Alright, I'll try to go into some depth (from what I can remember) about an old roommate of mine. Has to be the nittiest person I've ever seen in my life and hopefully it stays that way. He was the last straw for me, I live solo now

Weird thing was, this guy isn't even broke, at all. He was living in a very nice apartment and I know he had a liquid 6-figure sum laying around. He played reasonably staked games as well.

• I had a water cooler that I'd get 5-gal jugs for, he didn't want to bother chopping for water ever because if he left the apartment and walked down to the gymnasium he could fill up on water for free. (I think it costs about $1.25 per 5gal here?)

• He would never use his shower in his bathroom because if he went and used the shower in the gymnasium the amount of money owed on our gas bill would be lower. He recommended to me that I do this too one time.

• We were at costco one time. He was doing circles and circles trying to get as many free samples as he could, but that wasn't enough. He would have me stand in line for him to get him extra samples. Looking back, I have no idea why I am so nice of a person.

• He had me cut his hair with this thing. I always tried to be a good roommate. I cut his hair maybe 6-8 times until I ****ing blew up towards the end of our stay and said no more. I had to say something to the extent of "jesus ****ing christ we are in mexico you can get your hair cut anywhere buzzed like this for literally 40 peso, wtf?" I would have friends come over all the time and he would ask them to cut his hair too. Nellie, Jon, Tracey, idk who else, all were asked to cut his hair. I distinctly remember one of them telling me he woke them up while they were sleeping on the couch to do this. He had zero shame ever if it would save a couple dollars.

• One time I was going out with two of my friends to get pizza. Really randomly, the roommate asks to join us (he never ever normally did this, would cost money and he wanted to stay in his room always). We get there, its awkward right away because we get a pitcher of lemonade and he says something like I don't want that because I don't want to split my share for that to make it clear to all of us. Anyway, many awkward moments later, the bill comes out and its 750 peso total after tip. I throw in 200. ROOMMATE THROWS IN 200 and doesn't say a word (I'm totally floored, especially after the lemonade thing). My two friends throw in 350 and we leave. About a week later, I see a note from him saying I owed him 12.5 peso (yes, significant figure to the decimal place here on worthless currency that doesn't even add up to $1). I said wtf is this? I thought back and I was like omfg, he thinks he owed 750/4 = 187.50 peso, he put in 200, he wants me to cover his 12.50 peso even though I technically already paid extra and he never told me this.

• He did lots of weird [nitty] things like collecting worthless trash. There had to be some >300 ketchup/mustard packets, fast food napkins, hot sauce packets etc sitting in a drawer which he left there when he moved out.

• He was the king of really bad story telling, unfortunately (or fortunately), I forgot nearly all of them. One of the ones that was just so unbelievably bad had him talking for 5 minutes leading up to a punchline where if he had talked to his brother and sorted something out he could have saved $30 by not having to purchase a costco membership in Mexico. I didn't get it at first the way he said everything, I had to think about it for a little, but the punchline was that that was such an astronomical amount of money he could have saved if only he had only known. I think he was expecting a reaction of something like "OOOOOOOH man that is the sickest, **** your life". Hard to properly express the context.

• I always had the maid do all the dumb stuff like paying electric bills, running errands and whatever. She costs about $4-5 (60 peso)/hour. The roommate and I chopped her when cleaning was needed but he stepped up and didn't want to pay for any of that errands stuff so he did it himself. Legitimately, this only helps me, super nice roommate to do that stuff because I wouldn't with the maid equity, but hell, he was losing several hours each month over a $4/hour chopped two ways to a poor lady that can help feed her family.

• Not a nitty thing but I want to say that 60-70% of his time in the public space when he was there he would spend wearing nothing but neon skin tight underwear and nothing else.


.. And that is all for now. I'm sure there are many other stories and adventures with this guy but its been a few years since the madness and I forget a lot of the stuff. I could have written a book back then.

Real solid contribution. I've never understood how people that can have thousands spread out across online felts can be so nitty over real life things.

yep definitely well worth this thread - love the pizza story

Jesus Skillz.. I genuinely don't know how you put up with that maniac.

Skillz - how'd you become roommates with such a terrible person?

He was definitely not the worst I ever had, not even close. He was unbelievably lol with money and did really weird **** but nothing was ever straight psychotic/mean/damaging etc. And yeah, I don't know why I did for so long. Roommates are too high variance, so solo living for me for now, which is tragic because I really love socializing. Only great living experience I ever truly had was my two years with WCG|Rider and friends prior to black friday.

I've had the worst roommate experiences so many times, all for completely different reasons. It has really opened my eyes as to how many different things people can be bad at. I guess there's one way to do things correctly and a thousand ways to do things incorrectly.

Most of my bad roommate experiences were sourced from the interwebs. I'm not exactly sure how I met this particular guy honestly, I think he cold contacted me on skype or something like that (perhaps the rosa skype chat?) asking for a room.

My friend delivered pizzas 10 years ago in Atlanta. He dropped off a pizza to a real tight ass who didn't tip. anyways not a big deal he said "happens a bit and he used do it". Here's where it gets crazy. He was short 27 cents and the dude was pissed. He follows my friend to his car to see if they can find some loose change in his car, of course there's no coins and my friend says he'll swing by later and drop off the 27 cents! Well my buddy didn't bring the douche his 27 cents later on that night and came back to work two days later to find out the guy had called papa johns multiple times irate and demanding my friend got fired. Well my friend didn't get fired but he had to drive straight to guys house and drop off his change and apologize.

The pizza was hot and delivered quickly.
The douche took tons of Parmesan cheese, red peppers and napkins.
The guy appeared very wealthy.

im pretty sure theres a special level of hell for stingy people who make others lives suck due to their borderline ******ation.

Rave, your friend should have invested 27c in a nice shiny new brick and 'delivered' that to the old git a few months later.

When I was in high school, my friend came over one day with his obese half-brother. I had gotten a new cologne by Calvin Klein recently and they wanted to smell it. They weren't as well off as my family and mostly used cheap deoderant sprays. The cologne was a pour bottle and not a spray one and when I opened it some of it spilled on my desk. Half-brother instantly parks his sweaty fat ass on my table and starts mopping up the spilled cologne with his posterior. Like wtf? Anyways, at least my table didn't break under all of that weight but that table top grossed me out for a while after that incident.

^LOL

Tonight if hung out with a guy who was awful. He's a friend of a friend and the 3 of us went indoor rock climbing. I knew he was somewhat stingy as you have to pay £1 for chalk if you want it and given a little pouch on a belt filled with chalk dust and previous times me and my friend have bought chalk and he's shared ours. Not really a problem as they give you more than you really need in the pouch.

This time though we both brought some gloves with us so didn't get any chalk, this stingy guy refused to pay the £1 for his own chalk and instead went looking at walls where other people had been using chalk and collected the residue off there then rubbed it into his hands.

I was completely embarrassed, other people saw him and laughed at what he was doing but he was completely shameless.

God that sounds so cringeworthy

amazes me what some people will do to save a buck

A large portion of it is avoiding getting "ripped off". Like if you feel someone is taking advantage or profiting unjustly, you'll put yourself through stupid stuff to avoid paying them. Of course, there are plenty of cheap asses. I find myself being somewhat irrational in avoiding dumb fees even if it's more inconvenient for me out of principle.

Back in Undergrad, I was taking a course that one of my housemates had taken the previous year, and he still had the textbook. I asked to borrow it, and he obliged. At the end of the semester, I returned it to him. There was some minor wear to the book but honestly it was in fine shape upon returning it to him. He then AIMs me (this was back in the IM days) a link to an online textbook website with the price of the book (about $70) and saying I owe him that money because the book was no longer in mint condition. Keep in mind he is sitting 20 feet away from me, but he choose to communicate this via AIM instead of talking with me man to man. We basically didn't talk the rest of the year, and I never paid him the money.

I've befriended a bunch of cocktail servers that I don't like at my local casino and continued with the charade for 3 years. Now they don't accept my $1 tips.

This thread is for stingy things you've seen someone else do, not totally believable stingy things you do yourself.

IMO you two should have negotiated something between the trade-in value (what the book stores will buy it back for) and the used purchase price value of the book at the beginning of the semester. $1-10 more than the trade-in value would've been acceptable but definitely not the full used book price or $0. Both a little stingy.

Also, having it in writing (AIM chat log) is ok when discussing monetary transactions. Watch an afternoon "Judge XXXX" show and you'll see that some sort of agreement in writing is better than a verbal one.

theskilldatkills post was gold ,

from my experience being cheap is a huuuuuuuge pet peeve especially being that when i was in highschool i was in service industry . nothing too crazy but heres what ive encountered.


once upon a time I would make my ex-gf pay for dinner , the bill would come to like 45$ and should would leave 5$ , and i just face palm and throw in another 10 . her argument was that servers don't do **** and that she would rather tip the chef/servers .
I don't think she was cheap but when it came to tipping servers she was, like she would give a homeless person money but was cheap when it came to tipping servers.

Now everyone laugh at bazooka.

My mom put a single penny on the table as tip once for a 10+ dinner party at a somewhat pricy place when I was a kid because the service was so bad. Never seen her do anything close since then and it seemed very out of character for her to do so initially. Bill had to be 300+ in the late 80s.

Troll,

That's not stingy.

Correct. I've insult tipped in a couple rare instances of terrible service. The principal is that if you leave nothing, they'll think you're just cheap, I try to leave like $0.37 or some odd amount.

I thought it was that if you left nothing they would think you just forgot; leaving a small amount sounds cheap. Leaving the 1 cent would make a point I guess.