CF Request - just ignore?

[OpheliaBee]

I’m on a short break in Spain with DH and DC. Someone I know from a job I had 10 years ago and very occasionally bump into has just messaged me, asking to buy her cigarettes. Literally nothing about me suggests that I am pro-smoking. She’s never seen me smoke, I’m incredibly sporty, I’m asthmatic, and I have a young child. (She definitely know all of the things) I’m fine if other people want to smoke, far away from me, but no chance am I buying cigarettes for others.

AIBU to think this is really bloody inappropriate? Unsure whether to say something or just pretend I didn’t see the message. She’s quite a confrontational person.

IGNORE IT.

Ignore and say your data waa switched off and wifi wasn't great if you see them in person

What everyone else said: ignore her and if she questions you at a later date just tell her that as you hadn't had any form of relationship with her over the last 10 years you just assumed it was sent to you by mistake.

If she asks why you didn't respond repeat you thought it was a mistake and anyway, you were busy with your family and thought nothing of it. Then say you don't talk to other people when you're away on holiday unless it's family and an emergency.

Then just say no to her random request or ignore it. Can’t believe you started a thread about it tbh.

I wouldn't even answer. Why does she deserve your attention.

Tell her to F#@k off then block her. The audacity, some people have no shame.

YANBU. Ignore, ignore, ignore. If you bump into her and it is mentioned either say that you didn't see her message (not unreasonable, as you are on holiday) or that you didn't have the chance to get them. No apologies!

People will know your house is empty and someone may break in!

Why is there always, ALWAYS some idiot desperate to claim this on any thread about Facebook and holidays? Unless you also post your address, your dates of travel and the fact that you have no housemates, relatives who haven’t gone with you etc.

Anyone close enough to have my address is too close to try to rob me. Even if people I haven’t seen in a long time have gone down a dodgy path and might be the type of person to rob someone - even someone they know - all they know from a Facebook page saying I’m on holiday is that I’m not in London. They know a flat somewhere in a city of 8 million people may possibly be empty for an unspecified period. Hardly inside intelligence, is it?

As for the person suggesting the phone book, that requires the person on holiday to a) have a landline in 2019, which is by no means guaranteed, and b) be listed in the phone book. Even then, unless your name is particularly unusual, someone trying to identify your address will be using guesswork at best.

In any case, don’t a large majority of people work 9 - 5.30 or similar from Monday to Friday? My flat is always empty then. Unless I fake unemployment on Facebook, people will know my flat is empty then. Why is that any different?

We often bring back cigarettes for a friend who smokes. We ask them to pay more than we paid for them, and they are still paying much less than in the UK. That way, it's a win/win situation.