 star hotel, a spirit is about £5-6 a shot and with the mixer on top you'd be hitting about £8 a drink!!!

purpleshoes_2

aileth wrote: »

Me thinks they certainly didn't order a bottle on the cheaper end of the wine list. Obviously didn't feel the need to rein themselves in and went straight for the decent ones!

I know, but even so, eye wateringly expensive.

The thought of spending 300 quid on a night out on booze, I can't get my head around that at all. Ive spent less on a weeks all inclusive holiday.

Soleil_lune

purpleshoes wrote: »

I know, but even so, eye wateringly expensive.

The thought of spending 300 quid on a night out on booze, I can't get my head around that at all. Ive spent less on a weeks all inclusive holiday.

This ^ I would never spend more than £15 on a meal (excluding drinks,) so about £40-45 for me and DH. And that is MAXIMUM.

FatVonD

BigAunty wrote: »

My brother's IOU towards a funeral wreath never materialised.

My cousin didn't have her cheque book to hand when donations to charity were being dropped off after my dad's funeral so she borrowed £20 from my mum.

When my mum was paying her £200 for the return of a handbag she'd given her (the cousin has asked to borrow £1,000 and my mum suggested this as a compromise but this is all on another thread) my mum also said she didn't need to pay back the £20. My mum got muddled (she wasn't thinking straight for weeks after my dad died) and put an extra £20 in with the £200 thinking she owed it to her and my cousin never said a word, just kept it.

melanzana

Gosh this thread is so engrossing!

But at the end of the day MOST people are really ok, it's the misers that are the problem, and figuring out who they are is very satisfying.... for me anyway!

Like Inspector Clouseau I identify, mark and ditch them for ever more. What good will come from it at all anyway? Nasty people. And they use manipulation and embarrassment to force people to go their way and subsidise them. Huh, not me.

But thankfully, my circle and family are all fine, no misers there. I know you can choose your friends (tick box), but you are stuck with your family, but thank god, all my family are great, all chip in, no tightwads on my side and the outlaw side. I'm lucky.

As for work situations and collections and all that sort of stuff, when I was working (early retired now yay!), I was the boss.... a very nice one too of course! I felt really sorry for the juniors when there were birthdays, weddings, engagements, leavings and all the rest of it. 40 people working in the place.

Anyway, I suggested that everyone put in 50p a week to a "collection fund". That was £20 a week, and amazing how it built up. Full accountability, online banking for the account available to all who contributed, so no shenanigans.

The amounts given then paid for a £25 voucher (same for everyone's celebration), a card and an office tea party.

At the end of the year, anything left over was used to subsidise a night out at Christmas.

It worked very well. But I'm gone now, so don't know if they have continued the tradition. It was kind of like a "social fund".

Candyapple

Thistle-down wrote: »

Wow. Just wow.

What did the girl have to say for herself?

Apparently on the Monday morning when her shift started her boss (lady of the couple) gave her an hour to come to her and explain and when she didn't, she took her to one side where she proceeded to pull out £25 and played dumb, pretending to not realise they had drank so much and that the bill was going to be so expensive.:rotfl:

Silly girl really, as it's cost her a promotion already and ultimately down the line probably her job as the trust is gone and the lady feels very embarrassed and disrespected as she has known our family since before I was born!and bless her, keeps on apologising although I've told her no need as it's not her fault.

Purpleshoes - it was 20 drinks between her and her partner, not on her own.

Also these are central London prices, think it was £12 per drink and the bottle must have been £50/60. £12 per spirit drink is not the most expensive I have seen, I went to one mid price restaurant that charged £20 for a vodka and coke!

purpleshoes_2

Candyapple wrote: »

Apparently on the Monday morning when her shift started her boss (lady of the couple) gave her an hour to come to her and explain and when she didn't, she took her to one side where she proceeded to pull out £25 and played dumb, pretending to not realise they had drank so much and that the bill was going to be so expensive.:rotfl:

Silly girl really, as it's cost her a promotion already and ultimately down the line probably her job as the trust is gone and the lady feels very embarrassed and disrespected as she has known our family since before I was born!and bless her, keeps on apologising although I've told her no need as it's not her fault.

Purpleshoes - it was 20 drinks between her and her partner, not on her own.

Also these are central London prices, think it was £12 per drink and the bottle must have been £50/60. £12 per spirit drink is not the most expensive I have seen, I went to one mid price restaurant that charged £20 for a vodka and coke!

I got that, still made my eyes water.

Can you tell I live in a town where its £2.99 or so for a double spirit including mixer

The most I think my mum and I have ever paid for a bottle of wine with a meal is around 12 quid

In one pub in my home town you can get a bottle of red for 7.19. I do get that some people are really into their wine, but seriously, £100 quid?

Im in the wrong job, that's all I can say.

dontone

I have an uncle who charges my auntie £2 every time he takes her out shopping or to the bingo (btw they are married to each other) When they go anywhere for a meal, they insist on 2 plates so they can share one meal, and if they go to a caf!, they ask for two cups so they can share one cup of tea. I'm sure those two were the inspiration for Auntie Wainwright & Arkwight.
When they held a party for my cousin's 30th birthday, they showed the cake off, and my uncle took it home straightaway because he said that he didn't want to share with those who hadn't paid for it. The buffet consisted of 2 packs of those 50 mini sausage rolls, cheese slice sarnies, 1 quiche and bread sticks. There was no sweet things like buns or gateau. Everything had come out of their cupboards that needed to be used up, the party had about 60 guests.


I also had a work colleague who would ask folk who were going into town to get her some shopping, like milk & bread, and then claim that she had 'forgotten her purse and would pay them back tomorrow' the money was never forthcoming, and the items had to be from M&S too, you ought have seen the paddy she had when someone got her a lettuce from the market instead once.
And she also got the company banned from the local chip shop, because every time she called, she -rudely- asked if her order could be free. We didn't find out about that until one of the others phoned to place an order and was told not to bother ringing anymore. She angered a lot of kebab loving people that day..

*max*

dontone wrote: »

I have an uncle who charges my auntie £2 every time he takes her out shopping or to the bingo (btw they are married to each other) When they go anywhere for a meal, they insist on 2 plates so they can share one meal, and if they go to a caf!, they ask for two cups so they can share one cup of tea. I'm sure those two were the inspiration for Auntie Wainwright & Arkwight.

:eek: Unbelievable! How do these people even enjoy their lives?? What's the point?

SeduLOUs

I almost feel more weird around the people who are the exact opposite.

I have an online friend in the US who had a visit from someone who lives about 30 miles from me. I drove to him before he left to send a gift over, and she reciprocated by sending a gift for me back with him.

He got on a train and personally couriered it to me (no car, and wouldn't entertain me driving to him as I'd done it last time), and I felt bad he'd done that so offered to take him to the pub for something to eat rather than him just jumping straight back onto a train. I could tell he felt politely obligated to accept my thank you, and spent several minutes scouring the menu for the cheapest thing he could possibly order. I felt terrible!