I feel like a CF thread...

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Inspired by a bit of reminiscing by DH and I.

DD had a friend. Made the effort to be friendly with her mum even though she was unreliable/bit of a pain (the CF).
Moved back to her home town, after a few months came back for a visit with her DD and DH to stay with FIL, no car with them.
Another parent from school hears they are back and invites her DD to their DDs birthday party, which my DD is going to, so she and DD can catch up with people.
Party is at an awkward location and not really possible by public transportation.

CF asks if she can get a lift, no problem I say. Happen to enquire what her DH is doing ‘oh he’s coming to the party too, he wants to see this venue.’
I point out that I only have a 4 seater car. ‘Oh, don’t you want to leave DD at home and just take us’?
Eer, why would I go to a kids party WITHOUT MY KID?!?

Anyway she actually gets really quite annoyed with me, I still offer to pick her and her DD up.
Later texts me that someone else is giving them a lift. I get to party and hear from lift person that there was a bit of a fuss as she didn’t have room in the car for the DH (and hadn’t asked). CF is having a right moan that her DH really wanted to come etc....

Still glad she moved away...

Tell me yours!

Some great ones.

I’ve had a few CF in my life. One I basically ghosted as I’d hit my limit with her, which was fine as she moved abroad.

She then emailed me and suggested we meet in a country half ways between us (her new husband wanted to go there). Oh and if we rented somewhere to stay could her and her husband come and stay in it for free, seeing as we were paying anyway.
I never replied.

The best Mumsnet CF this year is the MILs SIL and the spent inheritance 👀

@VanyaHargreeves what?! I missed that one!

I need to know that too! And the Mexican one!

A CF was out with us at a party, the hostess noticed the tag sticking out of the dress and cut it off.
CF went ballistic, as how could she return it without the tag.

Ok so

Inheritance CF

A grandfather died. He elected to give his entire estate to one grandson who had been his primary carer until his death.

In the spirit of fairness, the grandson then split his inheritance 4 ways between all grandchildren, one of whom was the OPs DH. All 4 spent the money on stuff like mortgage deposits.

The money is gone, and completely skipped a generation.

Six years later, the father of the one that inherited has remarried and his wife has 2 DC from previous relationships.

This woman then approaches the OPs PILS to say that as it was "family money" she and her husband deserve a cut of that money from all inheritors so she can send her kids private.

The children are not related to the old man nor met him, and the money is in any case gone.

Mexico House Thief

OP had it would seem a difficult life, but her pride and joy was their second home in Mexico. They had a CF neighbour who was always round borrowing things who overheard her sister mention the house. He made a nuisance of himself asking to use it, and OP gave in. They went they came back they didnt ask again.
Some time later OP's surrogate Mum figure arrived at the house to stay, only to find a bunch of strangers in there and called the police. She was able to prove it was their family home because she was in all the photos on the walls.

The strangers were arrested. It was the neighbour family. He had copied their house keys, and they had gone there without the OPs knowledge several times and he was later then cheeky enough to complain to the OP about their treatment and how traumatic it was.

The one about the three women who booked a villa holiday and one of them invited her husband to come as well had me flabbergasted!

@Boobahs I think that was my first mumsnet CF-ery thread that I got really invested in!

The school stories have reminded me of one.

I had this lovely elderly neighbour of whom I was very fond. She had a couple of daughters.

I rarely see the daughters but by pure chance ran into one of them who mentioned that her youngest sister was imposing on her AGAIN for childcare for her only child, and it was really irritating her.

She also casually mentioned she was sending her son to the same school as my boys even though it would be tricky for drop offs and pick ups.

My spidery senses went off but I thought maybe I was being bad minded.

Week 2 of being back in school and she comes running up to me to ask will I collect AND drop her son to school with my children as it's tricky for her work.

As if it would be the easiest thing in the world and I'm not busy enough with 4 of my own in the morning.

Thankfully I was well prepared and said "absolutely not, it most definitely wouldn't suit me" End of.

I could see she was😲.

I honestly think she had little Billy66 pencilled in as a perfect person to do this little job for her, despite not really knowing me at all.

CF.

PS. I love the CF thread🤣

@supercee They were so rude!

I have a feeling Mexican house their asked for the new keys too, but I could be imagining that.

Group of us started hanging out at a group hobby. We were all professionals but one goes on and on about how he's mortgage free, we are 'mortgage monkeys' and 'wage slaves' blah blah. We all go out for dinner and he orders a side salad and glass of tap water and expects to 'just have a nibble' of everyone else's and help himself to other peoples' pitchers of beers to top up his glass. LOL, NONE of us let him! 'I'll just go a bite of yours,' he told me, 'Nope, not a bit. You want some, you order your own.' 'You going to eat the rest of those chips?' he asked one of our mates, who then picked each one up, licked it all over and said, 'Nah, you can have them.'

He then tried to skive out of tip because 'you lot didn't give me any food or share you beer! We told him to go mooch off someone else and he ended association with us. Good riddance.

Maybe not cheeky and more wtf but my lovely friend was about 6 months pregnant when she was cornered in her kitchen by her DH’s sister brandishing a pregnancy test in a box.
Her sil wanted df to pee on the stick so that she could tell her new boyfriend that she was pregnant to ‘check how committed to the relationship’ he was.

Some great CF sprites on here, they never fail to amaze me.
We recently had a cousin of DHs, who he has seen probably twice in his life when he was a child, befriend him on Facebook to ask if she could come and live with us indefinitely until she is "given a house" in our end of the country. She lives over 200 miles away and doesn't work. Needless to say we said no.

Stories* not sprites

My husband does a specialist job and has some very expensive equipment.

He priced a job for a friend of mine.
She phoned me up and said she wanted the work done but to save money her partner would do all the prep....so could my husband drop his equipment off for them to use.

I replied sorry no he doesn't let anyone use his gear.

I like the idea of a CF Sprite! Like a CF but more mischievous like a naughty elf

Some of these are outrageous! I'd love to add my own but I can't, even with a NC bil and sil (who is on here) will know. The circumstances are so specific it can't be anyone else, it's a whopper.

Wow the grandfather’s inheritance one is shocking! What was the name of the thread so I can have a read, please?

Mexican house thief was pure gold.

Had a membership to a club including a swimming pool.

Meet a new mum at school and as we chat about it being hot, etc. I offer to have her and her 2 DCs to come and swim with mine next time we go as a family.

She contacts me later to ask to go on day X. I answer that I cannot make that day but I suggest alternative date. She asks if she can go anyway as she has invited 3 other kids to join as it is one of the DCs' birthday that week, and that I should not worry as she has arranged for another adult to accompany them for safety.

I had to politely explain the membership was tied to the member and no, she could not do this.

Sorry, forgot to say that with my membership I had occasional guests tickets to the pool.

My IL's are cheeky.

Moving house on a Friday.
SIL phones up and the Wed night and says to her brother,I know you are moving house but I want to go away for the weekend so could you service my car tomorrow.

Sil asked could she use our computer,going back a few years so it was on a desk in spare bedroom.
BIL who had only ever been to our house once turns up. I answer door and he said is sister here. I said yes she is upstairs to up he goes.
An hour or so later SIL comes down says she is finished and leaving now.OH asks where brother is....he has just gone. OH asks what he wanted....oh he was just bored and wanted a chat.

We were furious,he didnt even pop his head round door to say hi.

My husband just now; he is three hours late home from work and has just asked me what’s for dinner.

Answer: “whatever you want to make yourself my darling and i’d like a cup of tea”

When I had my PFB I met a woman in a play group that I became friends with. We used to meet for a coffee and a lunch once week. We paid on alternative weeks but even from the beginning it was 60/40 me.

Tightness became a sickness with her I believe. It got so bad that on the occasions she was due to pay she would order a teapot of hot water (for free) and bring her own teabags for us to share. Even more embarrassing she would buy supermarket sandwiches and hand bits under the table for me in the restaurant. She only paid for the kids drinks on her turn about £3 whereas I was paying about £25/30. I was so embarrassed. After lunch we would often go shopping and she would splurge on clothes for herself. I put up for it for too long and eventually ghosted her as I couldn't tell her why.

It's AIBU Speechless CF I cant link within the app I don't know how