Dear Deirdre - think my friend's trying to rip me off

[FatherJack]

Wasn't there another thread asking whose face you'd like to slap?? I don't know Rosie or her so called friend but surely she is worthy of a slap, this is shocking behaviour and the friend is taking the piss. Rosie ask yourself is the friendship worth it? Surely not.......oooo I could go on but to what end !

[SeanMacGabhann]

Rosie

you might once have considered her a close friend and she may have charm. But have a look around at your current mates and the various levels therein. If you just met her now would you devote much time to her?

There you go

[SteveT]

You are a lying slut as there isn't any charge from the restaurant, I know I checked, so I refuse to put you in a fraudulent position by paying you anything, you greedy grasping thieving tight-fisted slag!

Ps I don't mean that in a bad way.

[daizie]

Thats a bit more like it LOL

[woofmarkthedog]

That's right SteveT

Meet her & give her a back & front wedgie, at the same time shout in her ear

"I charge ?15 quid for each , so were quits now"

Sealed with a Glasgow kiss, then while she's down steal her purse

She'll thank you for it one day.......Honest !

W**F

* oh and "somehow" make her find the link to this page*

[matthew123]

Play her at her own game. Say you'd rang restaurant beforehand and paid the ?30 over phone and leave it at that. If she comes back on it stick to your story.

[giggirl]

No no no - terrible idea - don't tell lies

[*Bob*]

Play her at her own game.

Go down and speak to the restaurant manager and explain everything. Then get the restaurant manager to ask his brother to telephone your 'friend' (using a disguised voice) and explain that the bill was overpaid by ?30 and that someone who perhaps didn't attend but paid might be due a refund. Then, date the restaurant manager's brother until he agrees to marry you. Ask your so-called friend to be your matron of honour. When you walk up the aisle in the groom turns around and reveals himself to be the restaurant manager's brother, you can then turn to your friend and scream 'now give me my thirty pieces of silver, Judas'. Believe you me, there'll be egg on her face for sure.

[skidmarks]

Does anyone else use little tests of character? There are two types of people, the ones who turn up late to a pub, goes to the group they?re meeting and ask if anyone wants a drink. Then there is the other type who arrive, spot where the group is, go buy themselves a drink and go over. That really gets on my tits. What they?re saying is that they?re not buying you a drink until someone has bought them one.

What do you do?

[*Bob*]

Well that depends, Skids.

When you arrive late at the pub and look over at the table you'll be joining, how many tightarsed friends are sitting there?

[skidmarks]

I?d still go over and offer.

[Mick Mac]

skidmarks Wrote:

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> Does anyone else use little tests of character?

> There are two types of people, the ones who turn

> up late to a pub, goes to the group they?re

> meeting and ask if anyone wants a drink. Then

> there is the other type who arrive, spot where the

> group is, go buy themselves a drink and go over.

> That really gets on my tits. What they?re saying

> is that they?re not buying you a drink until

> someone has bought them one.

>

> What do you do?

I buy drinks for everyone - and 3 for myself.

[Mick Mac]

Is it ok to say the English ones are normally the tightarses - or is that racist.

[skidmarks]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Is it ok to say the English ones are normally the

> tightarses - or is that racist.

I find it is the people who have a bit of money are the worse and it doesn't matter where they are from.

[Mick Mac]

Of course that was tongue in cheek. I think people who drink more are generally first to go to the bar and people who drink less are more concerned about buying a big round and not getting their money/drink back.

[????]

I too have noticed you're very geneous with buying the pop mick :)-D

[Brendan]

This raises an interesting point. Round-dodging is a fun game that everyone in the group can play BUT it can only be played with very, very good mates. Normally it should be reserved for those friends who you have grown up with or spent so much time in pubs with that your collective beer money is historically so intertwined that even a few tons here and there are going to go pretty much unnoticed over the years.

So sometimes you get lumped with the ?50 round in the expensive bar where everyone orders the cocktails and your sniggering mate helps you carry the drinks knowing full well that he just paid ?15 in the previous pub for everyone?s pints of bitter. Other times you get distracted by a very important phone call when you?re both at the bar buying drinks for 7 people and can?t return until he has got them all to the table.

It can be more fun than darts.

[DirtyBox]

In my group of friends it's perfectly acceptable to turn round to Mr TightArse (not his/their real name) and say something along the lines of "get a round in you squeaky bastard!"

[sophiesofa]

Rosie, she sounds like she needs a reality check for her own good as well as yours and the rest of her friends. Cheating your friends is just low and she needs to be told. Having said that I'm a wimp so I'd get a mouthy friend to do it. Hope it gets sorted out soon x

[HonaloochieB]

Maybe I'm missing the point Rosie, but why is your absence such a major issue anyway (apart from the obvious charm, glamour and elan you would have brought to the occasion)?

If there were 19 people present couldn't the 30 quid (if it was in fact charged) have been absorbed by the group at no great individual expense?

I realise that by putting this to the group you risk falling out with more people that your TAF but on the bright side you'd be saving money on Xmas cards and presents and you could put the money towards nice wooden magazine racks from Muji instead of knocking them up from old Daz boxes and wallpaper.

But whatever happens TAF seems unworthy of your time and frienship.

[Ladymuck]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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>....your TAF

*massive burst of laughter*...had to think about that one, but very very funny!

> ...TAF seems unworthy of your

> time and frienship.

Well said HB (and in English too)! Though I would add that (to my mind) the "friendship must have been on shaky ground to begin with (true friends do not do this sort of thing to each other).