Best CF stories please

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My CF SIL has pissed me right off. Please tell me your CF stories to make me feel better.

I would have punctured his pool

A friend was selling a phone but didn't want the buyer knowing her address as he seemed a bit dodgy. She gave him my address instead but thankfully he never showed up. The same friend also tried to commandeer my house for a meeting as she didn't want strangers in her house and I, apparently, wouldn't mind if they made a mess.

She constantly volunteers other's time and possessions on their behalf. She sees herself as being in charge and doing great things but it's everyone else that pays the cost. I no longer respond to her because she only contacts me when she wants something.

Placemarking! Not sure if I've got any but love to read them
Oh wait - when DH was football coach , one of parents saying " can you not do extra training sessions " When asked if he could help with said sessions " he said "I work I can't". DH works full time too but seemingly that didn't matter.

My aunt never paid back the loan my mum gave her years ago and then had the audacity to have another fight with my mum for not lending her some more money years later after being reminded she never paid back what she owed. My aunt also happily tells family that they can ask my mum for some money if they ever needed some. My mum isn't rich btw but had some savings. My mum finally cut contact 2 years ago from her sister and has never looked back. My mum can write a book about her sisters 65 years of cheeky fuckery that would be a bestseller on mumsnet

Thank you- feel better already 😂

Years ago, I was asked if I'd bake a cake for a colleagues kid. I said I'd do it for cost but that would be £20. I brought the cake in, she says thanks & asked what I drink - I said a spirit as I could see where this was going. Never got anything but I never did another favour for them again - not even work related

Keep 'em coming... love a CF thread.

Got one about pj's... Will be back.

Friend A has a full time nanny. It’s pretty standard for a nanny’s work contract to include set daytime hours and then one night per week of babysitting

It’s also pretty standard for nannies to babysit for other families for cash

CF asks friend A if it would be ok to book nanny to do some babysitting so friend shares nanny’s number

Nanny does the babysitting, CF refuses to pay her saying that friend A hadn’t used a night of babysitting that week, so she had already been paid for it

New ndn asked to borrow some pj's. Assumed washing machine broken perhaps.... She returned them washed and ironed (?!).
Asked again a few weeks later.
Requested the same ones...
Apparently her bf liked her wearing them during sex..
I said she could keep them..

I work with a right pisstaker-we all know the type,moans about having to show up,never does any work and then goes on the sick until it looks like she’s going to lose her job-the cycle goes on

anyway,she’d just gone back to work when I get a panicked phone call,saying she had no childcare for the following day-could I have them from 6am til 3pm?

’er,no as I’m at work myself from 4pm til 11pm and it’s going to be too much’ (the kids are out of control and bloody hard work)

cue a ton of wailing that she couldn’t see the problem as I wasn’t at work til 4 and ‘they’d be no bother’

i still say ‘nope,not happening’ and left it at that

next morning,bang on 5:50am,there’s a banging at the door-yep,she’d dumped both kids on my doorstep and driven off

i texted her to come and get them-ignored me

so I rang work,explained I wasn’t having them and she’d better come pick them up-the boss told me that she’d said I was having them-she’d asked everyone else but they’d said no

They passed the message on to her,but she laughed and told them ‘garyswife said she’d have them this morning-I’m not picking them up-I need the money’

work had to force her to come pick up her own kids or I was on the verge of ringing ss to tell them these kids had been abandoned-they where hyper,trashing my house,screaming and just being really naughty,dp was trying to get some sleep as he was on nights at the time

she had the nerve to bang on my door,had a go at me and dragged both kids out by their necks and drove off

best bit is,her new lesbian lover and the kids dad where both off work that day but couldn’t be bothered to have the kids-the lover ‘needs her sleep’ (so do I!) and dad was gaming all day

the following day she handed in another sick note and has been off since-while slagging me off to anyone who will listen

Placemarking! Not sure if I've got any but love to read them
Oh wait - when DH was football coach , one of parents saying " can you not do extra training sessions " When asked if he could help with said sessions " he said "I work I can't". DH works full time too but seemingly that didn't matter.

I coach down my local rowing club and it is amazing how many people think it is a 'free' service and that all the volunteers are there to facilitate their eclectic schedules and demands:

"Hi, my son would like to learn how to row"

"No problem, we have a number of junior learn to row courses over the summer, here are the dates"

"Oh, they are on Saturday mornings at 11.30, he can't do that as he has banjo practice"

"Sorry, these are the only times available"

"What about Saturday at 8am?"

"We don't run juniors sessions then as the adult senior squads are training and safeguarding rules states means we have to keep the groups separate"

"How about Thursday morning?"

"We dont run junior sessions then either"

"Well can you do it"

"What, one to one private session?"

"Yes"

"I can't as I am at work, but we do have coaches who offer private sessions, but they do charge"

"They charge"

"Well, it is not a free service, you are using club equipment, fuel for the launch, insurance costs and you are benefiting from one to one tuition from a former GB athlete"

"Do you charge for the group learn to row sessions too?"

"Yes, £250, for a 8 week course, as stated on our website"

"Can you do it for £150?"

"No"

"Do you get a refund if he does not like rowing?"

"No"

"Can you do Sunday at 5pm"

"No, the club is closed"

"You are not being very accommodating are you"

<grits teeth and tries not to tell them to f*ck off>

Every week there is a variation on the above.

That’s awful :(

Like a few pp's, I help run some children's activities as a volunteer. Loads of the parents are very appreciative but every year there are a few who take the piss. Eg. parent who was outraged that we wouldn't take his younger child (far too young for the activities) on a weekend camp with us as well as the child who was a member- apparently our refusal meant that he would need to SOMEHOW find time to feed and entertain the younger one as well as packing and driving to the meeting place, which is out of order when we know he has to work and needs to relax and the weekend. This week, one parent turned up at the wrong place despite us having given everyone a printed and e-mailed programme at the start of the term and posted reminders on the facebook group and whatsapp group. She informed me that we would NEED to call her every week the day before the session with a reminder of where to go/what to bring because she hasn't got time to look at social media and doesn't want copies of letters cluttering up her house.

Oh loads. I live in a tourist area and it is true what they say about people contacting you twice a year - once just before summer to say hi. The second 2 days later asking (or in some cases telling us) to stay.

But once I had a neighbour ask if I could watch his child while he had a doctor appointment. Sure. he would be around at 10.

Opened the door at 10 am, the neighbour ushered child in gave me her backpack filled to the brim with stuff and a change of clothes and said; 'Bye- see you at 4 oclock' then left.

Another time a friend of DH's rang me and said that a colleague and family of his was staying nearby for a weekend and he suggested it would be 'nice' of me to arrange a dinner party for them. I did not know the colleague or his family. The friend of DH's was not staying. I work full time and I am not sure why he thought I would welcome the concept of hosting a dinner party for some randomer (who undoubtesdly did not want to meet us either). I declined the offer that I host.

My blood was boiling as I read this. So typical

pantsofshame

They are crap arent they.

The other observation is the imposed babysitting by some parents. A session finishes at 6.30pm, most parents are waiting to collect their kids but there are always a few who roll up at 7.15-30pm, no apology to the coaches have to wait around until all the kids are collected. Fine, occasionally people are genuinely running late through no fault of their own but the fuck you entitled attitude of some parents who just assume you have nothing better to do with your evening so you can babysit their kids is infuriating. When you flag it you get the 'I can't help it my job is so terribly important (and you are not)' excuses. Eventually we have to kick them out of the club.

Too true Dillon

We have one parent at the moment who is having a sort of passive aggressive stand off with us. We ran 5 mins late one session (we had arranged a special activity at no extra cost to parents) and he was annoyed to be kept waiting so now every week he is 5 mins late to collect, usually making some comment about being in the middle of something and knowing that we don't worry about an extra 5 mins. What he doesn't know is that other parents have told us he often sits in his car round the corner playing on his phone when everyone else is collecting.

@GarethKeenan please tell me you told her to do one and didn't give her the petrol money!

A mum on my street used to sign her kids up to activities that my kids went to and tell them to get a lift home with me. I'd pick my lot up and one or more of her kids would just open up my door and jump into my car with a "mum says you have to take us home!" I sat there, mouth gaping like a fish. The club was walking distance and I only picked mine up for convenience.
They would also be waiting at my car when I did the school run at the end of the day telling me how it's very rainy and they're all going to get very wet. I just said, "Oh then you'd better get going quick then shouldn't you!" And closing my door. It was only a street and a half away but I'd stop to get my own kids as it was on my way home and I was passing.

Giving lifts when I'm going that way anyway shouldn't be a problem I know but to be TOLD that I have to? Fuck that. It got my back up. And after a while I just left a big box I'd been transporting on my back seat so there was no room for passengers. Oh dear.
The children were very rude and my kids didn't get on with them at all so there was no incentive to be their free chauffeur so their mum could sit on her arse. They were not friends. I wasn't friends with their mum. The only time she spoke to me was polite hellos when passing. She once asked me to help take party things up to a venue in my car. I said sure thinking it'd be a quick job. Once there she started instructing me where to set things up, to move tables here there and everywhere while she spoke to her friend. Turns out, I had to run the whole party, from setting up to making up and dishing out the party bags!

My friend who lived abroad at the time was coming to London and suggested we meet up. I said she was welcome to stay. She then suggested that I pick her up and drive all the way to Malvern so that she could stay with a friend's Mum and I could stay in a hotel. We could have a walk in the morning and then I'd drive her to another friend's house. 3 hour drive each way.

I said I didn't fancy driving all the way to Malvern to spend the night alone in a hotel. Did it fairly frequently for work and it's not that fun.

Another time she wanted me to drive all over London for 2 days taking her to hairdressers and friends. My reward was I could have coffee with her.

My mate said she obviously thought my hobby was being an Uber driver.

The mum of one of DD's friends once called to ask if I could collect her from school that day and drop her at Guides with my DD, as she had gone shopping at a nearby city (about 1 hour away) with her friend and was running late. I agreed, then got another call just before I left to collect DD from Guides to say she was still not home so could her DD come back to us for a few mins. An hour later I called to see if she would be long and was told that she and her friend had just ordered dinner but would be setting off home as soon as they finished.

2 years ago on Christmas even my brother phoned me to say that one of his friends had driven over from Spain and illegally brought his cat. He was staying with my brother for a week (against Covid rules) but as my brother had a dog and I liked cats could I have the cat to stay. I also have a dog and 2 cats.
I said no and he suggested I could confine it to one room, I suggested so could he
He got very arsey with me and said he was going to tell my Mum she couldn't go there for Christmas dinner then (again, against Covid rules). I said that was none of my business and he hung up sayimg if the cat ended up on the streets it was all down to me.

Cf neighbour left her 4 year old dd in my garden while she walked the dog. She had never met me and didn't ask. I missed a gp appointment because of that. When she got home I knocked and told her it was unacceptable. She proceeded to burst into tears because her dd has special needs and she needed the break 🙄