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🤣🤣

@Needathickskin can you fence the footpath off from the rest of your land so the roarers are just limited to the path?

@TooManySweetTreats its already fenced off and we already give generously to the local community through donations.

It’s just the constant ask for more and particularly when they have no interest in offering even a tokenal amount and worse have no public liability for their planned events meaning the onus would fall on us.
we just have a blanket no and get trashed on the local Facebook. Lovely!

Ouch. That sounds quite - well, somewhere between self absorbed and actually unhinged. Hope you have avoided this awful person like the plague from then on!

Trigg's here 😂

Thank goodness you have posted this @WaltzingWaters , as in the 4 days since it was posted NO-ONE has said the same thing on nearly every page have they?!

We went on holiday and came back after two weeks to find the bush by our front door had really grown (rain, sun combo while we were gone). I agree it didn’t look the neatest but it was in our front garden so not affecting anyone.

neighbour came round the day we got back to tell us it had grown a lot (yes, we have eyes) and we’d be better off gravelling the front. Please can we have it cut within 2 days as her sister was visiting and she wanted the area to look nice. I explained we couldn’t and why it would be left for a couple more weeks but I’d ask my dad when they visited. She went on and on.

I was fuming but too tired with a toddler and 33 weeks pregnant with twins so I went and cut it back. She was horrified I was doing it and not dh - he’d been in a car accident and had a broken left arm and broken right hand so not sure how she thought he’d do it.

very minor compared to others but it just wasn’t my priority at that moment. It did cover part of our kitchen window but so what?

Not as bad as some but we have a CF neighbour next to us. he is one of those people who is very good at getting people to do things for him. For example he will go away on holiday and ask neighbours to go twice a day into his house to put lights on/off and rearrange curtains etc. No thank you afterwards or bottle of wine to say thanks. (We did for 3 weeks once before getting wise).

Anyway one school holiday he told me his grandkids were coming to stay and could I please arrange to get our trampoline assembled in our garden so they could use it. He also noted that last year we had a paddling pool in the garden and that could go up as well.

I said 'We are away this week, so no'. He was clearly so astonished at someone saying no that his jaw dropped and he said; 'But you don't have to be here. Just get them up'. I said no again. He really does not like being told No. Since then he has been a complete arsehole and all pretence at being a nice jovial guy slipped immediately.

lol, reminded me of giving away free kids clothes. I also live on a main road.
-woman who turned up REALLY angry I hadn’t delivered them or walked them to a nearby carpark. Kicked over the umbrellas in the porch in anger and shouted I was a selfish bitch. I ended up closing the door on her without giving her the bag.
-woman angry I hadn’t delivered them and she couldn’t find the house. Rang yelling down the phone she couldn’t see the house. I pointed out she was about a mile away, on a road with another name in another area entirely. She was shouting it was near enough and wanted it brought there. To her car… no traffic. I had no car. Bizarre
-time I sold some. Well dressed woman knocked and demanded it cheaper as she’d paid bus fare to get it. Then stormed off. Knocked again. Offered me a handful of silver coins and claimed it was enough. It was clearly not. Tried to grab the item then said I was ‘cheap like my house’

Sorry, I did the classic thing of not saying the outcome! I did say no.

She has never been able to explain her thought process and continues tompay her way.

Had access to a membership pool. Members on certain days/hours could have external guests with them but must accompany their guests and are responsible for guests' behaviour, etc.

A mum that I had recently been introduced to via a third party as we both had primary age children learnt of membership (she lived by pool building) and asked me if she could come with her DCs with a swim on x day. I assumed she meant to swim with me and my DC and said sadly I could not make that date, but let's try day z or y though, kids and I are free then. She countered that, no, it was her DC birthday and she already had parent helpers lined up so I didn't need to be there anyway.

I did say no easily as it would have been against access rules anyway, but I was unimpressed that she had already discussed parent pool helpers with her friends before asking me.

To her credit, she never asked me for anything thereafter.

Another post triggered another memory.
I found a wallet in the street on the way to the station. Had a name on cards, money and a drivers licence. There was though some dents and scratches in the licence so I could see the road name was local, not the number. Regardless, I was going away for the weekend that Friday evening.
I gave it in to the ticket office, they said they’d hold it until Monday.
I put effort in on Facebook and quickly had messages from the persons brother and a few friends from his cricket team to say they’d contacted him. He contacted me too to confirm where it was on the Friday. I said where it was and said they’d said they’d hold it there for the weekend.
I thought nothing of it until abusive messages on Monday evening. He’d not been down, or sent anyone to get it as ‘I’ve been busy this weekend and I’d get it on Monday on the way to work’. Turns out on monday morning the ticket office did what they said they would and sent it to central tfl lost property.
He said I should go to central London to get it as it was my fault and he didn’t have time to run around after the ‘problem you’ve created’.
Wish I’d left it on the pavement!

I was almost equally 😱when a friend told me she’d left her 4 week old first baby with her mother for a month, while she went on holiday with her dh.

It was decades ago, though, and she was from a different (Mediterranean) culture, where at the time, parking babies or children with parents for extended periods was apparently nothing unusual.

Someone else I knew (same culture) sent her two little boys of maybe 2 and 3 to her mother for several months, since they were human hurricanes and she (not even working) ‘couldn’t cope’.

Despite knowing quite a few shits (mostly my ex in-laws), this shocked me. Such a lack of empathy and disregard for your grief.

So sorry for your loss and hoping you now have better people around you 🙏

One evening during the summer holidays a boy(9)from my sons class,rang to invite him to play at his house the following day. My son was happy to go but was surprised because they didn’t normally play together at school.
The following day,about an hour after my son arrived home from the boys house, he rang again and asked if he could come to our
house to play the following day. I thought it was a bit forward of him but agreed to the arrangement.
I was shocked when he was dropped off at our house at 8am! His dad didn’t even come to our front door, he just drove off! I wasn’t pleased but had to make the best of it.
To fill the day I took them to the park to play for an hour or so,then we went to McDonald’s for lunch.We also went to the local cinema and arrived home at about 3pm.
I asked him what time his parents were intending to collect him and he said they didn’t finish work until 5.30pm so probably about 6pm!
So basically it was a clever trick to get free child care for a day, what a nerve!
I was even more annoyed when my son said when he was at the boys house from 2pm to 4.30, he wasn’t even offered a drink of water and the boys dad just watched television and didn’t even speak to my son.

Safe to say she's no longer in the caring profession. I get the bus even when offered a lift, it's just easier and I think I'm still traumatized, I was 38 weeks pregnant at the time too which probably accounted for all the tears walking home (bus only every hour)

I can't believe how brass necked some people are, especially wheelding free child care by stealth!!

Our new neighbours to the side, (who we had never met BTW) and who we share (partially) a fence with, asked us to screen OUR side of the fence so that they didn't have to buy screening!
I had just spent over £800 on expensive bark panel screening for a very long amount of fencing and had done all three sides of the fence to cover a new-build but "gappy" fence to give us a bit more privacy. I stopped the screening at our side gate (so enclosed the entire back garden) but unfortunately due to the layout, the neighbours garden extends a bit further than our side gate, so from THEIR side, it will look as though there is a couple of metres of "unscreened" space.
They had their garden landscaped when they moved in (read - concreted over with a few token plants) and came round to tell us it looked very odd from their side and could we please screen more of OUR fence (so beyond our side gate and going into our own side fence which is visible from the front of the house) because otherwise they would have to buy screening and do their own garden!

The answer was a resounding NO, not only due to the huge costs involved for us (no offer of any payment from them) but also due to the fact that it would look utterly crazy to only have a few screening panels randomly along our side fence. They "suggested" we do the whole thing. Which would cause about another £500, if not more.

After we refused, there was some extremely passive aggressive painting on their side of the fence which resulted in horrid gray (of course!) paint splashing all over our patio tiles and path which is still there despite numerous pressure washes etc.

Still can't believe the cheek of them wanting us to fork out hundreds of pounds so that they don't have to spend any money.

To everyone that has posted I appreciate your contributions. I have been sitting here open jawed!
I'm sorry for all the unbelievably cruel actions of so called friends and also family. I wish you all peace.

Wow. Just wow.

@Conniecoconut
Not surprised - that she's left the profession or that you're still traumatised. Everything you add makes her sound more awful.

Very grim to leave somebody heavily pregnant to get home alone anyway. I mean, you'd check, right?

Another babysitting one. Friend invited to a wedding husband on a Satuday. Said they wouldn't be able to go as would have to stay over, and babysitter would be too expensive. So i said i'd do it.

Closer to the date it turned out the wedding was 3 hours away, and they'd have to leave at 10am on Saturdat and they didn't get back till 10pm on Sunday. A text about 1pm, when i was expecting them home, saying they were staying on for lunch with friends who'd been at the wedding but would be leaving soon.

Gave me a bottle from their wine rack as a thank you for looking after their kids for a whole weekend.

Appreciate the reply, for ages I kept thinking I was in the wrong to assume she'd take me home, it was inferred, I'm not one of those annoying people who expect a lift, quite happy on the bus, with my coat and umbrella 😁. Just to add, the tears started after a lorry soaked me going through a masssive puddle, I can laugh about that part now.
I only had 1 shift or so after this incident then lovely maternity leave, she moved wards by the time I returned and then left the profession.

A bit similar tale to yours. I had taken my dog for a good long walk up to the local country park. At the furthest point, I noticed a smartphone had been left on a bench. No one in sight and as there was a lock on it, I couldn’t access any numbers to try and phone. I walked back through the park with it ( keeping an eye out for someone appearing to be searching for it) and went to the local police station to hand it in. That was an approximately 2 miles walk, luckily my dog can walk for ages. Just as I reached the police station, the phone rang and I answered it. The man on the other end identified the phone and gave a rough indication of where he thought it had gone missing. He seemed quite grateful that I had found it until I told him that I had taken it into town to leave with the police, he wanted me to take it back to the park and meet him there as it was “nearer for him”. He was quite abusive when I said that I wouldn’t as it was miles out of my way!

Not my story but a PT at my gym, a few years ago.
There was a weather warning in place, everyone was advised to stay at home, and not to be on the roads unless absolutely necessary.

She had more than one client ringing her to ask to do a session that day, because they were bored. 🤷‍♀️

Well she knows from when it first came out - she could see then what my feelings were and just sort of looked embarrassed and tried to laugh it off sort of, 'what was I like eh?' kind of attitude. It was already 20 years ago at that point!

It's helping a lot being on this thread and seeing people's reactions to my story.

UprootedSunflower · Today 10:01

I found a wallet in the street on the way to the station. Had a name on cards, money and a drivers licence.

Jeez! What a horrible, ungrateful shit head!