"Friends" who do odd things

becky said:
I agree. I don't drink wine so might have 2 bottles of beer.
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Sometimes the non drinkers will drink soft drinks too which are just as expensive usually.

I dont have an issue as such if there is a vast difference with a massively expensive bottle of wine - but in the general group dining experience it tends to balance out.
 
I prefer for all to pay the same amount regardless of who drank or didn't or who had a starter or didn't.
 
Me too Becky - its the night out you pay for, not the individual items of food and drink. But I wouldnt object to someone complaining if i ordered a 100 euro bottle of wine and expected the rest of them to cover that too. But thats an exception, in the general case - I agree with you.
 
2 weird things from friends of mine

One was in college, a friend got into a fight in a pub, me and another guy dragged him out and he punched me in the fact cause I wouldn't let him back in. He's small and I'm a prop forward so it was like being hit by a fly but he spent the next 15 years appologising for it

Also know a guy who insisted on telling me the full gorey details of his son's circumcision. I really needed to know that over my lunch.
 


Could you imagine keeping track of that?

What person had what desert, drink , food etc?
 
cork - I assumed he meant, 1 food bill and 1 alcohol bill, and the food bill would be split equally, but the alcohol bill only split among the drinkers.

Thats what i thought anyway.
 
I used to know a guy who was brutal for avoiding his round when in the pub. if there were 4 or 5 of us, we'd each get a round and when it came to his round, he'd disappear off home.
We didn't let that continue for long and forced him to get his round in early.

He was probably the most well-off outta the lot of us too !
 
Just remembered a funny one - not my friends - my OHs.

Back in their younger day there were 4 of them who used to go out on a saturday night together. All lived near each other so night out should have been roughly the same in terms of costs, rounds bought, nightclub paid for, taxi fare home for all 4 split equally - they would all get out at the same place and just walk the last bit each.

Anyway, at some point he happened to say to one of the lads, 'wow, I seemed to spend a fortune last night, over 100 quid, how much did you spend?'. The other lad had spent a similar amount, but when the same question was casually posed to the other lads it turned out they had both only spent 60 or 70 quid.

My OH and the first guy got suspicious and began watching the situation more closely. What they discovered was that although the other two lads would stump up for rounds early on in the night, they would become less forthcoming later on, at which point there was enough drink imbibed that it was difficult to remember whose round it really was, so himself and the first guy always seemed to be the ones going to the bar (their own faults for not noticing!!). Then they noticed that one of the other guys would pretty frequently say things like 'Ive only a 20 left, rather than break it can I pay you back for the taxi/chipper/cigarette machine next week?' and it being so late and them pretty well on, all would be forgotten.

They worked out that over a 2 or 3 year period the two of them had subsidised the other two lads nights out to the tune of a couple of grand a year between them.

Now THATS scabby friends!!
 
I have to add what the person mentioned in my prev post did one night.

Neither I nor the others in the group were out, but he was and as he had no-one else who'd give him a chance of being a friend, was basically wandering from pub to pub to see if he saw anyone he knew. He had no social skills whatsoever (but yet was somehow married!) and would basically sit a say nothing unless dragged kicking and screaming into a conversation.
Anyhoo, he arrived into one pub and a bunch of mates of mine (about 5 or 6) were there and as they knew him via me really, they said hello and he latched onto them. One of them went to get a round and asked him if he wanted one (Of course he wanted one!) and subsequently the others kindly did the same. He basically said nothing for the entire night with them. 4 rounds later, he pulls his vanishing act and leaves without so much as a word. No round was reciprocated!! Such a scabby person I have never seen before or since !
The worst part was that I was associated with this muppet. I felt so bad for the guys being out of pocket over him. I should have warned them!!
 
Many are the happy Friday evenings spent at the 'Anglers Rest' in Strawberry Beds with my now brother-in-law. Nobody was getting out of there alive until he'd bought his round. That's our excuse and we're sticking to it!
 
I worked with this guy who was as tight as a gnat's chuff.

One time he was building an extension on his house and would drive the builders mad by driving home at every lunchtime to monitor their work and then telling us the positive results of his nit picking and man management. Some months after the job was finished, his wife of the time and himself were sitting in the house and noticed a stink that was becoming more pervasive day by day. When investigating the source, he discovered that the builders had defacated into a big bucket and left the bucket in the attic before they left. When he was telling us about the dirty deed next day it was impossible to keep a straight face. Another tip he used to give us was going to bed early to save heating bills, giving old toys as Christmas presents to younger nieces and nephews, turning off the engine driving down hills (I kid you not.... Even with steering lock dangers), recycling everything possible. He always arrived late for drinks and meals. He never got the fact he was of great amusement to his colleagues.... but, perhaps he did!
 
A good friend of my aunt was very mean especially to herself. Both she and the husband worked overtime each night when it was plentiful years ago. She always finished work before him and would wait to light the fire (back boiler central heating only to heat the whole house) until he came home at about 8oc. The house was always freezing.

Both of them died quite young from cancer and left their savings to their families because they didn't have any children. Very sad because life's too short to be mean, especially to yourself.

Would have to wonder if these mean people are happy within themselves if they are constantly having to figure out how to save the next cent.
 
House proud

My friend and his gf bought a house together about 3 years ago. He is so house proud that you cannot relax when you visit in case you spill something or knock something over. He was showing me the attic and I went to open the window and he nearly had a fit in case ant leaves fell in the window. He would then make me a cup of tea and hand me a single biscuit on a plate just in case I spilled any crumbs!

He also splits everything 50/50 with his gf even though they live together and I mean everything. So if he goes shopping and spends €40 he'll come home and she gives him €20. J
 
People who are overly house proud are head wreckers alright. I knew one guy who'd be wiping under your mug with a damp cloth - while you were still drinking the tea from it. Nightmare.

Not sure if I get the point about the 50/50 split though - dont see how thats an issue for anyone except the couple themselves?

I remembered another one from one of my OHs friends. His friends sister actually wouldnt allow people into her house wearing footwear in case her floors were damaged. I dont just mean spike heels, I mean any footwear. As a result people just refused to call to the house.
 
All of the above pale into insignificance to a couple I know who's tightnes is breathtaking.
They have never taken their children on a holiday of any kind, the kids have to wear shoes that are not only hand me downs (nothing wrong in that) but it matters not if they are two sizes to small, will eat meals of just plain pasta to save money, the husband has to be given the grocery receipts for analysis, the house is an igloo because he wont pay for loft insulation, she has to hide clothes she buys, they have serious radon issues and open up all the windows twice a day, he takes out the lightbulbs from most rooms during the summer to save on the electric bills...the list is endless and I cant remember off hand most of the breathtaking things they do to squirrell away into their bank accounts a sum they happily concede runs into six figures.
 
legs-akimbo said:
....... ...the list is endless and I cant remember off hand most of the breathtaking things they do to squirrell away into their bank accounts a sum they happily concede runs into six figures.
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Am surprise that they have any friends to concede this to
 

It seems a common practice in much of the rest of Europe to take your shoes off as you enter and find some slippers rather than drag the street and anything you stepped on into the home.
 
I know someone who has brown "pee" constantly in his toilet rather than flush it. He lights the fire at exactly 4 o'clock in the afternoon, hail rain or snow won't change the time. He then disappears to the warm pub and leaves his wife freezing in the house with two pieces of coal in an old biscuit tin. He leaves one radiator on in his hallway with all his upstairs doors exactly open by 18 inches so the warm? air will circulate. He reuses the same Christmas paper over and over for years on end.
 
Some great money-saving tips on this thread - Can't wait to update the SOPs for the missus.
 
Regarding the email thing - its v easy to keep emails. I think I have all mine. Not because I explicitly keep them but rather because they are filtered into folders and the folders are not deleted. Not only that but I back them up as part of an entire laptop back up. Its never struck me to route one out years later to "hold against someone" but if I had to I suppose I could. In this day and age where memory, CPU and electronic storage solutions are getting cheaper - Im sure there are many like me - ie people who have emails dating back many years.

My mum once told me. Be careful what you put in writing, it often lives much longer than the sentiment itself.

Good advice.
 
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