What is the cheekiest thing someone has asked of you?

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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🤣🤣

Wow. I'm sorry he was so awful

A lady who I didn't know knocked on my door and told me that she lived in the flats overlooking my back garden. She explained that although she lived in one of the upper floor flats she was concerned that the lawns around the flats weren't properly maintained so could my husband go round with the lawn mower because she had noticed he did such a good job of mowing our lawn.

I've posted this one before but it still gobsmacks me. I won a raffle prize for lunch for two at a very very schmanzy restaurant way out of my budget but somewhere I had been longing to go for years. I went up to collect it with my winning ticket and two other women also came up with tickets with similar numbers arguing that they had won it. They checked the ticket which had been drawn and yup it was mine. I stood back and let them go ahead and argue all the while waiting to be called up to collect my prize and feeling sorry for them because they looked like such greedy idiots. Then for some unknown reason they put our three numbers back in the hat and drew again and one of the other women won. I went back to my table and everyone was outraged on my behalf as I was clearly the winner. Still don't understand how it happened. Not done a raffle since.

Oh and how could I forget: when my eldest was young we had an activity party for him. Some dad dropped off not only the son who was attending the party but his older son as well and then fucked off. It was exclusive use of the venue so not like he had paid for his kid to come. Thankfully one kid didn’t like the activity and went home near the start so there was a spare space/food etc we’d paid for but how f ing cheeky is that

To do their masters dissertation for them.... offered to pay me £2k. I'd just graduated with distinction from the same course. She was a friend doing it part time with the dissertation the next year.

@ilovesushi whaaaaat?
They can't do that!!!
What kind of establishment was holding the raffle? Anyone you could have reported them to?
I would have made a complaint of theft to the police, and posted it all on social media as well!!

Hope she ended up with food poisoning and projectile diarrhoea

A friend of ten years was getting married abroad and I was not invited (but was relieved as could not have afforded to attend it.)

Two days before she flew she asked if I could move into her house for a week unpaid to dog sit her incontinent, elderly dog which also had Alzheimer’s, as she had completely forgotten to book any care. Gave her the number of the local dog boarders given I was caring for my own elderly cat who was on his last legs.

My sister once requested that my parents and I should delay our Christmas Day celebrations and dinner to a different day because she wasn’t going to be there. This is because she was having Christmas dinner with her husband and in-laws but she didn’t want to miss out on “our” Christmas dinner 🤣 🤣.

I used to work in education with a guy who was good fun, but prone to mildly enraging behaviour, like taking loads of time off and leaving me to cover all his work.

Before that I was an editor, and offered to proof-read some essays of his brother's as a favour, as his first language wasn't English.

Left that school, and that city. Then a couple of years later got a cheery phonecall out of the blue, asking if I could help him with some academic work. Thought it was the same deal, so cautiously agreed.

He sent me four essays he wanted me to write for him, for a qualification he was doing! Sent the briefs, the spec, everything. I wrote back saying I could proof-read what he wrote, but not write the essays as a) it would be cheating and b) I didn't have time. He wasn't offering to pay me.

Never heard back.

@ManchesterLu you clearly didn't see my second post as I posted too soon.

The only reason I agreed to do it was because she said she would be in the pool and needed one other and her DH wouldn't be there. She clearly lied about that as she knew I would not have agreed if I had known she just didn't want to parent her own child.

No, she didn't have her period, she absolutely had no body issues as she was very proud of her appearance. She said it in such a way that it was clear she just couldn't be arsed and just wanted to enjoy a coffee with her cronies. She didn't even get me coffee to say thanks for doing it. In fact, she didn't thank me at all.

There had been several other similar incidents earlier but this was the worst, and I refused to have anything to do with her after this. She had been used to having domestic servants in her home country and was outraged that she didn't have any when her DH was posted to the UK. She clearly decided I could fit in to that role.

Astonished you think her behaviour was reasonable, would you really do the same???

I remember this. I would have been raging at the injustice

😂😂😂

@LakeTiticaca it was at a fundraising event organised by the school PTA. It was so bizarre. DH couldn't understand why I hadn't stood up for myself but at no point did I ever dream I wasn't going to get my prize. He was as gutted as me! My whole table was ready to mutiny on my behalf. I wish I'd let them go ahead! I never thought of the legality aspect at the time, just the unfairness.

@DownWithThisKindOfThing sadly I suspect she enjoyed a lovely lunch (my lovely lunch!) with zero guilt and zero diarrhea.

Very mild in comparison to some of these but when I was on holiday once my mum rang me up to ask me to help her get the printer working. I asked her to ring the tech support people instead as I knew I'd be charged massive roaming fees, but she insisted it was an emergency. The lights were not on so I suggested she check it was plugged in properly with the switch on, for which I got an earful. When she eventually looked it turned out the dog was lying on it and it had become unplugged. She was very annoyed that I was right and hung up to deal with her 'emergency' - writing a letter of complaint for poor service somewhere she'd been. No thank you and a £250 phone bill for my trouble. 😂

I get there, she opens the door holding her baby and says great I'm too ill to do all the party games you're a teacher you'll be good at it and thrust a stero thing at me!
Oh yes, as a teacher one's expected to be the world's Mary Poppins! A friend became engaged and at the start of July her prospective SILs said how glad they were not having to pay for childcare during the holidays, they would drop their children round at friend's house 4 mornings but she would have to come and get them on the 5th!
I was asked by a colleague for a lift as he's moved nearby and all he did was pontificate on the evils of private motorised transport, that arrangement lasted less than a week, after which I was branded a nasty right-wing selfish bitch by him.

I'd just started childminding and I was taking care of:
An 8 month old
A one year old
A three year old
A four year old (Reception)
A five year old (Year 1).

The Dad of my Reception child caught me on the school run home and asked if I could watch his 4 year old for an hour. No offer of payment, just as a friend of my child. I said yes.

This child would not leave me alone. They were harder work than the 5 other children put together! Three hours later at 7pm when I normally put my own kids to bed and the other kids had gone home, I still couldn't get hold of the Dad. Eventually got through to the Mum who was away working so she had to send a family member round to collect. Turns out this child had quite severe additional needs.

Also discovered afterwards that the Dad tried to palm his child off on other people at every opportunity (daily!)

I was fuming. I'd been working since 8am that day and was shattered. He couldn't cope with his one child but thought I'd be ok with 6 kids aged 5 and under.

A few months later, my other half was at the park and this Dad asked him to watch his kid. After my experience, my other half said a blunt "no!"This Dad was most offended and couldn't understand why my DP didn't want to watch his kid while he fucked off somewhere else.

Not sure if this counts.

I was married for 27 yrs. DH died during lockdown. By then, his ex was with partner no. 4. (DH left his ex when he found out about the BF who became her 2nd partner.)

His kids told me they couldn't come to the funeral because of lockdown: one was shielding; the other had developed adult onset asthma. The adult grandchild's parent thought that the funeral would be too upsetting for them.

Could their mother represent them instead? I agreed. I told them, truthfully, that I'd expected that she would want to attend. I later found out that it had been the ex's idea that she should go instead of the kids.

3 days after the funeral, I was asleep in the back bedroom, knocked out by Diazepam and sleeping tablets.

I was woken by loud banging at the front door.

I staggered out, pulled on my jeans...

Open the door. The ex.

She was "just passing" because she was walking the dog. NB. She lives in the next village half the week; the other half, she lives up north in her latest partner's village.

Latterly, we'd got on all right - in spite of the weird things she'd come out with. A couple of times, prior to lockdown: "You must be the same as me: sick of dealing with the dead and dying." (I cared for both my parents and my husband.)

I'm not sure now whether she said something similar this time. It's a bit of a blur.

She told me she was tired of the flowers she was laying at my in-laws' grave being eaten by rabbits. She was going to put down plastic flowers and she'd attach a label to say they were from her, me and the kids.

I was a bit nonplussed, but said 'That's nice of you...' Bear in mind, I was having great difficulty holding things together.

Then: "Can I ask what you're doing with DH's ashes?"

Me, taken aback: "They've already been scattered, as per his wishes." [I later realised that they wouldn't have been - apparently, the crem keeps them for a week before scattering them."

"Oh. At the Garden of Remembrance? That's nice..."

Then she left.

I later found out that she was expecting me to place the ashes in my in-laws' grave, nearly 3 hrs drive away from my home, but close by where she lives with her partner.

Practically every buyer on Facebook.... I'm giving away something for free and then I had someone asking me to drive it to her house 15 miles away so she could look at it and decide if she wanted it or not!

Something similar from a neighbour. I had looked after her animals once before admittedly.

But she stopped me one day, and said she would be away for two weeks , and her parents could do the end of the second week.

The only trouble was, she hadn’t asked me to look after her animals, or she would know that I would have said no.

I had a new baby, had just returned to work full time, had a very long commute, husband worked away part of the week, had two other children too, a dog, a cat and some chickens myself to look after.

No way on earth was I looking after and cleaning out her rabbits, after all this, for two weeks.

She wasn’t very happy

That’s stupid/ bad planning. Not cheeky to ask but cheeky not to politely accept a no.

I was at a church raffle once, and had been helping set up.

The team setting up, drew lots of tickets in the raffle, and won lots of prizes, before they added in everyone else’s tickets for what was remaining.

I said nothing, but my eyes certainly widened that day.

I don’t think this is the norm, by any means, but it was definitely the norm in that group.

Ah, I didn’t convey the fact that she wasn’t asking me to look after the animals, she was assuming already that I was doing it.

Oh I want to know how this turns out

I have a few, but my most perplexing one was when I was a kid.

Grew up in a holiday destination. Had a B&B up the road. One day, went to go and play in the garden and there was a whole family in there, having a picnic and playing ball games. Asked my mum who they were, she had no idea. She went out to confront them, they said they were staying in the b+b up the road but that our garden was nicer, with nicer views so they decided to have their nice lunch there instead. Mum explained it was a private garden and they were shocked that 'the locals here are so hostile'.