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🤣🤣

Off to a wedding - did we mind picking up family x and two kids…. I’d driven 2 hours then expected to go 2 hours in he opposite direction 7 month peggers in a heatwave…no…

I have a small allotment, I sweat blood and tears keeping it all tidy/weeded/manured all year round. I work on it all the winter months in all weather's so Its good to start planting in the spring. A woman I say good morning/aftenoon to (dont even know her name) came up to me one day asking can she plant some potatoes/peas/bean/cabbages what she has bought in my plot as she has no garden at her home! She was most put out when I said no!

@PeanutCat1

And the second one that comes to mind. We had a family member ask if DH could drive 2hrs to their house, take them to the airport in their car as it was bigger for luggage etc (3hr round trip) then drive 2hrs home again and then do the same for pick up. Ridiculous, all to save the airport parking fee or a taxi fare.

What did your husband do? 🌹

Oooh tricky. We asked our neighbours to adjust their security light as it was motion sensored, but “motion” included wind, leaves, cats etc. it shone into our bedroom with the strength of a thousand suns flicking on and off all night and was waking up our (already a terrible sleeper) baby - nightmare! I think if possible any light should be angled to illuminate your own property rather than other peoples..

Yep so would I. Initially though, I'd have firmly taken my prize and skedadled back to my seat and left those grifters arguing as much as they wanted. 🌹

Didn't invite you to her wedding (whether you wanted to go or not) but didn't "forget" you when she needed a really big favour from you... thank goodness you said no. 🌹

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.

He had you pegged as a mug - which you quickly showed you weren't. I also never agree to anything these days, cautiously or not, until I know the full requirements. I've been caught before... 🌹

I would suggest this is fraud. Pretty sure there are rules around selling raffle tickets to the public. I would be reporting them to the authorities and possibly the police. A church of all places should play fair to everyone!!

You wonder just what goes on in people's minds... 🌹

She really shot herself in the foot. Glad everyone else also have her number. 🌹

At a funeral the deceased had left instructions that the collection was for a charity close to her heart. The undertaker had placed the collection box on a table in the entrance. The churchwarden rearranged the table so that the church collection plate was next to the box and then stood next to the table telling people that they could put their donations on the plate or the box. His wife was then telling people what he had done, gleeful about the amount of money that was now going to be going into church funds. Fortunately someone told the undertaker who informed the family and barred the couple from the wake.

The deceased had given a lot of support to the church over the years but had been very explicit about the collection. We were appalled by the churchwarden's behaviour.

But it takes about 50 hours to drive from New York to Vancouver! I know that’s not the point, but I’m guessing she’s going to get a hard no from her aunty when she asks her to do that!!!

I left a job around the same time as the colleague I sat next to, we'd been friendly and said all the stay in touch stuff, which we did by text. I suggested meeting up a couple of times but she wasn't available so I took the hint.

About 6 months later she invited me to lunch. Lovely! Only to desperately pick my brains as she'd blagged her way into a job that needed my skills and experience, which she didn't have. Okay. I then paid for the lunch and arrived home to an email asking me to check a piece of work she'd done, and she'd get lunch next time. I gave her a couple of broad tips on it.

Didn't hear from her until over a year later when I got a text as she had signed up to do the professional qualification I had, hadn't done any studying/work on it, and only had 2 months left to complete it. Could I help? No, I couldn't.

I used to be such a fucking pathetic mug. But that did it for me and i have been a recalcitrant non-cooperative bitch since then and no-one walks over me.

Glad to hear this - especially after the previous incidence. They'll be looking elsewhere for free accommodation after this I guess. 🌹

Ex SIL. When you bought holidays off Ceefax/Teletex she and her husband who had good jobs in the NHS asked if I could use my unused credit card to buy a holiday for I think £250 and she would give me a cheque. I agreed and she have me a cheque.

The next day told me not to cash the cheque as they didn't have any money but would pay me £15 a month. I had to chase her for the monthly payments and she never even paid for the interest accrued.

I then found out that she had sold the holiday to a friend but kept the money to buy a better holiday when she could have paid me back. I wasn't rolling in money I was a grade 2 clerk in a bank, paying a mortgage and bills, running a car and supporting a cock lodging husband.

She was a cf to everyone, would leave her baby with her mother to go on holiday for a week with her husband. Drop off the baby with her mother without nappies and formula which her mother would buy and on pick up take the nappies and formula home with her. Her mother had to catch 2 buses to babysit and would have to buy milk for a coffee as none in the house and would have to leave it there. Her children quite regularly spent Christmas Eve with Nana. I think she had children because it was "the done thing".

She also diddled her brother, sister and father out of grandparent's inheritance but I had divorced her brother by then and he was cagey about the whole thing and I cba to find out the finer details.

Gosh, you are so right! I’ve worked for myself for 15 years and I never do work for free. It’s the “just got for a coffee to pick your brains” I still get asked. All. The. Time.

I used to sometimes go. But it was always in their favour, never mine. I thought, hey, could make a good connection! But nope, they would never offer to help me or put me in touch with potential clients. Why would they? It was beyond their thinking!

I once got invited to lunch for someone to pick my brains. You’d think they’d have paid? Wrong. I ended up paying. Mug, that I am.

This is a weird one, not a huge ask but very odd/embarrassing and I don't know why I agreed to do it...well I suppose i used to be a big people pleaser and just do what i was told. Nowadays I'd tell her no.

So I was in the jacuzzi at my gym...a lady poked her head out from the changing rooms. She was clutching a set of keys...she had found them in the changing room and asked them if they were mine. There was a Toyota car key on the bunch. I said no they weren't mine. She then said she couldn't come into the pool area as she was wearing outdoor shoes so could I go and ask everyone in the swimming pool if they drove a Toyota. I actually did this... waited at the end of pool and asked people when they finished swimming their length. They all looked at me like I was crazy. Looking back I should have just told her to hand them in at reception.

DH's ex once asked him (not me) if I would take a day off work to look after DSD when she was ill, so she wouldn't have to take a day off to do so herself —about two weeks after she had kicked our bathroom door off its hinges and called me a silly little girl who needed to grow up. (And no, no apology in the interim.)

@FUBAR77 PLEASE come back and update us after your beautician gets back from her holiday! I'm dying to find out what her aunty said to her!

A very minor one - annoying at the time but also amusing. I'd been queuing for a while in a busy clothes shop to pay for a scarf. Finally it was my turn when a woman suddenly pushed in front of me - not elderly or with young children etc.

She said "You don't mind if I go in front, do you as I've only got one item". When I pointed out I'd got only one item as well, she said, "Yes, but I've got earrings and they're smaller than your scarf!" I was so gobsmacked by her bonkers logic that I let her go in front - I wonder how many times she'd tried that one before!

Ex dp sent me a long, rambling voicenote asking to borrow £200. He owes thousands in child maintenance and barely sees the dc. Apparently he wanted the money for new clothes and phone credit. He said he was asking me because he knew I understood that lending him the money was for the good of me and the dc, as he would get a job and begin paying child maintenance (never happened). I listen to it sometimes when I need a good laugh.

@NotOutWoods

People will continue to treat us like mugs until we say no. And if they have an issue with that? Well, it just proves we did the right thing!

A good lesson to learn and applicable in so many different circumstances. Hope your health is improving. 🌹

I've only read up to this point (saving for later as I love these kind of threads) but this is breath-takingly rude and height of CFery.

Along with @StitchVic and the free files!! Fuck me. I would definitely have just dumped them on the floor next to her car and driven off.

Many years ago I was in a serious accident abroad in which my sister was killed and I had serious injuries which meant I was in hospital for over 3 weeks before I could fly home. I was sharing a house with a 'friend' but after coming home and staying there for a couple of weeks, I moved in with family as I couldn't cope on my own. I still paid rent for all months until the lease was up.

When we finally came to move out a few months later she asked for £15 for the phone bill. I said why as I hadn't been living there and hadn't used the phone for over 6 months. She then said the phone charges were for the calls she made to the overseas country to check whether I was still alive or not.
She wanted me to pay for her checking whether I was still alive.🤔

I love Vinted but it annoys me when people aren't honest in the ads. If it's got marks show it in the pictures and mention it in the description.

I bought a next jacket £8. 'Only worn once or twice' listed as very good. It had fluff coming out of it and was really worn.

If they had put it in good and mentioned the faults that's fine. But it's people who are dishonest in the ad who annoy me.