Cheap penny pintching tight a**
August 11th, 2009 2:07am by admin
So I’ve been living with this friend of mine for about 6 months now. We live in a house my dad owns (small 2 bedroom 1 bath 1 car garage place). All I charge him to live here is the cost of bills (which have ranged anywhere from $88 to $150/month) plus half the internet/tv bill ($22.98/month). He doesn’t have a job, for probably 4-5months now. Despite payng next to nothing to live here he stills complains constantly! On top of that, he has a lot of weird annoying habits.
A recap of some of our arguments:
1) It was late at night, and I needed to go grocery shopping so I asked him if I could eat one of his 3 bake-yourself-pizzas, and that I would replace it the next day when I went grocery shopping. He seriously hesitated and goes “um…..well……I…I guess, if you’re gonna replace it”!!! It’s not like it was his last one, or like he was gonna eat all 3 in one night. So I ended up driving to mcdonalds instead.
2) When paying me for the first internet/tv bill…..(45.95/2 = 22.98) he gives me $22.98 in cash…and well change. Not in an envolope…just hands me $0.98. Wtf, I told him to put it in an envolope because I wasn’t going to carry around 98cents in loose change. He tells me to just put it in my pocket. Granted he has 3 boxes of envolopes on his desk (which he has told me before that he got for free). So Finally after arguing, he puts it into one of his free envolopes and tells me to not throw away the evolpoe and to reuse it….yeah right!
3) Next month: All of the bils (except the net/tv bill) are in my dad’s name, so the money for those go to him and he pays them. The net/tv goes to me and I pay it (in my name). Yet knowing this, he mixes all the cash and chane into a single envolope. Not a huge deal, so I politely ask him to start seperating the money after that. He responses by snapping at me about how all the money is there (personally I think he just didn’t want to use an additional envolope).
4) One of the rules I had spoke to him about before moving in was that dishes be done in a timely manner. We dont have a dishwasher, which he is not used to, I had suggested (before he moved in) that it might be easier to simply wash the dish right after using them…he seemed pretty hesitant about that. So I told him as long as the dishes were washed by the end of the day, that we would have no problems. That didn’t really happen however. I had one side of the sink as the dirty side and the other (with a dry rack in it) as the clean side. So what does he do, constantly pulls out the dry rack and puts enough dirty dishes to fill up both sides of the sink. My dishes then start to get behind because they are literally burried under his mess! And when he did the dishes, i had no where to put mine because his were filling up the dry rack.
So I buy another dry rack….which to him must mean that he can now use both of them! Finally i confromt him about this, and he tells me that I can’t tell hm what to do. And that I’m crazy and no one does dishes on a daily basis. So finally he agrees….well a month later I find out we have fruit flies (actually he pointed this out). And then i realize, he hasn’t been doing dishes…he has been putting dirty dishes into a cabinet and doing themmaybe once a week!!!! GROSS!! Of course when i confront him he begins to argue with me again. At that point i told him he simply does his dishes or finds a new place to live.
5) He complains that we need a new air filter (for the furnace), so i buy a pack of 3 (each one last a month). 3 months later he text while I’m at work….
him: Just wanted to send you a reminder tha the house needs a new filter for the furnace
me: Well I boutght the last pack of filters so I think it should be your turn to get some
him: If you got them what store, how much were they and id like to see a reciepit showing that you in fact did buy them last time.
WTF?!?! I a recipet from 3 months ago for a $5 pack of filters?!?! If I didn’t buy them, who the hell did? So after lost of arguing he finally buys some (I hope…actually I havn’t even looked yet). But seriously, if we are alternating who buys them, that means it only cost you $5 every 6 months!! Was it really neccesary to start an argument with me over that. This was the straw that almost broke the camel’s back.
6) The very next day…as I’m still getting over his extreme display of ungrateful stinginess from the day before (remember he doesn’t have a job and he only payed $110 the previous month to live here). I come home to find the net/tv bill in a bank envolope (I could care less what kind of envolope I get the money in, just find it mind boggling that he is so cheap, he has to use free bank envolope’s as opposed to the ones he got for free that are on his desk). And in it is the $22.98…personally if it were me, and I’m paying in cash, I would just give the extra 2 pennies and make it $23, but that doesn’t really worry all to much. What does bother me, is that the $0.98 is ALL in pennies!!!! 98 fucking pennies, are you kidding me….do I look like a coin star?! I have been holding back from saying anything simply because I don’t feel like getting into an argument…but I refuse to accept 98 pennies. Especially when the envolope won’t seal because the flap is torn off. And at this point I’m so tired of all his stupid pointless arugments, that if he argues with me over this I’m gonna end the argument by simply raising rent (and if he doesn’t like it, he is free to move out).
Weird/Annoying habits:
1) He takes 1.5-2 hours getting ready for the day in the bathroom (showering, hair fixing, etc). It doesn’t matter if he stayed in all day, he wil take a shower and fix his hair at 2am, just so he can go to bed an hour after he’s done. really annoying since my room is right next to the bathroom, and I hear everything.
2) He never accepts responsibilty for his actions, believes he is always in the right. He told me a story about getting his license suspended when he lived in Ohio because he accumulated 12 points…but was it his fault for speeding (which he was told me how he liked to drive fast through winding roads and “drift”). NO, of course it was the sops fault because “they have nothing better to do but hand out tickets”. Maybe if he wasn’t racing on backroads!!!
3) I refuse to ride with him anymore. He drives like a maniac. We are both into cars, the only difference is, I get my informatin from experience and reading. He gets his from ricer websites and fast and the furious movies. He drives a wrx (which is an AWD car) yet he thinks it is a car for drifting. When he backs out of the driveway, he floors it and them slams the brakes on so hard that there are tire marks on the road from him slamming the brakes on. When we go to the loca bar…he pulls his e-brake on and trys to do a 180 when parking.
He pulled out infront of a cop the other day (this was the last straw) . We are going down a major road, traffic was pretty light. A cop with sirens/lights on comes flying behind us and he pulls over the cop (this was right before an intersection). I point out that there are 2 more cops coming on the crossroad on the right…so as soon cop #2 (coming from the right) turns to follow cop #1 (going in the same direction we are) he floors it and trys to follow him. Somehow…even though i point out to him that there were 2 cops coming from the right…he didn’t see the cop #3, and we almost got tboned as the roomy slams his brakes on just in time to stop in the middle of the intersection right infront of cop #3!!! Cops gives us a dirty look, and he proceeds to yell at the cop saying “wtf I didn’t see you”! how about “WTF I’m not suppose to tail gate a cop when he is fly to get somewhere with his lights on”!!
4) He bitches Non-stop about a set of wheels/tires he bought from a mutual friend over a year ago. Contantly telling me how he out frend ripped him off. He bought a set of 4 tires and 4 wheels for only $150. 1 of the tires slowly leaks (and I’m mean 3-4 psi/month). All I can hear is stupid imagined reasons why it leaks with no actual logic behind them. Things like “I think he sold me a bent wheel”, or “I think he sold me a dry rotted tire”. Get the fuck over it…maybe he did, maybe he didn’t it was over a year ago and still a good deal for only $150!!! Or maybe you should simply get the wheels/tires looked at.
One day his tire went completely flat and I told him, that he probably got a nail stuck in his tire. “No No No, it was rb, he sold me a bent tire”. Finally he listenes to me, and goes to take the wheel in…guess what…a nail! Not only that, but he has large flat bald spots on the inside of his tires from his “drifting” wannabe attempts. And from the fact that his lowering springs have thrown his allignment way out of whack (which he blames the alignment shop for not doing a better job).
5) He chews with his mouth open and makes such loud noises that i seriously though he was trying to be funny the first time I heard it.
6) He only goes to one bar because a mutual friend owns it…he never buys anything, he just angs out there, and will only drink if either our friend (who owns it) gives him a drink or someone else buys him a drink.
7) The shower is getting over run my his shampoo, bodywash, and conditioners!! How many do you really need?! He has 10 bottles of stuff in there. 2 bodywashes, 2 conditioners, 4 shampoo bottles, 1 acne cleansor, 1 “2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner” (because the 6 bottles weren’t enough I guess), and finally 2 bars of soap!
And lastly, because I’m getting tired of writing, and pretty sure noone is going to read all of this. He bitches to me about all his girl problems. Which he has many of, because he picks up girls at the bar that put out after only a couple hours. 1 hooters girl he was talking with sad he should go see her at work and that she would give him a free beer. So he gets there and she doesn’t give him a free beer….oh no….no free beer for heapo mike!! He makes a big deal and of course the girl looks at him funny.
How about the girl whose boots he took hostage because they broke up. He decided that the money he gave her (as a gift…or more exactly to keep tabs on her) for a cell phone, need to pay him back before he would give her boots back.
Seriously you’re 29….grow the fuck up, accept responsiblity for you’re action and stop being such a rediulous tightass!!!