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🤣🤣

She didn't give them away though: she kindly gave her a few pieces to choose from - not "and then give away"

the expectation was that auntie would choose a couple of pieces from the collection set and return the rest....and if auntie was "confused" why did she not tell the OP directly and not through another family member? I also bet that she took the credit and didn't mention that she hadn't bought the stuff herself.

She was cheating at collecting Brownie points in Heaven, and she's going to get a shock when St Peter smites her with a thunderbolt!!!

I've just remembered one! A student teacher in our department was involved with various teachers, observing initially with a lead up to teaching a class from each teacher. She was heavily supported by all of us. How heavily we didn't know until quite far on in her teaching practice. She tried to make out (to each of us in turn) that a teacher was asking too much of her and she didn't know how to plan a specific lesson. Of course what happened was, we were planning all her lessons for her. She finally was caught out and failed her teaching practice in our school for another reason. I did encounter her later in life in a promoted post. I wonder how she lied her way into that.

I think that's called "delegation"

PP didn't give the aunt the clothes - she asked the aunt to choose two pieces out of the 10; aunt decided to send the other 8 to charity.

Hopefully she grew up and started doing her own work!

It was exactly this.

She was given 10 pieces to chose the best couple to give to her niece. She would have never given all to her nieces because that would have been too cheeky in her mind but the rest going to her church and getting the credit that was fine.

I am low contact with her now - not just because of this

I was getting the tube at a central London station a while back and when I got to the top of the (quite long) escalator down to the platforms a well dressed and confident-looking man who was pushing a small child in a buggy asked if I could hold his take-away coffee for him. I said "Yes sure", thinking he only wanted me to hold it for a moment while he quickly dealt with something with his DC.

But instead he just said "Thank you so much", got on to the escalator and just stood there holding on to the buggy handle. I felt a right mug, standing behind this man on the escalator holding his coffee for him as if I was "the help". I was in a bit of a hurry anyway and would never normally stand still on an escalator, I always walk down unless I have big luggage with me. I felt like a right idiot. He didn't take his coffee back off me until we reached the bottom. It was almost like he thought I should be impressed that he was wonderful enough to be looking after his child. I have a very strong feeling that if I'd been a man he would never have asked me to hold his coffee.

Was the very Christian Aunt (by marriage) married to a former UK New Labour Prime Minister, by any chance?

Famously, she was in Australia once and went into a shop, where the owner kindly suggested that she might like to select one or two complementary items for herself and the children - before she smartly proceeded to pretty much empty the whole shop!

I’m an estate agent so dealing with CFs is a day to day occurrence. One of my favourites was when we were letting a beautiful cottage with barely any driveway leading to a garage. We got a call from a CF woman, who I actually knew of, asking to buy the garage. They lived a few doors down and didn’t have a garage. We explained that the garage was the only parking for said house so it wouldnt be for sale as it would severely affect the value of the property. She kept calling and calling asking for an update on the garage. The owners who also lived on the row found it hilarious and for a laugh asked how much they were offering. The offer was £10k. For reference, the house was worth £600k. Apparently this CF also tried to close down a neighbouring touring park as she didn’t realise it existed when she bought the property.

why on earth was the neighbour shocked? surely he knew he'd ordered a bed! Obviously a 6footplus frame isn't going to fit in 1 tiny box!

I think shocked that it had been delivered elsewhere. I took in a bike (push not motor) for a neighbour who was away on holiday...not a problem, it sat in our dining room for a week. He was shocked and very apologetic that the delivery firm would be cheeky enough to ask a neighbour to take in such a large item....btw it was delivered some 2 weeks earlier than he was told it would be which is why he was on hols.

I'm hoping it's the Bolton New York - so good they named it once.

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Wouldn't have risked that - they probably wouldn't have come back for him until he was 18!

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I have another one, but I'm just leaving New York for my road trip. I'll post again in about 7 hours when I get to Vancouver.

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Don't forget those 14 suitcases full of green gravel your Auntie Noreen asked you to drop off in Amarillo.

They're in the NDN's padlocked shed.

She'll get a secondhand halo and a tin of Duraglit.

Oh FIL who doesn't bother a jot with our kids , he only lives next door , started to mind sil kids for her , he would then arrive at my house and let the kids out of the car , they would come straight in to my house and he would fuck off to do work around his house all day . The 3rd time he arrived into my yard , I locked my front door and closed my curtains and left them all out there hammering on doors and windows. The bloody neck of him agreeing to mind his daughter's kids and thinking he could pawn them off on me ! She would never so much as offer to have my kids in her house so I wasn't going to put myself out

Brilliant. What did he say to you afterwards?

@IncompleteSenten He didn't say anything about it , he's a cowardly custard at the back of it all but he did try another time after and I answered the door with my coat on and my bag in my hand and feigned surprise , oh John what's up ? Just heading to town , he just mumbled about how the kids wanted to call to see me. No you just wanted free childcare for your daughter's kids !!! He def got the hint and my dh agreed I did the right thing . If he had asked I probably would have left him drop them off but it was the sheer neck of him just dropping and driving off which pissed me off !

Good for you. The cheeky bugger.

I'm sorry i can't get over that. I actually want to have a go at them on your behalf. You didn't ask for money as such , you was asked the question and you replied dc is saving for something. The most normal response in the world. They are acting like you called them up and said give me money for the kids randomly. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Shamelessly placemaking. Love a CF thread.

We got a call from a CF woman, who I actually knew of, asking to buy the garage.

I am guessing that every estate agent has a list of names that, when somebody calls and provides a 'match', they sit back into their chair wearily with a massive sigh?!

The last time we sold a property (a probate sale for an elderly relative), our EA received an offer from such a person. He emailed us the latest few offers but asked if we could call him 'off the record' to discuss the (apparent) best offer so far.

It turned out that this 'gentleman' was extremely well-known to them. He would come in demanding to know the current offers for any new property on the market and then offer more than the highest, to get his foot in the door - then he would find any old pathetic reasons for the price to plummet, before, should he be successful, it would turn out that he wasn't the actual buyer, but acting on behalf of a company linked to a different company owned by the friend of a friend of a friend of a friend's third company etc.

He had frequently offered our EA bribes before and once actually turned up at the office for him, wanting to 'discuss' the desired purchase rather forcefully behind a closed door.

I did really feel for our EA, but was so glad that we had him (and his experience and local knowledge) acting on our behalf, rather than just doing it ourselves with a cheapo online middleman company.

I knew a HoD who referred to herself as “a facilitator”…