Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Cheap skates?

anyone have any funny experiences with cheap people? what a horrible thing to be, but sometimes its so bad its funny. anyone got some stories?

Cheap skates?
Twenty five years ago I babysat a 3 year old for $25 a week for one year. At the end of the first year I told the mother that I would now be charging her $30 a week or I would quit. She got out her calculator and told me the percent of that increase and that is was a higher percentage pay raise than she received at her job (a govenment worker) and so she refused to pay it. We're talking about paying someone $30 a week to care for a child!!! So I quit, then and there. That is only one of my cheapskate stories on that particular person.
Reply:lol, one time I went to Starbucks, and I wanted a coffee...but the past few times I had gone the coffee was too sweet. So I asked them if they could just put half a pump of the syrup in it instead of 3 pumps, and they charged me exactly the same price.
Reply:a good friend of mine is always broke. or so he claims. once we went out to this club with a bunch of friends and he couldn't pay his way in right. Next thing I know this cat is buying long-legged beauties ten dollar drinks and not looking broke at all. We gave him a hard time after and made him pay for the long and expensive cab drive home. ha ha-good times
Reply:I have friends that are bartenders, one night there was a big party in her club and my friend was really working this party. At the end of the night, the cheap so and so left her a five dollar tip.
Reply:i have a mowing customer who really felt proud of tipping me 2 whole dollars.


if i was not a gentleman, i might have said, " thanks!now i can buy that Sunday newspaper i always dreamed of seeing!"
Reply:My best friends mom is so sweet, but sooooooooooo cheap. A long time ago, I had went with them to the movies and then we stopped for a burger afterwards. When we got our food I was a little over a dollar short. She made sure my mom paid her back.





When I called my mom that night she explained to my mom that I was short and then the next morning when my mom came to pick me up she reminded her. I guess the reason it aggravated me so much is because my mom would've never done that. She paid for plenty of meals for my friends. It's just the way she was and is. And they had way more money than we ever did.
Reply:Someone offered me $2.50 for my skateboard once when I was going down a street
Reply:Some buddies of mine were arguing over who owed whom 50 cents or so from a beer run. My other buddy threw a dollar at them and told them to shut up.
Reply:yes, this rich person i know was bragging to me about 1.00 she so generously gave a homeless person, i wanted to puke! a buck, give me a break cheapo!!!! i felt like kicking her teeth in but i controlled myself...lol
Reply:my grandfather is the biggest cheap skate I know. For one he has money so it is not like he is broke at all. Well my car was in the shop for a new engine last summer and my grandfather had to take my boyfriend 5 miles to his friends house every morning for 5 days so that he could get a ride to work and then at the end of the day he would drive back to his friends house to pick my boyfriend up and he wanted to charge me $72 for gas money for those 5 days. The worst part is I am family and he couldn't even help me out without looking for some money to do. Pathetic
Reply:nope
Reply:OMG I have several. My ex boyfriend was so cheap that instead of using the oven to bake he would use the wood burning stove to cook. It was ridiculous and took forever!!



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