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)?

I said no when a man knocked at my door asking where the local cobbler was. I didn't know, as I'm not his bloody secretary. He then asked if I knew when he would be back. Again, I'm not his secretary, so I didn't know.
He then asked if he could just leave his shoes with me, and I could pass them on when the cobbler came back. As the cobbler comes and goes as he pleases, I could have been holding onto some random person's shoes for ages, so I refused. He looked really miffed and said he'd come all the way from the next town over (5 miles, if that).
He made me feel like I was really unreasonable, but I'm not the fucking dumping ground for shoes when the cobbler isn't in.

My neighbour's 9 yr old daughter and my neighbour herself keep phoning every time my kids (teenage boys) go in the pool to ask if she can come in. She is years younger than them, has nothing to do with them at all, ever, is not the friend of either of them and has previously spat out "your family is the WORST" when not getting her own way. She's routinely quite mean to my kids (who have autism and other issues)

And yet they seem to think our pool is communal property

I wouldn't mind if she was their friend, that would be normal and fine, but she doesn't want to come and play with them, she wants to use the facilities. She doesn't even LIKE my kids!

Today was a doozy. Her mum asked and we said no, and then half an hour later the girl rang. I think her mum thinks we can be manipulated into saying yes if the child calls.

(it's a pool put in for my eldest, for hydro, as he has erbs palsy and benefits greatly from daily hydro. I have learned to explain this quickly before people attack me for having a pool!)

The other really baffling one was many years ago when a bloke asked me for sex on the grounds he hadn't had any for a year and was desperate

Not making me feel attractive, that!

Hecsy, how on earth did you refuse that beautiful offer of some lovin!!!

It took all my self control, I tell you that. I have never felt more desirable in my life...

How are you feeling Hecsy? Have you recovered from the excess toast incident?

over 150 posts about toast. I love mn. So nice of people to keep me company on me sick bed

I feel like crap, actually. I have been really sick today and threw up so much I've burst all the blood vessels in my face. I've been in bed all day, dozing and mning.

I was once asked by a complete stranger at an airport if I would carry her hand luggage through security for her and put it through the X-ray machine. She said very casually, "I'll go through on my own and you can meet me at the other end with my bag. Is that OK?" Um...let me think about that for a second...NO bloody way.

She then proceeded to ask people in the queue behind me. There were no takers funnily enough and she slunk off to the end of the line.

It was the oddest thing I have ever been asked to do and I have often wondered what the hell she had stashed away in that bag.

That's rotten. You are being very prolific today - I think you've been on every thread I've looked at!

Cappuccino, bet it was drugs, i've worked at an airport, is probably a test run to see if the items where noticed.

When i was younger i was asked by a very rich but rather ugly man (who was about 20 years my senior) if I wanted to be his 'escort' to weddings etc, and he would make sure i was well dressed and buy me everything i needed. He asked this about 30 mins after meeting me (he was a client where i worked). He said it would be strictly above board sure it would. I gracefully declined.

Some random drunk bloke on a tube asked me to come home with him. When I declined (I'm married) he asked me for a snog, as noone would find out.

I passed.

Dahlen - me too!

I had taken holidays including boxing day and she had booked holidays to see her parents at Christmas, being Christmas I agreed, although neither friend or I are religious (me: lapsed catholic, friend atheist) but I did it because most people want to be with their family on that day.

Same friend asked me to do the same for Valentine's day. I said 'I will think about it' (didn't know how to say no, my own fault because I said I do not celebrate Valentine's day) and then she sent me a text very upset saying what a bad friend I was because she had already booked holidays abroad and was counting on me covering her shift

I said I was sorry but I had changed my mind and I was going to celebrate Valentine's day with my BF now DH.

We are still friends but no more cheeky requests from her.

My Ex once text to ask if I could send him so 'kinky' photos because it had been 6 months and he was worried he was "forgetting some of the details of my body" when he wanted to wank over me. And apparently I owed him as I'd been the one to end it and his memories were all he had left of me.

10 years later he found me on facebook and sent me a message saying he made sure he had some "special time" with his memories on my birthday every year.....

Hecsy I burst blood vessels in my face too this weekend being sick. I thought it was only me did that! I swear that wine was boobytrapped!

I am at these. My examples of cheek are so minor compared to this they pale into insignificance!

A medical friend offered me money to sit his exam for him.
I said no.

I can't think of any myself at the mo but am in awe of some people's level of cheekiness!

Do you think they actually know they are being cheeky, as in "I'm pushing it, but I'm gonna see what I can get away with", or do they genuinely think they are entitled to our services?

I'm due to give birth by ELCS in two weeks. It's been agreed that I can transfer from the hospital after a couple of days to a maternity unit, which is a straightforward 20 min drive along a nice straight road and DH will drive us there. MIL had the cheek to ask me the other day whether we could divert to her house on the way (which is in completely the wrong direction) so she could see us in the car and save her having to come to visit at the hospital! Which would add an extra 45 minutes to the journey along windy country roads! Err .... I don't think so!

I'm the MNer with the Mexican house.

The cheeky bastard neighbour actually dared to ask if they can go for a holiday in my house this summer.
Despite being repeatedly asked you will all be pleased to know that I have repeatedly closed the door in his face and actually after a fews told him he was a grabby bastard and to fuck off and pay for his own stuff instead of just borrowing other people's.
he has been avoiding me ever since.

And after a serious word with his DW he no longer, ok very rarely, attempts to borrow things anymore.

Sorry. I'm ill and bored.

WeAreEternal I read your original posts on this & can't believe he's still asking you for anything!

In the run up to our wedding my DH and I had to tell his brother and his GF that they couldn't stay at with us at our house on our wedding night. My DHs aunt and gran had told them they could and that we wouldn't mind!!!

I wasn't have a dig Hecsy! I was trying to be conciliatory about the obvious boredom that you must be feeling.

WeAreEternal - bloody hell He's still asking! The mind boggles! What is with some people?

MIL - who never would willingly come to stay with us, and behaves in our house as though everything is offensive (it is a bit of a tip I grant you) - sent us a link to a bed she'd like us to put in the spare room of our new house. It was a link to the Conran Shop and the bed was about £2000 Needless to say we ignored that particular request.