People Describe Insane Moments Of Cheapness That They Have Witnessed (r/AskReddit)

what levels of cheapness have astonished you my girlfriend invited me to her mother's birthday dinner and tonight she revealed to me we would be dining on leftovers from her brother's rehearsal dinner a year ago maybe saving leftovers for work the next day but a year later what the dark my mom had a boyfriend that would pull the stems off of cherries before purchasing them from the grocery store because he felt they'd weigh less without the stems and he'd get more for the money he probably saved a dollar over ten years you can't argue with savings my grandmother as she didn't own a computer had to mail in all her bill payments one month she didn't get her water bill or it was delivered to someone else by accident whatever the cause her next bill was for both that month and the previous month and included a late fee that was less than the cost of a stamp for the rest of her life she skipped the bill one month and then paid both the next because she saved a few cents by using just one stamp instead of two this was a woman who had somewhere around a million dollars in the bank when she died whenever we all go out to eat as a group my grandma's boyfriend man friends significant other likes to get everyone's free lemon wedge that typically comes with their waters squeeze them all into his and then add a packet of sugar so that he doesn't have to pay for a lemonade last night this happened at a fair the man at the front of the line for ice cream offered to pay for all the kids in the family behind him because he was taking a while he gave the booth 40 bucks and said what was ever leftover should go to the charity the church was running the ice cream booth the people with the kids ice cream totaled twenty one dollars and they insisted for the change back it wasn't even their money when the lady refused she asked for the manager what the dark my grandfather had a firmly held belief that any drink served at a restaurant should cost no more than ten cents per glass so if the restaurant charged one dollar fifty for a sweet tea with free refills he would sit there until he drank at least 15 glasses nobody else could leave until he was done when I delivered pizza there was a guy who ordered from us two three times a week and the conversations would go like this customer how much is that me um $18 35 total customer okay tell the driver I'm paying with a $20 bill and I want one dollar and sixty-five cents back never tipped never smiled never said thank you one Friday night his order was the last in a five six order run and the previous customers had taken all my coins and loose change I ended up shorting him a dime and apologized by the time I get back to the store my boss is on the phone trying to calm him down because to quote I refused to give him his change my dad is a physics professor at a university which if you know of this breed of humans none of this might surprise you he ice we're told that his sacred goes to the cafeteria on campus and makes a meal out of the free condiments mexican-style chips salsa chopped onion packets crackers etc then he'll call me to brag about it another one he does he found a store that sells expired food for a ridiculously low price he said he spent $20 and now has microwavable popcorn for life my dad never buys new tires he buys used ones at the shop keeps when people replaced them he gets the tars for super cheap after negotiating them like 15 to 20 dollars the best part is that he avoids driving to not waste gas so much that the tires actually never wear out they just rot when he feels like splurging he will buy a pork shoulder which is a lot of meat for about seven to ten dollars he cuts off all over meat and grinds it along with free condiments from a cafeteria into a cylinder shape that he wraps with shopping bags from a store then he freezes it when he wants some he slices some pieces off like patties and sautés them in its own oil of course this will last him months one time he called me while I was cooking he asked me what I was making and I said that I was cooking spaghetti 'he's he said that spaghetti czar about three times the price per masses rice and throwing away my money he doesn't use toilet paper just water which is actually cleaner anyway saw a guy take money from the tip jar to pay for a muffin like it was nothing poor cashier was in shock I guess because she didn't say anything and this was from a cafeteria in an office building guy who did this was wearing an expensive suit this would piss me off to no end when I worked at a coffee shop the tip jar isn't a mandatory tip it was exactly only for us when we went above and beyond for a customer and they wanted us to have extra I had people go oh I'm short and just rummaged through the jar for two dollars I had to stop them more than once and tell them it isn't a free goodies jar for you to buy that extra donut you can't my economics teacher in high school once told us that he adopted two Chinese girls instead of having his own kids because statistically Asian girls eat less so he would be saving a lot of money in the long run I believe his exact quote was when we go to McDonald's they can split one hamburger and it's still better than the gristle they were eating in China what a deal this didn't strike me as being quite so racist until sometime later my mom and I once went to the cinema with a new friend of hers as we were leaving the friend found five dollars under one of the seats and then made us stay back in the MT cinema while she checked every row for anymore fallen cash my grandma would take my brother and sister to a restaurant and instead of buying us milk she'd make us drink the tiny creamers we used to frequent a bar slash Club when we were younger because they accepted our fake IDs and sold $1 beers on Friday nights we were buying rounds of beers and I'll never forget one of my mates coming up to me as it was my bi and telling me that he would like to opt out of that round and if I could just give him the $1 instead I delivered Beats last fall for some quick Christmas money we had a customer that I was warned didn't tip the manager said he would order the cheapest thing on the menu for delivery not tip required napkin / plate and would demand his change he lived three miles away in an ugly little trailer I clearly remember reach of his orders my first time there he looked shocked and said he'd never seen a girl driver he had ordered six chicken wings and his order was seven dollars and 86 cents he tipped me a dollar when I got back and told my co-workers they were shocked the next time I forgot the plate and napkins he told me he needed the plate because he shared the wings with his dog I had napkins in my glove box from Taco Bell he asked if I had hot sauce from there too he took everything I kept from fast-food restaurants in that short amount of time he told me that he was a disabled veteran fighting to get his pension and that his friend that has a business lets him clean the equipment and paid him a few bucks for it the next time I paid for his food the next I got to answer the phone and asked him wouldn't it be cheaper to get a couple of cheeseburgers he said yeah but McDonald's didn't deliver I did though and got off work in 30 minutes I don't work there anymore but I still bring him food every so often I had a bunch of cheap Bic pens when I worked as a server at Applebee's I left one with the table so they could sign the receipt I watched the dad sign it get up start walking away with his family turn around 6 feet later go back to the table and pocket my pen I went to a birthday dinner for my mother-in-law at a Filipino restaurant along with my wife and I four of her friends were there the friends ordered a mountain of food for the table there were seven of us there but if there were a dozen we couldn't have finished it all this was a bit irritating right of the bat because while I was happy to pitch in for her birthday dinner I didn't want to pay twenty percent of a goddamn feast from Westar it would end up being over $200 worth of food so then the check comes and I pitch in my credit card and three out of the four friends turn into statues except the oldest gentleman who offers something like 15 bucks I grab the bill and divided by five leaving out the dishes and drinks that my wife and I own it for ourselves and tally it up saying what everyone owes crickets I remind everyone that they we're the ones who would at this giant mound of food in the first place half of which is going to go to waste to prevent all goodness my mother-in-law grabs the bill and runs off leaving my credit card to go pay it my wife prevents me from stopping her and causing a scene I quietly lane to the three deadbeats at the table full letting an elderly woman on a fixed income pay a $200 plus bill for her own birthday dinner I lose it and call them docking moochers and whoa suddenly there's that scene everyone was working so hard to prevent with them screaming at me and me screaming back the restaurant owners understandably intervene and toss all of us out I go back in and apologize and explain what happened the restaurant to their credit not 40% off the bill out of nothing more than kindness solace low growl in Las Vegas y'all and cancel the charge on my mother-in-law's card and I picked up the rest which was still quite a bit but I felt a lot better about it I was a bartender at a country club employees are allowed to take home any food leftover from weddings after a wedding full of drunken assholes throwing things grabbing waitresses and other crap the mother of the bride marched into the kitchen demanding two things that all leftovers be given to her right now and that the 18% tip added on to the bill for us should be removed after explaining that she had already paid enough for this wedding and didn't want us getting anything else from her this was after she had made sure that no tip jars would be out for us because they would take care of us later one year my grandparents lived through the depression they waste nothing their freezer is a menagerie of ancient treasures last year we ate Thanksgiving at their house my mom did all the cooking but my grandma contributed a couple of desserts one was a marshmallow a jello sort of thing with pistachios when we got done eating she proudly declared that it had been sitting in the freezer since 1996 she was afraid we'd find out and would waste it by not eating it weird thing as it was still tasty as hell TLE our grandparents fed us 15 year old pudding a group of folks went out for dinner at a convention and several people had leftovers when we returned one of the people who had not been able to get out to dinner was bumped so one of the diner's said well I have some leftovers if you'd like them sure okay my meal was $10 and there's about half of it left so you owe me no I am not kidding no it was not me my parents are both very cheap but my dad is especially not generous one summer day when I was maybe 13 years old my tad finally agreed to take me to get my eyes examined to his surprise I did need glasses he insisted I wouldn't he reminded me that he had only agreed to get my eyes examined not to actually buy me glasses so if I wanted the glasses I would need to have them be my birthday present I really wanted to be able to read the board in school so I agreed my birthday is on Christmas and I always got a combined gift so now I had to wait a year and a half to get my next present and I knew it was my fault because I chose the glasses I understand that parents can't always pay for things but there was something especially cheap about turning buying me glasses into an excuse to not need to get any presents a full six months later I don't really talk to my dad anymore I worked for a short time as a luxury travel agent and agents get tons and tons of free stuff all the time every day there would be vendors setting up in the conference room for breakfast lunch and afternoon snacks which we got for free we just had to go listen to the vendors pitch this would totally go to some of the old-school agents heads the agents in the office next to mine were notoriously chief especially the 60 something-year-old boss they would push their way into the conference room throw their business card in the general director of the poor vendors and take as much food as possible multiple plates piled high I'd past their office and the food would be just sitting out on the desks uneaten the boss was known for showing up Advent or sponsored dinners and events with his wife uninvited and they'd bring plastic ziplock bags and fill them with food from the buffet to take home he made a ton of money so it wasn't out of necessity he was just insanely cheap and entitled my favorite story about him was that our company used to go around the offices some Friday afternoons in the summer with an ice cream cart and everyone would grab something one each because we're ducking adults in a professional workplace not this guy he filled a manila envelope with like 20 ice creams labeled in property of name do not touch and put it in the office freezer My Sassy co-worker used to go steal ice creams from the envelope all the time for our office just to spite him tasted so good

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Published: Sun Aug 04 2019