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To start a Cf of the past thread?

233 replies

PrincessHoneysuckle · 25/03/2020 10:42

Not so many cf posts nowadays what with Corona.
Ill start:

A few years ago I came home from work to find my garden full of workmen and a fallen tree.Cf ndn had cut her tree down into my garden without asking/giving me the heads up and my garden looked like an episode of Groundforce Hmm I realised it had snapped my washing line too.

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FthisS · 25/03/2020 10:48

A few years back I came back from the shop on a sunday to find that my next door neighbour had hired a huge bouncy castle and set it up on my drive next to my window. No idea why when our houses are detached and she has a huge drive in front of her house.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 25/03/2020 11:24

No way!!

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FthisS · 25/03/2020 11:28

Yes I was so angry and I phoned the company myself and had them come remove it. That was the start of years of lies from this woman, I had only lived there 2 weeks when this happened. They are so strange, they had me banned from the church toddler group because she told the vicars wife that I phoned the police on her for playing the flute. My husband is a singer and often practices in the house why the heck would the flute bother me, plus our houses are a good 15ft apart.

Badassmama · 25/03/2020 11:37

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BlueChangling · 25/03/2020 11:44

A few days after I'd redecorated my kitchen I noticed water cascading down the wall from the flat above.

I was very chill about it as these things happened and eent up stairs to let them know only to met with a really bad attitude and to be informed 'yes we know the washing machine has been leaking for a number of days but other than that it's still working fine for them and they will continue to use it as it isn't causing any issues for them, we would just need to learn to live with it' they then slammed the door in my face.

After a minute of standing there stunned I behaved in a very unlady like way.

They called down later to speak with hubby said they'd turned the machine off and mopped up most of the water and had ordered a new one they also asked could he bring any issues to there attention in future instead of me.

NastyOldBag · 25/03/2020 11:53

I’ve told this story before on here but I’m still amazed by it years later.

We had recently moved house into a house that was previously used as a holiday let (very touristy area). We have a knock on the door and a couple walk into our house and say they know they’re a couple of hours early but is the house ready for them yet. After a bit of confusion it appears that they’d booked the house for a holiday a year ago and somehow not got the message that it was now a private residence.

We are in Devon and they’d driven all the way from Scotland so we’re understandably upset so we made them a cup of tea, I called up the company they’d booked through and the company offered them a much more expensive, waterfront property about 500m away that was ready for them as soon as they could get there.

I get off the phone, they seem very pleased but don’t seem to make any move to get to their new holiday home and just carry on munching through biscuits and making idle chit chat. After about half an hour I say ‘right, well I better get to the shops and you’ll be wanting to get your holiday started so we’d better make a move.’ They ask me how long I think it will take me to pack up my stuff as they want to unpack. It took me about a minute of looking completely confused until it clicked that they thought I was going to move myself and my family out of my home so that they could stay in my house for their holiday. I burst out laughing when I realised thinking they were maybe joking but they were deadly serious and demanded to be put on the phone to the holiday company. I ushered them out of the house and locked the door and they stayed parked on the drive for a good half an hour before they finally pushed off.

Gingernaut · 25/03/2020 12:00

@NastyOldBag !

OMG! 😱😱😱😱😱

NotNegan · 25/03/2020 12:05

When our neighbours first moved in, he would walk his cats on a lead in front of our window. I was pregnant and hated wearing trousers so would sit in a long top and pants.

I was not impressed. Why would he think this was okay?!

To start a Cf of the past thread?
PrincessHoneysuckle · 25/03/2020 12:08

@NotNegan 😂

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Oldbutstillgotit · 25/03/2020 12:15

Years ago, I came home early from work and found my then NDN sunbathing in my garden! She told me that she preferred our garden as hers had too many trees causing shade ! She was genuinely shocked that I was annoyed . We hadn’t really spoken before that so it was not as if we were friends .

CaptainButtock · 25/03/2020 12:27

The best cf story I’ve ever heard came from a poster on here. I was genuinely gobsmacked. Can’t remember original posters name to give her a nod, but anyways it went something like this...

Op lives in a small terraced house. Adjoining neighbour knocks on door one day to check that op would be around that evening as she had a builder coming to look in op’s loft.

It transpired that this batshit woman thought she was going to knock through to op’s loft room ‘to make a nice big bedroom for her daughter’.
After all, she had more children so needed the space more than op.

She added insult to injury (after being given short shrift) by saying something dismissive about sending her husband around later to explain it to her, as if she was just being dim and not getting it!

I still think about that sometimes and I’m still ShockShockShock

(With thanks to op!!!)

ShirleyPhallus · 25/03/2020 12:35

she told the vicars wife that I phoned the police on her for playing the flute

Is this a euphemism?!

FthisS · 25/03/2020 12:47

No Grin she seriously told the vicars wife that I had reported her flute playing. She also claimed I had complained about her cat flap.

ShirleyPhallus · 25/03/2020 13:01

She also claimed I had complained about her cat flap.

This honestly sounds like an episode of Carry On Grin

FthisS · 25/03/2020 13:15

Another time she phoned the rspca on me because apparently I have been getting pet rabbits to lure buzzards into my garden to catch the buzzards. I've only ever had one rabbit who is now 7 years old and he has always roamed the house and garden freely. The rspca marked it as malicious. Another time she phoned the police that I had stolen her kitten, what she actually saw was my pedigree ragdoll kitten in the window and somehow thought the police would just hand it to her. Honestly the list goes on but has calmed down now after 6 years of her realising I'm not going anywhere. She drove out 2 people before I moved here.

Jokie · 25/03/2020 13:19

My CF is currently ongoing. As everyone is working from home, parking on our street is limited so everyone needs to park properly for all cars to fit.

Seems ok, right? Well no. We have one family who have decided that they give each car a good social distancing measure so now their 3 cars are taking up 6 spaces. Their visitor is now Parked on a neighbours drive as there was nowhere else to park.

A friendly neighbour went up to ask them to move their cars a little closer and they were told to bog off. We're waiting to see what happens when the neighbour with their driveway being blocked comes home.

TimeforTea20 · 25/03/2020 13:20

My ds occasionally plays with a neighbours child, I had spoken to the mother once or twice she knows I care for my mum who has a terminal illness & I run 2 houses. The ds knocks on my door and says their washer has broke & can I stick a wash on for them please, OK no problem.

The mother & son turn up with 4 huge bin bags, no washing powder or conditioner or any offer of electricity money, as a one off I think okay I'll do it, so did. When they'd knocked on I'd given the son a bar of chocolate, I then find the wrapper thrown in my garden and wait the next for them to collect the washing, no one turns up, the next day I get my ds to WhatsApp her son, it turns out she thought I was also going to drop it off at her house, I tell her she will have to come and collect it.

3 days later another knock on the door, just as the panic buying started, her ds please can you do some more washing, I explain there was quite a lot last time and it took me 5 hours to wash, but if it's only a bit I'll stick it in with mine. Mother and ds turn up again 3 huge bin bags. I say to her my mum has terminal lung disease and we're limiting contact as advised, and that her husband has a car and works, there's a launderette 5 minutes up the road, they both lie outright and say they haven't got a car, even though her ds sent my son a pic of all of them going for a drive in their new car the day before & it's parked outside their house. I then tell her we're self isolating as it's a risk to my mum and that I'm run off my feet at the moment so she will have to go the launderette. She pulls her face and storms off.

If it was just a bit I really wouldn't of minded but the cf just had no empathy or understanding of my situation.

TimeforTea20 · 25/03/2020 13:25

Prior to this she asked me to look after her ds on a school night, whilst they went shopping this was 4pm. He has asked to sleep before and I said no as my mum is frequently taken into hospital and I have to go as she has mental health issues and I'm a single mum, and rely on my sister, by 10.30pm way past my ds school bedtime and hours of not answering the phone, I manage to get hold of his uncle who owns a local takeaway and said I'll send him in a taxi to you, funnily enough she managed to turn up 15 minutes later.

Windyatthebeach · 25/03/2020 13:30

The cf who reported a poster for a barking ddog when she didn't even have one!!

MaidenMotherCrone · 25/03/2020 13:40

Moved to a very rural old farmhouse, the water meter for my house was 3 fields away. We had massive water bills. Turns out the farmer who rented the fields (they weren't ours) had tapped into the mains and was filling his water troughs from it. Cattle drink a lot of bloody water!

When confronted he claimed to know nothing of it.

Bastard CF!

MaidenMotherCrone · 25/03/2020 13:41

Forgot this

To start a Cf of the past thread?
CoronaLime · 25/03/2020 14:13

Eeesh! Did you get a refund from the water company?

MaidenMotherCrone · 25/03/2020 14:59

Sadly no, I can't remember why but it wasn't for want of trying. My blood used to boil every time I passed him in his tractor. Talk about hard faced!

TeaStory · 25/03/2020 15:20

Mexican House Thief!

Naemates · 25/03/2020 15:21

Maiden your cows are amazing!

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