What's the most cheeky/ridiculous favour someone has asked of you ?

[TomandJerrysmousehunt]

Mine was for me to book a day off work to sit with my friend in the car for an 8 hour round trip to collect something. She didn't need help with the collecting, but wanted company in the car, other than the radio. I told her I couldn't get the day off work. I was certainly not wasting a day off work to sit in a car for 8 hours.

@Strobbery it was a massive pile on-god knows what I said wrong-she was (and still is) a nasty,spoilt brat-I stand by that

I still don't know what set that poster off,and if she'd had grief from a stepparent herself,then I am truly sorry for her

@Pudmyboy her mother encouraged her

Neither had worked a day In their lives (although while at uni,the truth of life dawned on sd,her rich man in a posh car,wasnt coming for her and she did get a 8 hours a week job,which shes now halved and is now sponging from her granny)

My narc (and im nc) family went mental at me for not putting up with this and I should have given in to her demands and I'm 'selfish' for not doing so

I just ignored them-i didn't see them waving their payslips and bank account details at her

At the time,I had a massive dp problem,he was working nights at this point,so missed a hell of a lot of the phone calls to her mother and what was being said/plotted and it was my word against hers-and I was a liar,she was the Princess and could do no wrong in his eyes

She could twist any story to make herself the injured party

We ended up at relate,where everything came out and his blinkers about her came off-it took us a long time to come back together

Without that help,we would have lasted another week-i was planning on running away as I'd had enough

Someone I barely knew moved an hour away...she was a bit lonely in the new area, fair enough.

But she invited me over to keep her company while she did her housework. 🫠

Like not to help her, but sit there and watch her iron / clean etc.

Wtf...if you want company, make it a bit more appealing!

I was sent a text saying; ”I’m staying at your house the night of your wedding”. No they didn’t! I texted straight back and declined their kind offer. We were staying at our house the night of our wedding, before going on honeymoon the next day. I was pregnant with twins and tired, lm not a fan of house guests at the best of times

Years ago I was asked to look after a friend's 3 DC (3,5 and 8) who all had chicken pox so she could work. I expected her to get home at 3pm. I kept telling her DC Mummy will be home soon. She didn't arrive back until almost 4.30pm and when she got back she'd been to get her nails done after work. I was not happy and neither were her kids. I didn't volunteer to babysit them again.

In my early 20s I went out to the pub with my boyfriend. I bought the 1st round then he finished with me, downed his pint and left the pub. As I sat stunned and staring into my drink he popped back to ask me if I could lend him a tenner! (I didn't). Still makes me laugh 30 years later!

Asked me to cancel the plans my husband had made to celebrate my 30th birthday so that I could babysit for her while she went out for her birthday instead.

I work as a PA. Someone we were interviewing for a job asked me if I could book them a meeting room for the day because they had another interview in the afternoon for a different company. It still makes me laugh to this day.

My brother and his asshole ex told me I was being selfish for refusing to feed their pets daily while they were on holiday. They lived in a fourth floor flat without a lift and I’d given birth to my first child the week before.

Very new gf of my (now ex) husbands work colleague, who I had met twice.
Called me from a hotel in Jamaica, lots of fake crying, saying her bank account had been hacked and could I please pay the hotel £5k to settle their bill...
When I said I didn't have that kind of money she hung up.
She then called me back 2 hours later to ask me to call the hotel manager & pretend to be her bank manager!
Again I said no.

Decided to google her and found that she had been to prison for fraud!
She then went back to prison for stealing deposits from couples booking their weddings at the hotel she worked!

That is bonkers! Why couldn't the brother do the favour?

@Hardknocks that is brilliant! In an absolute cheeky fucker kind of way!

1. my sons 6th birthday party. Invited the whole class as the venue was a good size. Indoor carting - looked brilliant. It was this precise time that I became aware of siblings being brought along - despite no advance warning. So I’d done enough food for the no of children and adults. And obviously a specific no of party bags. 7 (!!) siblings arrived with the party guests. I explained to the parents that they wouldn’t be able to take part in the activity / ( per head cost and also a minimum age), eat or have a party bag and was met with such indignation. One mum (whose daughter was screaming at not being able to take part), picked her up and put her down in front of me and asked what I was going to do about her daughter being so upset.

2. When I returned from Mat leave the first time round, I went PT, so I could spend more time with my baby. SIL decided that she’d save money on childcare and bring her 2 (4 and nearly 2) to me every Thurs and Fri. No conversation took place, she literally turned up at 7.30am the first Thursday and explained her plan to me. 😱 I burst out laughing and said an absolute massive no from me - that was 5 years ago…she hasn’t spoken to me since.

In a previous job doing desktop IT support at a university, I attended a fault in a conference room. The organiser then asked for my mobile number so that she could call me for her future IT problems.

Me: "My personal mobile? I don't have a work phone."

Her: "Yes, that'll do."

Me: "Ah, no. You call the helpdesk if you need IT support."

She then had the nerve to complain to my manager, who told her the exact same thing.

I was utterly unsurprised to later find out that she was a business school academic. There's something about business schools, possibly related to their purpose as training camps for exploitative capitalists, that attracts sociopathic levels of cheeky fucker.

I was a bridesmaid for a friend who asked me to sense check/oversee some on the plans for their DIY wedding for 200 guests.

Except this spiralled into managing the entire event. My tyre burst on the way so I was an hour later than planned after a four hour drive. Not so much as a cup of tea before I was whisked around being introduced to all the other poor sods in the bridal party as the planner in chief.

Responsible for getting 200 people fed, had them all served within 30m.

Spent approximately 7h on my feet running around lying tables, gathering gift bags, organising helpers and caterers. The bride even signalled for me to leave the ceremony early to get the reception.drinks ready.

I missed the entire afternoon entertainment sorting stuff out. I was absolutely exhausted.

To add insult to injury, my husband spent the entire day running around with me, and they got all snotty about me taking one spare gift bags (yes, I had to pack the thank you gift bags...) to thank him for his efforts!

Oh, and I got told I'd packed the gift bags incorrectly.

If she ever asks a favour again she can go jump in a lake.

DPs ex-wife finished their relationship, and he went back later on in the day to get some more clothes. There were a pair of men's shoes under the bed. Not his. She since married the guy.

Anyway, after me and DP had been together a few months, she called one night and 1am, and asked him to go round the next day and move a piece of (their) furniture, as her boyfriend has a bad back 🤣

A neighbour I barely know walked past once when I was weeding the front garden. I admired her dog. She immediately asked if I like dogs and if I would ever walk one for other people. I said I did sometimes walk friends' dogs if the friend was ill or away. She then said great, I'll drop her around this afternoon. We are away for two weeks on the Norfolk broads and the dog doesn't like water.

I had to say no several times quite firmly and when she started trying to push me, I decided to sound as mad as her and listed all my obligations and how i was barely coping and needed time myself or I'd fall apart. She scuttled off as soon as I sounded needy.

The only time she has spoken to me since is to ask if I would 'sponsor' her and her husband to do a motorbike trip around Scotland. Aka - hand over cash to pay for her holiday. Completely mad.

@Wineat5isfine what did you say to the mum who said her daughter was upset?

My SIL was having a hen party meal and my MIL - who didn't drive - said I could go and pick her up (25 min trip) and take us both to the event, which was a further hour away from us. I would then be expected to not drink all evening so that I'd be sober to do the return trip. This was 10 days after I'd had an op after the missed miscarriage of my long awaited first pregnancy. My MIL was a cow generally, so I took great pleasure in saying I still felt too unwell and wouldn't be able to go. I was actually sad to miss the hen party as I really like my SIL, but no way was I doing this for MIL as she was often horrible to me.

My friend asked my dh to look after her hyper 2 year old ds for 4 hours whilst she and I were running the school pta disco. Her dh couldn't do it because he wanted to spend the time practicing his banjo playing.

There are a lot where people expect friends to do their job for them for nothing, e.g. my hairdresser said her friend expected her to cut her DS's hair and then not charge.
I had it too - I'm a proofreader and friend asked me to look at a book she'd written. I found a few small errors and one big one - something that would've made her a laughing stock if it had gone to print like that. She said she'd give me a bottle of wine. I was a bit put out that she didn't ask how much she owed me, but she never even gave me the wine!

Are you for real? That's unbelievable!!! 😳

I am a knitter and was asked to knit a blanket for a "friend"....well someone I know who is your friend when she wants something...... to give to someone I dont know as a baby shower gift. I find knitting quite mindful and I was going through some stuff at the time so didnt mind doing it for nothing as I had no projects on. She stipulated a specific wool that was very expensive, not your cheap acrylic yarn. So I said I would price up the yarn for her and she was shocked that she would have to pay at all. She actually said "But as a knitter, surely you already have that!" and I said "Well I dont and even if I did, I would have paid for it!" and I gave her a rough idea of the cost of the yarn for a blanket the size she wanted (big and impressive). She accused me of trying to steal from her, that it couldnt possibly cost that when a similar sized blanet from Marks and Spencer say would be £50. I pointed out that a) hand made is very different to mass produced in a factory b) the yarn was high quality and therefore expensive, not the cheap stuff the cheap blankets are made from and c) the same blanket handmade by someone who was charging her for their time would cost in the hundreds. Nope, I was profiteering. Luckily we were at the pub with other (actual) friends who know what she is like and one of them brought up a similar blanket on Etsy and said that she was getting a bargain.

I then did something I am simultaneously proud and ashamed of! She likes to be "The Rich One". Have the charmed life with lots of lovely holidays, nice clothes blah blah, so I said "Oh it looks like this one might be a little bit beyond you financially so shall we leave it?" As I say, I was going through some very serious stuff at the time so I had my full on FUCK YOU head on. Wouldnt do it now, or maybe I would with someone like her!

I also bake, dont get me started on "But how can a cake cost that, its only flour sugar and eggs......"

ETA

I have literally only just realised that she wanted to give her friend a fab "expensive" gift for nothing! How has that taken me this long to clock on to?! She expected me to pay for the yarn, me to do the work and her to gift it to someone else like Lady Bountiful! I am even dumber than I thought, which is saying something.

@GoodnightJude1

I think you win, hands down!

What was her reaction when you told her to fuck off and fall on a spike?!

I’m a tattoo artist. When I opened my own studio, a friend of a friend passed on a message that he would be ‘willing to let her practice on me’.
(For free, of course.)

Not any specific example in particular but just generally the favours people expect of me as a lawyer. Because of course, me being a City corporate lawyer means that I know alllll the law and can advise on employment disputes, evictions, housing benefit, neighbour noise issues, speeding/various other traffic offences, appealing school places etc etc. Oh and would be delighted to put my name to an official letter and represent random person in court! No bother at all!!!

Also people asking me to arrange for their DC/DN/friend's DC/random neighbour's DGC/'Jane from church's friend's cousin's son' etc etc to be offered paid work experience at my place of work, and/or actually vouch for them to be offered an actual job/training contract (most of the time I haven't even met said young person, so no I am not going to put my reputation on the line by singing their praises to my boss, even if I did hold any sway!)

Simularly, not me but my sibling - a successful, well paid artist with a long waiting list for commissions. They regularly have vague 'friends' (usually more like acquaintances) kindly offer them the 'opportunity' to complete a piece for them, for free, in order to 'build up their portfolio'. In return said acquaintance would of course tell everyone who the artist was and would therefore win them more work. Sibling has even had people suggest some kind of fee share arrangement where the 'friend' would get a % of any new piece commissioned through their referrals.

The artworks they're being asked for, fir free, are usually worth minimum £500 and like I said sibling has a waiting list of about 6 months - no help rustling up work or building their portfolio is required!