I've just spent a week away with 4 of my mates. Well, a really good mate, a couple of lads I occasionally drink with and are mates from school and one lad I had never met who was a work colleague of a school mate. I've never, in my life, spent a week with mingebags like 2 of the lads from school were. It was outrageous.
I should have known in the airport. I'm not a great flier, so they were eating and I said 'I'm going to get a pint to calm my nerves.' Obviously, the shouts of 'get us one mate' went out. I thought nothing of it, they'll repay with the transfer to the airport or something. They never did, and the next round in the airport was bought from my good mate who I'm close to, who also paid the taxi to the airport for 20 quid. The two mingebags got a transfer to the airport and 2 pints there for nothing. Considering it's over 5 quid a pint at the airport, that is not bad going.
So there we are in our apartment on the first day, we arrived lateish and headed for drinks. So on the first day we needed essentials, water, toilet roll, toothpaste, all that jazz. The two mingebags kept pestering us other 3 to go down to the shop and get stuff, yet somehow they wouldn't go themselves and it was only 20 yards over the road. So me and my mate went and got stuff and spent a few quite a few quid actually on essentials. At NO point, during the holiday, when essentials were low, did the other two even bother to go and get things. They'd tell you to pick things up, beers, drinks, whatever, but would never go themselves nor would they offer you some coppers towards it.
Second night in and it is about 2am and the two mingebags had no money left. The apartment was 5 minutes away so they could have went back to get some, but they asked my mate first to borrow some money until we got back. He was onto them and said he only had enough for himself (he didn't, but he wasn't falling for it). I was a bit pissed and I'm stupid sometimes like that so I was like there you go, here is 10 euro each for a drink for you two. Nice one, great, we'll sort you out when we get back. On going out the next night we were all putting in towards a kitty, so I said to one of them 'That 20 euro from last night that I borrowed you, put that in the kitty for me and then its paid back then'. Obviously, they denied ever taking any money and without wanting to cause a toxic atmosphere I just told them to sort their heads out and didn't speak to them on that night.
The next night they do the same. They are out of money, so they ask my friend again. We were in rounds this time, and the round was coming 25 euro each time give or take a couple of bob. So my mate says 'Here you go, here is 40 Euro, go and get the next round in with that and I'll get them in'. The mingebag's eyes lit up, sound mate yeah, nice one. He goes to the bar and brings drinks back, but doesn't give my mate the 15 euro or so change. I told him to ask him for it but he just shook his head as it to say, I've been fucking roped in again. If that wasn't bad enough, half an hour or so later the lad with the change was at the bar talking to some girl and he fucking buys him and her a drink with the change that he didn't give back to my mate! I couldn't fucking believe it. How he never chinned him I will never know.
When it came to meals they would add up exactly what their food cost and wouldn't put any more in. They would ask to borrow clothes, they'd steal beers without asking, use wifi on your phone without asking, all of that shit. On the last day one of them was going the shop for a drink so I gave him 6 or 7 euros in coins and asked him to get me one and a deodorant because I had ran low. He came back and said 'Here is your drink, I realized over there that I've got loads of spray I haven't used and you can use some'. There was no sign of the change though. And yes, he was the one who took my mates change and bought the girl a drink. So he's a fucking thief, not a mingebag. And when I was using his spray I used half a fucking can just to piss him off, the look on his face was priceless.
Coming home one of them had to borrow money to get some water on the plane. In the taxi home they had no money left so of course they didn't pay. I have probably missed out loads of little things but the general points are made. Theives, basically, not mingebags. A lesson learned. The lad who came along from my mate's work was sound, he kept to himself mainly, he'd get drinks in, he'd split meals, put money towards things. The other two were off the fucking scale and I've never quite seen anything like it. I didn't want to lose my rag; I'm not an aggressive person usually but when I lose my rag I can go too far. I just kept biting my lip because I didn't want to spoil the holiday and my mate was in the same boat. I suppose laying a marker down early might have made things not so bad but it's all in the past now. I doubt I'll ever want to go for a bevy with them again after that, spending a week with people like that really does make you open your eyes.
Anyway, I had to get this down. Rant over!
