Have you ever encountered anyone this cheeky?

DH's cousin once phoned at 11pm. It was an emergency plumbing problem, could he come round right now and sort it?

Their swimming pool heater wasn't working.

DH said no, and he'd see them the next day.

BIL borrowed a lot of money off us, and we've never seen it since. We are really struggling for money and he is constantly jetting off around Europe with whichever woman he is dating, and his son has a room full of consoles, 3DTV, ipads/iphones etc. And he still borrows money off other members of the family who are stupid enough to give it to him. DH gave him the money when I was in hospital having DS, so I wasn't around to sort out repayments/say no etc. Still not quite forgiven him for that.

I was chatting to my mum on the phone once when out of the blue she asked me for my post code. I asked her why she needed it, and she said she was putting me down as a guarantor for a loan!! Err, no way! She is notoriously bad with money. She got in a right huff when I refused. I'm so glad she didn't know my post code, or that would have been a shock when I'd had to pay the loan back after she inevitably got into difficulties!

Luckily I've chosen friends who are lovely, so don't have any cheeky friend stories!

we gestured at them to fuck off

Tidy the suspense waiting for your update when she found out she wasnt getting the takeaway she demanded but a BBQ instead was excruciatingly good !

There is NO way I would loan out my car except to PILs, my folks or my sister/BIL. One time and one time only, SIL asked if her partner could borrow it 'for a week'. WTF? DH can be a mug. Until I reminded him, 'Did X (the partner) ever resit his test?' (we knew he'd been banned), you'd better check your insurance.

That put payed to that. They never asked again.

We live in a house in the middle of nowhere, on a popular hiking route.

One day a group of about 20 Germans wander into our garden. We go out to meet them, politely inquiring what tf they wanted. They did not speak English, but we eventually understood through gestures that they wanted to come and have their picnic inside the house, because it looked like it was going to rain.

We gestured to them to fuck off, much to their evident annoyance, so they settled to have their picnic under the tree as loudly as they could just outside our gate (again, we live in the middle of nowhere, there are literally 2km of fields all round where they could have picnicked).

I had the last laugh when about half an hour later, just after they had cleared out of our tree the heavens opened and they would have gotten the most enormous drenching you can possibly imagine.

That cheeky fecker is still the same, Loveis. I stupidly loaned her my car when she said she was desperate one week. She wasn't desperate, and despite saying otherwise, she returned the car with half a tank of petrol less than when she borrowed it, and landed me with a £150 excess repair bill for a problem she had caused. Supposedly, as I earn more money than her, I can pay for her mistakes. And petrol apparently. She has never apologised or said thank you for the loan.

My friend used to pop over to mine to have a poo when we were younger. Then she'd spray my expensive perfume to cover up the smell afterwards - she once used half a bottle!

She used to come because she was living with her boyfriend and didn't want him to know she pooed?!?!

Tidy !
Your takeaway thread was one of my faves - have namechanged since then.

Am in at Mexican holiday house. And YY to whoever said the DW must have been in the know. If she thought you knew, there should have been thank you cards and presents each time.

I don't have anything on the scale of some of these. One Christmas though, we were at PIL for lunch. There were a number of people there, and PIL house is quite small and not very many chairs, and of the chairs that were there, varying degrees of sturdiness. There were 2 toddlers and they do have a toddler table, and it was clear that all the adults could sit down if the toddlers sat there. So SIL sits her DD down on the proper chair very quickly and then doesn't move her, even when our mutual MIL can't sit at the table for the meal. We were all and now reading expat's comments, I'm pissed off with myself for not saying anything. Mind you, this is the woman who, on another family occasion where I didn't eat immediately due to feeding newborn DD, hurried to take the last roast potatoes for her third helping as I announced I was finally able to come and have lunch.

FIL-where do I start...looking into our cupboards for stuff he apparently left behind(he hasn't lived here for the last 15 years),that's about 5 years after I asked him to shift his crap belongings.He didn't have time or space (neither did I hence the request),he eventually came to collect it after I threatened to dump it on his doorstep.
Helped himself to some ornaments from our house.I hate ornaments but asking for them instead of taking them would be nice.
Dumped his rubbish at our place -he and his wife bought a new duvet and gave us the old one "for the dog".Yes,medium size dog needs king size duvet.
I'm not going to mention their digs at us,so far I managed to ignore them but they boil my piss

Ex friend no.1-stingy like hell was always asking when I was going to visit her.When I pointed out(after numerous visits) that it's exactly the same distance to me as it is to hers she told me that "fuel is soooo expensive".Yeah,and my car is running on the fecking tap water.Oh,and being childless person (at the time)leaves me with all the time in the world to run with her errands(even after 12 hrs at work).

Ex friend no.2-borrowed some money.When I asked for it she said "I thought you gave it to me.Complained about being skint all the time.Fair enough,she's SAHM and her DP earned NMW.After her complaing how hardly done she was-one DC without winter jacket and the other without shoes because she couldn't afford it,I took her shopping(paid by me).Next week she called me to say her DP was going to visit his parents overseas and she gave him 300 quids to buy her some fags in duty free shop.

I haven't got many friends now.

Not Mexican house bad, but I couldn't believe Sil's brass neck.
All cousins, 3 of mine and 2 of hers went to the same primary. We went overseas for 8 months and rather than put their v expensive uniforms in storage and then have to sort out getting it again in a hurry I left it all at MIL's I might have mentioned it to sil and told her she could use anything while we were away. Idiot that I am. As we were flying home, 2 days before term started, sil took it all.

These stories are amazing. It's the fact they get so annoyed when called on their behaviour that gets me. Nobody just shrugs and says well it was worth an ask, they get offended. :o

Fuck me. The Mexican house thief wins hands down. I have a cheeky as fuck relative, but nothing on that level!

I say again, fuck me. I am stunned.

I agree Expat cheapskates make me cringe - my BIL would sell his granny for a fiver -meh

K, fair enough, Love, I'd never have thought to do that, either.

I wonder if anyone ever told her they stopped asking her to go with them because she is a cheapskate.

Cheapskates make my blood boil because I haven't met a one yet who is actually poverty-stricken, skint or having a really bad patch.

I gave a few items of clothing (2 party dresses, coat and hat, pair converse) to friend at school for her DD.

A few weeks later she was all excited that some person had given her some stuff (all items i had given her) and she put them on eBay!! And made just over 50 quid! I just stood there like a muppet and said nothing .

Fair to say she never got anything from me again, and friendship fizzled out too!

To be fair Expat she got away with it twice before we started to decline invites involving her.
I didnt think I was a "sucker" when she pulled the sleeping stunt on me as I wouldnt in a million years have ever thought anyone would be so cheeky - I wouldnt do it so why would I expect anyone else to.

I mean, think on it. I'd be totally embarrassed to go out to behave that way over and over. So why take that from others?

It's a wonder some people can sleep at night!

Resting their heads on naice pillows in a lovely house in Mexico, clearly.

I'm seeing a pattern here! :o

Behind every cheeky bugger stands a sucker.

Case in point:
'She would say she had eaten already and order a drink.She would then proceed to try everyones food,have a slice of someones pizza, share a dessert etc and then when the bill came say - "I only had a drink" grrrrrr'

Back in the day, I was a comfortably-off, childfree professional who mingled with similar folk who enjoyed rock climbing and hiking. We also liked to go for meals afterwards.

There was one guy who was very comfortably-off and made no secret of it: a childfree by choice, single man who worked abroad often as a petroleum engineer. He was forever tittering at us 'mortgage monkeys' because of course, everyone can be mortgage-free by 35.

It soon became apparent how he did. He was one of those 'I only had a drink' types - no tax or tip, either - who asked to try out peoples' dinners.

He got away with it twice before everyone started telling him, 'Oi, Brett, you cheeky bastard! Go buy your own fecking dinner!'

Come bill time, when he tried to not pay tax or tip, another person called him out. 'I just had a drink.' 'Yep, and with tax and tip, that's $8. I have change for a ten,' and stuck his palm out.

He stopped trying to take the piss once he know no one would put up with it.

I had a friend would invite me and my DD round for coffee and to play ,shortly after her mum would ring and she would disappear for an hour or so ( whilst I looked after her DC x2 ) and then come back apologise about poor DM who was having terrible problems etc.

This happened frequently and one day she got call from Poor DMand she disappeared upstairs . This time she was gone ages so I went up to check she was ok and found her asleep in bed .
Yep she was using me to look after her dc so she could sleep.

She also when on a night out with several friends would go to the cinema and we would have a meal afterwards . She would say she had eaten already and order a drink.She would then proceed to try everyones food,have a slice of someones pizza, share a dessert etc and then when the bill came say - "I only had a drink" grrrrrr
She wasnt struggling to get by at all - fancy handbags etc

I bet the Mexican house stealers wife knew something was amiss. Surely if you were staying in your neighbours house, 6 or 7 times, you would bring round a thank you gift or at least mention it?!

Where I used to live I had a neighbour who would "pop over" at wine o clock and help herself to a healthy glass. One evening she saw the venison stew I'd just made and stood there picking chunks of venison out, eating it off her fingers them dipping them back in. Why the fuck didn't I say anything?

On my last night before I moved away, her husband gave her twenty quid and told her to "take stuffez out for a drink." Well the cheeky cow pocketed the twenty quid and told me she would come over and bring wine. She came over with a bottle containing about an inch of GINGER wine and some soda water and proceeded to share it between us. Was not impressed.