Instances where you’ve been the cheeky fucker

Deleted because I posted the same story earlier in the thread!

This has really made me laugh 😂

This was supposed to be when you have been a CF. If you call it that I have been waiting for a tradesman to come and finish some plastering which was included in a quote I had and was happy to pay for as it was almost finished - big job, £6 grands worth but this little job not finished. They have kept me waiting for 3 months and was driving me mad keep asking. They should have come last week and never appeared, once again, so I did it myself, not hard from youtube, then I billed them for the work. Told them I would put it everywhere and not give them any good reviews for the good work they had done. Result - £150 refund.

Driving home from a week away a few years ago, road works had us take a different route and we came across a hotel with a big outdoor area by a lake. Lovely spot to stop, let the kids run around and have something to eat.
Went in a side door with a set of stairs and could smell food from there so up we went and into a room with a hot buffet laid out, got our plates and filled up with a lovely roast. Me DH and 3 kids, sat and ate and as they were itching to get out and play we finished up fairly quick, I sent DH on out with them and I went to pay.
Couldn't spot a till, asked one of the women behind the table where I could pay.
This is where I wanted the ground to swallow me up!!!
It was funeral meal. I couldn't pay😳
I was mortified and tried to get the woman to take my money to put towards it, she laughed and told me it was fine as it was a set price and there was more than enough to go around.
I legged it out to DH and while the boys were playing away with another group of kids I told him, he roared laughing while I'm busy telling him it's not funny and what if the grieving family had spotted us and were thinking "Who the hell are they? cheeky fuckers helping them selves"
Elderly woman beside us started laughing and told me not to worry it was fine and that I had made her laugh for the first time in several days.
She was the deceased persons widow. The bill payer😳

Totally agree.
The number of times I've made a last minute call for someone to collect my kids cos I'm late, MN would think I'm awful.
Yesterday I woman I know through our kids popped by and said hi. Her kids walked iny house to my kids (they don't know each other) and played randomly for 10 minutes. It was cute but I can imagine the MN froth over uninvited guests and people wandering into your home etc.

By the age of 10 I was getting a tram to my grandmothers house and no one thought anything of it. From 11 I was walking two miles to school. Ive seen threads here where kids of 14/15 have never used public transport or been into a shop to make a purchase on their own. No wonder we have a generation of young people who are too stressed to do a job.

I also live in a little village with a school. I don't see the issue here at all in Year 6. Surely they would either wander home or stay in the park? Why did they need to go home with someone else?

Maybe I have been? But it’s not a concept I recognise-on Mumsnet it seems just to mean the give and take that keeps society moving. I help you-you help me.I can’t imagine circumstances where I would have a problem with doing what you asked. Mumsnet seems to equate doing anyone a favour with donating a kidney!

Our neighbour did that! I gave it to her thinking, what’s the harm? DH told me off 😬.

The OP scenario reads fine to me - this sort of situation is totally acceptable with the lovely parents in my dc class. We are all there for each other and all of our kids as part of a community.

The only time I would raise eyebrows is where someone is continually relying on others for no good reason and not reciprocating.

My own CF moment was taking a younger dc to a play barn type party and the parents felt obliged to include my younger dc in the party. Said dc was ridiculously fussy and ate practically nothing so it was a waste of their money.
I still feel guilty now and he’s 16🤣🤣

I don't see how this is CFery from your ds unless he asked the parents for a meal?

Yes I get that. But maybe an 11 years old decision wasn't based on 'i'd he safe to walk home now', maybe it was based on 'i'm having fun and can go to Jonny's house to carry on playing'

After playing, obviously. Just walked home when everyone else left, no need to be taken by someone. But probably enjoyed the chance to carry on playing at his friend's house. But in any case, no big deal at all.

I'm assuming the poster meant after having finished playing in the park in which the OPer left the DC.

It sounds from the up date it would have been safe for the DC to walk home.

They weren't in McDonald's at the time so pp would've had to leave her young child at the party. It's in the post

Why couldn’t you buy him a happy meal yourself? 🤔

I wouldn’t have minded this one bit OP I never mind having my DC’s friends round and I don’t think it’s CF behaviour with a child that age, they don’t need looking after. It’s certainly not neglect.

My only thought would be that the last day of primary school is quite a big thing and I would have wanted to be there. Most people arrange work/other stuff so at least one parent can pick up on that last day.

For what?

Christ 😳🤣

This isn’t CF it’s child neglect!!! Seriously if I’d been the other parent I’d have called social services on you by now!

Maybe because he wanted to hang out with his friend? It's really not that a big a deal for most people

Agreed, by year 6 they've known these other children and parent since they were 4 years old in most cases.

Some MNetters don't like community though and that's why they have no support network and cry when someone knocks on their door

So you didn't forget, you just didn't bother?

Because it wasn't agreed or planned. She just forgot. Child didn't know the plan, and we don't know how far it was. Presumably child was waiting around for her to arrive and she didn't, so another parent took him home. Sounds pretty neglectful to me. Totally different to planning in advance that he makes his way home along a route he has done before.