More student stingyness from days gone by
Like most students, my housemates and I liked to get tanked up on cheap supermarket booze before we went out, then get a pint in at the club and nurse it all night to keep us at the right level of drunkenness.

So one night I get some tins in and split them with a mate, then we go out. I should add that it was also normal practice to buy a round if you haven't provided any drinks at home. So I wait an hour for this guy to buy me a pint to make up for the tinnies I've subbed him. I finally crack and come out and ask him to get one in. He can't reasonably refuse, but he shoots me a filthy look, heads for the bar and reappears with two pints of Special.

I nip to the gents and come back to find him sipping "my" pint. When I challenge him he says "That pint cost 5p more than the two cans you gave me so I'm making up the difference."

So who was the tightwad? Me or him?
(lolwhites, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 21:53, 8 replies)

Him
Definately.
(kitescreech still here, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 21:54, closed)

I concur...
... mainly because I am a student and am currently in the process of a drunkening from Sainsbury's Basics Cider and the thought of someone refusing to purchase me a beverage of the same volume frightens me greatly.
We came to the conclusion the other day that Tesco Value both tastes better, and is 1p cheaper than Sainsburys. This also scares me greatly, in that we can actually be arsed to compare such awfully cheap drinks with each other.
(Stinky Wizzleteats Should probably be doing something more productive, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 22:11, closed)

It's not so much the volume
I appreciate that a pint in a pub, club or even student union costs more than the same volume of beer from Tesco. I wouldn't expect two pints for two tins. It's more the monetary value and the recognition, especially when everyone is in the same boat skint-wise.
(lolwhites, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 9:04, closed)

Maybe
Maybe he secretly fancies you, and wanted to drink from the same glass as you. Before wanking all over your chin later on.
(Spaff_Quaffer Wise fwom your gwave., Sat 25 Oct 2008, 22:11, closed)

^
This is definitely the case.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 22:50, closed)

Bugger
How could I not have spotted that?
(lolwhites, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 9:15, closed)

Dunno..
..I get the impression you'd pissed him off in some other way.. and I don't believe that it's "normal practise" to tot up drinks "owed" as a student.. wasn't in my day anyway..

but I could be wrong.
(lost, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 23:49, closed)

Him
Unless this is a trick question, seeing as the booze in question is Special. Special Brew I hope.
(muzzvsworld, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 3:15, closed)