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Originally Posted by donjonnie
dude we get it. you are a stingy unfriendly person.. and yes it is very stingy to ask your son for money for a coupon you wouldnt have used anyway.
If you get something for free or just have it and have no intention of using it, yet you refuse to give it to one of your closest relatives unless he pays for it thats absolutely stingy and actually a bit douchy imo.
im prolly stingy, but i dont see how this would make me unfriendly.
just look @ it from the other side. you own something worth 30$.
now a relative from you comes to you and wants, no expects it for free,( actually thats the douchy part of the story) and therefore puts you in this bad spot where u can only lose. either you lose 30$ or you are called stingy/unfriendly. you choose to make a balancing move, you get 15$, your son saves 15$ and everybody should be happy.
btw i assume the son is earning his own money.
all this blaming of you is argumented with "yea he wont use it anyway so its worth 0$ for him". but you dont know this. i mean maybe he has a friend @ work who uses to golf there and he wants to give it to him @ his birthday, or maybe sell it to him as well for 15-20$.
the stingy one is they guy asking another one to have sth. for absolutely free.
sorry guys, but this topic just tilts me to hell, i have a friend who does this ALL the time. "hey its just 1 drink, dont be that stingy" "hey its just 10$ for the cab, just pay him" "hey its just 20miles extra to drive for you, whats 20miles worth in gas? dont be that stingy"
story of my dad.
he went to a store and saw that his favorite coffee was half off. so he bought like 4 packs of it. when it was his turn to pay, they told him this was an auction from last week, and therefore he cant have it for half the price.
so he went together with the employee (while several people had to wait) back where the coffee was and showed him that it still says that the coffee is -50%. he still had to pay full but got the 2$ later from the employee, im guessing he paid it out of his pocket .