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🤣🤣

She can get in touch with NS&I to track hers. I did it myself when I remembered some bonds my grandad bought for me when I was little. Sadly no wins in the meantime!

https://www.nsandi.com/help/lost-touch-with-nsandi/get-back-to-premium-bonds

Lordy though, some of the posts on this thread... HOW awful can people be?! My jaw is on the floor. Sending everyone unmumsnetty hugs!

I actually snorted a laugh.

I have a couple, there was the neighbour who asked via her Year 8 daughter if I could have her round after school as she was going to be home late from work. Said of course no problem, all was fine. Next day I decided to do the food shop on the way home from work (lived-in a village and was so much easier to do that). I got home and was unloading the shopping when neighbours DD knocked on our door and said she had been told to tell me by her DM she was annoyed with me because I hadn't been home on time to look after her! Apparently she expected me to look after her DD everyday after school as she had changed her hours. I said nope sorry that wasn't the deal and not convenient.

Current house we own on completion day was full of previous owners crap, the garage was particularly bad with all sorts of junk, lumps of concrete and general waste. I contacted the estate agent and they had a word and she told them if we left the garage doors open she would take a bit each day! It would have taken weeks! In the end we had to involve the solicitors who ordered her to get someone in to clear the waste and a deadline. Apparently she was most displeased she had to pay someone.

CF vendor then sent our lovely neighbour round about 3 months after completion to ask if we still had her used tins of paint as she could so with some white paint and knew she had left some in the garage! Poor neighbour said I know I can't believe she asked this either but I said I'd check.

Was having our front garden dug up and new driveway, flowerbeds installed. Quite a big area and was in a bad state, so the builders had a mini digger to get the work done. Neighbour from further down the road suddenly appeared at our front door a few days into the work and asked if I could send the builder and his mini digger down to their house as they needed some earth moving in their back garden it would only be an hour or so... they were told in no uncertain terms that would not be happening but they were free to ask the builder to quite for the work when he had finished ours. Without even blinking they said oh no we don't want to pay anyone..

My SIL tried to palm her 2 month old on various family members whilst she went on honeymoon for a fortnight. They all said no. I didn't have children at the time and my mum had just died. SIL was most put out when I said that I didn't want to take two weeks off work to look after her baby.
She ended up leaving the baby with her (retired) next door neighbour whilst her and BIL swanned off to Greece.

This is crazy mean 😂But sounds like they deserved it tbh. Bet they didn't play Knock and Run (as it was when I was at school) for s while 😬.

(psst - I knew that) 😂
I've been following this thread for some time you see....

I'm not sure if she ever did or not. Just thought she was a cheeky moo for asking for mine.

Cancel the cheque!

Is it not the same as York to Andover? I seem to vaguely recall it being mentioned.

Some people should be banned from procreating 😉

Lol

Are we talking Lewis Hamilton or a 90 year old gran/grandad? It could make a difference, also, a Ferrari would be a bit quicker than a 20 year old Fiat 500, even though they're both Italian! We do need for more information in order to give a definitive answer,

I’d sell the Taylor swift ticket you’ll get a lot more that the £50 you were hoping for. So why if your sister and parents are annoyed they dont seem to care anyway. You’ve nothing to loose

They knew the two claiming the ticket but they also knew me. They seemed very flustered and stressed by it all. I think because the woman who eventually 'won' it was so forceful, they lost touch with logic and sanity momentarily. That is all I can think!

If you're so desperate to win, in spite of all of the clearly-understood simple rules, why would you even bother to buy a ticket or claim that you 'believe' you've won - or otherwise try to make a 'case' why you 'should have'?

Surely a dangerous idiot like that would just go and grab whatever they wanted from the organiser/table and run off with it? It's no less theft, choosing to steal it that way - and it saves you even bothering to pay £1 or whatever.

I think that people who do this are judging you by their own extremely low standards, not even understanding the concept that there are a great many kind, honest, decent people out there.

Because THEY would only ever have somebody else's driving licence in their possession because they were trying to steal it/defraud the rightful holder, they assume that YOU must have been intending the same, and they have managed to thwart you - even though you contacted them to tell them that you had it, and took it around - or maybe they were expecting you to demand a lot of money from them before handing it over, so they think they're getting in there first to assert their determination not to be taken for a ride... by a kind person who never remotely had that intention.

I reckon it's the same attitude by a lot of the demanding FreeCycle takers. The decent people understand that it's just a nice give-and-take thing that pleasant people do in their communities; a way to offload something good that you happen not to need anymore and do a favour to somebody who does need it.

However, because this 'sort' of person would never in a million years dream of giving away something that they could sell for money - and may even sell something that they knew was no good but insisted otherwise, in order to lie and rip somebody off - that's their only frame of reference; and so they assume that you are either as nasty as them (trying to get them to take some rubbish off your hands by lying that it's perfect) or really stupid (you haven't realised the value of what you're giving away) or nasty and stupid (you think that you're offloading rubbish on to some unsuspecting mug).

I kind of love these stories but they also make me a bit angry for you all!

Many of these sound like David Brent when he told his team: the bad news is you're all losing your jobs; but the good news is I'm getting a promotion!

It's that thing that they think because they're benefitting, that you'll be delighted to help them out, not having any insight that that means you're being put out. It's so self absorbed but they just don't get it! And then seem annoyed that you're not playing along. Breathtaking...

I have two, one not so bad but still annoying. I was once in my health club about to give my kids some tea after tennis lessons. This woman I hardly knew came up and said could they join us for supper. I thought it was a bit strange but nice of her to be friendly. Until I realised that she was going to the bar with her cronies while I looked after her small children as well as mine! The entitlement. If she'd asked I probably wouldn't have minded but it was the sneakiness - I know she knew she was misleading me! Cowbag....

Worse than that was my brother in law. He had helped out at times with my elderly dad but not to any massive degree, not doing full-time caring or anything just occasional chores as we all did, and my dad had given him an expensive watch and thousands of pounds for helping out. Anyway he seemed to think this made him more important than the actual children of the family. My dad died in lockdown and so it was difficult to arrange the wake and we had to sit on separate tables as they'd invited some other people and there was a limit on the number of people per table. He actually berated my other sister at the funeral for ruining the funeral for him!!!! And me in a text message afterwards. The beauty was that I was able to tell him exactly what I thought of this but we haven't spoken since (no loss).

I have always been deficient in diplomacy and tact skills, and it did make some areas of my life quite difficult, especially in the context of professional relationships.

On the up side i have not really experienced compliance to piss takers, as i was commonly prone to say - your having a laugh, no chance of that, does this face look that stupid.

And where required oh fuck off.

Mine was my StS. We had gone to my DM and StepSis for Christmas lunch and all was going well when StepSister started to launch off about the will. She started to carry on about how everything would be hers when the parents died and we could go fuck ourselves.

Firstly, the parents had made a will, dividing the estate equally. There were a few items that she would get, nothing remarkable. She continued to bash on about this all afternoon and was frankly lucky that she didn't get smacked into next week.

I can't stand the sight of the greedy cunt. She has a lovely lifestyle thanks to her DH, who is a director of a multinational company. Their children are in private schools and they take several holidays a year. She was ill recently and demanded that everyone should drop everything to look after her - her father was ill (cancer) and she ignored him.

The house on the other side of the communal entry has always been a source of trouble and when the last but one tenant left the owner had to have virtually fumigated and then had a cheeky twat of a bloke, ostensibly an all purpose handy man who was "doing up" the property but basically dossing there, I was off work on long term sick so used to say hello to him, One day he asked to borrow a pen, lent him one, the next day he asked for paper, gave him a sheet from my printer, then he was asking for milk, then for a "couple of tea bags and finally for the password to my wifi!! I refused,

I can put you in touch with my husbands family if you want... you'll have material for the thread in no time 😂

Better still, 'Ring school at the start of term and ask the office for an appointment to come in and see me' just like you would do to speak to any professional, doctor, dentist etc. Parents should not be able to just wander in the speak to a teacher, let them make appointments.

Years ago we were moving from Europe back to the UK. Kids and I left mid June, my husband was going to finish the packing and drive our stuff over at the end of July.

July 1st, final months rent gets paid.
July 6th, landlord gets in touch, he’s got new tenants and they want to move in as soon as possible, when will the house be vacant?

Husband gets back to him that it won’t be till the end of the month.

Landlord wonders if it couldn’t be sooner?

Husband once again explains it’s not finished being packed up for moving, and his holiday time isn’t till the end of the month.

Landlord then asks if it would be okay for the new tenants to get in to decorate?

Idiot husband agrees. Our stuff is still in there and he’s out at work all day. New people get in to decorate, spill paint on our rug. Idiot husband asks for €30 for replacing the rug. It was a 10/12 foot rug and actually cost €300, a year previously…