Cheeky requests that make you want to scream

[MeMySonAndl]

What is wrong with people?

This morning, a friend I have not seen in almost 2 years called me. I didn't see the call until lunch time, rang her back and send her a text but didn't reply.

She has just texted back saying that she needed me to give her a lift to the mechanic (WTF?)

Had another one this week, when I had to tell "no" to another mum 14 times as I couldn't have her kid around and take them to an activity because I was working.

She took offence that I couldn't understand that she couldn't take him herself because she was working. Why on earth does she think that I should take time off and earn less money to entertain her kid???

These posts are outrageous!
But thank you all for sharing these stories and keeping me entertained on my grim night shift!

Thank you AlleyCat!!!!

I run my own business and was approached by another business owner to get her some supplies using one of my accounts 'at cost price'. No offer to reciprocate the favour either!

I gently refused and offered her a bulk discount but no, I didn't plan on sacrificing my profit margin to enable her to make money from my hard earned contracts.

Plus she has to kids in private school and I'm a single mum with no help from DD's dad.

Years ago, my brother, (not d brother because he's quite the arsehole), announced that he had gotten a job and had told his children to come to mine after school every day for me to look after them.

I obviously told him where to go. Then he turned around to my niece and said "look at that. Aunty Mags doesn't want to look after you."

I smiled at niece and said "he's right. I don't want to. I love you but I'm not a childminder."

It gets better...

Monday rolls around, there's a knock on my door and nephew is standing there! Niece's brother, obviously.

I brought him in, fed him then returned him to brother's house with an earful (he hadn't started this new "job" yet, which I suspected didn't even exist, but was getting them used to the routine, apparently.)

I warned him and the children that I wouldn't be answering the door the next day.

This same brother rang round all of us the NIGHT HE WAS TRAVELLING TO THE AIRPORT to get someone to have his dc while he went away (yes, really). My other fool of a sister took them.

He went to New York for four days and didn't even give her so much as a keyring.

Not mine, but my friend has a live-in Nanny. As part of the nanny's contract, she is supposed to do 2 nights of babysitting per week, but rarely is asked to do it.

The nanny does some babysitting for other parents from the school, and mentioned to DF that one parent hadn't paid her. DF sends other parent a text to say that the nanny had mentioned she hadn't been paid. Would it be easier for DF to pay her, and the get the money back from other parent at a later date, so nanny isn't out of pocket for too long.

Other parent texts back to say the nanny had mentioned she hadn't been asked to babysit for the host family that week, so her night of babysitting at the other house could come out of her two contracted nights, and she wouldn't be paying

And I was contacted by a friend from way back when, who I haven't spoken to properly in years (other than occasional facebook comments etc) to say her and her husband had booked some theatre tickets in London and could they and their 3 kids come and stay. Yes, that's fine.
She replied to thank me, and say their youngest doesn't like dogs, so please can we make sure ours can stay somewhere else for the weekend. Erm, no.
And she will send a list of the food they like, so I can get it from the shops.
Ah sorry, we are busy that weekend after all.

I know a piss taker who will then tag people in to passive aggressive whines about "you know who your true friends are in times of need..." BS on FB!!
She also doesn't know the difference between 'can' and 'should' e.g.
"Mutual friend X has a lawnmower, she should cut my grass."
Me: "Oh yeah, she could/can..."
"That's what I said..."

Umm no love. You said something else, it slipped out.

I'm a GP and I got a demand to write a letter about someone's neighbour's laminate flooring- and she wanted it done for free!!

(Obvs not really - and not rtft so sorry if someone got in there before me!)

rebeccacloud9 ....i am a gp and strangely i got the same demand...

good one Rebecca That was the most absurd aibu thread I've read in ages.
If anyone's interested, it's called, "is this woman at my doctor's trying to rip me off?" in Aibu today..

I'm a childminder and a couple of years ago, a single mum from the local school came to visit me with her four kids enquiring about spaces. She was very pushy, and the youngest child had massive behavioural problems. She wanted a minder pretty quickly but I said I'd let her know. I had a massive gut feeling that she was going to be trouble, and I didn't have spaces for her children on two of the days anyway so I emailed her- the only means of contacting her I had- to let her know.
The following Monday morning, I took my minded children to school. As I dropped the reception child off, the teacher said "Oh hookie, you're picking up XXXXX's children today aren't you?"
To cut a long story short.....she'd dropped all four kids off at school and told the teachers that I would be collecting them.....THEN WENT STRAIGHT TO THE
AIRPORT TO CATCH A PLANE TO SPAIN FOR TWO WEEKS! I had no signed contracts, medical information, contact numbers...nothing.I didn't even know the kids names! She'd even told their Dad I was having them and to collect them from me at 6.00 that night!
I refused to take them and told the teachers to contact their father to collect them.Which they did.He then rang me, wanting know what the problem was and when I told him, he just laughed and said "She does things like that all the time!"
Also found out that the children had been in the after school club, but had been asked to leave due to their behaviour.
Ironically, the mum owned a children's nursery.....I'm sure she'd have loved it if it happened there!

I thought I didn't have any freeloading friends until I remembered I do! Technically they're not my friends they're Dp's (hoping this doesn't out me as DP will kill me)

So friends who live far away from us, are coming to see some family in our town. We offer them a place to stay as a) we have the space and b) DP is a soft arse who can't say no. We were all going out for a meal with some other friends so needed to be out of the house by 7. This included all getting ready and them getting their DS ready (who was 18 months at time) - they text us to say they'll be there at 4pm. Great we think, plenty of time for us to have a drink at the house, catch up and get ready.
6pm they eventually turn up, having been to the shop to get beer on the way. She comes in asking if she can cook DS some food. I say yes presuming she has just bought something from the shop....no she opens our freezer and rummages around until she comes up with some chicken nuggets and chips, goodness knows how long they'd been there! I'm absolutely gobsmacked! They went to the supermarket to buy booze and forgot to buy food for their child so I'm meant to provide it! Cheeky sods. then the next morning, they wouldn't bloody leave even though DP and I had plans and they knew about them!
The next time they stayed (I know we're idiots) I made sure that there was no 'kiddy' food in the house (I don't have kids and my nephew and nieces very rarely travel to mine for tea so no big hardship) and she kicked off saying if she'd known I wasn't going to FEED HER CHILD for FREE, she'd have bought him something at the pub they stopped off at. ARGHH they are now banned from our house.

Oh and my cousin expected me to go to her 21st party (and drive most people about to and from the venue as I would be BF and not drinking) which is the week after I'm due. When I said no, I probably wouldn't be up to it but DP would probably go and take photos of baby etc, she went into a huff and called me selfish. oh sorry, I didn't realise I had to take into account everybody else's birthday when I fell pregnant! My birthday is 2 weeks after DS is due, don't see me bloody whining about it.

Absolutely gobsmacked at these posts

IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece - If you had been doing me a favour by looking after my DC I wouldn't have given a shit whether you stuck them in front of the TV and fed them biscuits all day

My sister had a mother at her school who was shameless about getting other families to have her children. She never returned the favour and pulled the several hours late for pick-up stunt as well. Her arrival in the school playground was hilarious: it was like watching a dog run into a flock of pigeons. Everywhere she walked, parents scattered in all directions before she could start whining at them for childcare favours.

I went to visit a (former) friend with 3 young DC- had no DC of my own and a bit clueless.

Friend 'Fancy a Dominoes for much, Pog? I'll need to collect it though'
Me: 'Great- I've only got a £20 though'

Friend then leaves me with kids FOR THREE HOURS. No phone signal so actually quite worried. Kids formed a tribe and virtually broke me in this time.

Friend strolls in 'Sorry, bumped into some friends in the pub'. Hands me a cold pizza (no change) then makes herself a sarnie? She wasn't having any pizza herself, it was just an elaborate bid for freedom!! Turns out she was cheating on her bf, I reckon that's where she was...

I had a joint party for dd1 and dd2 for their 4th and 7th birthdays. Funds were tight (hence the joint party) so I scrimped on the venue but made sure I spent on the food and entertainment. I filled party bags for each child plus 2 extra just incase little brothers or sisters showed up.

All of the kids arrived and one of the kids turned up with her 8 brothers and sisters. Mum asked if she could leave them all, I said no as her youngest was only two plus there were lots of little ones already so I can't watch them all. She stayed, sulking.

At the end of the party I started to give out the bags. The girl with all the brothers and sisters took a handful of bags, I explained it was one each. Mum insisted that all her kids got a bag as they all attended the party, I said sorry there isn't enough. After a few mins of trying to explain her other 8 children weren't even invited to the party she demanded her present back (only brought one present). DP didn't want to upset Dd1 so told her to take the bloody party bags and go, he then drove to the shop to buy bags of sweets for the kids who didn't get one. Luckily we ordered a big cake so they got some of that too.

This mum now ignores me in the playground but I don't give a shit lol

I help a number of friends out with ad hoc childcare and they are always very polite in enquiring. They always apologise for bothering me if I can't help and are very grateful if I can. On the odd occasion I have needed help with childcare, they have always bent over backwards to reciprocate.

However, I do have a few cheeky requests from a few years back that still make me . The first was on my wedding day; DH's uncle had come with DH's tween and teenaged cousins (who I'd never met). At some point I realise they are in my hotel room, having their hair styled by my hairdresser. Apparently their father had found out which room we were in and sent them up with £10 each to "get their hair done". I was most annoyed with the hairdresser who was being paid hundreds of pounds to do my hair, which ended up being done in a bit of a rush. One of the girls had her hair all curled and pulled into a sort of half-ponytail. It was so lovely that I asked if I could have that instead, only to be told that there wasn't enough time left!

The second, and worst, was back when we had 2 young children and a nanny. DH's extended family (not MIL/FIL/SIL/BIL who are all lovely) kept trying to get our nanny to look after another family baby, at first for free, then by ambushing the poor woman directly and suggesting she could "make a little money on the side". Our DC were only 1 and 2 at the time, and we had expressly told them that we did not want any sort of nanny-share. They also suggested to MIL that when our nanny took the DC to visit her, she was 'not working' and that she could clean their house instead. They suggested this in front of our nanny

I work from home pt, however part of my role involves frequent site visits, quite often at short notice i.e I get a phonecall at 9am and am expected to be on site by 1pm.

Its the sort of place where you are not even allowed to bring children into the car park let alone the site as all people in the car and the car itself have to be registered on the system. System registration isnt an instant process either.

That still doesnt stop one person I know ringing me for childcare 'favours' when her childcare lets her down which it does quite frequently. Illegal childminder but thats a different story

Last time she rang she suggested that I gave her dc a comic and a pack of sweets and left them in the car while I was at work. And then went batshit crazy when I refused. I'm not even allowed to leave my own dc in the car while I nip into the office, let alone leave dc that arent mine in the car for hours on end.

madmags I don't think he should have bought a key ring, I think a mug would have been better. Defies belief to do that to your children.

I can only imagine reading some of these threads that you are too kind for your own good. Have you checked someone hasn't stuck a note to your back saying Kick Me??

My Office manager's husband was invited out by his oldest friend onto his boat for the day, when he got there his 'friend' had invited a female friend also. They got about 5 minutes out when his friend 'realised' he had left something on the jetty and asked her DH to nip off the boat to get whatever he had left behind. As soon as he jumped onto the Jetty the guy reversed his boat back into the Harbour and pushed off. If someone did that to me I would never speak to them again.

I had an email out of the blue from a friend on a Thursday asking if we would like to have the middle of his 3 DCs for the weekend. My DH could apparently pick her up at the station the after work next day, bring her home with him and wouldn't it be lovely for our DD to have a chum for the weekend? Um no, DD doesn't actually like said child ("she's too whiny" apparently), Friday night DH usually has a few drinks after work to decompress from the week with colleagues and we had everyday stuff like grandparents visiting, opticians and a birthday party.

I was a little 🤔 during the weekend when through the magic of Facebook I discovered his missus was on a yoga retreat and he had obviously successfully farmed all three DC out as there was a picture of the Sunday papers, a posh coffee and an annoying hashtag along the lines of #perfectsunday.

My DP is a dentist and will see friends and their close families for free (or at cost only if there are expensive materials or lab bills involved) as a favour, and will work outside normal surgery opening hours so that they can be seen quickly.

All well and good, except when people he's not seen for 10 years start texting at all hours demanding that they are seen immediately for free tooth whitening or some such non-essential, non-urgent, costly treatment because they're 'friends'. They then get arsey when he explains he can't do it for free or slot them in as an emergency but will gladly discuss treatment options and pricing if they go through the receptionist and book an appointment like everyone else.

Surprisingly, they rarely do.

We all had a uni meet up, so we went to the local pizza restaurant for a meal. About 20 of us! So when it comes to pay, we are putting our money in + service charge in the hat. One woman says "i'll pay on my card and take the money there". We later worked out she ran off with the tips! (she actually got paid more!)

My Nan always said, "for you want something done, ask a busy person" single mums are normally pretty busy 😉