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.

A friend hosted a tea party. I, like a good guest, asked what I could bring.

she replied - the hot food!

there were twenty guests - many of whom I did not know.

One of my neighbours is a Social Worker who dealt with abused children. I didn't know this at the time.

Over 10yrs ago the neighbours little girls aged 5 and 7 were always knocking the door to play with mine. One particular day it was snowing heavily and to be fair, the little girls had outstayed their welcome (they had spent almost the entire day having Lunch, snacks etc) We were getting concerned as we rarely saw the neighbours to say 'Hi' to, so we tracked a phone number down.

The parents told us they had gone shopping for the day, the Dad couldn't see the issue that relatively perfect strangers were caring for their kids in a blizzard, the social worker mum wouldn't take my call. So bloody odd. In hindsight it was neglect and cheeky fuckery at it's finest.

I have!! She also had a really nice bf who bought whatever she wanted.. Including a yellow canary as it matched her yellow kitchen.. Every Saturday she knocked to ask me to clean it out as she was terrified of it!
She also bought food shopping of items that came in yellow packaging and left it out in display!!

Did you oblige and clean out the canary cage then?

I hope you said no at some point.

I was in the middle of exams during my degree in classical piano performance at a music conservatory. I had sometimes played for free at weddings (including during the reception) in the past for close friends and relatives, because I was usually invited and I enjoyed myself more. For everyone else, I would charge the average going rate, which usually included food and drinks during a break. Not expected, but just for comparison.

An acquaintance of mine had heard me play somewhere, and asked me to play at her wedding. I agreed, and we set a price. I drove around 4 hours there and back (included in the price) , played from 12 til evening, no food, and then I was never, ever paid. The worst thing was that her parents were exceedingly wealthy. Maybe they thought I could feed off the privilege of playing for their daughter's wedding, instead of buying actual food.

Oh my god @Unsureaboutwhattodo I’d have been RAGING!

My old best friend from my early 20s asked if I could stay in her flat whilst she went away abroad & I look after her cats. I was single and liver with my mother so I saw it as a nice break on my own for a week. I got there and my friend had left the place in a pig sty dirty dishes in the sink, mouldy food in fridge. Dirty sheets on the bed. Old flowers that had rotted all over the dining table.. flies everywhere I literally felt 🤮🤮

I scrubbed it and tried to clean as best I could as was staying for a week, after two nights I went home and just came over every day too feed the cats! I couldn't stay a moment longer! Funny enough she had asked what wine I wanted as she would leave me a bottle as a Thankyou! Nope that didn't happen I didn't even get a fresh carton of milk.
She was a dirty cow & a cheeky one!

Love a cf thread

I used to live in Manchester and there wad a problem with our boiler. The landlord lived in London and sent workmen from London to fix it.
I was alone with them and they started dropping hints about how they'd have to sleep in their van that night. Then one of them gestured towards our spare room and asked who slept in there. I said it was the spare room and he asked could they not spend the night there? I actually felt quite intimidated and phoned my then boyfriend who came home and told them they wouldn't be staying with us. So cheeky.

I used to work in a care home and one guy demanded we pay his taxi fares so he could come and visit his brother, he also wanted his meals provided.

Oh my husband is the CF in this story. Before we had kids, he offered our babysitting services to his sister who had a baby about 4 months old. I thought it was a sweet thing to offer and that it would be nice for us to 'practise' having a baby together.

Turns out, he got a better offer with his friends that night. When I complained he told me to just tell his sister I wasn't coming after all, which of course I wasn't going to do! So I went and babysat his nephew by myself while he went on on the tiles!

There’s no need to police a fun thread like this @Rogue1001MNer - I for one enjoy hearing CF stories and want them to be repeated in case I’ve missed them!

Second this! @Rogue1001MNer have a day off 😴

We were living abroad with our 3 kids. Were planning to buy a house in UK at end of DH’s posting which was imminent. IL’s had a brilliant idea whereby we bought their 2 bed house, but they stayed living in it and we could bunk up with them when we returned!!

Needless to say I became the ostracised DIL, which I’m delighted about as DH’s family are a bunch of brazen money grabbers.

Wow what absolutely weird (and grabby) thinking! Where on Earth did they think two extra adults plus their three children would sleep, etc. Glad you stamped on that idea - hopefully you're not living too close to them... 🌹

Several moving ones, Inc where DH cut someone's hedges (massive and took an entire day) and then took apart all their ikea furniture to fit in the tiny van, as they were moving back to the UK and the husband had gone ahead, the wife was in floods of tears. No one else out of the friends was available.

DH worked for three nights, after his job, got them all sorted. The husband said 'cheers mate, will get you several beers on our planned weekend break in a couple of months' and never once out his hand in his pocket.
We have since cut ties.

@Garysparrowsthirdwife
I don't think I've ever read a CF story that has made me feel second hand outrage so badly. I would be absolutely livid! What a horrible situation to put you in.

I have relatives like this. Anytime they "host" a gathering they get everyone to bring something and contribute FA themselves. Last time they hosted a bbq they asked someone to bring the meat!

Then when they go to other peoples houses they bring as little as possible. So if you said to bring drinks they would bring a bottle of lemonade. Actually our delivery was once missing bread rolls and we asked them to pick some up on their way and they picked up 4 rolls with 14 people coming for lunch! We should have been more specific!

The stingiest people I know!

Loving these. Please keep them coming

Turns out, I had to run the whole party, from setting up to making up and dishing out the party bags!
Why didn't you just leave?

Every Friday lunchtime my team from work would head out for lunch down the pub. Nothing fancy, a few drinks and a burger/pie/fish and chips standard pub fare. We all used to split the bill equally and bang in an extra fiver each as a tip. The young lad who was always on duty during our team lunches when we visited was always so helpful and provided a really decent service so we were happy to tip quite well. A new woman joined the team and we invited her along and immediately she started the old 'I will pay for everything on the card and take the cash (including the healthy tip that effectively meant she ate for free)' trick. We let it slide the first few times but the following week she again scoops up the cash and offers to pay on the card where the young grad on our team called her out. "Erm.....you have just nicked his tip for the third week running". Cue lots of denial and flustered reasoning. "There was about £40 tip there, that's enough to pay for a weeks food, I know that because 18 months ago I was doing exactly the same job when at uni". The daft thing is that she was on very decent money so such underhand tactics were completely uncalled for.

dh brother and his wife were moving house. We offered to help on moving day.
We arrived and she had gone out shopping. There was only 2 boxes packed so me, dh his brother and FIL had to pack up the entire house and move it.
SIL hadn’t even packed her clothes, including underwear hanging of door handles. (I wouldn’t let FIL in the room for that !)
Didn’t even get a thank you for her. DH brother to his credit looked embarrassed when we arrived to find barely anything packed.
never again !

Sorry I'd have called to tell them both to come back otherwise I'd be going home! I recently had to pack up a house, pretty much alone, so know how exhausting and relentless a task it is. 🌹

A friend in LA invited me to visit her for my 30th birthday. I'd just been through a breakup so was pretty sad, could only get 5 days off work so I went.
Her house where I was staying was filthy: no clean sheets for the sofa where I was supposed to sleep so I spent the first night sleeping in her bed, these sheets were yellow from where she'd been lying on them.
she'd just started a new business and decided while there she wanted me to design a website for it (idiot - I indulged her and spent a day and a half working on it). The following day we spent 3 hours doing trips to the post office to send stuff out for her business. The final day we were spending in an Airbnb together as she was moving out of her flat - she hadn't packed a thing and expected me to pack, clean, and carry her belongings to storage with her.
Flying back to the uk together I had a business class seat and she had premium economy as we'd booked at different times. She threw a strop on the plane because I refused to talk to the air hostesses and convince them to upgrade her to business. She didn't speak to me all the way back from heathrow to London.

The least relaxing birthday celebration I've ever had and just the tip of the iceberg when it came to this friends CFery. We don't speak any more.

We don't speak any more.

Sad - but also glad to hear that. She is just a user and nobody needs someone like this in their lives. 🌹