Have you ever encountered anyone this cheeky?

My parents are pushovers and I would often wake in the small hours to loud chatting downstairs as a neighbour/friend was round yet again getting dad to help with her teenaged son's essays that were due in the next day (typing/printing/editing etc)! Son was still at home, quite possibly asleep! This continued up to his uni dissertation! In fairness it wasn't so much that neighbour was a user, she is a good friend and has helped our family lots, it is more that she was a total pushover when it came to saying no to her lazy son (her other son never needed any such help).

Friend A, lets call her Alice, was notoriously tight. She charged me £12 in petrol costs once for a lift with her to visit another mutual friend (she had offered me the lift, there was no mention there would be a charge til we were on the way home and I could have taken the bus for about £4!)

She was out with another friend, lets call him Mark, a single dad to two. As they entered a cafe, Alice said to Mark, "I'll buy you a coffee but I can't get the kids one too!" (Mark was fully expecting to pay own way and had not hinted otherwise!)

She counted favours and would call them in unexpectedly. Friend C, lets call her Kirsten, was a bit vulnerable for a number if reasons. Alice gave her a few old items of furniture and went round to help paint Kirsten's new home (at Alice's instigation, Kirsten would probably just have left it as it was). Alice told everyone how grateful Kirsten was and how rewarding it was to help someone in need. Then seven months later she rang up Kirsten to say "I'm decorating my house this weekend and you need to come and help because I helped you." She was outraged that Kirsten had already made other important plans.

My grandmother. I posted about this recently. She's just not very pleasant, really.

She has 4 kids who each live in a different state. She now lives in the same state/town as my aunt, her youngest DC. Aunt has 6 kids (4 at home), the youngest has special needs. She also has three jobs.

My GM basically huffs and puffs and stews if my Aunt is not at her beck and call. GM has health problems and can't drive herself anywhere, etc, so my Aunt does all that. But my GM does not like children, so she "requests" that my aunt drives her places alone. She phrases it as "oh it's just so nice to spend time with just you!" But really, she just does not like kids. So my aunt has to get her older DD to watch the younger ones instead of just bringing her with them.

My aunt has to buy my GM cigarettes every other day. GM smokes half a pack a day. She cannot have a carton because "I'd just smoke them all!" So every other day she demands my aunt get her 1 pack.

Recently my aunt and my dad took my GM to a huge, well known clinic to see if they could fix her health issues. They both took eight or nine days off of work to do this. My aunt had to drive my GM ten hours to get there and get a hotel room. GM offered to "split the costs" with my aunt. My aunt apologetically told her that with all the money she was losing from taking off work she really couldn't pay for any gas or hotel costs. (My GM has plenty of money, BTW.) GM fumed for weeks over this.

Over the summers my GM stays in her cabin, which is in my parents' state/town, and they are expected to take over the running. It's not as bad because my dad stands his ground better than my aunt, but still!

I have several cousins in their late teens/early 20's and last year my dad, aunt, and their two brothers tried to tell my GM that a few of my cousins could take turns staying with her for a week. That way she could have someone with her to help out. Her response? "Absolutely not, I stay alone. And I will be staying all three months. DS (my dad) will be helping me."

Arrrgh! I'm dying to give her the what for but my dad has said no. One of her other sons is pretty feisty, though, and I sense he's about to snap.

I'm reading this thinking how lucky I am to not know any cheeky twats...then I remembered...

Brother's friend from school met a girl from Montrose (being specific. hope she reads this) They had a baby and moved to Cheshire then got married.

in the run up to the wedding my mum took pity on her being so far from her mum and took her under her wing, helping to plan the wedding.

we went dress shopping, she saw a dress she loved but didn't have immediate access to the money to buy it (but would within weeks) I put the foray payment on my credit card and mum lent her the final payment (400 each)

I struggled to get the money back off her, she gave it in dribs and drabs. mum told her to pay her loan back after the wedding.

well, you can guess how this goes.

within a year she had filed for divorce (her ex is a lovely bloke and didn't deserve her - genuinely it was all down to her being a grade A scrounging, selfish, bitch)

Mum tried to stay impartial and support them both. eventually asked friend for money back, no text from friend. When she did reply she avoided the subject or rolled out a sob story. this went on for months.

The final straw was her texting my mum and asking her to be guarantor on a car loan At this point mum told her where to get off and demanded the 400 back, hasn't heard from her since.

This woman is so foul and totally out to get what she can regardless of hurting people. Last I heard she had "allowed" her ex to take their son for the day on Mother's Day, she had stuff to do apparently

I actually despise her with a passion.

we have an apartment in Spain in a shared block with a private pool. some apartments are lived in, some rented and some empty. there's a big hotel next door and a small problem of footballs coming over the fence but usually people are ok about it. last year I was sunbathing when a dad and 2 sons walked into the pool area and dad started climbing all over the fence looking for a ball. after a couple of minutes I politely said "this is a private block, do you mind. not climbing on the fence "
and he turned on me in front of his 2 boys and went on and on about what An attitude problem I had and how I was an f* ing snob.

DP's crazy cousin from NZ stayed with us when she first moved to London. He hadn't seen her in 16 years. She hadn't yet found a job but signed up for an expensive flat share in Clapham with three friends, all in a similar position. DP then received a text asking if he could be guarantor for their rent!

She also tried to burn down our flat but that's another story. . .

My friend cane to soft play with minimal amount if money and forgotten card. She can't afford to get in so I lend what I've git left after paying for my dc. We get inside and i scrape together enough for a drink.
Friend then has a drink and a panini with my money
On the way home asked to stop at her house for purse then back to local shop to buy food. I said no.
Same friend asked if she can stay at mine with her dd to share my sitter.
Then pulls a bloke and goes AWOL untill midday leaving me to get up hungover with her dd while my (older) dc sleep until late.

Oh & how could I forget the wonderful fur coat & no knickers DM of my DDs old nursery friend...

She took the pee with play dates - frequently invited her DD to ours, in front of my DD - so putting me on the spot her DD was sweet enough, but harder work than mine as she was obviously mollycoddled & therefore could be quite demanding - the favour was never returned - always promises to DD as she was leaving though, but only ever happened once - I would have told her to sling her hook months earlier if it wasn't for the 2 DCs loving each other so much.

One time she came to pick up, DH offered her coffee, she turned around to her friend & said, oh wonderful, that's what you call good child care - but that was nothing to the day I was in upstairs & heard frantic banging on my front door - it was this DM & her DD - puzzled as both girls should have been at nursery, mine was - found out later her DD had been sent home sick & she was bringing her round for me to take care of so she could work - thankfully I ignored the door -

I had one today, not a friend though, - I face paint & noticed an ad for a local upcoming fete offering stalls for hire, so I emailed, with attached flyer, asking details of the stalls for rent & if they had a face painter yet, as I didn't want to do it if I wasn't the only painter, not really worthwhile.

Return email recieved today - Thank you for your enquiry, we can't offer you a stall, but we love your work and think a facepainter would be a great idea, so we would love to book you for our fete. We can't afford to pay you , but we are making a donation to insert local kids charity we are sure the children will love having their face painted whilst their parents shop

My DM still holds a grudge with her SIL for something that happened 25 y ago.
My DM had a beautiful silver cross pram that was my DB's. By the time he'd grown out of it her SIL was pg so my DM said she could have it for her new baby. She was very grateful and kept saying how kind it was and how beautiful the pram was etc.
After the baby was born my mum saw her in town with the baby in a different pram. My mum asked if there was a problem with the original pram "oh no" SIL replied " it was so nice I returned it to Mothercare for a refund, bought this one and still had some money left over"
My DM was too shocked to say anything.
As you can imagine my DM still goes on about this now.

A"friend" I hadn't seen for a while came to see dd at 5 weeks. After about 5 minutes, she asked if her and (new boyfriend I have never met) could take her to the zoo alone in a few weeks as 'he really likes babies'.
Haven't heard from her since saying no!

Ex friend, complete user.
I put up with her for ages because she had a hard life and I felt sorry for. Later on I realised that in some cases you make your own luck.

Dh and I did loads for her including babysitting, DIY, lifts, meals, lending money (never repaid), use of our phone, computer, printer. If you gave an inch she would take a mile every time:

Invite her for morning coffee she'd still be there at bedtime.
Let her use the phone for an important call (of course she'd never any credit on hers) she'd be nattering to her mate for an hour.
Offer a lift once and suddenly you're the unpaid taxi service for every occasion. (Her answer to being refused was why don't we put her on our insurance, then she won't have to bother us)

One of the cheekiest was the occasion she turned up unannounced early on a Sunday am with towel and toiletries expecting to have a bath at mine as she had no money for hot water.

Another time she came with a load of wet washing to hang on my radiators so as not to have to put her heating on.

She seemed to think that as we are a working two parent family and she's a single mum we somehow were obliged to be her personal charity. It quickly went from us sometimes offering to help to being obliged to be constantly available to bail her out. When we wised up and started saying no we got such nasty abusive texts, calls and e-mails we had to change all our contacts.

Lesson learnt. Channeling expat from now on..

I think this is my favourite story of outright cheekiness

when i upgraded my phone my bil and sil asked if they could have the old one to give to their mum s hers was really old. they needed to get a new cover because it was broken and a sim.

i said fine, sent it over with charger and all accessories etc

come xmas, we are all at mil's and i asked if she liked her new phone - cue confused look from mil and glares from sil - turns out it was all wrapped up under the tree as her xmas present!

they could have at least told us!

EOS please tell me you told BIL to fuck off?

Many years ago when I was in a flat share with a work mate we both adopted kittens and when they were about 6 mths old she left to go home. She asked if I would look after her kitten until she got settled in a new flat (she was initially staying with her dm who wouldn't have a cat in the house)

Fair enough............haven't heard from her since and the old cat was pts last year at the ripe old age of 16

Once, not was!

This thread is winding me up but I'm sooooooooo enjoying it!

We rented out our house to my BIL and family when we moved away for a few years. The garden gate was falling to peices and FIL offered to fix it and asked DH for money for materials.

A few days later he told DH he was planning to put a double gate at the bottom of the garden so he could park HIS campervan (which he lived in) in our garden. And could he have £200 in order to do this!

When DH explained to him that we didn't want the fence removing and replaced by a gate, he didn't talk to DH for 6 months. He regained contact one week before his birthday!

Another example I have is that I was in town with a good friend and she made a point out of having to return her top to Miss Selfridge. I ask her "don't you like it anymore". She snapped back "I still like it but I we'd money to buy YOU a birthday present"!

"You're so boring."

The friend who'd come to my house and use my laptop/wander around our bedrooms for ages called me boring was.

My crime? I told her she'd have to leave (after I'd cooked her dinner, she's used my laptop for two hours and I'd watched her delinquent son throw his my plate on the floor) because I was knackered due to just having worked a nightshift and feeling under the weather.

I think that was the last time I invited her round.

I loaned about £100 to a friend at uni. I shouldn't have done it - friend's parents were loaded and gave her money each month for rent and spends. But she always spent it on booze, clothes etc. I was a normal, skint student.

I kept asking for the money back. Friend eventually threw her hands in the air and said to me with a sneer "why are you so obsessed about money? You're so boring."

OP - mine's similar. My Grandma used to smoke occasionally, outside so that I would still go round with DS1.

Her "friend" used to smoke whenever she visited her, because she didn't want her husband to know she smoked. By the same token, she would smoke my grandma's cigarettes because she couldn't buy her own in case her husband found out.

My neighbour stole my wheelbarrow, i know it was mine because it had my name on it (kids got one of those label machines)
He also stole my yard brush, his kids pick my flower and his girlfriend asked to use my laptop to see pictures of aborted babies as she was planning an abortion.
The last one i told her to sod off, i was that shocked.

My cousin invited me back to her flat so we could get changed for a hen do. She gave me a quick tour then said "you can get ready in there" and shoved me into the lounge. She had a shower then shut herself in her bedroom. There were no curtains in the lounge, huge windows as it was on the 3rd floor of an Edinburgh tenement and I was 7 months pregnant! I didn't fancy flashing my flesh to the entire streets I got changed in the hall instead!