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To ask for your CF of the day here?

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Supplyacfhere · 24/10/2019 15:25

My CF was before even 9 am this morning! A dm at local school approached me waving a school letter. Could see it was recent after school club registration form. She had hand written a few lines at the bottom in red..
Apparently in September- when school started- they informed us they wanted ideas for after school clubs, to commence after October half term. All good.
This dm had written to the school requesting no club on x day for her dc's class as her dc would have to miss it due to an out of school activity..
And guess what?
School have offered her dc after school option on x day!
She was going back in with the form and her reminder on the bottom in red they weren't supposed to do this!!
Entitled CF or what?.
I thought she was being sarcastic at first. But deadly serious. Big flounce off into the office no less!

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Useruseruserusee · 25/10/2019 13:14

Yesterday I was in the supermarket with 2 year old DS after the school run. I asked him to get me some tomatoes and he was in the process of getting a pack out of the crate when an older lady literally pushed him out of the way to get her own tomatoes. He wasn’t even taking a long time!

rainplopsarefallingonmyhead · 25/10/2019 13:24

Just the usual cunty behaviour from impatient twats in the supermarket who think children are second class citizens.

Winterdaysarehere · 25/10/2019 14:26

Yesterday sat in a supermarket cafe, people watching - see a man and woman park in P&C, no dc, empty a load of rubbish onto the road, walk off into town !!

FionaOgre · 25/10/2019 14:53

@Winterdaysarehere those are the ones I would be filming and posting online for sure. No excuse for any of that.

SilverySurfer · 25/10/2019 14:56

I still get the previous owner's mail sixteen years after I moved in. Initially I saved the letters and she picked up a couple of bags full, then I did return to sender for a while and now it just goes in the bin.

FionaOgre · 25/10/2019 17:51

I had someone from down the street who would instruct her children to get in my car when I picked my kids up from a club. "Mum says you have to drive us home!" They would happily announce as they opened my car doors and climbed in.

timshelthechoice · 25/10/2019 18:03

Former NDN happily hoisting his bin liners into our bin. My H put them back on his doorstep. 'But X used to let me use his bin!' 'That was nice of him,' my H said, 'But he sold the house to us. We don't allow others to use the bin.' He kept trying it so we just kept taking his stuff out and putting it on his doorstep, then got a lock on our bin.

woodhill · 25/10/2019 18:04

Fiona did you tackle the mother of the taxi service kids. So presumptuous

FionaOgre · 25/10/2019 18:21

I was so taken aback I did the very British thing of complying and then making excuses. After that I didn't have to do anything. I just stopped picking my kids up. My DC didn't like the CFers kids (they said they were really cheeky and rude when they spoke to people) so my lot just walked home.

Birthdaycakemondays · 25/10/2019 18:25

Mother in law asked for a lift on a night out, fine. Got there at arranged time & called, she didn’t answer.. rang FIL said I was outside. Was sat waiting for 20 minutes with a toddler and a baby in the car then sat in traffic for 30 mins with a screaming baby whilst she blissfully chewed my ear off about the raffle prizes 🤪

Winterdaysarehere · 25/10/2019 18:41

An old cf story I have told on here... Now ex friend, pleaded poverty when her and exh split up. I paid for lunches , coffees, Sat while she checked online banking announcing how little she had until x day. Popping over once a week and making us a nice supper - I provided ingredients and a listening ear post split etc.
Met her once in town and she pulled up in a Mercedes convertible! Wow did I feel a fool.
..
CF indeed.

FairfaxAikman · 25/10/2019 19:17

Train station on multiple levels.
To get out I have to use two separate lifts to get to street level.
One is quite small. I was in it with DS in a pram and there was a disabled woman with her carer and their large suitcase. Not too squashed but not much room either.
Two old dears insisting on squeezing in at the last minute rather than waiting the 30 seconds for the lift to return (it's only between two floors) and then one had the cheek to say "this is cozy, isn't it?"

scaryteacher · 25/10/2019 19:39

Have just moved back to our house in UK. The drive is not, and never has been shared. The house next door has right of way only to their drive. Old NDNs sold whilst we were abroad. My house was tenanted til June. CF new NDN parks on my drive making it hard for me to get out, and it will be impossible for dh to park in his spot down the side of the house if she is parked on the drive. She has also shouted at people who have come to do work on my house whilst it was empty that they couldn't park on the drive.

I did ask why she felt she could park on the drive when we came back to drop stuff off one weekend and I gave her the dates we'd be back, followed up by a text confirming this and the dates the movers would be here, and that she might find it easier to park elsewhere for those days...and that I would need full use of my drive. She made the movers move their van and has parked on my drive for the last two nights.

Dh gets back on Sunday....I'm letting him deal with it, and with the parents of those she teaches privately who seem to think my drive is their parking spot. She's already pissed off next door but one. Not clever on her part.

MargotMoon · 25/10/2019 19:56

CFs a-go-go at the bus stop this evening. Because it's lashing down with rain some people (with umbrellas) think they can barge their way to the front of the queue which is under the shelter in the pretence that they are just getting out of the rain. Then bundle their way on to the bus when it arrives, making sure they get in front of me (there first) who was standing back trying to let the elderly couple both with walking aids get on first. Such wankers!

DdraigGoch · 25/10/2019 21:30

@scaryteacher I hope there's a juicy parking thread coming up!

Charmatt · 25/10/2019 21:59

I remember going food shopping with my mum when I was a teenager and we queued at the checkout behind a dew other people. The woman directly in front then left the queue to go and fetch something she had forgotten.

She was gone for a good few minutes, in which time we reached the front of the queue so we started to put our shopping on the conveyer belt. About two thirds of the way through, the woman came back and accused my mum of nicking her place. My mum said she didn't think she was coming back and had reached the front of the queue.

The woman grabbed the baguette my mum was buying and broke it in two before she stropped off! My mum still feels aggrieved by it, over 30 years later...

SabineUndine · 25/10/2019 21:59

The woman on the tube yesterday who leaned over and dumped her bag on the empty seat I was about to take so that I couldn't sit on it. I wish I'd thought quickly enough to pick her bag up and put it on the floor.

MoaningMinniee · 25/10/2019 22:09

There were a couple of vehicles approaching and the narrow suburban road I was on was obstructed on my side by a parked vehicle. So in accordance with Highway Code I pulled in. A BMW X5 SUV overtook me and forced the oncoming vehicles to brake to let her go past. Yes it was a her, either that or a very good male clone of a blonde 40 something. She also epically failed to indicate for the next six junctions. I'm reasonably certain from time and route she was heading to St Margaret's prep school in Calne for school run. Do you wonder why we get so utterly pissed off with arrogant Mummies??

MoaningMinniee · 25/10/2019 22:12

@scaryteacher this is going to be a corking parking thread... please start drawing your diagram now! Also more seriously your neighbour is taking the piss big time and we're all on your side.

Babybel90 · 25/10/2019 22:29

In Aldi and the announcement goes that they’re opening a new till so I walkover and put my two items at the front, woman comes up behind me with a full trolley and says “excuse me but they’ve opened this till for me” I just looked at her like this and said errr...right? and ignored her while she carried on chuntering to other customers that this is her till and they opened it especially for her. She hadn’t even finished unloading her trolley by the time I’d paid and walked out of the door.

WillowUfgood · 25/10/2019 22:37

Was in Asda carpark a few weeks back, went to return the trolley to the bay and it was a complete shambles. Trolleys just left every which way. So I spent a couple of minutes untangling and straightening them all out (it's a huge bugbear of mine). I'd just finished and turned to see an older bloke had been stood watching me with his trolley. There had been a few mutterings from me about inconsiderate twats leaving things in such a mess etc, not knowing there was anyone there, so I moved aside to let him put his back. He just pushed it towards me, no attempt to actually line it up or even put it with the right size trollies (it was the smaller, he plonked it next to the smalls IN FRONT of the big ones) and said "is that ok there?"

I just stared at him and said "well no, not really because now you've blocked the others!" Pushed it into the correct place and went back to my car. Could see him just staring at me as I got in my door (I was parked just a couple of spaces away) and then sheepishly get in his own car.

CF had watched me tidy it all up and then either assumed I'd put it back for him (I wasn't wearing anything close to resembling a uniform) or he was just being a lazy arse. Probably both.

PeachesPlumsPears · 25/10/2019 22:38

Gave my car to my CF sister as I was buying a new one and she didn't have one. She moaned to my mom that I was stingy as I didn't give her the seat covers too (I needed them for my new car). A year later when the registration was due, she gave it to my mom and told her to tell me to pay it! I'm about to replace my current car and she found out that I'm giving it to my DB's daughter and is now hinting she wants it. Nope!

scaryteacher · 25/10/2019 22:48

I do not want to be on bad terms with my neighbour, but neither are we going to be pushed around by her. It is very clear from the deeds, both the diagrams and the wording, what the situation is.

I had my outside light on the other evening, as I was visiting the elderly lady across the road to say hello. We don't have street lights, and having the outside light on means I can see to walk up the drive and get the key in the lock. According to ds, CF neighbour had been over and complained that the outside light was on at 8pm. He had switched it off to be nice....he's been told to leave it on next time, til I'm back.

MidniteScribbler · 25/10/2019 23:03

Student on suspension shows up at my door yesterday (suspended for attacking me with a pair of scissors). Ring home, mum says that she needs to drop him off because she goes to the gym each morning and can't miss it to stay home with him and that it's 'no big deal' and can I just let him sit in the classroom with an ipad for the day.

Cherrysoup · 25/10/2019 23:08

@scaryteacher please update us with what your dh does! I need entertaining this half term (I too am a scary teacher, but not your neighbour!)

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