CF tightarsedness

[BorisAndDoris]

Inspired by another thread, I'd love to hear your experiences of CFers being tight arses, never putting their greedy paws in their own pockets.

Mine was an ex when I was a youngster. Maybe 16? 17? I was financially independent (okay, skint on min wage but paid my way) and rented my own place.
CFBF and I were in the early stages of dating (maybe 1 or 2 months in).
I was running errands one day and needed to pick a few things up from the supermarket. He tagged along.

I went round the supermarket and he kept chucking items into the trolley. Fine with me, no point in 2 trolleys.
He put his stuff on the conveyor (sans divider!) whilst I was packing mine. I didn't notice until he said he needed to pop to the loo. He left me to pay for everything.! I was mortified and hadn't grown the lady balls yet to stand up for myself well. I paid and asked him for the money when he got back. He told me he forgot his wallet and would give it to me when he came next time. He didn't.

In fact the next time he showed up I was leaving for the cinema with my best friend. We told CFBF we already had plans. My Best friend was paying because it was his turn and I was skint (thanks to CFBF's shopping which he forgot to bring his money for again!)
I locked up the house and we all walked to the bus together. CFBF got on too as it was also his bus.

We got off in town. CFBF got off with us. Okaaaay...
We got to the cinema. CFBF still with us.
I asked if he was heading home and he said no, I'll come with you! Hmm.. whatever, I couldn't really stop him.

He walked in just ahead of us. The desk clerk had the tickets printed when we got there and best friend paid. It wasn't until we were at the concessions counter he realised he'd paid for three, not two. CFBF has asked for three tickets and not paid his one. It was so awkward that best friend couldn't bring himself to actually say anything.
I stopped answering the door to CFBF after that night and best friend and I have been laughing about him for 20 years now. I should have realised when he only turned up at mine in time for dinner and I'd feed him not wanting to be impolite!!

Family member got married abroad. Only 12 of us or so there for it and all crossed over for a few days (some had their holiday time the week before, some after). One couple would always work out exactly what they spent and put down exactly that money... Not even leaving any towards a tip. Everyone else split almost equally - with alcohol drinkers putting in a bit more than non drinkers.

Except the last night. When they both had the most expensive thing on the menu and hit the wine hard. Then they were happy with an equal split..

That's pure CFery @AuntMarch!!!

My SIL neighbour is such a CF is unbearable, and she never says anything which drives me mad.

Example 1: Recently the lady neighbour (large family, mum, dad and five children all under 10) came round to SIL crying that she was skint and had no food for dinner. SIL went into her house, and got her a pack of mince, a bag of potatoes and some stock and vegetables etc. Neighbour took them, and said thanks. An hour later the husband turned up with a massive take away. The food wasn’t returned and SIL wasn’t thanked.

Example 2: About 2 days later, Husband cane round and said to SIL ‘does (DN) like peppa pig? I have an old lunch box of my daughters which is yours if you want it’ SIL accepted as DN loves peppa pig. Husband then said ‘that will be £1 then please’

Example 3: Their daughter is 7. She has been playing with DN who is 4. She bought a big bag of monopoly style penny’s round with her recently, opened DN money box and swapped all her £1s and fifty ps for the fake money. When SIL confronted her neighbour, she said ‘oh what’s she like?’ And walked off. Her daughter had taken nearly £35.

I’ve got a friend who is a right CF.
Many occasions I’ve been left gobsmacked.
She asked me out for a drink one day, but was staying with her auntie about a 30 minute drive away.
I went over to meet her, then got roped into buying her lunch at her favourite pub another 20 minutes in the opposite direction as she realised she had “forgotten” her cash card when we got there.
We then went back to her aunties, 20 minutes driving again, where she picked up her cash card and asked if we could go into town, another 20 minutes drive away and £5 parking. She said she’d get cash out for me but wanted to buy a pair of jeans first.
She got to the till and her card was declined. She put me on the spot and asked for £20 for her jeans and said she’d transfer me money from another account.
This never happened, I never got the money back for lunch or the jeans, paid for all of the parking and petrol myself, I drove about 50 miles that day ferrying her around and don’t bother with her anymore!

MIL is a CF. She was in hospital recently. OH took 2 days off work for it. She has three big dogs and she asked OH to stay at her house for the night she was away so they weren’t alone, she also wanted him to walk them. All fine.

OH had to drive her to hospital, pay for parking whilst he took her to the ward and waited around, drive her home. Also bought her lunch on the two days she was in as she didn’t like the hospital food. Paid for her to have the TV, bought her magazines etc. Not once did she offer cash (not that it would have been taken)

The day she got out of hospital, OH had been in the house 10 minutes when she called and asked him to transfer him £2.70 for he electricity he’d used when he stayed at her house (she’s on a meter)

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That's gobsmacking @dontstopscheming

Finally, my brother! I love him but he’s awful. He forgot my OH, and both of my sons birthday. His gift to me was a bottle of speckled hen (I do not drink this. Or any other type of ale).

He was with his girlfriend for one month. I got her a lush bath bomb and a scented candle for her birthday and he had the cheek to complain I’d only spent £10 on her and embarrassed him.

@RibbonAurora I hope your mum didn't pay for the curtains?

@Allergictoironing did she pay you the road tax?

These are great but I wish people would finish their stories, I want to know what happened in the end!

@Tunnocks34 that's so awful it's almost funny.

But did he pay half of the B&B @DuchessStabby?

@TheArtfulScreamer

My now ExH when we first moved in together we agreed to pay £500pm each into a joint bank account to cover all bills and household expenses, we then purchased a new sofa from DFS on an interest free deal which was £38 pound a month this was set up from his bank account as he went in alone to sign the paperwork so I told him to drop his joint account DD to £440 to make it fair which he did. When we split up he insisted he was taking the sofas as he'd paid for them, I'm still not sure if he was shit at maths or a CF.

Possibly being thick here, but shouldn't his contribution to the joint account have dropped to £462 (and not £440)?

Tunnocks the neighbours' daughter is obviously going to be a cf-squared with cf genes from both her parents . I take it SIL's daughter never got her real money back

@IchWill

That air conditioning story is fantastic!

When I was 19, went out into town on christmas day (pre family of course). Had been planned with my best friend for months. He just got a new job and said he was getting paid on the 27th so slightly late because of christmas. Not wanting to cancel our plans i agreed to borrow him the money for the night out and he was to pay me back when he got paid.

Christmas night out in town was SO much more expensive than i even imagined, £20 each entry into the main club, £5 each entry into smaller ones plus about £2-£5 added onto regular, already extortionate drink prices. He had £95 from me. Got paid and avoided me like the plauge.

I found out shortly after that he actually had a couple of grand savings (for a car). Asked him why he didn’t just use that for the night out or at least to pay me back his reply; ‘I don’t like dipping into the savings’

We fell out. I never got the money

billygoat no she didn’t. DN had no clue she was at a loss though, she got about 100 if these plastic coins so in her eyes she was the winner in their deal. She actually couldn’t understand why her mum was so angry with the neighbors daughter.

My Dh is a musician in a band, they're very popular locally. At one point dh arranged to go into a studio and they recorded a cd. It's an expensive thing to do, and then there's the costs of copying the master, the cover art, jewel cases etc etc etc. Anyway, dh paid all of it, but they now had a cd which they sold at gigs, very much sought after and lots of people bought them. Each member of the band took about 20 to sell if asked for a cd when they're weren't actually gigging or to send to contacts in radio etc.

One band member (Pete, not his real name) was approached at a gig by a friend of ours to buy a cd. Pete told her he had some in his car outside and took her there. She gave him a tenner and took the cd he gave her.

She rang us next day to say the cd was not of dh's band but of this guy's other band! It turned out it wasn't a mistake, but deliberate. If anyone at dh's band gig asked this guy for a cd he took the money and gave them his other band 's cd and kept the money! He stole about £200 in total, and heaven knows what he did with dh's cds.

When we discovered the extent of his cheating, dh kicked him out of the band and cancelled all their gigs. A month or so later, Pete then turned up at our house with his wife (whom he had always kept in the background, none of us had ever seen her before, she never came to gigs or band get-togethers). It was about 11.30 at night. He claimed he didn't know the gig that night had been cancelled and demanded we should pay his petrol to and from, £32. Neither dh nor I had any cash on us, but this CF pair refused to leave until they got the petrol money; despite the fact we pointed out that he had already cheated dh to the tune of £200 he strenuously denied it and became a little aggressive. They wouldn't leave, I was worried because they both became rather loud and nasty, and dd was asleep upstairs. They knew my mum lived with us and demanded that I go to her and get the money from her.

To my eternal shame I did get the dosh from mum and the CFs left, even then they were soooooo indignant! Lying, cheating thieving fuckers.

@Antigon Yes she did pay it once the puppies had been sold, but only because the mutual friend reminded her.

And actually TheArtfulScreamer's ExH should have dropped the amount into the joint account by only £19 per month, half the direct debit amount, so she was doubly screwed over in that case!

Went on a double date with a well known CF work colleague. She bought her new hot date and I was with my long term boyfriend.
All had a main course and puddings plus drinks.
My DP asked for the bill and I made a gesture to pay my share and DP said he'd put it on his card and we could sort it out later. Came to well over £100.
Neither of the other two offered to pay! I was gobsmacked that a new date would even think someone else paying for his meal was ok, let alone paying for his date too.
DP was also designated driver and drove them back to the new blokes house where they both cheerfully said goodbye!

MIL asked DH what he wanted for his birthday. On the day of his birthday she gave him a box. Inside was a picture the item cut out of an Argos catalogue with a £10 Argos voucher. It was dressed up as a joke when in reality she just doesn’t like putting her hand in her pocket.

This thread is hilarious.

@Antigon I did actually doft my hat to my dad on that one. Brass neck eh?