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In light of a mumsnetters new found fame.....

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Catvsworld · 11/05/2016 13:41

Your most grabby stories

I will go first my son who was 13 at the time was invited to a theme park I didn't think nothing of it and said he could go but he would pass my number to the boys mum to sort out how they are getting there meet up times ect

The night before I get a text saying just to let you know it will be £80 for the following

Ticket
Fast pass
And lunch

Before I could respond I then got a text saying I understand you will have 3 spare seats in the back could you pick up .....and ........and ........ Followed by there address its all been sorted wtf

I had to tell my son sadly he wouldn't go as she invited him and we didn't have £80 spare and even if we did have the money to go no way would we be paying for a fast pass and definitely wouldn't be leaving a hour early to pick up the other boys as they didn't even leave near us let alone near each other o sadly it meant the other 3 boys couldn't go but why on earth she felt she could arrange lifts when she hadn't asked me and for boys I or my son didn't even no

Grabby birthday lady

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Witchend · 13/05/2016 09:42

Grabby relative who lived an hour away phoned at 8am:
"Pfb has started walking we need stairgates, you need to bring them over straight away."

Luckily I answered the phone not dh who can be totally a mug at times so I told them that I'd promised our stairgate to a friend who was picking them up later that day.

Irony was too that pfb hadn't crawled, "walking" in this case actually meant had managed to do a step while holding onto a finger in each hand and he didn't walk except like that until 6 months later at 20 months.

WhoAteAllThePies · 13/05/2016 09:44

I hope you commented on her page or home day care reviews about what she did!

cranberryx · 13/05/2016 09:55

Screw bad reviews!

plum you should have phoned the police and reported it as theft! You'd have got them back pretty quickly as your sister wouldn't have wanted her business jeopardised with a criminal record!! Stealing from a child. Fucking disgusting!

Applejack29 · 13/05/2016 10:20

Some of these are awful!

Abusive ex refused to pay a penny of child maintenance for our DD, his reason, and I quote: 'how would that benefit me?!' Twat.

PlumPurple · 13/05/2016 11:09

Yep I should have stood up for myself more. I was young and naive and just accepted it too easily. I did leave a bad review on her new business page though lol.

veryseriousgirl · 13/05/2016 12:06

Mine is a wedding and grabbiness all in one!

A couple of years ago, DH was best man at a friend's destination wedding. The bride's mother was making a huge fuss that she was treating everyone, and guests shouldn't worry about paying for anything.
The night before the wedding the Bride and her friends were having a pampering night. It was a very small wedding, and somehow, the only female guests not invited to the pamper night were me and the wife of one of the groom's other friends. MOB (mother of bride) asked my DH to pick up a bottle of champagne for them to drink at the pamper night, and we agreed with the other uninvited couple that we'd get a second bottle and drink it together ourselves.
When he arrived to drop off the champagne, MOB literally snatched both bottles out of his hands and shut the door in his face with no word of thanks and without offering any payment. We laughed it off and found the other couple and all went to buy a third bottle that we could enjoy together.
The next morning, the MOB had booked an extremely flashy car to drive the bride to the wedding venue (and to return with the newlyweds) and a minibus to take everyone else.
When the flash car arrived, MOB told DH that he needed to give the driver 400 euro for the day. He asked if she had the money and she snapped at him "no, just give him the money." DH got the driver to take him to a nearby cashpoint, got the money out (plus a bit for drinks later) and gave him his 400 euro.
When he got back to the hotel, the minibus had arrived. MOB told DH that he was in charge of requesting 20e from each guest to cover the cost of the minibus. DH refused, telling her that she'd made a big song and dance of telling everyone that all costs were included, so if she wanted a 20e contribution, she'd have to ask for it herself. MOB then asked DH if he could he give the driver 200e and she'd sort him out later.
Wedding was beautiful, everyone got to the venue and back and bride and groom were thrilled with the flash car, and no guests were asked to contribute to the cost of the minbus.
Reception was lovely, though DH reports that MOB started grumbling about the bill for dinner and saying she was going to ask everyone to contribute and, to save embarrassment, the Groom's mother ended up paying for the meal.
The next day, MOB invited everyone to go on a little outing and, once again, tapped my husband up for cash to pay for all the guests. DH naively agreed and shelled out another 200e.
The next day we were all flying home and DH approached MOB about getting all or some of the now 800e we'd shelled out in wedding expenses (on top of our flights and our hotel room, which, we learned when we checked out, was also not included). She replied that she didn't know what he was talking about and that he'd agreed to pay for the cars and the outing and she wouldn't be paying us back.
We had been planning to give the bride and groom a present when we all got back, but instead, DH had to have a gentle word (a few months later) that we'd taken a pretty big financial hit thanks to MOB and couldn't afford anything else on top of what we'd already given. Groom was mortified, but said his new MIL pulled stunts like that all the time.

BerylStreep · 13/05/2016 13:15

Whoateallthepies are you OK?

I'm not struggling to read or understand anyone's posts thank you. You do however seem to be struggling with understanding humour.

Jeez Louise . As you were.

MiddleClassProblem · 13/05/2016 14:40

It's crazy how common these grabby people are!

blindsider · 13/05/2016 16:47

Middleclassproblem

With your username, I wonder whether prevalent might have been a better choice of word?

MiddleClassProblem · 13/05/2016 17:07

Ha!

Finelytuned · 13/05/2016 17:23

It was my MIL's birthday and DP and I took PIL out for a fancy dinner run by a famous chef that MIL had been dropping hints talking about for ages and though not the kind of place DP and I would ever go to ourselves, we thought what the hell it's a once in a lifetime treat for MIL. We ordered and paid for a taxi to PIL's to pick them up and took flowers and chocolates too. Later DP got a phone call from FIL not to say thank you but to say "I'm assuming you forgot to bring MIL's present but she's looking forward to getting it when you next come to visit. WTF???!

Now that I think of it, am now wondering whether we were BU...??

MiddleClassProblem · 13/05/2016 17:48

Cheeky mare!

ScreenshottingIsNotJournalism · 13/05/2016 18:09

Finelytuned itchy pound shop bath sets beautifully wrapped for her from now on… since she only counts "presents" not amazing gift experiences!

Bring me next time

Finelytuned · 13/05/2016 18:27

screenshotting

I got her a mug for her last birthday

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