AIBU to ask what's the Strangest/cheekiest thing you've said NO to?

[Sister77]

First time poster, I like the collective wisdom of mumsnetters so I wanted to check if I was being unreasonable.
Several things have bugged me recently, I've noticed I'm a "yes" person even when I really DO NOT want to do something. I even annoy myself so I read a book called the power of no and put it into practice.
So the things I've said no to this week are:

1. Shift swap (even when the guilt trip was used).
2. Lending a dress to someone who returned the last one with dubious stains on it and when I commented she said she had to go commando to avoid VPL.
3. Lending money to someone who "needed" it to buy chicken to freeze for winter?!
4. Babysitting for someone who asks for an hour then returns the next morning and moans because her kids are wearing yesterday's clothes (I should have put my own kids clothes on them) my youngest is 4 years older than her oldest!

Either I'm getting more intolerant or people are getting cheesier and weirder (is that a word)?

A woman once stood by me in a shop, pointed to the bottom shelf close to my legs and said "pass me one of those loaves."

I said "Erm no...you can get it yourself!"

She was the same age as me...30s...not disabled...just weird and bossy!

My DSis thinks that me being a SAHM makes me her PA.

She only phones me when she wants a favour. ( Picking up dry cleaning , letting trades people in to do quotes , switching on her washing machine so that the cycle finishes at the precise moment she gets home because she doesn't like it sitting there waiting to be hung out! ) I usually help out but I did once refuse when she called me at 9am and asked if I would go round to her house and sit in all day to wait for a delivery.

My two DC's ( pre school at the time) and her non child friendly house made that an easy one to refuse to do. That and the assumption that I'd have nothing else on that day!

i am probably being U but when visiting my DB and SIL we are not allowed to talk louder than a whisper and never have the tv on unless subtitles when the DC are in bed..(upstairs)..always been that way.

DC are 5 and 7 now.....

Man in street: there's a brothel near here. If I pay you, will you watch me with one of the girls?

Me: er no!

'I was walking along a pavement when a girl in her early 20s stopped me and said "Excuse me", so I replied "Yes?"

She then seriously asked me if I could do up the laces on her trainers . Before anyone asks, I could see no physical reason why she couldn't do up her own trainers.'

I've had this happen as well, when I was waiting for DS at the leisure centre but I've done it. Dyspraxia often doesn't show up as a visible disability.

When I was 18 my DDad asked me for the pin number of my card so he could get my money out to buy alcohol for him and DM. I guessed DM put him up to this and I knew i wouldn't get the money back because as far as DM was concerned, anything that belonged to me was really hers.

This was the first time I managed to stand up to them and say no, helped by the anger of a childhood of not getting enough to eat because they prioritised booze and fags over feeding us.

One of the many reasons I moved out of home as soon as I could.

My neighbours asked me if I could move my trampoline to the other side of the garden which would require me dismantling a summer house to do so because said trampoline was next to the fence and they could see my children bouncing on it.

In reply I just laughed!

Not mine, but my best friends.

Her old neighbour keeps asking her over fb to borrow cash, she asked to borrow like 1k, my friend doesnt earn that much, then the woman had the cheek to ask my friend, if she'd ask her mum.

What a cheeky bitch.

I once met a girl who had a son 6 months older than mine, they were toddlers at the time. Within the first 30 seconds of meeting her she said her and her friends always look after each others children.
Less than 5 minutes later (so, Id met her 5 minutes before, never seen her in my life, no mutual friends) she asked me if I could look after her son the weekend coming so she could go out.

No. Fuck off.

I am moving and happened to put on facebook that I was having a good clear out.
Several people asked about the move but one of the other mum's from school just asked if I had any baby clothes I wanted to get rid of and did I have a Jumperoo and a bumbo she could have.
I said I would have a look for clothes but I didn't have anything else apart from a door bouncer.
She replied ok I'll take that off your hands then and obviously pass it on to charity afterwards.
I am sure she thinks I'm just going to give it all to her for nothing!

and she doesn't even have a baby!

Friend A, who I'm at Uni with, was trying to cheer up Friend B, who I didn't know very well, after B had split up with his girlfriend. A subjected me to a barrage of texts begging me to "throw B some poon" and "consider a pity shag like public service"!

I said no. Obviously.

It made no difference, me & B are getting married in 3 weeks!

Just thought of another one...

My friend and I both had horses at the same stables, she was struggling for money, it was winter and her horse didn't have a turnout rug. I had a spare one which I lent her. It had an orange lining and she had a white horse.
It rained quite hard and the orange lining of the rug came out and stained her horse orange! She then had a go at me because it was all my fault she had an orange horse!

And one just in...

Not me, but my sis.

Our mother is going on holiday today, by train. The station is 0.5 of a mile from her house. She has rung my sister and demanded a lift to the station- my sister lives a 12 mile round trip away and has ill dc at home today.

She would've asked me (I live a bit further away, say a 16 mile round trip) but I've already agreed to go over every day and feed her cat!

When DS3 was born (many years ago) Paternity leave didnt exist. DP took a week off work which was unpaid. Nearly killed us as we needed the money.

Anyway, FIL and MIL bought a new bedroom set of built in wardrobes. Only they didnt pay for the fitting. They got DP to do it.

For the full week of his unpaid leave he was round the in laws fitting their fucking wardrobes whilst I was sat at home with 3 kids, doing the school runs and dragging a newborn round in the depths of winter. Which is the exact reason DP took the week off.

I am still bitter about it now, many years later. But the cherry on the cake was that I went round to visit him at the in laws, his mum was at work and his dad had gone out. DP was hoovering in the conservatory, I asked what he was doing and he was moving the wicker furniture out to hoover behind it. He had cut some wood and if he didnt get all the saw dust up then his mum would have gone mad.

So he gave up his week off and would have got a bollocking for missing some sawdust. I did go slightly mad and shouted a lot.

I still wish DP had said no to helping but even he didnt realise that it would take all week to get them fitted.

BellaTalbert, people chipping in for a brothel visit, how vile.

I have said no for the last 4 days in a row to the neighbour's kids who rock up at my door asking if they can wash my car with their filthy floor mop and bottle of bleach!

Apparently they are raising money for kids starving in Africa

Random (and very drunk) stranger on the beach wanted to borrow my canoe.

My very polite refusal didn't go down very well. I've never got the canoe and four DCs off the beach so fast.

We had neighbours from across the road follow DH into our flat. I think they may have had LDs and were alcoholics. They had a child in care and had lost a baby. DH had arrived home, parked, said good evening as you do and they just followed him in!

They helped themselves to a drink or ten, asked if they could have some of DH's dinner and if they could have DD overnight one weekend.

We really didn't know what to do but got rid of them eventually that night, but they assumed instant friendship and were always waking us up in the early hours asking for booze or money for the gas meter. Thankfully we moved house after a few weeks.

At the local pool with DS, he had one of those sticks you drop in and dive down to get. I threw it in several times and DS retrieved it, whilst a ten year old girl sat on the side watching us.
About the fourth time of throwing, before DS could blink, she'd dived in, got the stick and swam up the pool with it, before proudly showing her family. I swam after her like lightning and snatched it back, whilst the parents rolled their eyes at me for accusing their child of blatant theft.

My next door neighbours daughter sending me numerous messages on facebook begging me to exchange my 2 bed house with massive garden for her 2 bed flat 3 streets down on the same estate so she could be next door to her Mum as she will never get an exchange from the council ! Apparently I didn't need to even stay there if I didn't want coz I said If I moved I was moving to a different town. She said I could exchange with her then move to where I wanted to move to .... funnily enough she turns her nose up when she sees me now
Self centred, selfish people :s

"Fancy a fuck?" as a chat up line.

I was asked to make someones wedding favours once. Approximately 100 hand embroidered lavender bags.

I said no.