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

wotodoo - that's not houseproud, that's fuckwittery of the highest order. What an utterly shitty thing to do. Are you actually leaving? Because if I left under those circs there isn't any level of cajolery that would get me back there again, EVER.

wotoodoo wtf? Your parents are not house proud and not very tolerant, they're nuts! Were they the same when you were growing up?

My Dsis is spoiled and entitled. Once when her daughter, my niece was very young they came to stay (they live in the Far East). Dsis insisted that DN drink out if a open cup though most of the time it was knocked over. One time having been out at work I cooked a meal I was really looking forward to. DN knocked juice all over my plate before I even had a bite. As I sat and looked at my ruined dinner, Dsis angrily said, 'get DN another drink would you' not a word about my food. In the end DH gave me half of his.

One time we were having a discussion about schools. Dsis said it didn't matter where my kids went as they were 'just ordinary' whereas her precious child needed a special type of school to cater to her various gifts!

DSis also thought she had the perfect right to rummage through my stuff and take whatever she wanted. All the expensive shampoo or cosmetics would be emptied by the end of her stay. I noticed a couple of my tops in her bag as she packed and my sunglasses in her handbag! She said she thought I wouldn't mind as I didn't use them much anyway.

I had 2 toddlers and a baby and I had just driven 4 hours to visit my parents

I was exhausted but happy to be with them and as my parents were quite strict and house proud, I was mindful of keeping everything clean and tidy.

As dps were not tolerant people in general ( very judgemental) and did not like dc to make any noise, I would have to run outside to the car if one of my dcs showed any sign of wanting to cry so they could cry there

So far so good. Had just managed to settle all three quietly to bed and was getting myself ready for bed when my df, really angrily thundered COME WITH ME. THIS IS JUST NO GOOD. YOU CANNOT STAY TREATING OUR HOUSE LIKE THAT. YOU NEED TO PACK UP AND GO

I followed him into the bathroom thinking OMG what have they done.

To find that that one of my dc had left the lid of the toothpaste lid off.

I kid you not.

Oh, a friend's abusive husband was almost sacked because when he had a supervising role he noticed that some workers' holidays coincided when they shouldn't and changed their holidays without discussing it with them and... forged the signatures in the process. He was lucky he was simply demoted.

Used to live in a sea side area. Used to get lots of friends visiting, we only had a small flat, so had so fold out bed in the living room. One couple announce at 8.30 that they are going to bed now, folded out the bed in front our eyes, got in and asked us to leave the room.

We moved to a not so great area, we never see them.

Oh lol! And it was YOUR shelf stacker thing! I see.

MrsWinnibago it was an insult to injury really. With the little extras of a free day's babysitting and a phone calls to sort out the toilet flush and.. I've never had a review published in the Lakeland catalogue.

DailyWail I don't get the problem with the review.

A couple for you - years ago we worked for a bank and they sent every single employee vouchers for £200. One manager and deputy decided that they would keep the cleaner's £200 as they thought she didn't deserve it. They were sacked.

The people who bought our house asked us if they could clean the carpets the day before their moving day - we had to get our furniture into storage on Saturday night. They brought 2 further people to help them clean. The carpets were still wet on the Monday and the carpets ended up filthy.

We moved into my parents' house which was a five minute walk. About a fortnight later the husband rang us and asked me if I could look after their daughter for a day as the wife was feeling unwell. I did it. My mum was . I then had to deliver her back to her house. Gawd it's emotionally hard to visit your own house with someone else's furniture in it.

They phoned a few more times to ask us how things worked. We didn't give them the number of our new house.

And and and!

I left a shelf stacker thing in a corner cupboard as she asked me to give it to her. The next thing I knew she had written a review for it and it was published under her name in the Lakeland catalogue!

Pogue that makes my blood boil! Nothing more irritating than the "oh but my DC/GC are soooo speshul" brigade.

I love this thread. I go away for a bit, I come back and there's a few more delightful examples of battiness to laugh at. Or sympathise with.

Fecking NDN who waits until we go away for a few days and parks his car in OH's disabled bay EVERY FUCKING TIME.

Its still in there now. Cock.

Our block of houses has a parking area with a space for each house. Dh came home to find the neighbour had parked in our space. Theirs was empty so dh parked in theirs instead.

Ten minutes later the neighbour knocks on the door to tell him he has to move the car as he's in their space:

DH: I had to park it there because you're in my space.

N: That's because we've got a delivery coming. We've left our space empty for the delivery van. You'll have to park out on the road.

Needless to say, dh refused. In the end, the neighbour had to rush out when the van arrived and drive around the block while the van made its delivery.

Still can't quite believe the cheek of it!

And this was 1960s, so £10 was a lot!

When I was about 8 or 9 I found a wallet with £60 quid in it on the path on my way back to school after lunch. I handed it in to the headmistress (tiny village school of 30 pupils in one schoolroom). Bloke who lost it called in to see if anyone had found it and I witnessed my headmistress hand it over and the ACCEPT A REWARD OF £10 FOR FINDING IT!!!

Bird of prey centre - the guy doing the talk says he needs one very special volunteer to help him with something.

My DC always want to be picked for these things, and never are. This time, DD1 actually gets picked, and is delighted.

As the demo guy is setting DD1 up with a glove and stuff a grandmother shouts "excuse me, my GD wants to come up and help, can I send her up?"

So the guy obviously says yes and this woman's GD ends up doing more of the display stuff than DD1.

Not a big thing but just pissed me off - the number of times I've explained to my DC that you can't always be picked but maybe next time it'll be your turn.

To have a grown adult just barge on in..grr..

I have a couple...

One very similar to a story already posted - I moved into a new flat the day before my housemates, so said they could use milk, butter etc for their first day before they could get to the shops. Except apparently one took that to mean forever. 3 months later, I had been noticing stuff going missing, but after coming home from lectures and rehearsals at 10pm to find all my food missing, I bought a fridge

The same flat mate thought she could leave all her washing up and I would do it. No such luck, I put it all in a crate (that had holes in) on her bed!

One from school: our school choir was asked to sing at a wedding, and the couple paid us what amounted to £50 each! It was all in £20s and we had no £10s so took it into school the next monday to get some change. Music teacher took it all off us, gave us £20 each and pocketed the rest! Teacher hadn't even bothered to come to the wedding!

This a minor cheeky one but still had me stuck for words.

Went into the Co-Op with DS and he went to get one of the kiddie trolleys, a woman and a little girl (who was stamping her feet) were either side, DS waited his turn but she said to go first.

A good 5 minutes later woman sidles up to us and says "can my DD have (swap) that trolley" I was slightly gobsmacked and said pardon and she asked again if her DD could have the trolley as 'she prefers that colour'

I was so stuck for words I just nodded in DS's direction and said she could ask him....he said no..

I was so taken aback you would pander in this way to a child..the whole saga must of been going on for a while

At uni, I arranged to meet an ex housemate for a drink. She had forgotten her purse. No problem, I can stand her a couple of drinks. Couple of weeks later, we arrange to meet again. But oh, what a surprise, she's 'forgotten' her purse again.

Sadieno - nope they gave her lifts but
Just never offered me one.

I had a friend who went to the private school. Her mum had a bit of a thing about me going to the comprehensive and one day asked me if I wanted to go to an event at my friends school that evening. Sure, I said. It turned out to be the open evening - she wanted me to go home and announce that I wanted to go to the private school.

Same friends mum was going away to Malaysia for a few weeks in the summer and suggested that I could come and stay for a bit. When I asked my friend, she said that her mum expected me to stay over every night that she was away (I was 14). They were shocked when I said that my mum wouldn't let me (and I liked my own bed too much).

Nowhere near as bad as others on this thread, but here's my contribution...

Out for lunch with some friends and DD (aged 18 months) and DD needed her dirty nappy changed so I take her up to the disabled/baby change loo. Someone was in it, so I waited & entertained my whiny DD. Person comes out of the loo, I go to take DD in when this old dear comes up behind me and says 'oh, are you waiting for the toilet?' (No, I just hang out around toilet doors with a smelly bummed child) 'Only I need to be at the theatre soon and I haven't had my pudding yet!'

Shock rendered me speechless and miserable old mare waltzes in in front of us...