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🤣🤣

You laugh at this 'audacity'? There was a poster here saying that their dd is being picked up and chauffeured from school to the house EVERY DAY and if she should just 'accept this as normal'. And you refer to this one-off as cheekiness?

I’m absolutely living for these CF-ers, but I swear if another person quotes the @FUBAR77 post and tells us how far NY to Vancouver is, I might lose my mind 🤣

RTFT - on this occasion every post is brilliant (except this one) and WE ALL NOW KNOW HOW FAR NY TO VANCOUVER IS TO DRIVE!! ABOUT 48 HOURS.

WE ALL KNOW!!! 🤣🤣🤣

I work as a freelancer and live in X. My friend lives in Y. We were invited to submit a quote for a two day job in X. I provided a quote and my dear colleague undercut me. She found out what I quoted and undercut me by 100 quid. We are on friendly terms. She got the contract and then asked me if she could stay with me because she did not want to spend money on a hotel in X and save it together with the per diems.

Ooh, nasty. That is such a blatant lie on their part, though. How can you possibly 'go over budget' when giving somebody a present of money? You literally set your desired budget - to the penny - and then give them that exact amount.

He could at least have had the guts to come out and say "We preferred to give your sister two presents and you none at all - and we've hijacked your birthday as an excuse to rub your nose in it".

From student years - 'Let us revise together', which meant 'I have not attended one lecture, let you and I sit down and you quickly explain to me everything you know and I did not bother to learn'. Reader, I married him (c).

I hope your DH declined her kind request! Cheeky mare. 🌹

I love these threads, although I can never think of any myself. Maybe I'm the CF?

(Promise I'm not!)

I hold you told them to bugger off! 🌹

How can they not have known that 'similar' numbers are no good?! You could make the case that ALL numbers are quite similar to lots of others - 137 is only one more than 136 and only one fewer than 138; 482 uses the same digits as 248, 824... etc. Was it a colour thing; i.e. they called "Buff 613" and they had blue 613?

Do they regularly phone people they need to speak to and get astonished when a stranger answers, even though they dialled a 'similar' number?!

How can they have got to adulthood and (apparently) not realised that you obviously have to have the exact number in a raffle to win the prize? But, more to the point (as they were obviously CFs trying it on), how on earth did the organisers entertain them for a moment, rather than just gently explaining to them - as you might a very young child - that a 'similar' number might be annoyingly close but is not a winner?

That kind of reminds me of the old joke that circulated by text a number of years ago, where you get the message something like:

"Hi, are you free between 9th and 23rd August this year? I just won an amazing competition for an all-inclusive holiday at a 5-star hotel in Las Vegas, including flights, for me and 20 friends... and I need you to put my bins out whilst I'm there!"

Sharing a flat in London when a student with a PhD student. I got offered my first graduate job - great foot onto the ladder but with a tiny starting salary that was clearly barely going to cover outgoings and no more. PhD student got out a copy of Vogue and showed me a dress she asked me to buy her, then declared she would no longer be paying rent as I had a job. Asked her to move out and she was very irked.

Yes, this indeed. People see raffles as little informal things - especially when they're in aid of a charity - but it is gambling and is thus subject to very tight rules.

Taking somebody's stake (buying a ticket) when they have no chance whatsoever of winning is very much fraud, and could get them into a lot of trouble and seriously bad PR.

A very nasty spoilt bitch seems to cover all bases!

The worst part if FUBAR corrected themselves just a couple of posts after. They don't even need to RTFT - just scroll down a little bit!! 😂

I just now received another one from one of my work "friends." She is asking for some help on something (I work for myself). She is really cheeky and knows I've suffered a serious back injury this year, and am therefore mostly on the floor and limiting my time at my standing desk – just to keep earning!!

Anyway, I unapologetically said I wasn't able to help right now. And hope that was the last of it. She then said, "When you're back on your feet, we should go for a coffee so I can pick your brains!" Know what I said? Tbh, I lost my temper a little and said: "Sounds fantastic, but when I'm back on my feet, the first thing I'll be doing is booking a holiday and taking time off work!!" She hasn't replied. The CF w**kBag.

When my late OH ran the school tombola at their numerous fetes, you win if your ticket had 0 or 5 on the end, he would keep the tickets for the best prizes in his pocket for the first hour, people were less likely to buy if the best had been won already! I used to say I'd bake a cake with a file in it for when he got caught, though the person running the stall with him was a the Head!

I'd have been very inclined to pay in the cheque anyway - then, when it bounced, they would have incurred a £30 or so charge from their bank, which could then have led to further charges if it sent them overdrawn.

The paper a cheque is written on is worthless; it is the promise to pay that the cheque represents that actually matters. They lied to you and broke their promise.

You can claim that promise to pay by paying in the cheque at any time after the date on it. At least they could have asked if you'd accept a post-dated cheque. What's the betting that they would have deliberately waited just over 6 months before telling you that you could cash the cheque; then, when it was declined by the bank as 'expired', start the rigmarole all over again?

In fact, the whole thing of even using cheques these days is suspicious - unless it's a very large amount, from an official body and/or from an elderly person who grew up with them as the norm for paying somebody. It takes a minute or less nowadays to grab your phone and transfer the money instantly.

Ha ha-that made me laugh!!

Hmm, I'm a sort of CF in a similar case! I hadn't done an essay for a particular course and I pestered my boyfriend about it as he'd done the same course the previous year. Eventually he brought me his typed essay on the same subject, luckily the lecturer had made comments only in pencil so I redid the first page with my name, erased all the comments and handed it in! Bloody lecturer gave me a lower grade for it, presumably because I tended to be more argumentative. Reader, I too married him, boyfriend not lecturer, and we were married for almost 52 years.

Going by her own crazy logic, you only had ONE scarf; but she had TWO earrings - so twice as many items as you!

I have no idea what you're all going on about - with a few decent stops for meals and wees and allowing for traffic, 7 hours IS probably about reasonable for a drive from York to Andover.

Given the OP said the SIL bought the holiday from Ceefax or Teletext it would be safe to assume this happened many many years ago before internet banking, in fact it was probably before the internet was invented

I think the borderline is in the rear view mirror

I agreed to be a mentor on an industry scheme that paired you up with a more junior person in our profession.

In our first meeting when discussing what he wanted to get out of our sessions, he declared that he was writing a textbook and asked if I would review and provide comments on it! An entire blooming book!! In the context of a scheme where I had agreed to provide 6 - 10 hours of mentoring, not free work he could take the credit for 😂 I said that I couldn't give a time commitment of that extent and we moved on but I couldn't believe the brass neck of him.

I'm going back almost 40 years ago. I had a friend I met in my eldest son's school. We were both young, divorced single moms and connected. I was already dating my DH when I met her, living with my parents and trying to save every bit of money I could. I usually looked after her child every other weekend, she liked to party and DH (then B/F) and I stayed home with both kids.

We eventually saved enough money for a flat and got married in a low key wedding. Register office and only a meal in the local pub for close family. No honeymoon because there were no money.

My "friend" organised a holiday for herself, counting on us to look after her son right after our wedding. I only knew of her plans when she called me the day after my wedding saying "corazón, I'm going away next week for x days, do you want to collect munchkin or should I drop him off at your parent's place?"

When I told her we just got married and wouldn't be looking after her son, she disappeared on me. Never heard from her again.