Have you ever encountered anyone this cheeky?

My colleague's father came home from a trip abroad to find a man squatting in his flat (this was in the 70s BTW). Being terribly British he offered him some tea; the squatter was very apologetic and explained he thought the owner would be gone for longer . They got on famously and ended up flat sharing for quite done time afterwards.

Cheeky yes. But with a happy ending.

My jaw has been firmly on the floor throughout the entire thread - unbelievable brassneckery!!!

Then I remembered a few classics of my own from recent months - (got it into my head to help a young (26 but looked 16) homeless guy and his dog who I found were sleeping round the back of my local supermarket in the middle of november.

Of course I realise this was entirely my choice and the following is therefore entirely self inflicted but it still makes my jaw drop on a daily basis :)

To cut a long story short both came to live with me while the weather was so bitter out with me thinking because he was so young and seemed 'normal' I might be able to help him back on his feet.

Well, I've never encountered entitlement like it before or since.

Among his complaints were:

I never bought any 'nice' snacky things for him to eat, the travel bed in the living room was far too uncomfortable, hurt his back and could he sleep in my bed instead

Thought it terribly unfair that I wouldn't act as full-time walker and caretaker to his dog.

Got very upset when I refused to hand him a medal for every small household task completed (I do EVERYTHING round here he'd go) errm, no Kevin you really don't :)

Got into a huff when informed that yes I would help him with an application for a passport but no I wouldn't be paying the fees needed,

When told during January that funds were very tight and he would have to contribute some of his benefit to buy groceries and food for the dog as I couldn't afford it all whined that he couldn't contribute as he had to buy new trainers and they HAD to be designer and cost at least £100

Moaned how unfair it was that he wasn't getting paid for his lunch breaks at work (got him a temp job in my office) generally acted very upset that no-one had yet made him CEO after a week and that he was being treated like a 'skivvy'

Offered me £15 for petrol to get to work and back and when I cheerily said 'thanks very much' whined how unfair it was that he was having to pay 'so much' money for petrol and I shouldn't be running such an expensive car. Claimed he'd been driving for years and knew I was trying to rip him off. When quizzed on this his extensive experience turned out to be in the area of joy riding cars only and got very pissy when I pointed out that stealing other peoples property and petrol was hardly the same.

In the end I couldn't take it anymore and told him to leave since living with me was making him so very unhappy it was probably for the best anyway.

Didn't expect undying gratitude but sheesh, a bit of consideration and the occasional thank you wouldn't have gone amiss.

On the other hand, I am now firmly cured of my 'rescue the waifs and strays of this world' attitude and much more protective of my own interests (after decades of letting myself be taken advantage of so he's done me a massive favour really :)

Holly, to be fair to DH, he's very generous with gifts for me and is (now) very sensible with money, he's also started noticing that while he's usually the first to the bar, who doesn't then go back to get a round in.

He's not as generous as he was with others when it comes to money, although is very generous with time and effort, which I like. He's also better at picking who'll he'll help (for example, he'd go round and fix one of my friend's broken tap at 5am, but then he knows she's done free childcare for us and has been a bit of a rock to me when I had a miscarriage; I found him recommending a good plumber to someone else who was more of a 'taker' when they appealed for yet more help...).

Some of these are amazingly cheeky, but I think the Mexican holiday home is still the winner.

A long time ago, just after we were married, we wanted to go on a skiing holiday. We didn't have much money to spare so wanted to do it as cheaply as possible. We decided to book a self drive holiday as it was much cheaper than flying. We had met a couple who had moved to the area, and as the wife had never seen snow (they were both from Africa) we invited them to come too. The husband had an extremely well paid job - this is relevant.

After checking the brochure and working out prices, they decided to come. We agreed that we would share the petrol costs, although DH and I would do all the driving.

We filled the car up with petrol and set off. At the next petrol stop, DH filled up and went in to pay. I had been asleep, but was just waking up to hear the couple arguing quietly in the back seat. She was saying that they should go in and pay as it was their turn, he said he had no intention of paying for any petrol. It was a bit awkward to say anything so I kept quiet, but decided that I would remind him next time we filled up that we were sharing costs.

All went well until we got to the Swiss border. This is where it gets complicated. The other couple were from an African country, but the husband had Irish grandparents so he had a dual passport. The wife only had an African passport and had to pay a small amount beforehand to get a visa to travel into Switzerland. The husband told us he didn't have to do this as he was travelling on his Irish passport instead of his African one, although he had brought both with him. What he didn't tell us was that his Irish passport had expired, so he was travelling on the African passport with no visa. We had huge problems at the border, there were guards there with guns, and we didn't know if we would be allowed into the country. Eventually they let us in, and we drove to the hotel.

All in all, we had a good week. The wife was lovely - the husband was annoying. I have never met anyone so mean in my life. There were little things all week that got on our nerves, but we tried to ignore it.

We were all being careful with money, so just had one drink each night with our meal, and gave our room number. DH had a beer every night, I had a diet coke every night, the wife had a glass of wine every night, and the husband had a glass of tap water every night. (He made a big fuss of ordering 'tap water' every night).

At the end of the week, we were given our drinks bill. Ours was for 7 beers, 6 diet cokes, and a glass of wine. They had obviously switched one of my cokes with one of the glasses of wine, but we thought that it didn't matter, because there wasn't much difference in price, so we just paid it thinking they would do the same. However we found out later when checking out that we had to pay for one glass of coke. He had been given their bill, for 6 wines and a coke, and had told them to put the coke back on our bill but not to put the wine back on his! When we questioned him about this, he actually told me that I had had a glass of wine on the first night, and must have forgotten about it. This was very unlikely, as I don't like wine, and I was not impressed with him at all.

There were lots of other small incidents throughout the holiday, just petty meanness, and by the end we were very glad to get home.

Sorry, that turned out a bit long!

MrsRaj, we use sweet potato in the shepherds pie mash too. 'Tis amazing! :)

Thanks for the link, tidy, I'm off to read it now!

Ooooo, the take away thread has reminded me of the day my 'friend' came round for dinner. I'd done a night shift the prevous night so was pretty knackered.

I decided to do a shepard's pie. Nice and easy and my shepard's pie is fecking awesome (not blowing my own trumpet, is just a fact). I use both regular and sweet potatoes, use lots of veg and put in a spoonful of sugar. I'm also very generous with the cheese.

Delicious, no?

No. She got in a massive grump because she wanted a roast dinner and refused to come round.

However one week when she was tired/skint she served up packet macaroni and baked potato I was notithing but polite about it.

I loaned money (only a tenner but I was at uni) to a friend whose parents paid for everything, she repaid weeks later by throwing a ten pound note across a table at me in front of other people with a sneer on her face.

I worked and paid for everything myself. The people who saw it told me it showed me what she is really like.

If she reads this, I know all about the alcohol problems, cocaine fuelled threesome and weight gain. And it cheers me right up.

I've just read your thread Tidy. Speechless

This is a brilliant thread, I'm shocked that so many people are so scrounging and brass necked .

The mexican house dickhead takes my prize for sheer audacity.

Luckily I have nothing to add but keep them coming, it must be cathartic to share cheeky bastard stories!

Dontmind - yeah, I posted up thread about some issues we'd had when I stupidly loaned her my car. Since that though, I haven't really spoken to her.

It's hard dealing with people like that because they genuinely don't seem to have a conscience.

Fortunately, despite not wanting to speak with the selfish cow, she's over a barrel wrt her DC. She needs the free childcare so can't take the LO away from the family as revenge for us not playing ball. Took me a while to realise that, which is what prevented me from stopping contact before. So it's very very limited now, and I have no intention of changing that.

I think of anything, this thread has taught me we need video entry on some posters front doors. It's for your own good.

I must give proper fuck off vibes, no one asks me for anything.

An old schoolfriend contacted me from abroad asking if she and her family could come and see us during their holiday in the UK. Me being too nice sayd yes it would be lovely to see them, what were their plans etc? She replies that money is tight and they dont want to do anything that costs anything so can they just stay with us for 3 days? (5 people 3 DCs) warningbells ringing all over by now, and I seem to remember her being tight even at uni)
Anyways I explain we have a tiny house, are in the middle of building work and cant provide much entertainment for 3 DCs at home as we have a baby. They still arrange to come.
From the minute thy arrive the husband complained about everything, -the kids didnt like our food, can we buy different bread, there is no TV in their room(!), and to top it all he kept talking about his recent payrise and the two wages he was enjoying from doing a little extra at work. Total prat. 3 days later DH and I are so drained we both wanted to cry. Our only consolation is that they were going on to stay with another friend, staying for a week.....
I still laugh at the husband helping himself to DS £££ organic weaning yoghurst in the mornings, even when I asked him not to. He just smiled and said they are nicer than those other ones. PRAT PRAT PRAT.
I never spoke to them again.

Don'tmindifido my friend's dh generous to others. Initially he was going to get her to write the cheque to his 'mate' so the mate would know she knew about the 'loan'. But he wrote the cheque- didn't want 'mate' to think she held the purse strings!!! Her dh didn't buy her 40 th birthday present or significant wedding anniversary present (when he had a job). She is bloody raging. Can't say i blame her.

Tidy - i remember htat! I was on in with a different name. Well done, do you have anything to do with her anymore?

Haha, I'm disappointed the tattoo thread disappeared actually.

Brilliant Tidy
I might change my name back in honour of that thread and Id forgotton the tattoo one

DH would be more of a mug if I let him, when he was younger he'd fall for lots of sob stories and hand over cash, but is now very causious with most people. However, l did have to stop him giving up his share of an inheritance from his Great Aunt to his DB before BIL's wedding - the money would (and did) take a year off our mortgage - but BIL was saying to DH how he was struggling to pay for the wedding SIL wanted, and they wanted to buy a house and had no deposit saved. DH was recounting this to me and saying we didn't need the money, but DBIL did, it wasn't like we'd been expecting or earned this money, so wouldn't miss it etc.

Then I pointed out DH drives a second hand estate car, his DB at the time was driving a new sports car, SIL-to-be had over the previous year been given 2 handbags from BIL with a total value of about £4k. they had, over the previous 2 years, had 4 long haul holidays, and SIL had just walked out on a perfectly good job to set up her own business - which was making no money. Basically, I pointed out their lack of deposit and money for their dream wedding was down to choices they made, which was theirs to make, and I'd rather have a year less on the mortgage than subside the downsides of their choices.

He did come to his senses on that one. (although that was mainly because SIL turned into Bridezilla so he stopped thinking I was being mean and decided the wedding and wedding prep was bad enough without feeling we'd paid for it. I think if she hadn't he'd still feel bad about his DB's lack of funds and thinking I was heartless.)

In other ways, I hope he never stops being generous, but is getting better at telling the difference between those who do and don't deserve help.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1270398-to-not-pay-for-this-takeaway-meal/AllOnOnePage

There you go, fuzzpig. Took me a while to hunt that down but was interesting to reread it!

Like in some of the situations above - I'd just have gone along with it quite cheerfully, and then been bewildered at the end that it meant we now had no pizza, or whatever. I'd have assumed that gooseberry woman was indeed entitled to the fruit that I'd thought was mine, and that I had got it wrong. .

Reading some of these with amazement. I have a few stories of my own but they would pale in comparison .

Genuine question, though. I have frequently been taken for a mug at the time, and am getting better at saying No, complete sentence, all the rest of it - when I notice that someone is taking the piss. The trouble is that quite frequently, I don't. I just go along with the way things are and it doesn't even occur to me that the person is doing this. I only work it out afterwards, sometimes a very long time afterwards when it's too late to do anything. I then end up simmering with resentment at them and anger with myself for being taken for a mug. 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?

I didn't

Mil once came up and woke me from my illness induced sleep to ask me to make them toast as dh was bathing dds