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🤣🤣

I thought maybe she just took a liking to my hat and scarf and decided to keep them. It never occurred to me that she wanted money. I wonder if that was it, but she didn't hint at it.

@Conniebygaslight @BirthdayRainbow The wine thieves are absolutely killing me! Wow! As if someone would order a CASE of wine and then just not follow up on it. 🤯

A mate of mine was once told (not asked that a mutual colleague at work was going to move in with her (she lives in a two bed house,by herself)

As in,her and her husband as they where having trouble affording their mortgage,so would be homeless if my mate said no

The rules where,my mate would buy the weed and booze,pay all the bills,buy all their food,get rid of her dog,she was to do the housework and wash their clothes etc but they'd give her £30 a week towards the bills (not each-just £30)

Colleague was not happy at all when my mate told her in no uncertain terms that this was not happening

They lost the house,moved back in with her parents before getting pregnant

She used to get in touch with my mate about once every 8 or so weeks to see 'if you've come to your senses and will allow us to move in'

My mate has now blocked her on everything (with my help,shes not very tech savvy)

This colleague was very thick skinned and was exactly the same at work

Why didn’t you just tell her no. My children would have quite rightly thought I had lost the plot if I asked them for one of their wedding presents.

This isn't cheeky fucker story, really, just reminded me of something that happened when I was in my 20s.

Was in the very early days of mobile phones and I found a woman's hand bag, it was kind of cloth and the strap had worn away and it had obviously been dropped.

There was ID in there and some kind of business card, so I phoned the number. This guy answered, I explained I had found this bag he said "oh that's my wife's bag and it will have her keys in it, she's with our 3 kids she'll be distraught"

Stupidly (with hindsight) I gave him my address and he came to collect it that day after work. Anyway, he was really fucking pervy and did that horrible thing you know when a man deliberately 'eyes' you up and down, and making 'suggestive' comments. FFS you're here because I want to help out your wife and infant children.

I thought how grim it was, poor wife.

About a week later I got the LOVELIEST note in the post from the wife - saying how my actions had restored her faith in humanity, as she never expected to get her bag back let alone open her purse and find all the money in there still intact.

She sounded like such a lovely, kind person I'm just so sorry her husband was a skanky perv.

Bizarre!

Other than, ‘that’s my £200 to spend how I want. If you want to give someone else a present, find your own £200 to give them’, I’m not sure what else to say?!

Exactly, we don't know and it doesn't matter in the context of the thread.

Some people really will take any opportunity to stick the boot in.

These threads make me a bit anxious sometimes wondering if I’m going to recognise myself as the CF of everyone’s nightmares… did I expect too much of a friend, correct children’s party etiquette, turn-taking for favours etc.

Then there are the gloriously batshit ones. And then there are the ones that just make me wince for the teller… and I breathe a sigh of relief as I know there is no way even at my most socially inept I would inadvertently ask my friend recovering from trauma and major surgery to look after my high needs child (with chicken pox no less).

How did she react when you didn’t help her again?

Was picking up rubbish on the beach once, for one of my primary age childrens summer projects, and the amount of people who came over with bags of dog poo asking to put them in our sack of rubbish No, piss off!!

Didn’t happen to me but…

Years ago I was living in Europe. My close friend lived in an apartment complex which housed some refugees and low income families. She had the garden apartment.

One day our kids (6, 5, 5 and 4 years old) were playing together in friend’s garden whilst we were drinking coffee. After a while I noticed there were more kids in the garden than just ours. Turns out a couple of the neighbourhood kids, (10 and 9 years old) had scaled the rather high fence to play in my friends garden but by themselves. Then about half an hour later a toddler crawled across the grass.

Turns out the mother of the boys had simply leaned over and dropped her toddler into my friend’s garden and gone off to look for work.

My friend had never actually met the mother of these kids and never spoken to her. When questioned, the kids told my friend that they were told by their mother to go and play in my friend’s garden and that their mother didn’t speak the local language so that’s why she never knocked on the door to ask whether my friend could look after the kids, she just dropped them over the fence and presumably hoped for the best. Apparently, because my friend had a garden she was “privileged” and because she was looking after her own kids “it made sense that she look after all the kids in the neighborhood too”.

Oh and my friend was being unreasonable to question any of this because in this mother’s home country this was normal. Or so the kids translated for my friend when their mother came over raging one day because my friend was going out for the day and sent the kids back before the mother could lock up her flat and leave.

A friend decided she wanted to host a tea party to celebrate her birthday. I asked what I could bring - she said ‘the savoury food’. Then texted to tell me I was catering g for thirty people😂. I told her I would bring cocktail sausages and mini quiches - the rest was on her.

she apologised to all the guests for the poor selection and looked pointedly at me😂. Someone else was asked to to sweet treats and someone was assigned drinks.

I've heard of this! A housewarming party where guests are supposed to do the DIY and decorating. Apparently it's an American thing. Perhaps they have less of a drinking culture? All I know is that one of our friends floated the idea. I told him he really REALLY didn't want me or my OH drunkenly waving a paintbrush around his lovely new place. Which is true. We went over and got takeaway instead.

An ex (very messy break-up) asked me to make his wedding suit for his new squeeze (it was my trade) and I wouldn't want any money for it, would I?

I don't think it's an American thing. My parents and their friends all used to do it back in the day.

I'd love to do it but I have no friends to invite or to reciprocate!

Not sure about her being nice. She sounds fully unhinged 😬At least you get some good stories from her!! 😂

Aaah, sorry to hear that! Hopefully you'll get some soon. When you do, engage them in something more enjoyable than DIY 😅.

Except the real bakery would have them shouting at them for no order being ready that they didn't know about..

You actually said yes to giving her the lift???

One of my son's friend's has CF parents. In the 10 years I've known them they have never once taken their kids to a party or extra curricular activity. They rely every time on the kindness (mugginess) of other parents. Guarantee a party invitation comes home and by the 7pm the same evening a message will appear in the WhatsApp group: Would someone be able to take Billy-Bob to Harry's party? Or Who's child is in the football team? Could Billy-Bob catch a lift with you?
It's slightly better now because parties etc are drop and run, but there were times when other parents were the ones telling her child to stop pushing other kids in the soft play, or taking him to the loo, or wiping up his spilled drinks.

The entitlement has rubbed off on their children too: Son planned to call for mine on the way to school - my son was stressing because they were pushed for time. When cf child arrived my son said "we'll have to hurry as we'll be late" and cf child said "Oh I thought maybe your parents could drive us!!!" I was wrangling younger kids and DH starts work at 8.

The greatest fuckery though was a few weeks ago. Son and cf son were walking to school when they come across a dead fox. Cf son calls his mum to tell her this. Cf mum texts me (at 8.15am) to say "there's a dead fox on the path and it will be distressing when the primary children see it - would your dh mind running up the road and popping it in a bin bag. I don't want the kiddies (ie her younger child) seeing it".
Her own husband or her obviously couldn't possibly.

I texted back to say no - we don't go that way to school, we're busy, DH has started work etc. Ffs.

We did later think we should have gathered up the fox and dropped it on her doorstep. "Hi not sure what you want with this but here's the dead fox you wanted".

CF son even said to my son "it's okay, my mum has asked your parents to deal with it!"

My SIL asked me if I could babysit her newborn DD a few days every week because I 'only WFH'!

We did later think we should have gathered up the fox and dropped it on her doorstep. "Hi not sure what you want with this but here's the dead fox you wanted".

😂

Years ago when my kids were at primary school my daughter (about 8yo at the time) told me she was drawing 'a special picture' for me in her art class. I couldn't wait to see it, of course. I always loved seeing the artworks my kids brought home.

Anyway, my daughter said some time later that she didn't know where the drawing had gone and was a bit upset about it. It turned out [a local resident] had wanted it for an art auction she was staging to raise money for a charity and that the art teacher had handed over a stack of kids' artworks for this show so that they could be bid upon (parental permission was not sought but whatever I guess).

I hadn't known about the show (it was only advertised on FB, which I wasn't on) otherwise I would have shot down there and bid whatever it took to get my daughter's drawing. The show was over by the time I found out via a friend. Anyway I contacted the woman and she said 'oh, yes, my husband really liked that drawing so I bought it for him.' I said, 'OK but the thing is, I wasn't aware my kid's artwork was in a show and if I'd known about it I would've attended and bought it. She was doing it specially for me and is a bit upset about it and I'd like to have it please. Obviously I will pay whatever you bid. I am sure you understand.'

The woman was not keen at all but said she would consider handing it over if my daughter would do one 'exactly the same' for her, and that I also needed to pay for the framing she'd got done in the meantime! My daughter tried her best to replicate the original but ended up getting quite overwhelmed and crying and saying she couldn't do one as good. Pathetically I ended up caving in and letting the woman keep the picture.

I bumped into the woman a few years later - she'd since had kids of her own - and so I politely asked her if she would consider selling me the drawing seeing as she now had children of her own and presumably their artworks now took pride of place.

She looked really uncomfortable and in an infuriating twist she flat out lied to me and said they'd never bought it (she'd literally sent me a photo of it hanging on her wall back in the day so that my daughter knew what to copy!). I replied, 'OK so I'm really confused because you sent me a photo of it and I recall your husband saying he wanted it and that's why you bought it?' She asked what was I 'going on about' her husband for?

Whenever I see this woman out and about she can't look me in the eye. I'm certain she threw the picture away once she had kids of her own, and she didn't give a shit that my daughter was sad. Plus it's also the bloody lying I can't stand. Grrrrr.

Long vent I know. And yes, I guess some mumsnetters will think I am lame and should let it go but I am still ropable about this years later. I hope someone understands and doesn't think I'm stupid for feeling this way.

New 'friend' offered me a bottle of wine or £7 🤔 if I'd baby-sit her very small children until 9pm.

Apparently I had to bed them down at my house 😳 then she'd collect them at 9pm. They're were tiny too, both under 4.

Didn't see her again