I blame the parents.
The tightest person I know is easily my little sister. Her penny pinching from an early age is truly breathtaking. She is the reason why our local Burger King stopped putting out sachets of ketchup with the napkins, straws, sugar, and other condiments because she used to go in and take literally every sachet every other day for her new apartment. She eats lots of ketchup by the way.

The worst thing she has ever done was emailing me an e-card for my birthday, ringing me so I would call her back and she would congratulate me (for what, staying alive another year?), then sending a present with my mum when my mum came to visit me a month later. What was the present? A travel jar of freeze dried coffee.

Other highlights of her chronic anality include:

- buying a dress from a decent shop, keeping the tags on WHILST GOING OUT ON THE RAZZ and making sure that she didn’t get anything spilt on it, then taking it back and demanding her money back knowing full well that she wouldn’t be able to but then appearing to be reasonable and ‘settling’ for store credit. Rinse and repeat at all other branches of the store in her immediate environs.

- Now that she is responsible for her own budget, she doesn’t eat everyday.

- Gets my mum to drive to her apartment to take her laundry and process it because she thinks that buying washing powder doesn’t ‘align with her budget’.

- When visiting my other sister she borrowed a nice big golf umbrella from her, promptly lost it, then bought her a new £0.99 mini one that would also ‘be her birthday present’.

- Keeps a ‘slops’ bowl in the fridge for leftovers. Last time I was there she tried to tempt me with baked beans and Dundee cake (together).

- When staying in hotels, she always tried to raid the maid’s trolley for things like toothpaste and travel size bars of soap. Also towels. Also the maid’s work schedule clipboard. Once she even tried to wheel the trolley around the corner so she could have a proper root around.

- Eats spam as if spam were a normal meat.

I blame the parents.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:07, 8 replies)

im impressed
With the maids trolly normally they wont let you get anywhere near them. But why no gods green earth would she take the clipboard?? soap ican understand but a clipboard???

Still made me laugh
(welgar, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:16, closed)

Even worse than tight
She's a thief.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:21, closed)

I agree
When I call her a dirty little thief she brings up the old 'scrumping' argument and everyone takes stuff from hotels etc. and if she asked then the maid would probably just give her what she wanted.

NO, powervator SISTER! YOU ARE A THIEFY LITTLE THIEF.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:52, closed)

"if she asked then the maid would probably just give her what she wanted"
Apart from the clipboard!
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:28, closed)

My wash kit
is entirely made up of stolen hotel soap, shampoo, and a rather nice flannel, towel and dressing gown set.
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:22, closed)

Its the umbrella
She'd have got a punch from me for that one.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 22:17, closed)

Spam is alright.
We once got served spam on a residential school trip, and I ate all my table's seven portions because no-one else wanted theirs.
( Bob Todd whee, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 13:20, closed)

I've eaten bacon grill before
and that was kinda ok. Spam though. Spam.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 16:14, closed)