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.

Meh, it's not their money anyway, you're not punishing them, you owe them nothing. Good on you for standing up for yourself!

I was working at the same care home as my friend. I was working nights and she was working days/evenings. I worked 10pm to 8am and would have a nanna nap between 5pm and 9pm before a shift as otherwise I couldn't function.

She was down to work a particular Sunday evening shift and needed a lift but her DH was away on business and no busses were available on Sundays so she asked me if I would be able to pick her up from work and take her home. I said no as I was working the night shift and would be sleeping when she needed collecting.
She was super upset about how she could get to work as she needed the money and didn't want to let work down - I gave her 4 options, walk, pay for a taxi, borrow my bike or tell the manager to see if she could do a swop with the Saturday person.
She didn't want to pay for a taxi as, in fairness, it would cost more than want she would earn that day. To walk or cycle she felt was not option as it was winter and 3 miles away. And she refused to call the manager herself as it was apparently my fault she couldn't make it in. I wasn't about to do it for her.

She had 3 weeks to work out what to do and did nothing. The week before we were out for a meal she said don't forget to pick me up from work Sunday. I reminded her I'd said no as I would be asleep. She became very cold and changed the subject. Friendship well and truly tested.
The day of the shift came and she waited for them to call her to ask where she was before saying she couldn't make it in as she wouldn't get home.
Friendship over and done when I came into work a few days later for the manager to tell me off for letting the CF down at the last minute after I apparently promised to take her in.
Thankfully she moved on not long after and we don't speak anymore

Just wow! That puts my ‘similar’ story to shame it’s nowhere near as bad I was out with a good friend and a load of her mates. I went to the loo and was gone a max of 5 mins. When I came back, every single person had gone. I called and texted but no response. Fortunately this was in the U.K. and I ended up having a fab evening with a group of random lads I met. I also made it up with my friend and we laughed about it for years afterwards.

There was my old neighbour who I said could borrow my lawnmower one time and I said yes. Anyway, I came home from work early a few months later to find him using it in his garden. It turns out he’d been taking it from my garden regularly whilst I was out! I told him that just because I’d said yes once, it didn’t mean the lawnmower suddenly become shared property and he needed to bog off and buy his own. He actually got really miffed at me.

Also, my other ex-neighbour (different one). He informed us that he would be putting scaffolding on our patio so he could remove a wall so he could the rebuild it. This was part of an extension build. He got really annoyed when we said no as we were concerned that he wouldn’t pay for any damage. Anyway, months went by and one morning we heard the sound of an angle grinder..:he was chopping off the edge of OUR PATIO!!!! I demanded to know what he was doing he yelled insults such as ‘bellend’ ‘fat’ ‘possessive of our land’ ‘territorial’ sorry for
not wanting someone to perform a land grab and then be claimed we were making him feel like a criminal!! Well, he was committing criminal damage so, you know!

And, yes, I have told this story before on MN but it’s just so unbelievable to me 😆

Living in a country with cheap cost of living in comparison to UK. DH was on an expat posting as an employee (so we had a good deal), which meant he was paid from HQ abroad. Then a consultant Bob (not real name) gets brought in who was employed and paid locally (but in dollars).

Bob is paid the equivalent of just under £1000 per day plus rent.

This was over 10 years ago!

Local staff earned top local rates but basically none other than upper management earned per month what Bob did per day. They were obviously not getting their rent covered either.

Bob comes into HR - all local hires who know his pay deal - and insists HR gets his Internet covered too. I don't just mean set up (which was tough if you couldn't speak the language, so fair enough) but paid for too.

Internet cost approximately £5 per month.

HR were very professional, but checked with the big boss. Big Boss didn't want to waste time arguing about such a small amount - although he was not impressed either - so agreed to it being paid.

Nobody could believe it. Years later and I still can't believe Bob's audacity.

Bob got his comeuppance though. Firstly because he complained to other expats initially about the internet not being covered (no expat had even considered getting it covered, it was so ridiculous) everybody knew and nobody had any respect for him, although everybody was very polite and professional.

The moment he made a mistake though he was out of there faster than anybody thought physically possible. It was something that he could have had a warning for and would have were he an employee. As he was hired under local laws though, his contract was terminated meaning he had to leave the country (he didn't have kids at school there or anything so this just impacted him).

Actually a smart move by Big Boss because basically everybody else liked him (BB) even more after that! 😉

A neighbour asked me to make cakes for her children's party, when I took them round there were lots of adults there including friends of mine and she just took the cakes and said goodbye, not inviting me in! She may have been stressed but there were other examples of her CFery, such as asking us round on Christmas Day so the kids could play and then announcing she was coming to us instead which she did, empty handed and stayed for hours.

Years ago I trained as a hairdresser and still do hair to this day (as a side job)
I’ve got my regulars and I get paid either by bank transfer or cash
all good until my manager at work asked if I’d give her a restyle-this was about 18 months ago
she rocked up 4 hours late,let me do her hair (took almost an hour and a half) THEN dropped the bombshell that she had no money-either on her or in her account but would pay me on pay day
fine-I don’t mind-she took my bank details and then nothing-she didn’t show up at work for 3 weeks as she and her dh had gone on an expensive holiday aboard which is why she’d wanted the restyle
she bragged on sm about the expensive stuff she’d bought while they where there
She kept telling me she’d pay,but never did (my rates where mates rates-I’m talking £15 instead of £50+ at a salon)
I let it go-but vowed I’d never cut her hair again

fucking blow me-she messaged me a week ago to tell me I’m doing her hair again,tomorrow night (sod any plans I’d made)
I messaged back with ‘sure,as soon as you cough up for the last time I did your hair-we both know you didn’t pay for that’

radio silence since (oddly enough)

Staggering!! 😂

A man who lives on the same road as my mum (and knew that my brother had a mini bus through work) called my mum and suggested that my brother might like to drive him, his family and extended family to an event hours away, through London and its heavy traffic areas.

What’s more brother would have to wait there all day and drive them all back.

All for free.

Nope.

We had a caravan. Cf friend had a trailer tent. Suggested they try out the campsite we used. Gave them dates we were going. We did a usual shop and turned up well stocked for the week end. I asked cf friend her plans. Apparently the campsite shop would be fine...
She rocked up with 3 x dc, a dh, their trailer tent and a. .

cooked chicken on a plate on her knee. It rained all week end.
Guess who hosted an extra 5 people?

Didn't learn. We invited her teen dc abroad. She paid for their passport. No thanks though. She was just buzzing her dd would have a more peaceful holiday without him...
Ended up sending our 2 dc home. Took months before she coughed up his plane fare... And she refused to pick her ds from the airport.. My ils did.
Ended the friendship when I got back.

I've been stung a couple of times in the past by "friends" in "dire straits".
No money for petrol to help out a sick relative, husband lost all their savings at a casino etc etc no money to feed the kids. So me being a generous sort, I helped them out with some money. Not a huge amount but enough to tide over, also told them the money was a gift from me.
In both cases, within the week, FB was awash with pictures of one friends brand new car, the other one enjoying a nice break in Spain.
I well and truly learned a lesson there 😡😡

Why did you send them home?

I'm a knitter. A friend asked me to knit her a jumper in a certain style inspired by a TV show she loved. She offered payment but I said no, because she had been such a good friend and support to me. She found the pattern and provided the yarn.
It took a while and I didn't enjoy it, but when it was finished it looked really good. A mutual acquaintance raved about it and said I'd have to do one for her and her DH! When I said I didn't really knit to order she said "I could provide the wool, if you like" in a tone that suggested she was being generous. As if I'd pay for it! The yarn was extortionate. No offer of payment for time.
She was most miffed when I refused.

I had a friend who piggy backed with her kids on my trip to an expensive holiday, paid nothing as she told them at the gate she was only coming for a day. Kept insisting on nothing fancy to eat so we didn't eat out, instead my supplies had to go six ways instead of three. Also kept insisting that her children were too old for the various activities but just to save money. The last straw was when she waited for me to come back on the last morning after the arduous trip to fetch the car, having been held up by various issues and I had to do all the cleaning and packing after a weekend where we had both used the house and cleaners were hassling us to get out.
Lots of other snubs and being used, I finally cut ties with her.

With every cheeky fucker there's someone who let's them get away with it.

I hope you've now grown a backbone and keep her at arms length.

Oh just saw you cut ties, well done!

A friend of mine messaged me last week to say she was struggling and could I have her dog for a few days?

I love dogs so agreed-we met up and I took him home with me

she didn’t send any tins of dog food,so I bought him some which cost me a lot of money but figured I’d save any unused food for my sons dog

she kept putting the date back for dropping him off until I put my foot down and told her I’d agreed to a few days-not a full fortnight

we drove the dog home and she opened the door,snatched his lead and slammed the door in my face-no thank you-no nothing

a few hours later,I got a snotty text asking why I’d fed him x food,rather than y food

(because the food she buys is cheap crap,full of full of fillers,and I didn’t go near the shop that sells it on my way home)

She also demanded to know why I hadn’t given him his treats (3 large maccys milkshakes a day,endless sweets,cakes,crisps,crumpets and toast) and why had I not wormed him?

this is a medium sized dog who needs to lose about a stone-he snores so loudly,due to his weight,we didn’t sleep properly for the full fortnight-his diet is pure sugar

sod that-the food I bought cost a fortune,I wasn’t buying crap on top and I’m definitely not worming him-I’m not his owner-she is

my dp and I have agreed never to have him again,which is a shame as we do love him-he’s a lovely dog but If we wanted to pay out for a dog,we’d buy our own

I just couldn’t believe the cheek!

@Dogsinthecradle, what on earth? That is next level CF behaviour!!

Not heard a thing since we dropped him off at home
she’ll be in touch when she wants us to have him again

and she can get stuffed-I wasn’t expecting hearts,flowers and roses but I was expecting a ‘thank you’

she can be very entitled though-if she waits long enough,other people will buy stuff she needs while spending her money on crap but pleading poverty

this is a dog that costs upwards of £70+ a week on sugary treats but doesn’t eat proper food,she won’t get him ‘done’ as nobody else has paid for it,he needs worming-hes been ‘done’ once his whole life-only because my daughter gave him the tablet,he doesn’t have a proper harness (it’s falling to bits) but does have a good lead (my son gave her his dogs old one) and she refuses to pay for vet bills so the dog has never been

all in all,it’s a joke and I’m not helping her again

How did she know he didn't have his treats? Did the dog grass you up?

Haha
she did send a bag of treats (I forgot to mention that bit)
he had two out of a bulging bag and I did give those back to her
she hit the roof when she checked it afterwards

I had one last week a parent brought his dd 29 minutes late to a swimming lesson. They have regularly late approx 10-15 minutes. My class were literally coming out of the pool when she arrived. Dad expected her to join in the next class which was two stages lower but do to the work of the stage she was in. When I said I could squeeze her in but I could only teach the stage I was already teaching. He told me he wouldn't bother completely entitled. The time isn't even after school it's 5.00pm.