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Your cf of the day story please.

242 replies

Aprilshowersnowastorm · 24/09/2018 15:15

Just got into my car to do the school run-(not parked right outside) , glanced at my front door and see a man standing there, stared at him while he put out his cigarette in the ashtray my ds keeps tucked beside a plant pot!! Then he walked off!!
Speechless tbh!!
Who has been your cf today?

OP posts:
Charlie97 · 24/09/2018 16:06

@Toastiesalldaylong that's not a. F, that's a vile person.

I'm so sorry for your losses Thanks

Bubbaduck · 24/09/2018 16:07

Flowers Toasties. Your neighbour is a total knob.

StrangeLookingParasite · 24/09/2018 16:10

Sorry, no idea why my story is a fucking three-part saga.

   I thought you were singing us a song.
happinessischocolate · 24/09/2018 16:11

A friend came round last night with a bottle of wine, she'd had another row with her bf, I already had a bottle open so we drank that one, and then whilst I was in the loo she opened her bottle or so I thought until it was time for her to leave and she took her bottle out of the fridge and took it home 🙁 she'd opened another one of my bottles earlier, I'll be prepared if I ever decide to let her in again 🤨

Lunde · 24/09/2018 16:14

There is a special session at the pool on Mondays for people with disabilities/other conditions to do individual water exercise programmes designed individually by physios depending on specific needs. Some people have carers in the water with them - I guess to assist where necessary - however it usually ends up with the carers standing in a large circle to have a loud chat but effectively blocking people trying to do their physio programmes!

LanaorAna2 · 24/09/2018 16:16

Prince Andrew for demanding we fork out £2m for his DD's wedding. Beats a pay bar any day.

HotSauceCommittee · 24/09/2018 16:17

Ive been giving a colleague from work with a disability lifts from work because she prefers to avoid paying for taxis. I feel bad for her, she’s lonely and it’s not of my way, but she’s started changing her shifts to coincide with mine and spamming me with loads of e-mails at work. I had 8 this morning and I feel really bad, but I just wanted to help her. I feel she is badgering me and taking advantage and I want her to back off. It would be fine to give her the odd lift, but I don’t want all the correspondence and the shift changing and it will really upset her if I tell her. I feel like a right bastard.

Penguinpower · 24/09/2018 16:18

I was doing the weekly grocery shop and I was nearing the end with a full trolley. I turned to get a bottle of wine if the shelf and when I turned back a woman was rummaging in my trolley. I said excuse me that’s my trolley, thinking maybe she thought it was abandoned. She said I know but I wanted your cheese. Then walked off with my Brie! I was so shocked I just let her and went back and got myself more brie (and another bottle of wine)

Havaina · 24/09/2018 16:23

HotSauce - you need to put a stop to it now! Shall we draft a text for you?

Balaboosteh · 24/09/2018 16:25

So-called “friend” and colleague moaning on Facebook about being invited to speak unpaid at conferences and the like. It’s a valid complaint except I didn’t hear her complaining when I worked for her for free.

Iwantaunicorn · 24/09/2018 16:29

Bought a new pram online, it was delivered earlier. Open the box, get it out, and it’s broken. Call the company up, and the cheeky so and so on the other end of the phone told me to call the manufacturer and get them to deal with it! Told him that it’s fresh out of the box, they sold it so they can return it and sort it out with the manufacturer, not my problem, he then processed the return.

Thelastredwinegum · 24/09/2018 16:30

Toasties - she's a cow (to be polite) x

Toastiesalldaylong · 24/09/2018 16:30

😂😂😂😂😂 god do you know what I think I might start being a CF! They just don't give a crap and the rest of us are far too polite to do anything about it so they always get what they want! This is majorly outing and I've posted about it before under another name but in our old house we had a gate in our garden that allowed us direct access to the river behind the street. The river is very scenic so people walk their dogs and cycle etc along there a lot. A neighbour (I seem to be cursed with NDN) put a letter through my door that the street had a meeting and decided that my gate would now be open to anyone to access the river. So people would be okay to walk through my garden (past my french doors from the kitchen) and through my gate. 🤔 I objected on the grounds of privacy and MY garden etc and found out there never was any street meeting she had just decided herself!!! I should point out the gate only would save you walking two minutes out of the street and around the houses.... anyway it started a huge saga of never ending notes back and forth 😂🙈

Rhiannon13 · 24/09/2018 16:31

I'm a childminder so can't detail today's CF-ery however much I'd like to.

RibbonAurora · 24/09/2018 16:39

So sorry for your losses, Toastie, and also because you have such an oblivious twat for a neighbour. I'm also baffled by the OP's ashtray fag-stubber - what's so cf-ery about that?

FrustratedBeyond · 24/09/2018 16:40

toastie wtf are you a CF magnet?? Lao Sorry to laugh but that's just crazy!!

spiderlight · 24/09/2018 16:40

Toasties So very sorry for your lost and absolutely gobsmacked at your neighbour's sheer nerve and insensitivity.

FrustratedBeyond · 24/09/2018 16:40

lmao that should say!!

blackteasplease · 24/09/2018 16:42

Not today but- a mum on holiday recently asked us (me and two kids) if we wanted to go for a swim in shared pool with them. Was non lifeguards so needs two adults at any time. Great, kids happy and meant my Mum could get a break from us. Miles later than arranged, mum send the dd (7) to our door. Calls out from a distance " oh you don't mind taking my dd for a swim while I get the dinner on do you?". Yes, actually, you invited us to swim with you! Explain that my Mum isn't coming and that she had asked us to go WITH her. She makes up loads of guff about oh well I'll just be going back and forwards then. Er, no, I'm not responsible for your 7 yo in the water and why would yhis be ok with you- I met you today! Then she says she will ask another family to mind her dd - a couple with two babies! In the end she sits by the pool with a face like thunder. Tried to cut that story short and phone won't do paragraphs

DancingDot · 24/09/2018 16:42

Love a wee CF story! I've been laid up with a rotten cold today whilst a delightful friend took my DC for lunch and to the park.... so I haven't encountered any CFs today. I agree though that I would like to have a bit of their brass neck. They must just really not care what other people think of them.

nomorepeoplepleasing · 24/09/2018 16:48

Last week, if that counts...There is a shop next to my house and the shop owners have a right of way through my yard to the nearby road. Once a week they take their bins through our yard to the road for emptying. A few weeks ago their 3 very large industrial bins were left in my yard, crushing some of my plants. I assumed they'd just forgotten to take them back but over the week saw the shop owners coming across my yard daily to put things in the bin. I tried to have a word with them but didn't seem to be understood (they don't speak great English). I called the council and was informed that they had made an arrangement with the industrial refuse collection people that they could be collected from the yard as it's very near the road. Apparently they were planning to remove the plants that are 'in the way'. The man from the council seemed to think that I was being very awkward in insisting that this was not acceptable and tried to persuade me that I could move my plants elsewhere. They have been moved now but I expect a frosty greeting in my local shop!

Aprilshowersnowastorm · 24/09/2018 16:49

Looking back I guess my now ex friend was a cf, always saying she was skint, had £2.?? bank etc, dc needed this /that etc. So I always paid when we went for a cake /coffee /lunch, even gave her change for car parks when we met up (I only work PT and def not flush!) ..One day she turned up in a Mercedes convertible!! Felt a real fool.

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Fromage · 24/09/2018 16:52

My opposite neighbours have a disabled car space in front of their house, what with them having disabilities and a blue badge and all. Some arsehole keeps parking in it and when they pull up and can't park, they have to go knocking on a door up the road to fetch the shithead, who then says "I'll move it every time you ask, you know" and sees no problem parking there if it's empty because he will kindly move his car when they ask, like he's doing them a favour! In an unrelated incident, I'm sure, a local child (presumably) up-ended an ice cream in the middle of his bonnet and now his car looks like it's a transunicorn and is fooling no one. I've taken pictures for my neighbours.

Toastiesalldaylong · 24/09/2018 16:52

@FrustratedBeyond without a doubt yes. I think they sense that I am an absolute wuss and will not say anything as I have been brought up with the entirety useless British way of avoiding conflict at all costs. I could fill a hundred threads with the amount of CFery I have encountered. I have not learnt my lesson but I am slowly getting better!! 😂

BitOutOfPractice · 24/09/2018 16:53

Not today but Friday. Queuing for a ferry. It was very busy as two previous ferrieshad been cancelled because of the high winds. The cars started moving in various lines around us when the man in the line next to us - who had literally just arrived - got out of his car and started moving the cones to get through first. Cheeky bugger. My usually very mild mannered DP leapt out of the car and told him off. He sheepishly put the cones back. And no, he didn’t get on the ferry because we were the last people allowed on Grin