Have you ever encountered anyone this cheeky?

Oh yes, special commendation to gooseberry bush thief :)

Just thought of another couple from my own arsenal - tight as a gnats arse round a cartwheel friend decided she would cook me a birthday meal of one of her curries I'm particulary fond of.

Great, thought I, how lovely, so she brings the curry all ready made just needs to be re-heated after our trip to the pub (half a lager's only on her round you understand) got home, ate the curry, delicious, I walk into the kitchen about an hour later and dig a couple more spoonfuls from the pan with the left-overs as its so tasty.

'Oi, says she in very annoyed tone, don't be doing that, I think she's joking and carry on tucking in (well, it WAS my birthday meal after all) when she hastily grabs the pan away from under my digging spoon, covers it and then actually took it home with her

The rest is for me and DP tomorrow she announces, adding moodily 'not sure there's enough there now though'

I always fall for it though, last week she invited me round for a pizza and wine evening 'yes, lovely I said' - back comes the reply 'weeell, I have a frozen pizza for myself so if you could get one for yourself and buy the wine then that would be great'

My Mum' s Aunt, was left high and dry with four kids by her husbad, he,d met a woman and ran off with her.

When he died 15 years later, OW contacted my mums aunt asking her to pay for the funeral. And she did.

My lovely FiL had to take his parents to see their daughter (FiL's sister) in hospital. She was very sick in ITU. The hospital was about 2 hours drive away.

FiL was to do all the driving, supposedly in his parents' car. On arrival, FiL was told by his dad that he had to drive them in his car as theirs had a flat tyre. Ok, no problem, FiL drove them in his own car, the visit was made.

A few days later FiL suggested to his dad that they might take a look at the car, and the cheeky old git replied "oh no, there's nothing wrong with the tyre, I just told someone that so we'd get a lift somewhere".

Apparantly he did have the grace to look a bit embarrased when FiL told him that the person he had lied to was him...

I'm lucky not to have friends like these users...we normally fight to get a round in! I only have one small incident in mind:
Years ago 4 of us went to a late night wine bar...one of these where you had to pay £20 for four people and you got a bottle of wine free. The mate's girlfriend refused (said she wasn't drinking) to pay so we split the £20 between three of us to pay in. 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....she ran out crying that I was bullying her Even her boyfriend had no time for her that night!

I give gold to the cheeky bastard Mexican holiday squatters with a close second to the piss head baby food robbers. Bronze goes to the unexpected bridesmaid. Special commendation for the gooseberry bush lady though!

Tremendous thread and I've nominated for classics :)

"I had brought DD a tub of snacks, as she would miss her tea time. SHe had marmite sarnies and a couple of other bits. The lady was chatting away to her, and nicked a sarnie. Then another. I took the third away, and so she last bit out of DDs hand to eat - the bit that DD had taken a single bite out of. Her partner said "DOnt steal the babies food!" to which she wailed "But I like marmite sandwiches!"

^ That is beyond the pale!!! I've constructed a new chart in my head now with this at the top, followed by Mexican House thief and the potential house invading germans claiming the bronze medal.

Haha, this has reminded me of camping at a small local campsite during a festival that was happening in the town.

There were about 5 of us sharing two tents, and we made friends with practically everyone else on the campsite. There was definitely a hippy/crusty element to the whole thing.

Anyway, I came out of my tent one morning and one of the guys we were friendly with was carrying his drum around in a rucksack. My rucksack.

As it dawned on me that, not only had he been in our other tent, he got my rucksack emptied out all of my things from it, including personal stuff!!

Seeing me, he just said nonchalantly (and loudly, in front of everyone) "oh, I'm just using your rucksack. Don't worry, I've put all your tampax and stuff in your tent."

Still howling at 'We gestured to them to fuck off' as well

This thread is like crack

Dwells I would have told the air stewards to move the thieving arses away from me. That is just

This is such a great thread.

DH is a chef and some people seem to be under the impression that DH likes to work for free. Er, no. One memorable time DH got wind of a woman in the admin department, where he worked, had decided that DH and his best friend (also a chef) would be doing all the catering and provide all the food for her upcoming wedding as a wedding present (so several thousand pounds worth of taking the piss.) She had already booked a venue with this plan. DH had I had married 6 months previously and he didn't do the food at our own wedding (because he is not a contract caterer). Not only that but the cheeky mare was well paid and her fiancé had an incredibly well paid job and we had crappy wages. We still managed to pay for our own wedding.

DH had no problem telling her to piss off.

Funnily enough we weren't invited to her wedding.

dsis is a grabby entited person - has borrowed money left right and centre and never paid a penny back. Owes me a large amount and has never even tried to pay back a single penny. But the final straw was when she tapped my elderly aunty for a couple of grand to "pay the bills" as she was "really skint", "couldnt feed the kids" etc etc...

My lovely aunty had lost her husband of 45 years just a few weeks earlier, and so was pretty vulnerable.

6 weeks later, Dsis was on the phone to aunty when her new sofa was delivered....evidently she forgot where she borrowed the money from, and so didnt even conceal the fact that she had purchased a new £700 sofa.

ANother one....

When DD was a year old, dh was working in another country, and we took a flight over to see him for a long weekend.

We were sat in the window seat, with DD on my lap. A very drunk couple were next to us. I could not escape.

I had brought DD a tub of snacks, as she would miss her tea time. SHe had marmite sarnies and a couple of other bits. The lady was chatting away to her, and nicked a sarnie. Then another. I took the third away, and so she last bit out of DDs hand to eat - the bit that DD had taken a single bite out of. Her partner said "DOnt steal the babies food!" to which she wailed "But I like marmite sandwiches!" AT least he looked embarrassed!

Friends of my parents live in a lovely country pile with a fairly large walled park around it. Once in a while they will get a bang on the door from sightseers who want to see the house, having parked their car across the gates, jumped over the wall and ignored all the 'private property, no trespassing' signs. One couple got extremely irate when they were refused entry and demanded to be let in because they were members of the National Trust and English Heritage :o

'I think that's the point a lot of the cheeky people don't get,'

No, they don't. They are truly that self-absorbed and have that huge a sense of entitlement.

yep expat - didn't help that dog owning colleague earned far more than cheeky woman so I think didn't feel her equal enough to ask and it was always "one more week".... and they worked in the same team sitting on desks next to each other, I worked other side of the building so far easier to say 'no' then avoid.... Once someone's in it's often hard to get rid. (And you wouldn't have marched them to get rent money, you'd have been like me and said no in the first place!)

Oh, and cheeky colleague was most put out when she heard about 6 months later that we'd put up DH's old uni housemate for a couple of weeks when he was between flats - she was indignant that we'd done that for him and not her, not even seeing the difference between someone who was a virtual stranger to someone DH had lived with before, who knew it was 2 weeks max he needed to stay, who offered us rent (which we turned down, but the offer was genuine), and turned up with flowers, wine and chocolate to say thank you, took us out for dinner and generally was very well behaved houseguest if you ignore him and DH sitting up drinking whisky until the early hours talking about their uni days most nights, but that was as much DH's fault as house guest

I think that's the point a lot of the cheeky people don't get, that you'll do something for someone or do something once, that doesn't give them a right to expect it. (like the Mexican house thief, she'd let her SIL stay so it was ok for anyone to stay, she'd let him stay once so that means it was always ok to stay - that some people might be more deserving of your efforts are missed).

See, Dontmind, if I had been that dog-owner that colleague would have lasted about a week and then told she needed to go to the cash machine, NOW, and pay me £200/week in rent or start packing and be out by close of play the next day. And it wouldn't have embarrassed me a jot.

Years ago when 'Tupperware' parties were alive and well (early 90s) I hosted one and had quite a few work colleagues round as well as (notoriously tight) SIL.

Work colleagues were ordering quite a bit of stuff but SIL was muttering about how expensive it all was. I made it clear to everyone that they musn't feel obliged to buy anything.

Anyway, there was some sort of special offer on where if you spent over £20 you could buy some stacking storage whatnots for £1.99. My boss had spent about £30 (she was the one who started the craze for Tupperware parties! She loved the stuff!) so the rep said "Oh, do you want the special offer containers for £1.99 then?" "No" says my boss "I've already got them thanks" when in jumps SIL and says "Put her down for them and I'll give you the £1.99"

I could have killed her especially when she kept ringing to ask if her Tupperware had arrived yet. My boss laughed about it for months.

I see what you mean, Dontmind but a lot of these posts aren't even about paying back a favour, sadly.

oh, I've thought of one I told to piss off!

an ex colleage of mine was buying a flat, in 2007, so was offered 125% mortgage to clear her credit card debts at the same time (this bit will be important later).

She was convinced she'd be able to move in in 4 weeks - we all told her buying a house was sometimes delayed etc, but she was determined the estate agent had said it was "possible" so she gave notice on her flat for this. Then obviously, there was a delay and it was going to be another 5-6 weeks after she was supposed to be out of her rented flat. She asked me, someone she barely knew if she could come stay at my flat (she'd met DH once for a brief chat at a works drinks). I said I thought it would be tricky for us, and had she asked her landlord if he could extend her tenancy for a few weeks if he'd not found a replacement tenant. Then she told me that she'd ordered new wardrobes on the back of the fact that she'd have this 6 weeks of paying no rent or mortgage staying with a friend. That sealed it for me as I thought 'how stupid'. (Plus I did think if she was asking me she must have run out of close people she could take the piss with).

in the end, another colleague ended up having her to stay as other colleague was going to New York for the same 6 weeks and had a dog, suggested cheeky colleague stayed in her one bedroomed flat and looked after her dog, saving her kennel fees. Except for other reasons, cheeky colleague's flat purchase was delayed even further, and she stayed with dog owning colleague for another 2 months after she got back - sleeping on the sofa, taking over the whole living room.

Cheeky colleague admitted to another mutual friend colleague that she'd deliberately not rushed it through and was stalling the sale as she was enjoying buying things for her new flat with the money she would have spent on either rent or mortgage and bills if she wasn't staying with dog owning colleague. Things that dog owning colleague had to have cluttering up her flat for those months - while dog owning colleague bought all the food they ate, and paid all the bills. And then in the end, dog owning colleague was so glad to be getting rid of her, dog owning colleague ended up paying for the van to shift all cheeky colleagues stuff. She had to do that, because cheeky colleague had treated clearing her credit cards as meaning she could run them back up again and by the time she was looking to move, didn't have enough left before her credit card limits to pay for the van hire...

I would hear the regular updates thinking "dodged a bullet there" and "bet dog owning colleague wishes she had just sucked up the cost of the kennels"

One Sunday morning I woke up to find a 15 half-nekkid men in our garden shed. The local rugby team. Our landlord had given them permission to change in the shed. Hadn't told us - 5 young women sharing the house used to their privacy of a Sunday. Then they wanted to use the loo and expected cups of tea. Still, I guess we got to lech at them.

Am still shaking my head at the old lady collecting the gooseberries...

expat - I think a lot of it is that sometimes the thing being asked wouldn't be unreasonable from other people/from people who pay back the favours - so DH going over to fix my friend's broken tap at 5am might have seen to be cheeky by some that she called me to ask DH (I would have called a plumber if DH was away and that happened and i couldn't work out how to fix it myself) but she'd already done a lot of free childcare for us, so we owed her a favour or two...

Being hospitable is normally paid back, it can sometimes be a while before you notice you're the only one to host etc.

I find also that many British people are taken for mugs because they are taught to be non-confrontational. Try something like this on with a German, for example. LOL! 'No, that's not fair.' The poster with the crowd of them trying to get in her house, if you had said yes, but it will be £2/each for you to enter, they probably would have paid it.

'So although advice that we should stand up for ourselves is useful, I think I'm a step behind that. I need to work out how to even recognise the times when you need to stand up for yourself. Does anybody else get that?'

Arthur, it is very simple and takes seconds. Consider what is fair, with regard to money, time, property, etc. Mugs are nice people, pisstakers know this and prey upon it. If you think, 'Would I do this?' and the answer is 'no' because it's cheeky and mean, then you are in the clutches of a pisstaker.

The other strategy is to ask yourself, 'Would I let a stranger do this?' If the answer is 'no', then don't let anyone else do it, either.

The pizza situation: that would be when you sit down and you know you have no more money to feed yourself or your kids. And someone comes over and starts taking it. That is your cue to snatch the slice right out of the kid's mouth. 'Oi, manners here!' Look up at the mother and tell her to go buy her kids something to eat.

For us, too, it's simpler because we are truly skint. We cannot afford to subsidise someone's holiday, childcare, etc at the cost of ourselves because then we don't eat. We don't expect others to, either. So pisstakers get nowhere.

Nowhere near as good as these, but...

We're friends with a lovely couple, but he is a bit of a cheapskate. We used to go out for a meal with them at least once a week, and when the bill came they never wanted to split it (they are vegetarian so their meals were often £1 or so cheaper, fair enough) so DH and I would work out our share roughly, add a bit for a tip and put cash on top of the bill. Friends would then take the bill and our cash to the bar to pay theirs on card. Took us over a year to work out that they were pocketing our cash, paying the whole bill on card and leaving no tip as they "didn't do tips", thereby pocketing the tip we'd left, every week! Now we're wise to it we pay by card too then "miraculously" find a fiver for a tip

My old flatmates at uni were fairly cheeky too. I moved in 1 day before them so on the day they moved in I said to help themselves to my milk/bread/butter until they could get to the supermarket. Thought my food seemed to disappear awfully quickly but thought nothing of it until I turned up after lectures one lunchtime to find (very rich) flatmate eating the last of my food from the fridge leaving me with nothing for lunch! But apparently this was fine as I'd said she could

Weddings are good for cheeky family coming out of the woodwork. I particularly enjoyed a cousin I hadn't seen for 5 years contacting me on facebook "just to say hi" when she heard my wedding invites had gone out and not included her, then guilt tripping her mum (who we had invited) into not going as she couldn't possibly go without her... This cousin was 28 at the time.

I have one from DH too. When his grandad died DH inherited a load of tools from his shed (he is exactly like his grandad, loves making things and being useful.) DH's aunt decided that her friend, who has never met my DH nor his grandad, would like the tools DH had been left, and took them and gave them to her friend without asking. DH and family are a little in awe of his aunt and DH is a pushover so nothing was said!