To ask for your best examples of brass-neckedness to entertain us all on this dull day?

Dc desperatey wanted gps over for christmas. For many years I offered to have dgrandparents over and offered to do everything so they wouldn't have to contribute any time or money, all we wanted was for them to visit.

After many years of refusing because they preferred to go on a christmas cruise (normally they go on a cruise twice a year) one year they finally they agreed to come. We spent a lot of time just making sure all the preparations were done and food ordered, we were all so excited for the dc to have their gps there on such an important family day as christmas!

Only for gps to phone us saying they had managed to get a late deal on a christmas cruise and that in all honesty our en suite guest room and christmas meal would not be as high a standard as what they would get on a cruise and so they would not be coming after all.

Getting me

Worked for a guy who had the most god awful sponge of a boyfriend.

The boyfriend was a rich architect but liked to save money by getting to do piles of photocopying for him.

Somehow, he ended getting me (muggins) here to organise a surprise birthday party for my boss. This took place at a very expensive restaurant in London.

At the end, not only did I have to pay for myself (naively assumed he would as I had organised the whole thing and worked for a pittance as a lowly secretary) but he asked me to "chip in" for the boss's meal!

My boss was terribly embarrassed and insisting on paying my meal and my contribution to his.

He dumped the greedy twat, thank goodness.

had splashed out on a new baby steam steriliser (1988) it cost £30 which was not cheap at the time. When my son was 7 months old, friend had just given birth and asked could she borrow it for her new baby. I agreed as I wasnt using it as much but had also just found out I was pregnant with my second so told her I would need it back for my new baby.
Baby arrives and I had been asking friend for steriliser back but she was non commital and vague. Finally find out she had sold it.

My brother asked me to move a car for him from the mechanic to his place. He had bought this vehicle at auction. I did it (i was a mug for most of my life regarding him and his needs) and when i arrived at the mechanics, i found the inside of the car was covered in mould. Cranking the window open (the driver's seat was the only ok bit of the car) i set off for his home. As a police car drove past the other way, i realised this bloody car was not taxed! When i yelled at DB for that, he just shrugged it off. After all, it wasn't him who would have been charged.

My DSD emailed my DH to say she was going to be in our city for work and had a suite at a hotel in mind. So that he could come and stay with her for a few days in a fancy hotel.

She was quite clear she did not want to see me (which is fine by me) but she also was very clear she didn't want to see her brothers who adore her.

So she really thought I was going to spend 5 days alone with our sons and their high care needs trying to explain why Daddy gets to stay with her in a hotel and she doesn't see them at all?

I booked a week in another city so she had to come and stay in our house if she wanted to see Daddy dearest. DH agreed it was the best solution.

I had to sell the family home as there was no way i could afford to stay in it as XH had walked out. My friend across the road was trying to sell her house at the time, with no luck. She suggested that i allow her to live in my house - rent free, mind you! - until such times as her house sold and then she would give me 100K less than the asking price. For some reason, she took it badly when i refused. almost 5 years on, she is still in the same house, which she finally took off the market as it wouldn't sell, and i sold mine for just under the asking price.

At work several months ago, (a concession within a large garden centre) i had gone into the restaurant to get some lunch. Tarty female, mutton dressed as lamb, was in front of me with large teens and scary husband. she wanted macaroni, but not the perfectly fine final portion that was there. she wanted fresh. the girl behind the counter she said that fresh macaroni would be about 5 minutes, but this was fresh. The place was heaving and the macaroni sells like hot cakes every day. This woman then demanded that the server go and get the fresh mac and when she said she wasn't allowed to do that as there was nobody else serving at that point, the woman went nuts. She humiliated the server very loudly, drawing everyone's attention to the scene. the temporary restaurant manager came over and she ended up with fresh mac, a discount on all 4 meals, free soft drinks/coffee and the manager doing a Uriah Heap impression all through their meal, making sure that everything was fine. the woman visibly preened and then announced to all and sundry that you had to know how to deal with 'these people' and that she had never had to pay full price for anything because she knew how to make a fuss. I had not been wearing my uniform at the time, i would have called her out.

She also asked to borrow my upholstery cleaner after describing to me in great detail how she and her husband had been sick and vommed all over their house.
I said no, knowing that if I did, she wouldn't clean it out and I would end up with a cleaner filled with someone else's vom bits.
They also left a brabantia bin full of vomit in their garden for months because neither of them could agree on who had to clean it out. Bizarre.

Friend of mine bought a new house, moved into it and then was preparing their old house for sale. They had 3 cats and never cleaned so the old house was filthy. Their vacuum cleaner had broken so they asked to borrow ours. We agreed but said we expected them to look after it and to take it to the new house in the evenings when they had finished for the day in case the old house got broken into.
They agreed. We also loaned them some stuff to 'dress' the house as a lot of their belongings had gone into the new house. I know this sounds a bit PFV but it was a Dyson that was a wedding present and one of the most expensive thibgs we owned.
A week later they let slip that they hadn't been looking after the vacuum so I asked for it back. We have to go around to the old house to collect it and they ask Dh to clean their bedroom floor which has 3 years of human hair and cat fur on it. It takes him over an hour to vacuum up. We leave.
A week later the friend arrives at my house and calls me out to her car. She has brought her new vacuum cleaner around in the boot of her car. She tells me it is so much better than mine and picked up loads of cat fur that mine missed. I am bemused. We never get back the stuff we loaned them for the house. When we go around to feed their cats one time when they're away we find the stuff in their new house. One of the throws in now in their cat's basket.
When they were house hunting she told me she was looking for a house like mine but 'bigger and nicer'.
We are no longer friends with them.

Just thought of another one.

DF Has a significant birthday this year. We treated him to a weekend away, my siblings clubbed together for theatre tokens but one of them decided that t wasn't enough. They want to take him to the rugby at Twickenham too. And perhaps the sons and partners would like to go too. They emailed me asking for something towards everyone else's tickets not even inviting dh and the exact words were 'we will reserve judgement at how much or little you care to contribute'

I did one recently. I hold keys to my neighbours' house and they were away. Our corkscrew broke so I went to borrow theirs, meaning to put it back before they came home. Only they came earlier than I was expecting, and were baffled by the fact it was missing. Big search round the whole house for it. Next time they went away, they were having some work done and I asked a relative of theirs if I could put some stuff in their skip. He said it was OK, but actually for various sensible reasons it was not. They politely took the bags out and left them near their bins on bin day. I am now feeling like such a rubbish neighbour I might take some garden flowers across later for them.

My flatmate's brother came to stay one night, bringing with him some friends. My flatmate stayed with her boyfriend so her bro could have her room and the others were in the hall on a mattress.

Middle of the night I'm woken by loud moans - they were having sex in hallway. It was very loud and she was shouting his name (which happened also to be my boyfriends name).

It went quiet eventually and I had to go to bathroom. I had to step OVER two naked sleeping people to get there.

Next morning not only did they use all the milk up, but also my other flat mates had thought it was ME having sex and shouting my boyfriend's name!

Wracking my brain to find one to add (there must be one) but LOVING this thread & reported for classics

A friend of mine asked me if I would help her move as I had a car. The town she lived in was an hour away and she was moving back to my town.

I arranged a day/time and also arranged to go to the cinema later that night with a friend as I knew how long it would take to put boxes in car and drive her home and that I could make cinema too.

Arrived at her house to find a) I couldn't park anywhere near the house and b) she hadn't actually packed yet. Her stuff was all over the floor, all over the house. Spent the next two hours helping her to shove stuff in boxes and carrying heavy boxes down road to my car. Then drove the hour back to town.

She hadn't arranged for her new room to be ready at other end and hadn't arranged for anyone to be there to help lift the boxes. So again I was expected to carry them all in for her, plus wait for someone to come and open the room.

I'm afraid I unloaded the boxes outside and left, as I was now two hours late to meet my friend for the cinema. I don't think she she actually gave me any petrol money either!

My (now NC) sister asked if I would have her DD as a bridesmaid and I said no because I didn't want any BMs (too low key a wedding for it) and she brought her daughter dressed as a BM anyway in my least favourite colour and during the photos pushed the kid forward constantly to be at my side. In the grand scheme of things this is one of my XSisters lesser crimes but the one that sticks in the mind most.

A friend had been on a working holiday for a year in Australia...came back to UK to nothing, so asked if she could stay while she sorted herself out.

She stayed 2 months, contributing nothing- not even food- as she was broke after her trip to Aus. She moved out during the day while I was at work. When my phone bill arrived I realised she had been phoning family for hours every day and left me with a bill of about 600quid. She left no forwarding details.

I did not see her again, until she persuaded a mutual friend to invite her as their 'plus one' to our wedding.

A friend of my parents was prosecuted for having underage sex with a pupil (he an unattractive senior teacher late 40s she was in lower 6th). This was obviously awful and devastating for the girl and his nice wife and kids. My sister and I were about the age as the girl at the time. He wrote a letter to my dad saying he hoped this wouldn't affect their friendship....

Years ago I had a friend who I let stay with me rent free for a few months. She didn't contribute to anything. I had a free holiday from work. I took her with me and let her choose the destination and the hotel. On the way back from the airport she asked me for petrol money. I declined. She moved out and I never saw her again.

An old boss won a competition. Then asked me to negotiate a better prize for her. I managed it but I thought it was very cheeky but she did treat me for doing it.I had told her the answer to the question in the first place.

Did a thread about this at the time and it still winds me up. Dsb got a new partner.I'd never met her or her son. Her son was on holiday here and I was told he'd got in trouble and we needed to rescue him and look after him while she sorted getting him home. Turned out he was bored of his friends and ran out of money and she wanted a break from her kids. They did take us out for dinner a year later but I have no contact with her and she even rejected my friend request on fb. Petty I know but that was me trying to make an effort with her.

I had friend when I was newly married who liked to go out and party when our husbands were away (army). One day I got asked if I could babysit for her friends 3 kids as they wanted to go out to the local. Thinking it would only be a couple of hours I agreed and duly turned up. It got later and later and still no show but I wasn't that fussed until her husband phoned at 2 asking to speak to her. He seemed a bit upset to find she was still out and a strange woman (to him) looking after his kids.

I eventually fell asleep on the sofa about 4 and was woken at 6 by the kids stirring. Their mum still want home and by now I was really worried. The youngest was only 2 and had never seen me before. I fed them breakfast while desperately phoning my friend to find out what had happened. At 9 I decided to get the kids dressed and go round to my friends flat to see if she was there. Got there and my friend and the kids mum were there, fast asleep with two male friends they had picked up. The mother then asked me if I would watch the kids for the rest of the day so she could recover. I declined.

This thread is amazing!

I only have small one to add.

I have a colleague who regularly, totally, expects lifts to work as we work together and she doesn't drive never has, but never ever offers any £ . She lives across town from me and expects me to go in the opposite direction to collect her, wait for her to get ready deeming us both late, then pass my house on the way to work. I work with another mutual friend who offers every single time. I have never once taken it and friend 1 has witnessed this-It's the entitlement I can't stand. Once she had asked for a lift via a (different) mutual friend and I said no, unless she's going to give me some £ for it. I was reiterated that she said 'That's well tight!Sunflower's going that way anyway! The thing that bothers me most is, I am yes!But not to your end of town and even though I am, It's nice when somebody does you a favour and I can't stand bad manners.

One time home from work, my car was in the garage (we work late until early morning) and so I reluctantly agreed to taxi share with her. I predicted what would happen and I was right. She 'fell asleep' on the way back after insisting we drop her first, stumbled out of the car at her destination (a mile or so from mine). I , trying to save £, got out there and walked the rest. I never gave up on getting the half of the fare back from her (£15 ish). I'm generally a generous person and will put my hand in my pocket for anybody I like who deserves it, but not those who think I should!If I had more a 'brass neck' myself, I would have found an excuse reason to be dropped off first-said my purse was at home or something :grin:

She annoys me generally as she claims benefits even though she works cash in hand at another job and generally sponges off people she knows.

The thing about the poodle made me upset. Poor dog, and poor people. Hope s/he found a nice home.

Oh please tell me it was Foxtons????

Friend lived in Japan and had bought a newly built, unfurnished apartment in the Canary wharf part of London (1990s). He signed up to a rental agency but was told three months later that there wasn't much demand for it and the agent had always 'nearly' rented it out for some thing to come up and for the rental to fall through.

There wasn't a lot my friend could do about it as he lived abroad but the agency seemed respectable enough and would give him regular updates about the situation.

A year later Friend then had to go back to London unexpectedly for a funeral so decided to spend the night in his own flat in a sleeping bag since it had yet to be let, only to find when he opened the front door that the flat was fully furnished and there was a family living there!

The people had been paying a large sum of money plus deposit to the crooks/ agent to stay there. The agency actually feigned innocence.

Last year I met a plumber who told me he used to work for an estate agency in London who did this regularly in the 1990s and now it was a multi millionaire property agency.

(This shows me up as the lily livered, spineless wuss I am). SIL and I planned to take her young ds to the cinema. I drove to their house (35 minutes away) picked them up, went to town (20 mins) and paid to park. Decided to have a quick lunch before, I paid for all of us. Queued for the cinema tickets, just as we were to be served SIL decided to take ds to the toilet, leaving me to pay for the tickets. After the film we stopped for coffee before heading home, the coffees came with the bill. SIL picked up the bill, said she'd go up and pay for it but my share was X amount. Drove them home steaming. Probably more mad at myself for being so pathetic.

Gawd have so many...

SIL was 'writing a book', wanted to go to Cannes to 'see actors who would be starring when her book was turned into a film', got her grandmother's credit card and lived out her fantasy through it.

Got Grandmother to 1. move out of her room 2. Sell her apartment in order for sil to buy herself a house thus 'relieving' her own mother of any inheritance.

Sil wearing Grandmother's diamond jewellery while Grandmother asked for it back, saying, 'No! remember your will Grandmother? You are leaving it all to me. I might as well wear it now. You've forgotten you've given it to me'.

I was gobsmacked.

Car sharing (school run) for many years, only the mother of one girl started collecting later and later. In the end we were feeding her dinner 5 times a week. Then when I wanted to go out in the evening, found I could not as parent had not collected! (And no, I am not a CM).

Finally got fed up and told the mum I wanted her to pick up at 3:30pm and she gave me the sob story that her dp didn't want to do the school run any more as he was too lazy to but as I hadn't minded before, please could I continue?

WTF?! I had let it go on for years because this girl was in dd's class. I stopped it there and then. They had never even said thank you once.