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I feel like a CF thread...

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Ihatesundays · 22/11/2019 23:11

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!

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Winterdaysarehere · 26/11/2019 22:06

My cf ex friend pleaded poverty. Quoted me how many pence she had til x day.
I paid for lunches /coffees /car park even for both our cars.
One day she turned up in a Mercedes convertible!
Wow did I feel a nugget..

katew355 · 26/11/2019 22:17

When we were younger (in our late 20's), we went camping with a group of friends- all couples and there were about 10 of us in total. Everyone brought a camping chair to sit on except the partner of one our friends. It was a cold evening so we all sat around a camp fire. Everyone took it in turns to be the one without a chair..... except the bloke who'd not brought one in the first place. Grrr....

longtompot · 26/11/2019 22:41

Just remembered. When we were in our very early 20's, we used to stay at the flat of our friends brothers. It was in a seaside town, but thinking about it, we didn't really go out, so not sure why we went there Anyway, we always took food for cooked breakfast, each taking enough for ourselves. We, for once, got some decent for us bacon, and one of the group bought a pack of value bacon. This person got to the kitchen before us and then cooked their own breakfast. My dp then went in to cook ours to discover our nice much looked forward to bacon was all gone, and the value stuff was left! The other person ate all our bacon and said they didn't think we would mind as ours was being cooked in a Spanish omlette style! I can't remember if we said anything, but thinking about it, possibly not as I think we were getting a lift from them.

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Themazeoflife · 26/11/2019 23:09

I swapped half a shift with someone at work, so they could attend a local group, they wanted to go to and so I could have the afternoon off to spend with my DC on their birthday the following week.

Guess who never showed up to cover my shift or answered my calls and texts.

Guess who missed their own DC birthday party.

cleanasawhistle · 27/11/2019 20:13

I used to work in a shop with my close friend.
We did different shifts so I could look after her kids while she was at work.As a favour,no payment for the babysitting.

I had been living with my abusive partner.He attacked me so I took time off work to move out get sorted etc.

My friend put her name down for the extra shifts and then had a strop when I wouldnt/couldnt babysit

HipHipHippo · 28/11/2019 08:31

An old neighbour that we were quite social with became quite a CF after the breakdown of her marriage.
I was having a cuppa with my my DM one day when I got a text asking if I could lend her £140 just until that evening, she knew it was a lot etc, etc. I told her that I couldn't but DM being the soft touch said that she could, and felt that it was the right thing to do if she needed it.
Apparently it was so that she could secure a payday loan. As this was the case DM asked if she could speak to her beforehand to make sure it was all above board.
Yes, she said, of course. I've used them before, nothing to worry about you can have the money back as soon as the loan goes into my account.
It turns out she had lied about using them before, they denied her the loan and it took a while of chasing to get the money back.
There were a lot of excuses and 'I'm just seeing if x friend can lend me the money to pay you back'
DM was a little put out as it was spending money for her holiday, and she'd been lied to.

Dowser · 28/11/2019 11:04

Gosh, I was lucky when I gave away my free stuff.
One chap said he’d like my white computer desk ( small alcove sized). I did warm him that some sort of polish had reacted with the finish and had yellow stained the top. No problem he said.
He arrived..on his bike..with a small trailer from the other side of town about 6 miles away.
He got down on his hand and knees and took it apart bit by bit. I was dead impressed. He said I’ll do it up and it will look like new. What a hero.

mummmy2017 · 28/11/2019 16:55

We just cooked tea, DD never cleans up after herself, I have to do it or it stays there as an ornament. She only eats chicken, not what we had for tea.
She just walked in from work experience and has done a full on you were home all day, why is the kitchen a mess.
The bins have been emptied by us.
All the surfaces are clean.
There is a glass dish from left overs, and a glass measuring jug we made gravy in.

anitagreen · 28/11/2019 17:17

"My friend" kindly offered if I wanted to babysit her son when her sister has her baby soon (we are due roughly same time) because her sister can no longer do it. When I said no she moaned she would pay me and not take the piss and couldn't work out why I wouldn't want to drop my DD to school at 8.30am, take my DS nursery for 10am, then take her son to school at 12.30, then pick up my DS at 2pm, and my DD at 3pm, then hers at 3.30 all with a newborn baby. Oh and I'd have to watch him from 8am so he'd be coming along everywhere until school at 12.30

Instagrump · 28/11/2019 19:07

Neighbour's has broken down. Now she keeps expecting me to take her to the shop and run her around town for whatever reason. Not just when I'm heading that way, she expects me to stop what I'm doing, stick my coat on and drive her there so she doesn't have to walk. I don't want to fall out so I'm "forgetting" to check my phone most days. Damn my non confrontational, soft arsed self.

heartofwhat · 28/11/2019 20:55

I have one CF story.

Years ago I agreed to watch a friends pre-school DC once a week for 4 hours. I didn't mind - the child was spirited but it was only for 4 hours.

About 6 weeks into this my DC ended up in hospital quite poorly. My friend turned up at hospital at the usual drop off time and expected me to keep her child there!

She said her child would be happy watching TV and she knew the childrens hospital had a great visitors play room. When I said No she said she thought her DC would cheer us all up a bit and I probably needed some normality. My DC was seriously ill and due surgery the next day!

NeverGotMyPuppy · 28/11/2019 21:48

At uni im London. I was in very central halls and a girl on my course had chosen to stay at home (North London) to save on accommodation costs. We had a freshers night out and she asked me if she could stay at mine afterwards. I said that was fine. Evening comes and she is apparently late and then she is meeting up with somebody else. It dawns on me that she had no intention of coming with me she just wants the room. She arrives at mine shortly after I do, where she proceeds to go through my wardrobe and comes out with 'you have some nice clothes. It's a shame you are so much bigger than me'- I was a size 10 ffs. I then left to get a drink and when I came back in she was changing a tampon in my bedroom.

Fucking grimy woman.

Thistimetomorrow · 28/11/2019 22:50

Friend asks me to look after her 2 DCs as she needed to take MIL to a hospital appointment. Could they be dropped off at 7.30 am as the appointment was for 9 o’clock and traffic would be hectic. No problem I say.
The day arrives and she drops the kids off. 2 o’clock comes and I start to worry something has happened. Get a text to say her and DP have taken the opportunity to go and buy a new TV as they wouldn’t get peace to look with the 2 DCs with them. They finally rock up at 3.45.

MrsElijahMikaelson1 · 29/11/2019 08:16

Shannith · 29/11/2019 08:42

Oh @Pinkyyy I rather liked CF sprites.

Makes then sound ironically impish when they are nothing of the sort.

Shannith · 29/11/2019 08:43

Ha @Cauliflowerpower great minds!

Auberjean · 29/11/2019 09:00

My DD has a friend who asked us to take her daughter for a weekend. She turned up with both the child and her sister, and asked to leave both. Like pushovers, we said yes.

I have a good many stories about this woman and her antics, as would friends of mine. Her children were fine though. I think they raised her, rather than the other way around.

draughtycatflap · 29/11/2019 09:28

Every CF spider that has lived in my house.

draughtycatflap · 29/11/2019 09:32

CF friend known for his tight ways who tried to persuade the waitress that she should give him the virtually whole cake on the counter as it was nearly closing time and would probably be stale by tomorrow. He was doing his sad puppy eyes and her ‘fuck off idiot’ look was priceless...

I was so embarrassed to be sitting with him.

CrashDiet · 29/11/2019 09:52

I once gave away a load of house moving boxes free on Freecycle.

A couple showed up with their baby in a tiny car to collect them. There was nowhere near enough room for it all in their car. I just left them to it, left my front door open and pottered in the kitchen. Ten minutes later, the man came in and said something very quickly about not being able to take it all and being back in 20 minutes.

I finished washing up and noticed a couple of boxes still in the hall but then I went into my living room to find their fucking baby in its car seat in the middle of the room.

They left their fucking baby with me, a complete stranger. Their baby. Not the non-driver, not some more of the boxes, the fucking baby.

I was half tempted to leave the boxes outside and go out, pretending I hadn't noticed the baby that they left without fucking telling me.

Anyway, when they came back, the baby was crying. It hadn't been crying long (I mean still too fucking long for me!) but I told the woman it'd been crying since they left. She got arsey at me for not picking it up and soothing it.

This is a genuine true story. I've told other people and they think I'm lying. I'm not lying. It's true. Some people are this fucking cheeky and weird.

thecalmorchid · 29/11/2019 11:56

@CrashDiet I have no words, who in their right mind would ever do this?

CrashDiet · 29/11/2019 11:59

I know!!! I genuinely did that cartoon thing of looking, really long blink, shaking my head just to make sure I wasn't seeing things. No, I wasn't. A baby. A baby I didn't know in my living room.

billy1966 · 29/11/2019 13:45

@CrashDiet
I think you win😂👍

Winterdaysarehere · 29/11/2019 19:07

You should have said oh you assumed it was an exchange and you had stuck an ad online!!

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Ihatesundays · 29/11/2019 19:14

That is amazing... really amazing.

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