When did you realise you were had ?

[IndiGlowie]

When did you have your lightbulb moment ? When you realised you'd been had ? Ours was when after weeks of scratching our heads wondering why we were using up so much petrol . Even took the car to a garage . Nothing wrong with it .

After the next door neighbours who never spoke to us had moved out petrol consumption returned to normal. Penny dropped . Some how they had been syphoning off our petrol .

When I was at university a friend called and asked if I’d let our tutor know that she wouldn’t make his tutorial that day. She said she was stuck in another city due to snow. I said I’d let him know and he was fine with that but it was only later I realised she had been in our university city when she called. It was still fairly early days for mobiles and she had called mine from her house phone and I guess she hadn’t realised the whole number would come up on my phone so it was obvious where she was!

Little Madam involving you . What if he had seen her that day .

I used to work in a job that required weekend working on a rota. A colleague was due to work on the Saturday. On Friday morning she phoned in sick with vomiting and diarrhoea. Says she thinks she won't be better in time for the Saturday shift. On Friday night the whole team, except for her, goes for a meal at a local restaurant in town. We have a lovely table with a view of the street. About 20 minutes into our meal the sick colleague walks past the window all dressed up and goes into the nightclub across the road. The whole team saw her, including our boss.

Wow I would have banged on the window

Pre mobile days, my phone bill was through the roof and there was clearly an issue as my lodger and I were both working away most of the time. I had the phone company check out the line etc. and no problems found. Asked for an itemised bill but back then it took a while for them to gather the info.

Meanwhile, Came back from work trip a day earlier than usual to find lodger's GF on the phone to a friend. I'd agreed to her having a key as she seemed nice enough and also was useful to have a key holder while we were away. She reckoned she'd just called round to check the house and totally coincidentally the friend had called her when she happened to be there. Made no sense at all but lightbulb went on.
When the itemised hills came, the majority of the calls were very long (an hour plus) and to the same phone numbers. I called them, one was her best mate, one her parents, another her sister.
She refused to pay me and claimed the bills were wrong. Took her key back, changed the locks and kicked her BF out as he backed her.
My fuel bills went down at that point too. I assume she moved in while we were away to keep her own hearing bills down.
I still can't believe the cheek.

I bet she was doing her laundry at yours too and tumble drying everything! It's that moment when the lightbulb goes on though . The shock at the cheek of them and then feeling so foolish .

@IndiGlowie of that I had no doubt. It also explained why I was getting through booze and bathroom products so quickly. I wouldn't mind betting she'd been wearing my clothes too although I have no proof of that. You're absolutely right, you do feel foolish.

When I’d been married about 5 -6 weeks. DH came in from work and threw a £1 coin on the table and told me I should frame it. He’d had a lunchtime meeting with his business partner ( in the pub, where else?) and had sold his majority share to him for just that —£1. They’d agreed he’d be allowed to “ take” one client that he’d work for, although that client hadn’t yet been consulted about it……
And thus started almost 5 years of him sitting at home drinking, working for client drinking, buggering off and getting drunk when he felt like it, while I paid the bills and tried to stop him trashing the house. So I’d been well and truly had.

Wow the brass neck of some people

When dh got a new job but we were skinter than ever. Even applied for some housing benefit... Asked him for bank statements and pay slips for the council. He handed them in a sealed envelope..
Happened to see him on his banking app.. Opened the envelope.. He had been raking wages and spending the lot on lunches out etc.

I threw him out and filed for divorce..

Taking other ladies to lunch no doubt