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🤣🤣

only slightly CF but it gave my sis and I a laugh. She came and stayed with me during lockdown and we were bubbled together. It was at a time when people were allowed out again but the 2 mtre/face covering guidance still applied. A big bloke turned up at my door with a woman, quite unexpectedly. You can wave out the window to visitors and I thought they were JW or similar so I smiled and shook my head at him...he got quite excited and knocked the door again. I shook my head again and he started to look quite cross so I grabbed my phone just in case and went and partially opened the door.

Grumpy man "we have come for the chairs"
Me "I have no idea what you are talking about"
him "The chairs, the chairs, the ones you put on freecycle"
Me "nope, I haven't freecycled anything for months"
Him, by this time really angry "YOU PUT CHAIRS ON FREECYCLE AND I WANT THEM
Me "No I didn't please leave"
Him "I have got your address written down here" produces paper from pocket and waves it, starts to read address aloud, wrong address of course, collapses like a leaky balloon, turns around and stomps off.
The lady with him, assuming his partner, poor woman, was in hysterics laughing and my sis stood behind me was crying with laughter.

I wonder if he ever got his chairs......

My next door neighbour.
I was weeding my flowerbeds one evening after work, and her husband came over for a minute to borrow something or other from my husband and took her with him. While they were talking, she came over to me and said something about how wonderful my flowerbeds looked. And then asked me to weed theirs. Just like that. "Oh, and we are going to the seaside tomorrow, so nobody will be in your way." She doesn't work, they don't have children - I do, and I have. I thought it was some sort of a joke, but no. She had recently done her nails and didn't want to get her hands dirty. In all seriousness. And she is younger than me by the way.
She was very unpleasantly surprised I said no. Because she thought I so very obviously liked to weed.

This one is so beyond that it made me laugh out loud. I wish I had just a tiny amount of the nerve of some of these people. Wow!

The student stories have reminded me of the time that a girl on my degree course, after completely ignoring me for almost 3 years, came and talked to me in the library one day. She was so friendly and we chatted for a few minutes, until she asked if she could borrow my lecture notes as she had missed lots and she knew that I always attended. I said that I did't have them with me today, and then made sure that I kept forgetting them until she got the hint.
Waves to Dimple, Economics student in the mid-1990s at Manchester.

Very good point - I didn't pick up on that part.

I stand by the rest, though!

She sounds somewhat damaged to me. She has a mum who struggles financially and who has mental health problems ("psycho").

The money she came looking for might well be owed to her (it's the wrong way to go about it, yes, but she sounds emotionally distressed).

From what the op has written it isn't really that clear to me who the CF is.

But to be fair OP did not call her a bitch; she said she was "bitchy" which is very different.

This reminds me of someone I know whose holiday I paid for when they were struggling financially. They then expected me to pay for holidays for them every year thereafter and, I later learned, managed to save a bit of money as a result.

We laugh at these CF's but really they take advantage of the kindness of others, milking them for what they can get and then leaving them to suffer as a result. No wonder so many people seem unkind these days. They've learned that kindness doesn't pay.

DS, first baby, was born two months before the big NYE of 1999 into 2000. We turned down lots of NYE parties that were far away, as we didn't think we'd be up for travelling. Some local friends invited us. They also had a youngish baby, and obviously knew that we would have a newborn baby, so we accepted. It was a going to be one of those parties where everyone has to bring something. I was tasked with bringing canapes.

Two days before NYE, they got in touch to say that they'd decided it wouldn't be a party with children or babies, just adults. Their baby would be in bed, so she didn't count. Could we find a babysitter. I remember laughing and asking how we would be expected to find a babysitter 2 days before the biggest NYE of the millennium! Plus as DS was only 2 months old, we hadn't left him yet and I didn't know any babysitters.

My 'friend' had no sympathy and said she was sure we'd understand (!*!) they didn't want their really special once in a lifetime NYE to be spoiled (?) by babies or children. However, I was still asked to deliver the canapes that I had agreed to make, as obviously she couldn't find anyone else to do them at short notice. To my ongoing disgust at myself, I actually delivered them! I can only think I was still in the haze of post-natal bewilderment. Under normal circumstances, I would have been telling her exactly where to shove her canapes.

On the night H, DS and I sat in our car at the top of a hill watching the fireworks in central London! I remember weeping, as it was really cheerless. I will never, ever forget the cheeky fuckery of all of it.

I think there are pretty strict rules around running things like raffles, even on a small scale. Not sure who would police it but I’m sure you have to be really careful about being transparent and above board with anything like that. I would have been absolutely raging if I were you and probably threatened to take it further if they didn’t abide by the very clear result of the first draw.

You really expect the state to manage people's ridiculous behaviour??

Oh please 🙄

I dunno....I have dealt with CF's aplenty but I still help my neighbours (and they help me) put stuff on freecycle, and so on. Its my life experience that there are way more non CF folk in the world than the CF's.

I will drive you there if you *Andover some fuel money 🤣🤣

I think @VeraForever was refering to unexpectedly leaving kids with someone and being uncontactable for 3 days type posts!

That sounds like something straight out of Motherland!

My CM told me a school mum had approached her at the school gate to ask if she could watch her DC a few afternoons a week. There shouldn't be any cost because she was looking after my DCs anyway, so it wouldn't be extra work. 😂

I used to love Ceefax, Teletext holidays, one Sunday OH went out to buy the newspaper and when he returned 15 minutes later I was upstairs packing, I'd booked a cheap week away for us leaving the next morning!

A friend once asked if I would accompany her on a road trip to collect something she had brought which was located absolutely miles away. It was an 8 hour-round trip. Her teen DC would have been with her but she wanted someone to 'keep her company on the journey'. I would have had to take a days holiday from work to sit in a car for 8 hours. No thanks !

I'm still puzzling why York to Andover, assuming the UK places, would take 7 hours!

I had a party once and know CF friend called me from the tube station. She asked how long the drive was and directions from the station to my house. I said "oh, it's really easy, 5 to 10 min drive etc" and she said "Oh, if its that easy you wont mind coming and picking me up!!" She was serious!

Google maps says 4/5 hours but could easily be more than that dependent on how bad the traffic is

Technically she didn't ask me outright so I don't know if this counts but it still pisses me off many years later so ...

It was the opening weekend of Frozen 2 at the cinema, had booked the tickets ages before. We got there while it was still quite quiet to find 2 adults and a little girl sat in our seats. Went up and politely said that they were our seats. Mum insisted they were theirs. I've had a double booking issue with a train seat before so presumed same had happened. All very pleasant at this point.

Turned to DH and said could he go and grab a member of staff while I waited with the kids. Dad tried to discourage DH from going by saying there were loads of free seats, I pointed out it was a very popular film and was likely sold out so off DH went.

I got distracted explaining to my DC what was going on but could hear the mum and dad having a heated conversation and he said "oh go on, just tell her then". So the mum comes up and says "actually we've come at the wrong time, these are the right seats but for a different showing". So I said something along the lines "oops, that's the sort of thing I'd do, nevermind eh" expecting her to move. But she stood there and did this weird wide eyed thing which I think was an attempt at puppy eyes, and said "but it's my DDs first cinema experience!" I felt bad for the little girl but I'm not giving up my DCs seats, I just said "well see if the staff member my DH is talking to can help". They begrudgingly moved and went to talk to the staff, DH overheard her claiming it was her DDs birthday when the staff member told them it was sold out and they'd have to go to another showing.

She clearly expected us to give up our seats for them and when that didn't work she wanted the staff to turf someone out to accommodate them. Batshit CFerfery.

Poor baby, it amazes me how cruel people are 🙁😕💔

We have been offered cash several times (and asked for them for free) when we had yorkies by a few people who wanted them whilst we were walking them.

Yes of course I'll hand my much loved dog over to you, stranger! What does it matter that they're important to me and I have no idea who you are or if you would look after them or use them for something else! Cannot believe the cheek of some people! It wasn't just one person or one dog (when one passed a few years later we got another and we're asked the same thing about them too several times!) I would never ever ever have handed them over! I didn't even let my friends kids hold the leads incase they dropped it or let go just incase.

A friend used to work ad-hoc hours nannying. She would put herself forward for a nannying booking, knowing it was either at school drop off or pick up time, and just assume I would help with her childcare (DC at same school). She never asked me if I could cover for every booking that she accepted during school hours. She just assumed I would always help out. There were other bookings at more convenient times that she could have taken instead. It was the assumption that peed me off.

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