Miserly friends

Gavin83

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.

I've been to restaurants where the cheapest bottle of wine was £40. The most I've ever seen a bottle listed for we £12k. I was curious if anyone ever actually ordered it!

Mercenary

Loz01 wrote: »

The worst thing in the world is going for a meal, having something that equates to £8 and being asked to chip in "about £20" to cover it everyone else's wine (as a person who doesn't drink) Absolutely no way :rotfl: and I don't care if this makes me a tight wad :rotfl:

Are you my twin?
I've been in that situation quite a few times in my life and I always speak up to say it's unfair to expect someone who is teetotal (& often only drinking tap water) to pay for everyone else's alcohol consumption. It was their choice, not mine, to order lots of drink.
I've had to develop quite a thick skin about it for when the huffing and puffing starts. But I don't care if they think I'm tight. I know I'm tight, but I'm not a mug .

burnoutbabe

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.

Surely one would be sacked for this sort of action?

purpleshoes_2

burnoutbabe wrote: »

Surely one would be sacked for this sort of action?

Not something that happened in the workplace though, what she did was wrong, but the boss wasn't under any obligation to pay for the meal she and her bf ate and the drinks.

I can understand it costing the girl a promotion, but I think if the boss was going to get rid of her, then she should have done it already, to keep someone on and then sack them at a later date, doesn't make you look good either.

It was awful what the girl did and I'm not defending it in any way, but if the worker was going to be dismissed over her actions, youd think surely it should have been done sooner.

I once worked in a gym and came on shift to find two of my colleagues blind drunk, they had been arsing around and smashed the ceiling and brought it down with a weighted bar.

I sent them packing, they also came back on shift dancing around the place (while members were in), I had to get rid of them then as well.

One of them got promoted, the other given full time hours, the boss tried to sack me without warning after my shift one night (she was like that).

They stole the wine from the gym, was there as an incentive for members to bring friends in, not for staff to guzzle.:rotfl:

purpleshoes_2

I once covered a zumba class for a fellow instructor, in fact it happened to me on two occasions, both huge classes apparently, not that I was caring, Id have been happy with a tenner. Huge. No. The first class made me 21 pounds, 20 of which had to go to the caretaker for rent. The next class wasn't much better.

Both of these instructors had a full time job and taught as a second job.

When anyone covered for me, if the class had fallen flat ie hardly anyone turning up, Id have taken the hit on the rent and paid them for their time, minimum 15 quid.

Not the only reason I gave up my licence and teach other things now, but seriously, Id have been mortified if Id asked someone to cover for me and they ended up with a pound (cost me more to get there in bus fares than I made on the night as well).

Thistle-down

I played a last minute pub gig when a friend/acquaintance who was booked couldn't make it. She begged and pleaded with me to do it - this was her regular spot and she didn't want to risk losing it by not showing up.

I played the gig, the pub was happy. They paid her at the end of each month, £50 per gig plus a percentage of the bar for that night, so I needed to get the money from her. When I asked she just shrugged and said "Oh, sorry, I spent it." No offers of future payment, no remorse.

Needless to say we are no longer friends and now whenever I play I get the money up front... lesson well learned.

vulpix

I had a friend at school whose family were not allowed to use the bathroom light bulb.She had to wash her hair either in daylight hours or in the dark.

Lil_Me_2

Loz01 wrote: »

The worst thing in the world is going for a meal, having something that equates to £8 and being asked to chip in "about £20" to cover it everyone else's wine (as a person who doesn't drink) Absolutely no way :rotfl: and I don't care if this makes me a tight wad :rotfl:

I'm the same! With the added expectation that because I'm not drinking I can drive them home afterwards too. Talk about enabling other people to have a cheap night out.

Mr_Toad

Mercenary wrote: »

Are you my twin?
I've been in that situation quite a few times in my life and I always speak up to say it's unfair to expect someone who is teetotal (& often only drinking tap water) to pay for everyone else's alcohol consumption. It was their choice, not mine, to order lots of drink.
I've had to develop quite a thick skin about it for when the huffing and puffing starts. But I don't care if they think I'm tight. I know I'm tight, but I'm not a mug .

My BIL is a swine for this trick. When we go out as a group we usually simply divide up the bill but he started to abuse this by ordering the most expensive food on the menu and filling his boots from the bar, wine, shorts, beer, the lot.

He never had to drive as his idea of sharing the driving is that he drives there and his wife drives back.

After a couple of times when he abused the rest of us we made a verbal agreement not to put drinks on the bill, he got round this by going to the bar but telling them to put it on the bill then breaking his neck to get the bill at the end of the evening so nobody would see his drinks. Didn't work.

On one very memorable occasion the rest of us decided enough was enough and let him fill his boots then at the end of the meal we each put the exact amount owed into the kitty leaving him with a very large bill and under no illusion that he was busted.

He's so thick skinned he still tries it on but we don't let him get away with it.

Another of his tricks was to get in a large round but always be last to buy in in the expectation that most of us are driving or don't drink as much so when it's his turn it's a cheap round. He's always first to the pub door but holds it open for everyone so he's last at the bar.

These days we always make him buy the first round and when he tries to wriggle out we point out exactly why, he hates this, he like people to think he's generous, go figure!

You should see him hopping from one foot to the other later in the evening when people later in the round are paying less than he did

Once while on holiday we had a lovely meal in a restaurant and the two waitresses were absolutely superb. It wasn't an expensive restaurant but we left them a generous tip. I caught him taking a large denomination note from the tip and replacing it with some low value coins. 'Hold up' I said in a loud voice to the others 'Mr tightwad is just robbing the waitresses of their tip while he thinks nobody is watching'.

He rather sheepishly returned the note with some lame excuse and tried to take his change back, I made him leave that as well.

It's true what they say. You can choose your friends but not your family.

TheMagician

One of my friend's boyfriend is so tight he won't ever pay for dinner when they go out, always makes her pay for exactly what she ate.
However, he's obviously aware of how tight that is as she told me when they're out with family, he'll pay for them both but ask for the money back as soon as they get home! :huh:

He also keeps a tab of what he's paid for in case she doesn't have cash or internet access to transfer the money straight away.

When she was made redundant he told her that he hopes she's got enough savings to cover her half of the bills while she's in between jobs. She was adamant to me that he'd not pay her half no matter what.