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

A former male friend asked me before Christmas if he could stay at my small one bed flat in London when he visited for a week (I think) between Christmas and New Year (or around New Year's Eve) - anyway, DS was due on the 7th of January (!), so he could have been born at any time during December, plus I had a huge bump and felt usually tired. So, I politely said I couldn't have him there at that particular time.

Apparently he was upset, as he later told my mother. Oh, the shame.

A neighbour of mine used to use my tumble dryer to dry her baby's organic cloth nappies as she 'didn't want to abuse the environment having a tumble dryer of her own' Never offered to pay for the electricity though.

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I once worked for a company where parking crap to say the least. My boss gave me a parking permit which was great. A colleague who worked part time asked me if she could have it as 'her car was more expensive than mine!'

Apologies if this is brass necked but marking place as I need sleep. Im up to "AnnaLegovahTue 12-Aug-14 16:26:38"

Mine was a couple I used to babysit for when I was about 17.

At that age I was quite in demand I was studying for a childcare HNC and was really good with difficult children or children with separation anxiety. I spent a long time getting her kids to trust me but finally they managed their first night out in 5 years and were really grateful. Paid me well and offered to take me to Florida with them to help with kids (she had 4 under 5.) Once they were settled though they started having more and more nights out and getting home later and later. I had them a whole weekend (friday night to sunday night) once while they went a family wedding- they paid me £40 and expected me to be grateful because I got to stay in such a lovely house!!

I was there one xmas eve and she called at 1am to say they had gone back to her sisters and wouldn't be too long but did I mind bringing down the toys in her room for the kids. I spent until 5am putting together a bloody toy kitchen and various bits. She staggered in at 5.30am with no money to pay me and no money for my taxi home(part of the deal as they lived 1 mile away) so I had to walk home.

They then phone me up at 7pm on new years eve to ask me to babysit (still hadn't paid me) but I had plans with my bf so had to say no but she was livid- screeching down the phone that I was unreliable- how could I do this to her and how teenagers today had no work ethic etc. She then said that as she had to find someone else and likely pay double I could forget the money she owed me and she would take someone else to Florida, I had burned my bridges.

The real kicker was 2 weeks later when she called and asked me to reimburse her for the cost of the name change- luckily my mum took that call and gave her what for. Even nearly 20 years later she still goes on about "so and so who never paid you that time."

This was twenty old years ago but it still grinds my gears. I had booked a holiday at work in January for a weeks holiday with DH and friends for May.

My Dh and our friends all had the holiday booked from January (five months in advance), hotel booked etc.

I got called in by my boss a WEEK before I was due to go on holiday with her 'demanding' I cancel because it was half term and my colleague needed that week to be with her children!

I was twenty five and childless and my colleague was 38 with three kids. Did she not know it was half term that week?

I actually lost the row and cancelled my holiday! I am still that I did it and shocked that I was asked to!

Some of these have had me completely shocked.

I've got a few but I'd absolutely out myself and get arse kicking (metaphorically speaking). I'll try and work out how to phrase a couple of them so no one thinks it's me.

But then again mine are boring in comparrison!

We had an Australian nanny who asked if her parents (elderly ex nun and priest but that's another story) could say for a few days when they arrived in London. We said fine but they set up camp and stayed over a month and we were too lily livered to kick them out as they were a bit decrepit - not so much as a bottle of wine bought as a thank you.

We should have learnt from this but then agreed her 17 year old sister could stay for a short while - all going well until the doorbell rings and several burly blokes in their late twenties are barging their way saying 'Helen' has invited them round for a party!

I stayed and babysat for her sake wobbly. Her H is an well established arse, and she'd only have got it in the neck if I'd gone.

Never did it again tho.

First day in my first ever job, a temp contract with a prestigious publishing house. I'm introduced to the senior editor and the first thing she says to me is 'Well my name is the same as yours and obviously we can't have two [name] in the same office so what's your middle name .. right, we'll just call you that instead'

I spend the whole of that contract confused as to when I was being addressed as she insisted on using my middle name both directly to me and when introducing me to other colleagues in different departments, whereas, the other staff I worked with ignored her and used my actual name.

I'm sure I left there with some kind of identity crisis ..

Their daughter strangled my sister Salmo

Also like a PP I had a flat mate who topped my stoly (vodka) in the freezer up with water...realised what was happening cos it had frozen solid in the bottle! Flatmate apologised then did exactly the same with a bottle of 'special' vodka a friend had brought back from Russia for me!
And I had another flatmate who was a selfish arse for lots of reasons - and I discovered my toothbrush wet and recently used when came out the bathroom once [vom] -I told him next time I would clean the toilet with it and not tell him (and keep my real one in my room) .
And baby items - a friend very kindly lent me loads of baby items for DC2 - I already had things from DC1 - but she insisted and had fancier stuff than I did (eg a cot with adjustable base height etc) - I was grateful. She cleared out her storage cupboard...but as I finished with things she asked me if I could hang onto them - she didn't want to sell them (sentimental) but didn't have anywhere to put them (there are 3 of them in a massive house - with 4-5 spare rooms, a cellar - but no garage (or attic as it was converted)) - DC2 is now nearly 8 and the stuff is still in my overflowing attic - have mentioned it a couple of times...I will be moving soon and need to clear it out ...might have to resort to leaving it all on her doorstep...

Whoops that was meant to Salmo obvs

Merde one of my parents was in a police officer, the other a childrens social worker They just wanted to help her.

This didn't happen to me but a friend. He was driving locally and he saw the daughter of a friend standing by the side of the road, looking distraught. He stopped and she told him she had driven her car into a ditch.
He offered to help, got in the car and drove it out of the ditch. She was hugely relieved. He thought nothing more of it until he got arrested the following day. The woman had accused him of stealing and crashing her car. She only had third party fire and theft insurance and didn't have the money to pay to fix the damage to the car.
He is a sensitive, honest soul and was absolutely crushed that she would repay his kindness by accusing him of theft. Fortunately he didn't get prosecuted after her parents refused to believe her.

Ive learnt through endless kind hearted gestures where people have taken the piss that the people who ask you for the most appreciate it the least.

Its terribly sad that so many posters good natures have been roundly abused.

Many, many years ago I had a friend who really liked a drink. She was also so selfish and seemingly unaware of others' feelings, or just didn't care, we used to joke that she must be a psychopath.

At the kind if party where everyone brings a couple of bottles of wine or a six pack of beer etc, and leaves them in the kitchen for sharing, she was known to take bottles of wine from the kitchen and hide them, so she would have something to drink when the rest had run out. She often went home with the drink she brought, plus some more!

She, let's call her Tina, had a friend whose DP was a DJ who did weddings etc. Tina went along with her friend and the DJ guy to a christening that he was DJing at. Tina didnt know the people whose christening it was. Not only did she get caught once trying to steal 2 bottles of bubbly in her huge handbag, but she got caught red handed again 15 minutes later trying again!

When we were younger my DPs were friends with a couple who ended up getting divorced.
When the woman met another man and remarried, my DPs offered to look after her four kids for the week so they could go on honeymoon.
This was a pretty big favour, the kids ranged from troubled teen to four years old. They were traumatised, having watched their parents split very acrimoniously and her very quickly remarry.
So off they go after the wedding, a week passes and they don't come back to collect the kids. My DPs try the hotel they were staying at and the couple had checked out.
My DPs were frantic, not knowing what was happening and where they were. They appeared a week later saying they were having such a good time they didn't want to come home so booked into another hotel and stayed on an extra week. No apology, nothing. Needless to say the friendship ended there.
What made it worse was that the eldest DD has stranged my DS to unconsciousness one day in a fit of temper and totally traumatised my DS.

When dd1 was 2.0 and dd2 only two weeks old, DSis came to stay with her 4 children - oldest was 12 and youngest only 4 months.

The morning after the first night they stayed I got up with both DDs, and dn12 got up with dn4 months. I was massively anaemic and bf so made myself beans on toast - ended up making it for the 3 eating kids too. Fine. It got to 9am and DSis not made an appearance. So I'm entertaining 5 kids. Then dn4 months monumentally poos all over DD2's rocket. Dn14 turns to me and says 'your turn'!!!

I march upstairs to wake DSis. She tells me she know what it is like as she had two two year apart (ten years earlier!) and that she worked full time so she needed the sleep more (she was on Mat leave!).

She doesn't know it, but she is never coming to stay again.

I've been reminded of the flatmate, who moved his girlfriend in unofficially but didnt up their share of rent or bills to compensate. However what really got my goat was going to use my toothbrush in the morning only to discover it already wet from very recent use. It turned out his girlfriend had been using mine instead of bringing her own and didnt see what the problem was. She had also been making free with all my toiltries in the bathroom.

I used to go riding 10 minutes from my house, but a friend started coming to. I cant remember how it started but I ended up having to go the opposite direction to collect her (took longer to get to her house than the stables) and drop her afterwards, this went on for months without her ever offering any gratitude towards for this.

The abusive ex bf had some neck. He made me go to his parents house 2 hours away for the weekend whilst I had d&v from food poisoning, and then I got told off for not wanting to eat whilst I was there, apparently this was rude.

The same parents gulit tripped me and my now DH to go and see evil ex in hospital after he had his gall bladder removed, as he had no friends and it was all my fault.

Oh yes, this evil ex, when we eventually split up due to his behaviour, he stated he had been job hunting elsewhere in the country but had expected to stay in my bed with all the "extras" until he left me. Like that was ever going to happen

Should add that the rumour was repeated to my DF by someone who had it direct from the mother...

OW's mother spreading the rumour that I'd had an affair and that was why we'd split up.... (They now live together and he is XH). Said mother is supposedly a pillar of the church, but I happen to know she and MIL fell out over a 'man friend' (FIL had admittedly passed away at this point)...
Talk about covering your own indiscretions by throwing mud!!!

Oh I have some more...
My DC's friend's parents don't have a car for 'environmental reasons'. Result is that me and other parents end up ferrying this child around....this has gone on for 5 yrs now - this now young teen's parents never ask or say thanks...their DC asks our DCs - and our DCs feel bad if we say no. Usually it is fine - we are going anyway etc - but if we are arranging lift shares etc it can be awkward...feel bad saying that there isn't room...but obviously the more children/car owning parents who lift share the less it is your turn....
They all go to one activity together -usually walk - but it finishes late, we take turns giving them lifts home - but we have a car full -so unless one is off sick etc we can't fit this child in.
This child is supposed to walk/catch a bus there and back with a young woman who is mid twenties. The young woman is socially inept - not sure if ASD. Her parents drive but they are older - one won't drive in the dark and the other (she says) is too old to be expected to go out so late . Instead she pressurises anyone there to give them both a lift home - even expecting people to drive a mile or so in the opposite direction to do so. When it was mine turn I used to put my extra seats up (7 seater) and give them a lift too - a bit of a hassle cos I usually had lots of rubbish in the boot etc but didn't mind too much...until it became expected - and I felt like she was taking the piss.
This young woman TOLD me I should always do the late pick up so they could have a lift home. She also complained when I wasn't doing both the to and return lifts to somewhere a bit further away - again she was counting on me to get them there and back . Once I had an horrendous bad cold (flu?) - I saw her when picking my younger DC up earlier and said my DC wouldn't be going that evening cos it was only me who could pick up and I really wasn't well enough. The young woman said 'How are we supposed to get home then?' I have now become hardened and just say no/ignore - I won't put my seats up etc. Even so she will come and stand at the passenger door waiting...
One week it was absolutely chucking down with rain and the young woman wasn't going. I took them along - including the child whose parents don't drive - I had room as one of the lift share children was going later...
When another parent turned up to take them home the child was expecting a lift back too - she was the first to jump in! But there wasn't enough room for them all (and this child must have realised that). Other parent felt bad - she couldn't let her make her way home alone, in the dark and rain - so said she'd make two trips. All the other children were offering to go on the second run and so have to wait in the rain - this child said nothing and stayed in her seat...as it was the parent had to tell her to get out and wait with her child and another as they all lived closer together.