Have you ever encountered anyone this cheeky?

Contented sigh... What a great thread, I have read it all over a cup of tea, lots of head-shaking, tutting and "cheeky bastards", so satisfying! I agree Mexican holiday nutcase man is the winner, but also enjoyed dog towel lady, gooseberry lady and sandwich nabber lady as well. Definitely a classic!

DP and I were out shopping a few weeks ago, there was a woman and her young son there, she was looking at clothes but standing in the aisle blocking the way at the same time. DP and I politely tried to get past them but she ignored us and wouldn't move, then said to her son "don't move out of the way Jack, stay where you are." (Jack is a made up name). We were gobsmacked, ignoring us and not moving is one thing, but purposely telling your young child not to move out of the way ?

Only just found this thread and really looking forward to reading it in full!

DH and I got married abroad and a now very ex-friend couldn't afford to travel out for it. Other friends decided to club together to buy her a plane ticket and sort out accommodation for her so she could come. This was their wedding present to us. Lovely thought! Ex-friend accepted and attended the wedding. Once the wedding was over she proceeded to travel all over the country sight-seeing, which involved two internal flights and a week's worth of hotel accommodation. Clearly, we she said she couldn't afford to come to the wedding, what she really meant was that she couldn't afford to come and have the holiday that she had wanted to have. For years after (until she became ex-friend) she would talk about the wonderful time she had had and how generous everyone had been.

An otherwise lovely friend of mine has a blind spot for her dog. Once DS and I went for a walk in the park with her and her dog, who in turn is a fiend for chasing any kind of ball.

A man came into the park with a toddler kicking a little football about. The dog headed off towards them, she got it back under control before said dog reached the ball, but instead of putting her dog back onto the lead she told the man it would be best if he put the ball away. Which he did, and left the park.

She genuinely saw nothing wrong with that, so I chose other times and places to meet, without dog, after that.

Yes car seat was returned after speaking to my lovely sil, who to this day, 16 years later, is still mortified. Bil is still a dick though, who thinks that his dc's are far more important and precious than anyone else's.

Just report the op and instead of saying 'she swore at me' say 'please pretty please put this fab thread in classics' :)

I had a lady round from a charitable organisation the other day, to help me with something, and when I asked her if she would like tea or coffee, she said tea at first, but once I was getting the cups out, she asked me to tell her which brand of coffee I had.
I hesitated, then said it was medium roast coffee, and I can't remember which brand.
'Well have a look, there's a dear' she replied.
I looked and told her it was Douwe Egberts, to which she replied 'Ok, I will have coffee since it's not that cheap muck...I can't abide the cheap chicory stuff.'

I'm still wondering how she would have declined without appearing rude if I'd had a value brand.

I suppose I expected more from a stranger who works in a charitable organisation and whose job it is to help people with problems.

Is there a classics thread where all nominated classic threads go?

If so, how do you find it?

Sorry to be so dim, I've just started on here (classic excuse!)

How do you nominate it for classics?

Eos, did you get the car seat back?

I came home from work wearing a new pair of lovely trousers that I had bought that day. Friend/flatmate was going out that night and demanded that I take them off and give them to her to wear and was pissed when I refused. She spent over an hour trying to get them off me including saying that she was more entitled to them as I was not going out, that she was a poor soul with nothing nice to wear (she had a wardrobe stuffed with clothes & what had she been intending to put on?) and wheedling at me to let her try them on to see what they looked like on her (not a chance - knew I'd never get them back!) She finally flounced out in a huff when all her pleading was to no avail.

Can't believe Mexico Man - I'm amazed at his total lack of embarrassment, loved the unexpected bridesmaid and the dog being dried with the swimmer's towel

Sorry I'm a bit late replying back, I've been out for a blast on the motorbike.....fabby it was too

Colcolepew thankyou - takes a bow!
Euphemia thankyou too - another bow!
the onewiththehair much appreciated - bows again!!

stealthofficial........ yes, sadly my sorry tale is totally true
neomaxizoom........it was just a very mild stroke, luckily (I was 31 at the time) probably due to all the bloody stress my so called friend was giving me!!!
But as for having it out with her, nope, it never happened. she took her son and demanded her bf take her home immediately, whilst wailing loudly about what an awful person I was, and that was the last I saw of her(Yippee's loudly). TBH the water throwing was a culmination of annoyance of several years of being treated like her personal childminder/ chauffeur/etc, etc! The last I heard was she trained in childcare, married the bf and went on to have more dc's!!!!

As for me, I bought a motorbike....with just enough saddle space for me and ds...he loved it, cos it gave him street cred with his mates, and' I love it 'cos of the VaVaVoom !!!

I had a friend who had a flat on the other side of London to me, she got married and they moved to Paris letting out their London flat. Every now and again she would phone, ask if I had plans for that evening and announce she was in London and coming round to stay.

Once she phoned me at work and complained that she had called yesterday evening at home and there was no answer even though she tried several times (this was in the days before mobiles and caller display), I said I had been out, she said never mind, she would see me after work and could at least stay with me a couple of nights. She repeated again her shock at not being able to get hold of me the night before. The following evening when I came home from work she answered the door to me wearing my slippers! The next morning when I got up she was following me around the house chatting at me while I got ready for work, eventually I snapped (not really very snappy) and said that I really liked to be on my own in the mornings and wasn't much of a morning person, could she just let me have some peace. She then arranged to go somewhere else as I 'obviously didn't like' having her around. Never heard from her again. She took all her stuff but did leave behind an empty packet for verucca cream .

A few weeks later her tenants called to say they were moving out and asked what they should do. I said I had no idea why they were calling me or how they knew me and they told me I was the emergency contact and they wanted to give me notice. First I knew. I said they could do whatever they liked, they had paid rent up to date and I told them I didn't even have a contact number for their landlady only a number for her BIL in France.

I shall also confess to a bit of cheekiness myself. My dear old cat needed loads of teeth taken out and it was going to be quite expensive, this was about 18 months after I split with exH, so I spoke to him about it and asked for half of the money as she was technically half his cat! He paid it! I don't think I actually expected him to cough up but I was a bit skint after buying out his share of the house and he was only paying a token amount of child support, I thought it was worth a try .

My SIL lives in a different country to us, not far though and comes over for birthdays and Christmas (at Christmas i would do her a stocking as well as some presents under the tree). Every single year when she is packing to get the flight back she says she can't fit everything in and leaves some of her presents behind.

I always make sure to buy her stuff that I know that she can fly home with.

It took me a couple of years to notice the pattern that what she was leaving behind were the presents she didn't want. She never ever asked us to send the stuff on. We have 7 years of rejected presents cluttering up our study. It's the fact that she cares so little about things that I have put thought into buying for her that she can't even be arsed to take them home before binning them.

cheeky cow.

I have an EX friend who always pleaded poverty but she was going through a rough time so I made a some allowances. We'd meet for a coffee and after I bought them and we finished them, would always say "oh, have to get back for.." them leave. Expected me to pay her bus fare whenever we went anywhere. Stuff like that so not particularly earth shattering but niggling all the same.

Then she guilted me into going out for a meal on her birthday as our birthdays are only a couple of weeks apart. Each half of the bill came to £20 each but she only had £15 so I had to pay the difference. We had previously agreed to share the taxi after she was wondering how to get home from where we were going. It was a little out of my way to drop her off first but said it was ok and would probably only cost £X amount (less than a fiver actually). We get in the taxi, she gets out and doesn't pay!

She then started always talking abut how lovely my DH is, how good looking, how kind etc. Then I noticed that that whenever she was with both of us, we would constantly stare at him! He gave her a lift home and she out her hand on his thigh and then pretended it was a mistake!!!

I dropped contact pretty quickly after that!

SIL asked us to stay for a few nights after Christmas. When we go there she said 'well I don't know where you're going to sleep' and went out to a part for the evening.
My brother borrowed me empty flat quite often and complained it was dirty - didn't offer any rent

Too smelly for her bin maybe vito

My mum once walked down to my house to put her old pair of trainers in my bin, fuck knows why. I thought that was fairly cheeky like

My mum once walked down to my house to put her old pair of trainers in my bin, fuck knows why. I thought that was fairly cheeky like

Oh I totally agree expatinscotland, I'm wise to her ways on the whole now but still suffer the odd slip-up as cannot get my head around being such a selfish host myself so don't always see it coming in others.

I've taken to offering no refreshments when she's round as that's all I get at hers. Can get very tense towards the end when I'm starving and thirsty though :)

I'm amazed how many people allow themselves to be treated like doormats.
I thought I was the only one!

'I always fall for it though,'

Then you deserve what happens. You know she's a cheap cow, why enable her? 'If you want some wine you'll need to buy it yourself or give me the money right now.'

'When we were handed the bottle of wine, she took a glass and proceeded to fill it up to the top I took it out of her hand and told her she hadn't paid so wasn't getting any....'

BRAVO!

Sorry I posted up thread about bil taking dd out of her car seat to take it to collect his dd from hospital, someone asked if we had just let him. We didn't discover he'd taken it as he lifted sleeping dd out and put her on the floor, we were in the kitchen having lunch whilst she slept only found out after he'd left. Myself and dh couldn't believe it had happened, dh kept saying that I must have carried her out of the car and left it in the car, as if I'd have left her sleeping in the middle of the sitting room floor, didn't find out he had definitely taken it until much later when sil rang to ask how come we were finished with the seat as dd was so young and actually still smaller than their newborn dd. Pre mobile phone days.