@Smark, @ChocolateMice - The offending county wasā¦GALWAY.
Iād usually shame any cunt at this sort of thing too but these were my life partnerās friends rather than mine so I was bemused more than anything. It was apparent to everybody and commented upon when they werenāt around. I wasnāt aware of it in advance but itās a running joke bordering on bone of contention in the group.
It was also mentioned that they shared a taxi from the airport to the hotel with another couple who ended up paying as they claimed their wallet / purse was in their bags in the boot.
Yer man apparently chimed in with a comment to the effect of āsure you would have been paying for it anyway if we werenāt with youā.
Thatās the exact same as my auld fella. Generous to a fault, will wrestle with people at bars or restaurants as he tries to pay for everything. Its the worst trait in the world to him for a man to be mean at a bar. Heās very resourceful over weird little things. For example:
He goes ape shit over me boiling the kettle to shave with, that the water in the taps are sufficiently hot to shave with and its wasting money on electricity.
He wonāt buy new razors for himself. He has about 30 old disposable ones at home thrown into a container in the bathroom and he rotates these when he shaves. Some of them Iām sure are many years old and indeed are blunt as anything, rusted and clogged with old stubble
I donāt think heās ever bought clothes for himself. That was his mothers job and then my mother when she entered the fray
Food wastage is a big no no. Heād eat a packet of ham 3-4 days gone off rather than throw it out. Heād never eat fruit but if you went to throw out say an apple that was going black, soft and oozing shit heād eat it rather than throw it out
My mother routinely smuggles stuff out that she wants gone out of the house
Its not unusual for him to rummage through the bin, take out and then eat something that was thrown out because it was gone off
Heās a hoarder as well. An infuriating man really
But then the same fella is very wasteful over other things.
Buys a pack of fags a day
Buys booze to beat the band although usually slabs of Heineken etc that he got a āgreat dealā on
Buys a newspaper every day to look at the horses and little else (despite spending lots of time on ATR website reading the same form). And as a result of buying papers every day thereās old ones thrown everywhere and if you pick up a bunch of old ones to throw out he goes apeshit. Heāll run over and pull out one from say a week ago and say heās to read that yet
My auld lad would often cut the mould off bread and eat the other bits.
āSure donāt they make penicillin out of mould, how could it be bad for youā
You clown. You got the Lucozade Zero I bet.
They are still making the original stuff, just the fact itās āzeroā isnāt very well advertised on the bottle.