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To ask for strange things your neighbours have requested to borrow...

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Mrscropley · 07/08/2017 12:31

Years ago my neighbour asked if she could borrow some pj's as hers were dirty and she could find spares. . Yeah no problem, nice black satin pair never really wore as always felt like a wet fish wearing them.
Week later asked again - specifying the same ones as he bf liked her wearing them during sex. . Told her to keep them!! Shock

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Dogsmom · 07/08/2017 22:26

String to tie around a joint of meat on Christmas morning.

LeonoraFlorence · 07/08/2017 22:28

When my DD1 was a baby a neighbour asked to borrow a dummy when she saw my DH leaving for work around 5am. She was really desperate, her new baby had been up all night and wouldn't settle. DD didn't have a dummy but we had been given a packet in a pack of some kind so happily gave those. Ended up inviting her in for a coffee and chatting to her for hours, her DD took the dummy quite happily and settled in my DDs bouncy chair, promptly falling asleep. We didn't dare to move her so she stayed until the baby woke! We're still friendly today, though we've since moved house. She has 2 more children now and I have 4 others Smile

LiquoriceAllsorts86 · 07/08/2017 22:38

Not my neighbour but my Dad's. Asked to borrow 'a splash of his aftershave' Confused

Occasionallyknownasmum · 07/08/2017 22:42

I live in flats so often occurrence
Can I borrow a glass of milk... ( never got that glass back)
Can I borrow your hair dryer
Can I use your Hoover yours sounds more powerful than mine
Can I have a bit if washing up liquid
Spare bed sheets for the kids?
Battery for smoke alarm... oh and can you do it ( they are elderly)
Have you got any fish fingers?
Bleach?
Jesus I could go on lol

PhDPepper · 07/08/2017 22:47

Our dog..

Biffsboys · 07/08/2017 22:58

I asked my lovely neighbour for enough milk to fill my youngest bottle as my older ds was in bed asleep . They filled the bottle , 10 minutes later knocked my door with a 2 litre carton of milk 😀😀

amermaideindesguise · 07/08/2017 23:11

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DrMadelineMaxwell · 07/08/2017 23:34

Jaded, it's in classics.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1735637-Have-you-ever-encountered-anyone-this-cheeky

BabychamSocialist · 08/08/2017 00:17

In our first flat together, some dashing man came round and asked if he could borrow some coffee. Sadly, I was with DP already so we didn't begin a love affair like in the Gold Blend adverts! Grin

Flowersandfootballs · 08/08/2017 00:30

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Ilikethedaffodils · 08/08/2017 01:00

For a few years we lived next door to a very chaotic family who were friendly enough, but always asking to borrow random things, eg milk or other foodstuff, paintbrushes, use of our landline when they'd run out of credit on their mobiles, a needle and thread, sanitary towels (on one occasion, accompanied by TMI about why they were needed), garden tools, screwdrivers, extension cables, often things that most households would have but they didn't.

The saddest thing was that their kids (Primary age) were really sweet and would come round to our house themselves to ask to borrow things they needed to complete their homework eg coloured crayons or if one of them fell over and hurt themselves they'd knock on our door and ask for a plaster because they knew their Mum wouldn't have any.

BlooBagoo · 08/08/2017 01:32

An iron and a landline phone are maybe the weirder ones. I got the iron back at least (different neighbours for each.)

Although another did come to my door once and asked if I could make some toast for her. Hmm

MrsExpo · 08/08/2017 07:38

My pony, so her kids could have a riding lesson ..... (I think she expected me to bring it to their house and trot up and down the street ..... Hmm ....)

.... I think she was also expecting me to do the teaching ....

QuimReaper · 08/08/2017 08:08

I'm not sure why but the tales of neighbours with constant requests are making me feel all sweaty - it isn't about the lending stuff it's about the knocking, it'd make me go spare.

That is so sad Ilike. Particularly so because, a bit like one of the recent "brass neck" threads, the poor little things are being taught really crappy social skills and it might take them years to realise that they're making a nuisance of themselves.

arrrrghhwinehelpswithteens · 08/08/2017 09:54

ok, went and found Eternal's post. Have had to spend several minutes re-attaching my jaw as it not only hit the floor but fell off. Now I want to know if they ever did replace the ruined linen.

Cheekiest ever for me were from the same person.
#1 - I had been rushed into hospital seriously ill. Supposed BFF simply asks hubby 'well you are still going to dog sit, aren't you?'. Didn't ask after me.

#2 - 'we're off to X festival so will be picking up your camping equipment on y date. We need all of it'

#2 was after we'd not heard from her in nearly a year. Apparently she didn't expect me to say no and I was ruining it for them. Tough.

heartstornastray · 08/08/2017 10:14

A key to the meter box. Apparently several neighbours shared a "key" which opened the prepayment gas meter boxes. The neighbours thought we had it, we didn't, i'd never heard about this wonderful key.
I suppose it was a kind of borrowing their own money because come rebate day they wouldn't get as much back, itms Grin

TartanDMs · 08/08/2017 10:16

A beef Oxo cube. Not really something you can borrow. Same neighbour also asked for a spoon of sweet chilli sauce because she didn't need a whole bottle and I was likely to have it in my cupboard Confused

purpleprincess24 · 08/08/2017 11:30

A 'friend' used to park on our drive when they went on holiday, rather than paying the ridiculous parking fees at the airport. They would turn up the night before, expecting to be fed and entertained, before giving them a lift to the airport at some godly unearthly time.

They did this at least twice a year for a minimum of 3 weeks each time. I never got so much as a cheap bunch of petrol station flowers.

One year (after they'd been doing this for around 4 years) we were having a lot of work done to the house and didn't have the room for an extra car due to scaffolding etc .... explained that this time they'd have to make alternative arrangement.

They sent me an invoice for their hotel and car park charges as apparently it was 'my responsibility as they hadn't budgeted for parking' ... NOT MY PROBLEM

Never heard from them again.

Flowersandfootballs · 08/08/2017 11:36

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NoCapes · 08/08/2017 11:54
  • I had a neighbour turn up at my door at around 10:30pm last Xmas eve all frazzled asking if I had any spare kids wrapping paper as she'd run out
  • I've borrowed a nappy from a neighbour
  • I was the neighbour knocking on lots of empty houses one Christmas Day trying to borrow a corkscrew
  • Also had a neighbour in my last house (in a very rough area) bring me her kids one night asking me to feed them as her boyfriend had lost his shit again and threw their dinner everywhere and wouldn't let her make the kids anything
  • A neighbour once borrowed my green bin too when they were doing some gardening as mine had already been done that fortnight
  • Oh and an egg, just one, and she brought me one back the next day too bless her Smile
FindTheCupForMax · 08/08/2017 14:57

Shock purpleprincess you should put that on This Thread I thought it was cheeky anyway, then I got to the last bit and I needed to pick my jaw up off the floor!!! Shock

Whiterabbitears · 08/08/2017 15:49

Sex ladders! Grin they're sex people! Shock

Tigerlovingall · 08/08/2017 16:11

A cork. i. keep a few special as momentos of of celebratory bottles. Neighbour wanted to see if two fitted the ends of a skewer she wanted to use on her bbq?

Like someone upthread, my cat. This was at 7.30 this morning when it was pissing down here and she had a field mouse in her kitchen. But bagpuss was fast asleep on my bed so couldn't oblige..
So I went round with my shrimping net. I was just as useless as the cat would have been. No mouse in sight (praps it had escaped through the open kitchen door?)

lozzylizzy · 08/08/2017 16:15

Potatoes. She had bought all the ingredients a jar of sauce to make potato bake for tea but had accidently forgotten the potatoes. I said no as they were needed for our dinner --and there was a co-op five minutes walk away

Looklock · 08/08/2017 16:30

Shock so people inject the acid from lemons?

Or have I missed the point?

Either way, I will not be providing my neighbour with anymore lemons. Although she is 72 and loves to bake but you never know!