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🤣🤣

Memories of going to the first showing of a new Harry Potter film, around 5.30pm, no reserved seats so we got there quite early and chose a couple of seats on the end of a row. Just as the programme was about to start and the cinema was packed a woman marched in with about 6 children trailing behind her and promptly started telling people to move up, fill gaps etc so her party could sit together, she finished up with them spread across the aisle and then told us to move up so she could have the end seats. She seemed quite shocked when we refused to move, But I have CHILDREN, seemed to be her trump card, she tried to involve the staff unsuccessfully. She wondered why we were there at all, having no children with us, we didn't understand the problems of parents etc etc., OH told her that at least we understood the clock and could get somewhere on time.

That is awful @Menomeno . CF doesn't begin to cover it. So sorry that happened to you 😢

@OVienna I know, I have seriously thought of writing a book based on the batshit people I met at that school!

To cancel a holiday because she had met a man and wanted him to go instead of me.

@Heldri honestly, I didn't just lift this from the telly, truth is often stranger than fiction

Honestly, this all happened years before Motherland came out, though it's uncannily similar to the episode with the pool party. I'm beginning to wonder if one of those Mums was a scriptwriter on it!

I was at a baby group with a woman I used to hang around with (not really a friend) more the girlfriend of a friend. She used to take her nephew and I'd take my son. Anyway one day she asked for the time and I got
my phone out my bag to check but I accidentally pulled out my old broken phone.

once she realised I had a broken phone on me she asked if she could have it, she wanted to give it to her son for his birthday. So I just handed it over to her for free and said I'd dropped it a few days prior and it was broken and that was that.

a week or so later she messages me saying

hi, I've been to the phone shop and that phones going to cost £70 to get fixed. So could you send that over when you get a chance.

you're not mistaken this woman wanted me to pay £70 to get my old phone fixed up so she could give it to her son for his birthday.

she seriously thought I was in the wrong when I told her no. She couldn't see why she should pay for the repair. I gave you the b**tard thing for free 😂

I put a cosatto pushchair on FB market place. Description stated cash on collection only.

A CF asked me to put it on vinted so she could get it delivered.

Told her no. If i wanted to offer delivery I could have put that on the fb listing.

she could have told vinted that she didn’t get it and i’d have lost out on the money.

This one is unbelievable. Many years ago I was at the seaside with my son. I’d bough him a very small paddling pool to take with us so he could run back and forth to the sea with his bucket and fill it with water etc. there was a man and woman behind me with two young kids and the man came over and asked me if it was alright to put his cans of lager in the paddling pool to keep them cool! My son was in it at the time! I’m not joking l, I still can’t get over the cheek all these years later! 😂

The cf that lived upstairs was moving out. They dragged lots of stuff into my front garden and said “is it ok if I leave this here until tomorrow as my bil is collecting in his van first thing ?” It was about 30 bin bags full of waste, but I reluctantly agreed. A week later it was still there and I found she had moved to the end of the road - about five doors down to another flat on same road. I dragged the old carpet and some bits to her flat and left them outside with a note through her door asking her to collect her rubbish. I then filled her bin outside with more of her garbage and my kindly ex took the the rest to the dump. She had the cheek to storm down with her boyfriend in tow and tell me how angry she was I left all this “shit” outside her front door, despite leaving rotting waste in my front garden for over a week. I am never surprised as the cheek of people, the entitlement or the frank nastiness of others - I saw it first hand in that cf’s face .

That's shocking! What a bloody cheek. Honestly, some people.

Me and dh sitting in a busy cafe, in a sort of ante room - the only part of the cafe where dogs were allowed. It was the only table free when we arrived so we took it. There were still no tables free when a couple with a dog arrived and asked us to move as this was the room for people with dogs and we didn't have a dog with us. I explained that you didn't 'have' to have a dog to sit there, just that you couldn't sit in the main room with them. This is where you had to sit if you had a dog. Not having a dog with us meant we could sit anywhere but there were no other tables anywhere so here we sat.

They totally disagreed with us and couldn't see any logic. They even asked a young waitress to ask us to move. "These people are sitting here and they don't have a dog"! She sort of nodded and moved on.

Having said all that, I have a feeling that some people are going to think that we were the CFs

Ohhh I finally have something to add - I say finally, this happened 8 years ago!

Someone I knew in passing, my (ex) boyfriend's cousins friend who I'd bumped into on nights out here and there. I was a very young 20 year old with not much life experience, my ex was not a nice person and I found myself in with a crowd I couldn't quite handle myself in!

This girl messaged me (first time we've ever spoken one on one) as if we're massive friends, asking to borrow some money for a few days until she's paid. I ask how much (4 days before I was paid from my part time job alongside uni so I wasn't exactly rolling in it)

She said £25, I said okay send me your bank details then she said actually can I borrow £40, I again say okay and I'll ring my bank - then she asks can I not do mobile banking as it's faster. I had issues with my phone network and said I'd rather ring - 10 minutes later she messages again asking if it's done, I wasn't able to as she was a new payee - so she then asked for everyone I've transferred money to before so she could have it sent to them then sent on to her!

I stopped replying at this point (grew some balls and realised I was being taken advantage of here, it wasn't my responsibility to help her), I then get 8 calls and then a message to ask whether I'm in and where my address is so she could pick it up! I reply and say I have no cash sorry, she said is there a bank machine near you - at this point I just stop replying and she says 'thanks guess I'll ask my auntie then' - why not ask her in the first place instead of an acquaintance!

She posted some vague bitchy things on Facebook clearly aimed at me, and we've literally never spoken since. So strange!

Ohhh I've opened the floodgates!! Another VERY CF who used to be my best friend - though we do not talk any more

Two separate occasions

1. I unfortunately had to have an operation to remove a pre-cancerous lump from my left breast. I was very young, never had any kind of operation or even particularly invasive hospital treatment before, and was absolutely terrified! I was particularly upset after my pre-op assessment when I'd found out the scar was going to be very visible due to where the lump was, as I was so young and to be honest quite vain.
   She on the other hand was booked in for an (obviously optional!) breast enlargement her dad was paying for in the same month - and went on and on about how excited she was that we'd recover together and compare scars etc! I was going through one of the scariest times in my life and she was counting down the days!

2. I had gone through a really traumatising experience in the early hours of 24th December a number of years ago, where I was raped by a near-stranger. It was NOT common knowledge, but was something my best friend knew about. My birthday 2 days before, and the following year I was getting back to myself and invited all my friend group out for a drink in our local pub to celebrate my birthday. She stands up in the prime of the evening, when I'm finally having a good time and feeling happy, raises a glass for a toast and announces what I went through and how she knows it's coming up to the first anniversary and I am just so brave for being out! This at a table full of my friends who did not know, not to mention it was the middle of a packed city centre Wetherspoons 3 days before Christmas!

There were so many more things she did, but those really stick out to me as absolute CF-ery.

So the real, bonding party, was at the pub.

Foolish of the 'hosts'. If they had asked/pre-warned their 'guests', AKA 'labourers' ahead of time and promised copious amounts of food and beer at stages through the day, they might have received a better result. 🌹

My dad was dying in hospital and a girl I met once at work messaged me asking to borrow £35, I couldn't believe it as we'd only met once and she knew I was in hospital with my dad through mutual friend but wasn't in the right head space and ended up sending it her.

@Razorwire this was a great read! Insanity at its finest.

nope absolutely not and I am a dog owner. My favourite cafe/plant nursery has a similar arrangement, tables under an awning for dog owners or people who just want to be outside, no dogs allowed in the indoor cafe bit.

I once lent a friend my favourite, beautiful full length silk crepe dress for a black tie event. Before I lent it to her I had it dry cleaned so it was box fresh.

A week after the event after I'd asked several times, she handed it back, with a sheepish smile, a crumpled, dirty mess that she'd left on her floor when she took it off. I let her know how unhappy I was. Told her I would take it to the dry cleaners. It cost more to get it specialist cleaned and I made sure she gave me the money back in cash. Never lent her anything after that. 🌹

@BallaiLuimni

She contacted me out of the blue to ask if I could help with a presentation she was preparing. It wasn't a huge amount of work, but I had two small kids and was running my own business so it took a chunk out of the little free time I had. I agreed, as she was desperate. Did the work, she said thanks and then pretty much ghosted me. Bailed twice on meetups, didn't respond to texts.

Don't be surprised if she contacts you again in the future, wanting to 'reconnect' and wanting your help again. 🌹

@SOxon

My shrewd Mum used to tell us, ‘Users always know who to ask’ a negtive response is a surprise to them, they act aggrieved, then move on to the next Mug - don’t be that Mug, just say No, it saves so much time, upset, money, your own children’s upset and your Sanity

Very sensible person, your mother. It also helps to develop a thick skin for when insults are then flung your way by the would-be user, until the victims join up the dots. 🌹

Did you bounce it back at her? 🌹

TW- misscarraige!

This one's not that bad but it still grinds my gears!

a couple of years ago I found out I was unexpectedly pregnant (although thrilled) a few weeks before my sons birthday. 2 days before my sons birthday I started bleeding heavily and thought I was having a miscarraige. We had to wait 10 days to have it confirmed. But because we'd already booked splash landings at Alton towers for my son's birthday we went anyway and invited my family round in the evening for a takeaway.

well after a day of swimming whilst pregnant and bleeding and giving my son a wonderful birthday, I got home and hosted my family for a few hours, by 9pm I was physically and emotionally exhausted. I'd had to hold in my sadness all day and I politely asked my family if it was okay if we done my son's cake and then could they take it home with them to eat because I was ready for my bed.

everyone was really understanding and immediately got themselves ready to leave, all except my sister. She got all huffy and said well where do you expect my kids to eat there cake?

I said I'd wrap it up for them to take home to which she's scoffed, said no I don't think so and cut it up and put it on plates for them and told them to go and eat it.

I was so angry. All I wanted to do was put my kids to bed, get into my bed and cry myself to sleep but this knob stayed another hour past her welcome.

it turned out I'd had a subchrionic hematoma and my daughter is absolutely fine but it's not the point, at the time we thought we'd lost her

I have told this story before, so apologies if it's familiar. I need to keep telling it until it's out of my system properly. When I was at school, a friend asked me if I would like to cover her sister's shift at the tearooms of the local stately home place they both worked at on a Sunday. She said they didn't get paid, it was just for tips. I quite enjoyed it in a way, but it was hard work. The tips were very few. I did it for a few weeks until I got sick of it for so little pay (I already had a Saturday job). It was basically a big favour for a friend / her sister.

I didn't think of it again really until years later, probably about 20 years later, when we were talking about the place. I said actually in retrospect wasn't it the most awful cheek of the Lady of he Manor woman to not pay us at all for that work? My friend said quick as a flash 'oh they paid us, what are you talking about?' then realised what she had said. It turned out that she and her sister both got paid, I didn't. So presumably her sister got the pay for the shift I covered! What also narked me was that her parents had set up the whole job thing and took us there in the car and back, knew the people we worked for, so they must have known I was being a total mug.

If I'd known at the time, I don't know what I would have done, but once I knew it seemed petty to go on about it as it was so long ago. It's now more like 50 years ago and I'm still friends (of sorts) with her, but I am still quietly fuming about it!

Yes, that's you being cheeky shining a bright light into their garden. We gave a neighbour behind us whose security light goes straight into DS's bedroom

A friend asked if I could watch their dog overnight while they went to a family party. I live in a flat, and am not really a dog person, but I have a soft spot for this dog, so agreed, despite it not really being ideal.

She swore up and down she'd drop him off at lunch time, and pick him up at lunch time the following day. So literally 24 hours.

She turned up on my doorstep not long after 8:30am because it was "easier to do it now". And then didn't turn up again until 4pm the following afternoon.
When I text her about 1pm to ask for an ETA, they hadn't even left the party location yet. Then they stopped off at a services on the way home, and THEN drove home first, rather than come via mine, which they'd have practically have to have driven past on their way home.

Friend clearly anticipated I was going to be pissed, because she came with a bunch of flowers and her not-much-more-than toddler DD in tow, who I couldn't be cross in front of.

Luckily, the DDog was no trouble - good as gold - but further hints to have him have been roundly ignored. Never again.