Your tightest friend

FatCat

FatCat

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Or family members.

I have two cases.

1. Two mates from uni who would always duck rounds when we were out (despite coming from really well off backgrounds) , I saw them a couple of years ago in Russia for the World Cup for a quick drink - who bought it - yes me again and for a couple of their friends they were with. My experience is it tends to be those with money who are less generous!

2. at family meals one couple will watch every one put in their share plus a tip - they will always go last picking up all the cash and only pay the difference between the cash and the bill total - meaning our contribution to the tip is going towards their meals!!

anyone else have any examples??
 
FatCat case 2, caught a friend out doing that a couple of times. Now a former friend, in my view it’s ripping me off.
 
One mate I had always remembered when he had bought the last round of the night. When we were next out - even if it was weeks later - when deciding who would get the first round, he would say it’s not me, I got the last one!
 
Speaking of meals at restaurants. About 12 of us went for a meal once and noticed one of my mates ordered the cheapest thing on the menu and then helped himself to the sides that came with everyone else's meals.

He only paid for his own meal too without leaving a tip. It obviously didn't go unnoticed neither.

I also have one mate who only goes shopping very late on a night in the hope to get a load of reduced items....he'd rather pay 10p less for an item that has a 1 day expiry date than something at full price that would last about a week longer....same lad has a well paid job so it's not as if he's scrimping and saving to make ends meet.
 
I have no problem if people are genuinely struggling through difficult times, but people who can afford to pay their fair share and tips etc but choose not too are the scum of the earth in my opinion.

Same old people who repeatedly order the most expensive things on the menu and then a ton of drinks, then just suggest to split the bill evenly by the number of people at the table. Does that make me tight to be annoyed by this? Once is fair enough but repeatedly? nahhhh.
 
A former friend who I eventually had enough of and binned was as tight as a gnats chuff . He and his wife had really well paid professional jobs and wanted for nothing and went on about 4 continental holidays a year .

He came back from Thailand once and we were out and he broke his back to tell us of his ‘ victory ‘ one night . They’d been to some restaurant and got the full whack 4 course and a bottle of wine courtesy of some teenage waitress .

He said once they’d finished they waited for the bill and it never came . The young waitress had obviously unwittingly forget them . He said they scarpered and ran down the street laughing like mad doing high fives !

I listened with my mouth open and pointed out “ what do you think became of that waitress “ ? He said “ what do you mean “ ? I told him :

A/ she’ll of got sacked
B/ She’d of been docked wages for the bill
C/ There’s no welfare state there and was probably providing for greater family .

He shrugged his shoulders totally unphased and retorted “ well she won’t do it again will she “ .

I was disgusted 😡

Same leach used to plot our 4 x lads Saturday nights out in the Boro and always engineer it so he was getting his round ( always the last ) in Issac Wilson ( JD weatherspoons ) .
 
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Borobarmy said:
A former friend who I eventually had enough of and binned was as tight as a gnats chuff . He and his wife had really well paid professional jobs and wanted for nothing and went on about 4 continental holidays a year .

He came back from Thailand once and we were out and he broke his back to tell us of his ‘ victory ‘ one night . They’d been to some restaurant and got the full whack 4 course and a bottle of wine courtesy of some teenage waitress .

He said once they’d finished they waited for the bill and it never came . The young waitress had obviously unwittingly forget them . He said they scarpered and ran down the street laughing like mad doing high fives !

I listened with my mouth open and pointed out “ what do you think became of that waitress “ ? He said “ what do you mean “ ? I told him :

A/ she’ll of got sacked
B/ She’d of been docked wages for the bill
C/ There’s no welfare state there and was probably providing for greater family .

He shrugged his shoulders totally unphased and retorted “ well she won’t do it again will she “ .

I was disgusted 😡
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Yes that’s just mean. Just goes to show some people only have their own interests at heart!
 
Got a mate who regularly visited another mate. Spent a good hour chatting like besties only to drop into the conversation that his hair needed cutting. The lads wife was a hairdresser. So, he basically only went round to get a free haircut.
 
Borobarmy said:
A former friend who I eventually had enough of and binned was as tight as a gnats chuff . He and his wife had really well paid professional jobs and wanted for nothing and went on about 4 continental holidays a year .

He came back from Thailand once and we were out and he broke his back to tell us of his ‘ victory ‘ one night . They’d been to some restaurant and got the full whack 4 course and a bottle of wine courtesy of some teenage waitress .

He said once they’d finished they waited for the bill and it never came . The young waitress had obviously unwittingly forget them . He said they scarpered and ran down the street laughing like mad doing high fives !

I listened with my mouth open and pointed out “ what do you think became of that waitress “ ? He said “ what do you mean “ ? I told him :

A/ she’ll of got sacked
B/ She’d of been docked wages for the bill
C/ There’s no welfare state there and was probably providing for greater family .

He shrugged his shoulders totally unphased and retorted “ well she won’t do it again will she “ .

I was disgusted 😡
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What's wrong with some people, I don't get it, that's like taking pride in effectively robbing a waitress, who is probably skint? They might as well go outside and take the coat off a homeless guy whilst they're at it.

It's like when I've been to the USA and some people I've been with don't tip as they "don't believe in it", but by not tipping they're effectively saying they do believe in the company they visit, paying their staff $3 an hour. And that by not tipping they're subjecting the whole group to looking like assholes. I've got zero time for anyone like that, and I'll actively tell them, and then make sure the staff, everyone at our table and adjacent tables know about it too.
 
My sister and her other half will suggest we split the bill down the middle before family meals, and then order the most expensive stuff on the menu, adult meals for their kids, those schooners of gin, fruit and poncey mixers that cost about a tenner a go, and then expect us to subsidise it. When we took my dad out for his birthday I coughed up about £350 when we'd only spent about £150 on the stuff we'd actually had. Suffice to say I'm wise to this now though it does seem mean-spirited totting up our own tab on these occasions.
 
toxic_bob said:
My sister and her other half will suggest we split the bill down the middle before family meals, and then order the most expensive stuff on the menu, adult meals for their kids, those schooners of gin, fruit and poncey mixers that cost about a tenner a go, and then expect us to subsidise it. When we took my dad out for his birthday I coughed up about £350 when we'd only spent about £150 on the stuff we'd actually had. Suffice to say I'm wise to this now though it does seem mean-spirited totting up our own tab on these occasions.
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It’s gotta be done - at least if they said we’ve had more so we will pay a bigger proportion that would not be so bad.
 
I got done at work once - we had paid up front for the meal. I had two pints and left early - I gave my mate a tenner and said can you put that in when the bill comes.

next day everyone who attended got an email saying we will split the drinks bill and it comes to £50 per person.

I checked the original email and they did say they would do it that way - so basically I coughed up through gritted teeth knowing I was subsidising a bunch of poncy cocktails they had had after I left.

mid I kicked up a fuss it would mean my colleagues bill would increase so to save a fuss and avoid embarrassment I just paid but I wasn’t best pleased.

make things worse I never got my tenner back off my mate!!
 
I think everyone has that friend who always runs out of money at the end of a night out for the taxi home, and if you don't, then chances are you that friend!
 
I've been out with mates before where I've probably spent more than what my mates have on food and drink so I propose working it the bill out fairly only to be shot down for being tight and that we will just split it, at least I tried haha.
 
joeydiaz said:
I've been out with mates before where I've probably spent more than what my mates have on food and drink so I propose working it the bill out fairly only to be shot down for being tight and that we will just split it, at least I tried haha.
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I do that if we're going out on couples night as my Mrs does drink the expensive double rum with poncy mixer and ridiculously over priced red wine. One night a couple we were out with suggested I was only saying this cos I was a tight northerner (cos I was drinking some cheap ale thing and he was on Peroni or some other over priced, look at me Lager) Needless to say when the bill came he had to politely ask if I minded working it out cos it seemed very steep when it was just being split.
 
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