in my brothers old buidling,they would put stamps on the rent envelopes and he would go around stealing the envelopes for the stamps
he also doesnt buy detergent
when he does his laundry he acts like he forgot it and asks whoever is near him if he could "borrow" some of theirs

hes a mechanic for an airline so he can sit in the jumpseat in the cockpit for free
this comes in handy bc he has to fly standby but nobody accept mechanics and pilots can sit there so even if a flight is booked he almost always gets on

he can also sit in first class for like 10 bucks if there is a space available
he has taken 6 hour flights with space open in first class, and opted to sit in the ****ing jumpseat to save 10 dollars

some ppl might assign extra value to sitting in the cockpit jump seat (eg "it's cool!")

yes indeed. I do like his avatar though.

The best thing to do is to not tiptoe around the issue. All you gotta say is "hey do you have $50 for the ticket?" The "I think you might owe me this but please confirm because I'm not sure of anything" is an annoying approach. Gifting it to him at this point is bad since you've already told him he owes for it. If he's given you a bunch of car rides and you've never really leveled that out with him then gifting it from the start would have been a nice gesture.

Does a stingy person see themselves in this thread or do they simply find it a treasure trove of good ideas?

When I was in college they used to have these promotional coupon packages at the dorms and bookstore, library, etc for products like deodorant, shaving cream, hairspray. They also included coupons for $.50 off any full size Coke product. This was during the transition from glass to plastic bottles and the grocery store still had 750ml glass bottles for $.49 each.

Obv I used to grab armfulls of these coupon packs just for the Coke coupons.

Being a broke college student grants you huge leeway on things like this, IMO, and isn't really being stingy.

yea he thought it was cool the first time or 2 but the novelty has worn off
sometimes the stewardesses will let him sit in first class anyway (but its never entered in the computer so he isnt charged for it) and he jumps at the chance

When I worked at 7-11 in college it was company policy to give cops free coffee or fountain beverages to encourage them to come into the store. The guys we liked we'd also give free deli sandwiches or anything else we could easily write off (yeah, yeah) as expired past the due date. (we'd offer up any sandwiches that were going to expire in the next day or so and then mark them as expired and obv any hot dogs or burgers were fair game).

Never felt like any of them really abused it and having a bunch of cops hanging around your store at 3am playing pinball and video games and getting their grub on is a really, really good thing....

can't say i ever remember 7-11s having pinballs or vid games in them and i'm 40, but i do remember them selling zig-zags and porno mags

when/where was this?

guy who lived upstairs from me in college took empty bottles of grey goose/kettle after a party we had. later we found out hed fill them with popov to impress ppl when they came to his house.

A little nice irony in a post about others stinginess.

This was a little over 20 years ago, Ottawa, Canada. We had a contract with a local operator who came in weekly to empty the coin boxes weekly and regularly rotated machines throughout the dozen or so stores in the city. So obv this would have been completely region dependent. Arcade machines have been gone from 7-11s around here for a long time.

We never had any porn in our store, including Playboy/Penthouse (grumble, grumble). We were told this was corporate policy (all 7-11 stores in Canada [at the time - I have no idea now] were corporate owned and there were no franchises) due to religiousity of ownership. This may or may not have been the true reason.

me grow up southern california. local seveneleven had arcade games at most 15 years ago. youre welcome.

Some of these types of things come after they have just been to some management meeting where they get it drilled into them the different ways they can cut corners on the little things like paper etc and that you should encourage your employees to do the same. It's still stupid obviously ridiculous but if/when that stuff comes completely out of the blue there's a chance he just returned from such a conference...or he had a boss looking through the budget wondering, "whoa...we sent $423.51 on Post-it's last year?!? This is horrible!" (and they also start wondering if supplies are getting stolen).

Anyway, you should go to the store and buy maybe $5 worth of post-its on your own and plaster them all around the office when he wasn't around just to screw with him. You could either leave them blank or you could add pointless messages on them like, "Hi, I'm a Post-It!"

Oh yeah, I always played Galaxians and Ms. Pacman at 7-11.

I think there's a definite difference between being broke and taking advantage of a deal and doing stuff like give out squares of TP and my personal favorite, the rotten fruit returner. Those people have mental issues that go beyond stingy.

My parents popped popcorn at home for me and my brother to take into movies, and in big brown grocery bags. But the theaters never stopped us. I don't think my parents even knew it was against the rules.

i always check/ask the price for drinks. After I got charged $5 for orange juice at the Grand Lux during early morning breakfast. I promised myself to never again overpay for a drink, and get water instead.

That's not an outrageous price for a pretty tall glass of fresh-squeezed juice in the context of Vegas casino dining.

I wouldnt do popcorn because i love movie popcorn, but bringing in my own candy and drinks is standard imo

I'd bring in 4 cans of beer in my down coat as an adult.

fyi a nalgene sized gin and tonic gets tyou really drunk over the course of a movie

If you think he'll never pay and it's going to bother you but you don't really care about the money this is a good opportunity to tell him, "Hey, you know that money you owe me, don't worry about it. I figure we're square for all the rides you've given me."

You have obviously figured me out sir, I decided to make my first ever post in OOT in some random ass thread with like 3 pages, in the hopes of "winning it".

Some how it suprises you that someone is sick enough to steal from his own grandson, after you have ready how many stories about them stealing from friends/family/corporations/random strangers?


My story was 100% true though.

underestimating how far something is in vegas pretty much defines my first few trips there.

"Oh it's just across the street and up one casino. It's right there only 1½ blocks away..." 45 minutes later we finally get there.

This just in: stealing cheaper than buying.



The wedding thing is unbelievably bad to do 1 day before the rehearsal dinner. I wouldn't have gone to the rehearsal dinner either. If he had said from the start (or at least several months in advance) "I'm sorry, your wife can't come to the rehearsal dinner" then it would be understandable--weird, but understandable.

By the time the wedding comes around my wife has already bought a dress and shoes specifically for the dinner and is expecting to come, because it is 100% standard for a wife to be automatically invited to any sort of dinner like that. This is proven by the fact that the groom had to specifically talk to him and say that his wife was not auto-invited as expected.

The fact that everyone is up in arms about this guy not going to the dinner shows how many mouthbreathers we have on here with no idea of what is normal.

Just because it is their wedding does not mean you have to excuse awful behavior.