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🤣🤣

Ok I have been on the other side of this. I ordered some furniture which I arranged to have delivered to work knowing I wouldn't be home on the day they wanted to deliver. Or so I thought. (I work in a huge factory / warehouse setup btw, not a city centre office!). Unfortunately I mustn't have changed the delivery address from my billing address and yep, it ended up all being piled into next doors hallway 😭

Tbf they're very good neighbours and we all do a lot for each other but I felt absolutely terrible. I hope my neighbour isn't one of you lot thinking I'm a CF 😂

How very witty of you

I get asked a lot (or DH does directly) if DH can carry out "favours" for people...these favours being the job he actually gets paid for. So basically, they want a freebie. Usually get asked by people I haven't heard from in months or who we barely know as well -the ones who pretend you are best mates suddenly. We used to say the occasional yes, now it's a flat no. When the job is over they inevitably fuck back off and you don't hear from them until the next "favour". The sulking and faces you get from refusing are classic.

Your friend is in for a surprise, Vancouver to NYC by car is 44 hours one way. I'd love to see what her aunt says about driving her! Some people have no common sense.

@vidflex

Turns out mil wanted us all to come home so that SIL could then travel down and stay in our caravan and enjoy a few days break!.

I hope DH said a big fat NO to this! Time SIL grew up! 🌹

@Princesspollyyy I know. I was ill equipped to be dealing with the situation and I feel guilty to this day.

Bless you I'd have sent it back via the delivery company - they misrepresented "parcel" didn't they? Whilst it's in your house you're responsible for it - what if had become damaged either before you received it or whilst in your home? 🌹

Ordered 2 cases of wine for delivery a couple of years ago, and they were delivered to the wrong address. Once we’d tracked them down we went to the house they’d been delivered to, but the woman who answered the door was very cagey, saying she’d only just got home and would need to check with her husband. We went back an hour or so later only this time she said there was one case that had been delivered, but had no idea where the second one was…. I’m certain they kept the second case, luckily the company we ordered from sent us a replacement. We now refer to that house as the wine thief’s!

I'm guessing you no said "No"!!? 🌹

When we moved into our previous house our neighbour (who turned out to be toxic as they come) announced he was replacing the fence between our properties. All fine. Except he told (not asked) us that the post holes would need to be dug in our path, which was solid concrete. DH laughed like a drain and told him no way and the fencing company could use the old holes.

Hope you've changed the gate code now? 🌹

It’s fairly normal for parents not to stay for play dates. It’s not normal to suggest a play date that is at the other person’s house though!

Has she had any of the children back to hers?

@YoureStuckOnMeLikeATattoohoohoo I have no words, I'm so sorry you had to go through that at what was already an awful time x

@EnglishBluebell

^Ruelzdontapply
A friend asked me to baby sit her child for the night. I agreed and said I would have him sleep over my place.
Well she didn't come back and collect her child for 3 days and ignored her phone.
Never did explain herself and I've not seen her since.^

I would've called social services emergency line and reported the child as abandoned

So would I. What on earth goes on in some people's minds that they act like this? 🌹

Prick at work who was equal to me in seniority and job title would ask me to take notes for him at meetings, print them and leave them on his chair.

New woman started in the building, in a different department to me, and I had no idea who she was as I had no dealings with her.

One day she waltzed up to my desk and said "you live in xxxx don't you? Can I have a lift home?"

Turns out she was sending her lease car back and it was being picked up from work so she had no way to get home... so she thought she'd ask some random person (me) to take her home!

That was an awkward car ride, let me tell you! 😂

Could I mind her 3 kids for the month of July so she could go on holidays. Followed up with "I thought it would be a nice treat for you seeing as you cannot have any of your own"

Bitch!

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Wow!! I'm totally speechless at how thoroughly evil she is. You would have been right to have taken legal action - although perfectly understandable you might not want to. Have you changed the locks? And I'm assuming DP has got a strong password on his computer now (although stable doors...), secured his smartphone etc. So sorry you had to go through this nastiness. 🌹

We now refer to that house as the wine thief’s!

That's mean, considering that they refer to you as their best mate... well, joint best mates as, to them, you're one of blurry identical twins

I was going through a pretty rough time. Post-natal depression, relationship failure and being made bankrupt and losing my house. An acquaintance from a house down the street came over to see how I was. She asked if I was okay for money and when I said yes (only because I'd been told to stop paying my mortgage), she asked to borrow £20!! AND she didn't pay it back for several months.

I actually bumped into her a couple of years later and she crowed about how she'd now paid her mortgage off. Insensitive cowbag.

I had a ver close friend with 4 DCs (2, 3 and a pair of twins 5), who’d recently divorced. She couldn’t sort childcare for the summer holidays so asked me to have them. I had a 1yo and a 5yo of my own. I agreed and had a summer of hell. She’d drop them off without breakfast and I’d have to give them 3 meals plus snacks and drinks. She never offered me a penny toward the cost. We’d only go within a half mile radius of the house because it was impossible to go any further with the little ones as I didn’t have a double buggy. I did it because I knew she’d lose her job if I didn’t, and I cared about her. She’d turn up later and later to collect them and say she’d been to the supermarket or wherever on her way home. I discovered months later that she was actually always late because she was shagging my DH (who incidentally used to moan constantly about me looking after her “feral brats” and told me that I was a mug and she was a piss-taker),

@Menomeno you win the thread crown with that one. That's such disgusting behaviour from her and your husband. I hope you got rid of him and have a happy life now.

A friend of mine became ill and needed someone there all the time. Me and another friend, both of whom worked full time, arranged to cover a few days round the clock between us - working from home at hers, sleeping on an uncomfortable camp bed, not seeing our partners. Her wealthy retired mother arrived after a few days, we had assumed to work out something more sustainable, but it turned out that she expected us to keep providing unpaid live in care indefinitely! Not at all the friend’s fault, but I was pretty amazed at her mother.

I hope you sent her off with a flea in her ear! 🌹