to ask what's the most selfish thing you've ever heard is?

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I know we’ve had the cheekiest request/brass neck, most pretentious and a few others here, and while they’re shocking in how some people can think, let alone say, them out loud they do generally make for giggles after the initial WTF shock wears off. So can anyone think of the most selfish thing they’ve ever heard of that they’d like to share? I only remembered this one recently and I was honestly stunned into silence at the time because I didn’t believe I’d heard it right.

Years ago, friend who was a bit of a princess. No real other friends(became obvious why). Met up and she had known I was worried about something. Told her what and I got this response, all in one stream of talk.

“OMG that’s wonderful news howl laughter you Mum just has cancer!!!I was convinced you were going to say you were pregnant and I was thinking how self-absorbed of you because I wouldn’t have anyone to go out with or drink with, and you’re my best friend and how could you DO that to me? OH THE RELIEF,hahahahaha, promise you won’t ever do that to me!”

Once I got my jaw off the floor I convinced myself it must have been a nervous panic way of saying “we’ll go have a drink whenever you’re stressed about it all”. I wasn’t.I can laugh about it now and DM ended up being fine. Anyone else got anything like this they can laugh at now?

Wow I hope you aren't still friends!

One that always stuck with me was when I was on the post natal ward after having DC1. Chatting with the woman opposite, she was in her late 30s and had suffered infertility for several years. She had little twin boys after IVF. They were utterly gorgeous, snuggled together in one crib and she was clearly besotted with them. Her Mum arrived to visit, looked in the crib and said, very loudly, 'Well there goes my chance of ever having a granddaughter.'

This was my mil just after my dh had been diagnosed with a chronic neurological condition 'I'm pleased it's him that's ill and not my other son' even if you think it,you don't say it to his bloody wife!

Bert, how could she even think of it though, with two sons?

I thought one of the worst was something I read today, where a MIL thought the OP's six month old baby should go and live with her - no reason, just wanted it.

My Dad never paid child maintenance simply because he hated my Mum. Would frequently leave me for HOURS in the back of a car as a child whilst he had business meetings on the odd occasion he actually turned up to have me for the weekend.

He invited me to the USA for his wedding (I was 20) and got shitty when I "only" spent 3 full days helping him renovate the house he'd just bought there, stating I was "earning my keep". As a child I frequently had to do his ironing, hoover & clean his business premises etc to "pay my way" despite seeing him perhaps 4 weekends a year, and him not paying maintenance.

Every year he would eat all of my Easter Eggs that relatives on his side had bought me, before I came to visit. He also took any cash that I was given at birthdays/christmas to put into "savings" that I never saw again.

At one point he fiddled his tax returns to say that he received £0 income, forcing my Mum to pay HIM maintenance despite having bought A PLANE and a Porsche.

I have loads of these. Most selfish person I know. Took me a while to figure it out though.

RentAndBills - you win. He sounds completely selfish. Do you still see him?

When I was 5 years old I remember being very excited about Santa. My mother sat me and my siblings down and told us "Santa isn't real, Mummy buys the presents."

When my grandma asked her why she had to spoil the magic of Christmas for her young children my mother said "why should some silly made up old man get the credit for presents I BOUGHT!?!"

I shouldnt post this but its appropriate.

On my stilborn pfbs first birthday my bf rang me to see if i was ok. After asking she started telling me how ill she was. All pregnancy symptoms and i knew she had been ttc. Some symptoms were similar to mine with pfb so i just said 'you're not pregnant are you?'.

Yes, she bloody was. Great for her but a different day would have been better for me.

My brother charging our mother fuel money (in the brand new car she'd paid for) to take her for chemo. Haven't spoken to the cunt since.

It's a MIL one (sorry)

A week after my Mum's funeral, a couple of weeks before Mother's day.

"You can come to us on Mother's day, as you won't have anything better to do"

One of my friends was dying and I was mid house move....my supposed best friend called me a cunt directly in a Facebook status because....she was all hurty wurty that I wasn't supportive enough about her PhD application.....that bitch has been deleted. I dont mess about.

Got to be my MIL

When I was pregnant with ds she insisted on being the one to take me to my hospital appoitments and labour day.

Insisted.

Wouldn't not let me ring my family for lifts

Fine no problem....until 18 months after his birth she suddenly asked for £70. When we asked why it was for the lifts she gave us.

When we refused she actually said to Dh"after everything I've done for you, after every toy I bought you as a kid, you won't give me £70?"

If she had said she would give us lifts for fuel money, I would have asked my parents instead.

"We're not inviting my parents to our wedding; they look too scruffy."

Big wedding, over 100 guests, lovely parents.
Who got invited in the end after siblings went off at him. And didn't look scruffy at all.

Friend of 20+ years dumped me as bridesmaid by text because she said to her 'friendship should be easy' and that I was basically too much work/ too difficult for her and she didn't want me at her wedding.

To put it into context; My dad had recently died in a horribly, horribly harrowing way, not at all peaceful. Shortly after this I had a baby, but it was an absolutely horrendous birth that left me hospitalised for over a week so all and all I wasn't in 'top wedding form'.

Shallow cow showed her true colours.

Friend of a friend's parents were loaded (multiple houses, full time nannies, very well to do etc etc). When her younger bro was born with downs they had him adopted as didn't want them spoiling their "perfect" family. Went on to have 2 more "normal" kids. Wealth of family is relevant as they could have easily afforded all the help and support money could buy.

Two things spring to mind as the top contenders.
An overheard conversation between two mums in a shop I used to work in.
"And the doctor said I had to keep him isolated for two weeks! I'm not staying in the house for two weeks, it's only scarlet fever!"
Err...
When Dh's dad passed away, DH had been living with him and was basically caring for him. It wasn't massively onerous, DH was able to work, but he did put a number of things in his life on hold due to his dad.
FIL had a heart attack, clung on to life for several months, but eventually died due to a stroke. DH was devastated.
DH's half brothers wanted to sell the house ASAP, DH was struggling with grief. None of them did anything to help him sort the house or find him somewhere else to live. We were relayed a message from one of his brothers which was: -
"When are you going to sell the bloody house, I've got a conservatory I need to finish paying for!"
Yup, he wanted DH to make himself homeless for the sake of his sodding conservatory. Thankfully one of the other brothers stepped in and bought DH's share which enabled us to have a deposit on a starter home.
We're not in contact with his family any more, funnily enough.

My mother not only spent all the money saved for me, didn't pay a penny for my sister and I who lived with our dad but as soon as I turned 18 she took dad to court so he would pay for child no 3. So she got maintenance for 1 child and didn't pay for 2. When I was at uni she didn't give me as much as a tin of beans but said she was disappointed with my result

A woman who is so bitter and twisted towards her exh and his wife that when their DD went to live with her dad (after going back and forth a few times because her mother kept guilting her back) she told the poor girl that she couldn't have the best of both worlds and she isn't a 'weekend mum'
No amount of begging and pleading from her DD would change her mind - she hasn't seen her for nearly two years and still tells everyone that her exh and his wife have brainwashed the kid selfish cunt

Mum had cancer and my 'D'Sis had done a bunk as usual when she thought something may be asked of her. I had no phone number for her (pre mobiles) but I knew where she worked. I rang her to ask her to come and see Mum as she was so ill and sister had not been near in months. 'D'Sis had a new boyfriend and said, 'Well the problem is that by the time we have driven there, spent and hour and driven back, it's half a day gone'. I put the phone down. DMum died two weeks later. She was similar with my DDad when he was ill. I am NC ten years now and can heartily recommend it as a response to this sort of twattery.

Both my parents went back to work the day after I was born and didn't see me again for. 5 weeks (dad 6 weeks). Claimed it was a "critical time for business that couldn't be interrupted by the birth of a child". Maybe it wasn't selfish as much as a simple fact that they were more interested in work than their children (albeit I have four older siblings and two younger...). Ugh.

My DD's dad asked his mother to pay his child support for him (which he at first didn't want to pay due to "never seeing them" - not that he wanted to!). She actually did it as well. I have a good relationship with his mother now and was so mortified when I found out (I had taken the money thinking it was from him!).

My mum passed away last year, I was the executor of her estate. My OH and I cleared the house, got it ready to sell, hired skips and went to the tip. On hearing that the house was sold STC, my sister text me with 'I hear that the house is sold, where is my money'
I haven't heard from her since the sale went through and I transferred her share of the proceeds to her.

DPs sister is an absolute selfish cunt. She fucked off on a 'once in a lifetime trip' when her 16 year old dd had just given birth. Think baby was about 2 weeks old when she went. She left my terminally ill mil watching over her dd, newborn and 13 year old ds. A 2 week trip turned into a 4 week trip. Mil passed away 2 weeks later. Mil was ill while she was gone, seriously ill and I ended up with the 13 year old at mine, plus running back and forwards 8 miles away making sure mil and 16 year old with a nb had what they needed.

I really didn't mind doing all this but when sil came back she said 13 year old should have behaved, 16 year old shouldn't have gotten pg if she couldn't cope and mil was playing on her terminal illness.

We went NC after mils funeral. And are almost NC with Fil who is as selfish as his daughter. He blew the 60k mil left him in 8 months. Then came to us for handouts. When do was seriously ill on HDU after a 6 hour.op and it was still touch and go he asked for £20 from me. Dp is self employed so as well as worrying about him I was pretty anxious about money too. I was that shocked I gave it him.

Cunts the pair of them.

My neighbour treated me to a long winded rant about how her mother in law was selfish as she wouldn't watch neighbours children more often and was 'using' the fact that she was recovering from a heart attack and surgery to fit a stent? Shunt? To not drive over and help more, this was 3 weeks ago- 4 days ago her mum in law was found unresponsive and taken to hospital- she's had a stroke,is still in intensive care and it's not looking good. Neighbour asked me to look after her children last night and as i already had my three and my friends 2 I said I couldn't, sorry, but I know a lovely babysitter- neighbour grunted that she wasn't paying for it and slammed her front door!

some of these stories are awful - I thought my SIL was bad, accusing MIL of being selfish for not babysitting when she'd had major surgery.

It has to be my sister.

My BIL and her have an odd relationship - can't have lived in the same city for more than a year out of the last ten (and for some of that my sister was abroad). Not so much working away as setting up home on their own hundreds of miles away. Anyway, a few years ago my mother was talking to BIL and asked if he was going to see his parents any time soon. He said he'd love to, but would have to wait til after payday as he had no money (was on a good salary, but rent and travelling to see my sister, who was supposed to have moved down when he got the job but then decided she couldn't be bothered ate it up).

A few days before my sister had been "complaining" to my mother that she had so much money she didn't know what to do with it all.

Er - give some to your husband, maybe?