What is the cheekiest thing someone has asked of you?

[Conniebygaslight]

There have been many but reading on another thread about the CFery of a school mum reminded me of a time when my DC were at primary.
A mum asked if I’d mind picking her DC up from school and taking them to another school a few miles away where they were competing in an intersports thing. My DC were competing too so I agreed assuming she was working.
When we got there, said mum was already there in the front row with her DH & DPs. I asked what was going on, she replied that they wanted a good seat and parking so didn’t want to wait until their DC finished school so they could get their first. I was absolutely stunned…I still laugh at the audacity of this years later🤣🤣

Friend I've known since I was a child. Asked to stay at mine for a month or so. We set a date for him to stay at mine but he came over a week earlier. Offered me money but I said no need as only a month.

One month turned into 7 months. Never offered any money to contribute towards anything. Instead would ask me for money here and there. It totalled to a few hundred quid which I kept having to remind him/ask him. Eventually got it all back.

When he had his child, same age as mine, he'd accept jobs (freelance) and would ask him to look after. Even on playdates, he would leave his child with me . I always said yes to help out.

When he did eventually move out, he asked me twice to Look after his child again so he could work 11-7pm.. I said yes but I fell ill with flu and tested him him that I was too ill to look after and he would need to make alternative arrangements. He replied that it's in a few days and I should have recovered by then. I told him no. And he'd need to sort out himself. Bumped into him not long after and he told me he paid someone to do it.

I've not heard from him since. I do wonder how I was a mug for so long.

I think it was a typo, she lost her baby sitter for 2 months.

I would have called the police!

So would most people!

Jeez, @Sharontheodopolodous , what a nasty piece of work your SD is!

Whyyyy do so many people think the world owes them free childcare?

I was going to say, I don’t think this girl knows how far away Vancouver is to NY or how large North America is.

Next door took in a box of wine for H. H went round to get it. The house owners MIL answered. Said no wine. H could see it. He said about it and she pretended it had been a joke. We promptly cancelled the note saying next door will take in. The previous owners always did happily but h had forgotten to check with them before leaving it in the note.

But you did it none the less 😬 that's more baffling then her request

Why on earth didn't you phone the police?! Surely you'd have thought something bad had happened to her? And when she turned up and acted like nothing had happened you just handed her kids back despite it being obvious she's a danger to her kids

Paid for a friend's vet bill. She claimed it back on her insurance (didn't pay us back) and posted all over FB about how long the claim was taking and how short of money she was because of it. To the point that other friends anonymously posted cash through her door because they were worried about her. She saw nothing wrong with any of this and kept everyone's money.

Paid for a friend of a friend to go on an all expenses paid trip abroad with us as part of a group trip, including a private boat trip and her room in two different luxury villas. She complained I didn't buy her a bigger luggage allowance for the flight as "15kg wasn't enough". She bitched about me the whole trip. Unfortunately for her someone emailed me asking for a job reference for her a while after.

This is absolutely batshit behaviour 😂

Ooh I've just remembered one. When my second was 6m, I sold her vibrating bouncer for £10 on marketplace.

Woman makes contact, almost immediately asks if I deliver. I say that I'd rather not as we've got a 6mo and an insomniac 2 year old, but I could ask my husband if he could. Ask where she lives?

She says X road, and she needs it delivering as she doesn't drive. I inform her that I'm also in X road. She tells me precisely where, and I tell her where I am - all of 200m away (I can literally SEE HER HOUSE her house). Her response

'can you not deliver then, Timmy (name changed) had got a cold, can't bring him out'.

why I haven't told her to get lost I don't know, but I meekly agreed to deliver. But not right away as toddler is napping and baby is asleep on my boob. So she sends her husband round to get it straight away (because even he likes strangers walking in their house when breastfeeding...)

Thank goodness that was over, what a pair of CF's, I think.

Half an hour later, she complains that it doesn't vibrate properly. She can return it for her money back if she wants. She decides to keep it. That evening she changes her mind again and asks to return it.

I give her the tenner back, put it back on marketplace and sell it to someone else advising it may need new batteries. It works for them fine, no complaints.

Seriously, who demands (there was never even a please or thank you) a handheld item be delivered 200m?

Urgh.

I intercepted a prize CF rooting around in my garden this week, looking to steal a bike. He looked like a deer in the headlights when I went outside and asked loudly, "Can I help you?" Made up some far-fetched sob story about his friend having a puncture, and asked if I'd do them "a massive favour". I asked what that might be, and he replied, "donate a bike to us" - gesturing at my bike (which he had been hoping he could just TAKE!). You can guess what my answer was, before I promptly reported the incident to the local FB info group, and the police.

You deserve a medal!

Once took my daughter to a pool party, where the Mum of the birthday child, said how great it was to have a party where she didn’t have to bother about drinks and food ….hmmmmm.
She didn’t either.

Sell the tickets? Both of them?

Rented a village hall and bouncy castle for my child's birthday, handed out invitations to the whole class. This was for about 20 five year olds and a couple of cousins. I expected parents to stay. (The norm for parties in reception for my child's school/area.)

About half rsvp'd either yes or no, I assumed the rest weren't coming but made a few extra party bags and sandwiches etc.. just in case. ONE mum approached me and asked if she could bring her baby as well because she was a single mum and I said yes of course.

Chaos descended. The whole class turned up with extra siblings in tow. People who hadn't rsvp'd turned up with about 3 children. One mum explained she had housework to do and left so I felt responsible for her child as well as mine and being in charge of the party.

I decided to put two cupcakes in party bags where children had brought a sibling so they could have a cake each but didn't have enough party bags for all siblings and this got a tut from a mum who was annoyed her children weren't getting one each.

The noise in the hall was horrendous. To this day I am baffled by the whole experience.

Around midnight, I'd just gone to bed and the phone rang.

A 'friend' called. She's just landed at the airport, back from holiday. 'It's cold,' she says, will I go to her house and turn the heating on so it's not cold for her to get home from. 'I've just gone to bed', I tell her. 'It won't take you long' she says, 'just pull your clothes on over your pjs'.

Told me I was horrible and mean when I said NO.

Why the fuck should I get up and travel out in the cold to warm her house up, so she isn't inconvenienced.

One of my colleagues used to purloin food from the staffroom fridge.

When confronted, she'd just say "Oh, I thought it was mine."

One time, she took a young maths teacher's Clementine and gave her stock response.

Young maths teacher: "How could you possibly think it was yours if you didn't bring any Clementines into work with you?'

No answer!

I'd be depositing the bag into the nearest bin after that.

She'd asked me the previous year and was so put out when I explained it would take me a couple of months to complete as I'd be reading it at nights after a full day editing other work. When she asked again, I couldn't say no as she is a very close friend and has been for decades. Sometimes, with good friends, you just do stuff out of love. It's the randoms who think because they met you once you should work unpaid for a week that get me.

My vile brother in law, while we were waiting at my house for the hearse on the day of my husband's funeral asked me what he'd been left in my husband's will. My oldest son literally threw him out of the house and I've not spoken to him since!

When we sold our last house the market was a bit slow. I answered the phone one day excitedly to the estate agent thinking oh she must have a viewer. Nope, some random woman had phoned them up wanting to know how we’d managed to fit a dishwasher into our kitchen. Managed to bite my tongue from saying wtf I’m paying you to sell my house, not provide home decor tips to random members of the public.

One of DHs "friends" asked to borrow our campervan so that they could do the NC 500 but they didn't want to rent a van....when he said we have specific insurance would need to add you on to do so and it's £250 to do that (£30 admin fee and them with points on their licence) their response was but surely we can just borrow it as mate's no need for all that.......ummmmm no!

Oh and plenty of cheeky fuckers random friends of friends taking the piss with looking for free legal advice. I’ll help anyone but when it is endless questions evenings and weekends they are taking the mick