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🤣🤣

Noooo 🫣🫣🫣😓

PPs with the contractors taking gravel and worktops has reminded me of our bathroom saga. Mid project, the large white tiles we wanted were suddenly unavailable ‘because of covid’. Fitter suggested he had some fantastic tiles stored in his lockup that would work. Think multicoloured, 1980s’ style… he assured us they were bang on trend. Obviously he’s pocketed someone’s leftovers on another job and wants to make a few quid on them.
I rang a local shop to explain, they said they could indeed supply them and asked who was our fitter then said ‘yes I thought that was who you were talking about’. So I tell the fitter we have sourced our own tiles and he offers to collect them. On the day, he apparently goes in and is told they are not in stock after all, so he suggests the multicoloured swap shop monstrosities again. No. Then he says ‘the ones you want are stuck in x town, 90 minutes away, and won’t be here for another week’. No problem, DH will go get them. He’s not sure they’ll release them to ‘civilians’(!) but an hour later he’s ‘had a hard time sorting this for you, and having them delivered to the local supplier after all’.
Those coloured tiles have been in the photos on several other customers’ properties on his website since.

Friend I adore but has form for the odd bit of CF-ery. This is offset against overwhelming generosity of time and resources, hence she's still a dear friend. But a couple situations have been spectacular. One I can share here.

Years ago we took a summer holiday with her and her then partner - DH and I didn't have children yet but were going to start trying soon and knew that, all going well, we might not have a child free holiday for a looong time thereafter. Friend and her partner happily child free, no intention/plans in that regard and indeed that is how it has played out.

Plus I have an obligation to visit parents abroad and wasn't that good then about drawing boundaries around this to create time for just DH and me. Demanding job, the works.

All of this she knew well.

She invited another couple to join us on the holiday - they had a child. She didn't ask. The couple was a friend of her partner. She knew we 'loved kids' since we were planning some so couldn't see why we would mind about the child.

DH and I had many more friends with kids and already knew the score about how cheeky parents can be when there is a spare pair of hands about for babysitting. We were 100% not interested in doing this.

There was one point when I was drying my hair after a swim where my friend actually came down and said - can you come upstairs and look after X? By the time I was done with the beautification the problem had been solved by the child's parents (or my friend etc.) Hard no.

Thank God the parents were not cheeky.

Had a "friend" who was always had quite the brass neck on her. Once my mum and dad said she could come on holiday with us. We never had much money growing up and I though it was ace that at 15 we were going in a static caravan and I got to bring a friend. Mum and dad said her parents didn't have to pay anything towards it and even gave her £20 spending money (was a lot for them back then) she spent the entire holiday sneaking out to smoke, which would have been very frowned on by my parents so I was terrified of getting caught even though I wasn't the one smoking and constantly badgering me to ask my Parents for more money. Her life's motto was you don't ask,you don't get!

Years later when we had children she called me up offering me 2 bin bags of baby clothes as she knows how expensive it can be and they won't be any use to her. Really didn't want them as she still smoked and so i kept making excuses. She went on and on about how they were hardly worn and some were Next etc and she wanted me to get the use of them, what are friends for etc, so out of politeness said ok- then she says great you can pay me £25 a bag for them!
Reader, I didn't have them!

umm I think its a running joke?

No, I think that poster was perfectly serious. It stopped being funny pages ago anyway.

But it's good to have confirmation, isn't it?

Confirmation about what?
About driving distances in North America, because I could do with some info on that.

Rand McNally is your friend then!

Not to me personally, thankfully; but surely you've observed or heard tell of (maybe read on here?!) about the fact that, where there's a skip, there's almost always a CF who is desperate to offload a ton of their own rubbish and get you to pay for it?!

Most neighbours are respectful, but you only need one to royally take advantage.

I suppose that's the only small mercy that you can hope for: if somebody is going to fly-tip, at least that they're too stupid to cover their tracks.

Did she really think that mighty Amazon would send out all their millions of parcels without any indication of the address on them, and just hope that Steve the driver remembered whose was whose?!

WhiffyTheWizard · Today 10:47

I suppose that's the only small mercy that you can hope for: if somebody is going to fly-tip, at least that they're too stupid to cover their tracks.

If only she'd gone to the effort of peeling the labels off. She'd stuffed them with rubbish, to boot.

Why shame?

She was running on the stairs in platforms. She needed to be moved elsewhere for her own safety.

An ambulance wouldn’t be impressed coming out for a sprain.

This is a classic case of ‘fuck around and find out’. Hopefully it resulted in her deciding not to harass the neighbours.

All the posts about driving distances to Vancouver remind me of this anecdote.

Many decades ago, a young man travelled from Scotland to Newfoundland, Canada by ship. His mum had a relative in Canada (Vancouver), so she telegraphed him and asked him to meet her son when his ship came in. The relative accurately, if unhelpfully replied, “You meet him. You’re nearer.”

Why are you so believing that @Æthelred has x-ray vision and can diagnose an ankle sprain versus a break at 20 paces?

I can understand a bit of schadenfreude but to not call an ambulance when you’re the only one in a position to do so is diabolical.

This is an almost 18 year old who sent nudes of her step mum to her step mum’s boss.

I think PP has a right to some anger, no?

No she doesn't, the SD sounds like a nasty piece of work, have you actually read the post about what she's done?

These posts about CF property buyers and vendors reminded me of one.

Not me but a friend. Purchased a house. The day it closed arrived with her husband to find it stripped. Not just white goods and furniture but carpets ripped up, the light fittings removed to leave wires hanging etc. She said if they could have taken the paint off the walls they would have. They had left approx 20 or 30 black bags of household waste in the side entrance to the house as had probably decided to stop paying their bins and save themselves some money. It was all they needed trying to get their house sorted and ready for their 4 children. She contacted her solicitor as the carpets etc had been listed as part of the sale and light fittings must be left. Her solicitor advised her she was completely and legally in the right but asked her if she wanted to take the financial hit in sending letters, legal action etc for something that was realistically not a massive amount of money so she decided to leave it

A few days after they moved in, having ran around getting lights and flooring sorted and cleaning a filthy house, there was a knock on the door. The one thing that had been noted as not being included in the sale was a garden shed. You know the metal fabricated ones that you screw together. Worth some money and vendor had stated they were taking it with them but was still there the day the house had closed. Vendor had arrived at the house with a big van and tools and wanted to disassemble and take it with them. My friend said she’d let them (only because on the assumption the shed would be gone they’d already ordered a replacement) but only when they removed all their household waste from the side of the house. She said black bags that had been cooking for weeks and she stood over your man and watched him have to drag every one into his van. She said they had probably banked on the fact that by the time they arrived to get the shed the rubbish would be gone but they hadn’t had any opportunity to try and get rid of it. She said the bloke did try and argue but she told him possession was 9/10 of the law and that if he didn’t take the rubbish she’d sell the shed and use the proceeds to hire someone to clear it

School after school club letters came out. Discussing it with another dm. My ds never gets chance as he has other commitments but this dm was waiting to see the head.... to tell her to change the Monday club as her dd was at dancing that night.. Totally expecting the head to swap the nights.

I have so many but have tried to be zen and let them go, but another that rankles but will split mumsnet opinion is from a couple of years ago. We had an expensive children's item. We were going to keep it even though we could have sold it for about £50 as it was nearly £300 new (not deluded , they were selling for that, so not just old kids stuff not worth as much a people think just becuase they paid alot for it) gave it to a family members child as didn't mind if it was staying in the family.
Child was very pleased with item but a week later were asked do we want it back as little girl won't use it and seems a shame to throw it away! No problem we say, thinking we'll sell it or let a different family child have it. Next day we get a text saying they've given it away to some random and we don't mind do we?!

I was working as a stripper in a club that I'd been at for about 6 months.

I'd befriended another dancer there to the extent that she shared a lift home with me (we both paid one of the bouncers, a fairly common occurrence in the industry) as we lived in the same direction, we got along well, and on a couple of occasions had gone for post work drinks together (but in a group). So not close close by any stretch but just knew one another's numbers, fb friends etc.
I was on my way to work one night when I had a text from her asking if I could 'Just' nip to ASDA on my way to work to get her some black knickers as she's torn hers. She wanted one specific pair, another specific, different pair and 'I could surprise her with the third pair!'.

I was astounded not least that at the time she text me, we were both due to start work within the half hour. How did she expect me to 'nip' to ASDA (ASDA being at the other end of town anyway)?!

And I really didn't know her well-why was she asking a fairly new friend?

Needless to say, I didn't do it.

Not said to me but to a friend of mine, who used to manage a riding school and a livery yard. A livery had put her horse out on loan to a family who used to turn up with loads kids and run riot. There were a lot of complaints but the final straw was when the loaner told her kid, who needed to go to the toilet one day, to just use a riding school pony's stable, despite TWO toilets being available for client's use. Child then proceeded to crap in pony's stable (while pony was still in it, so also running the risk of a kick to the head while squatting). Friend saw it when passing, read them the riot act and told them to clean it up, only to be told "That's your job." They were booted off the yard that day and owner was told to find another loaner, pay her bills or move yard.

What, somebody wants to know how long it will take to run there?!?