To start a Cf of the past thread?

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

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 I realised it had snapped my washing line too.

Made myself a ham salad for lunch and put it on the dining table.
Went outside to deal with a tradesman, then came back in to eat my lunch.
CF rescue dog had got on the table and eaten all the ham out of my salad, scattered the salad all over the table!
Lucky he was cute.ame dog used to jump the fence and join a neighbor for his walk each day, but that is another story.

Hilarious thread

@BlueChangling what was the unladylike thing you did that made the neighbours request you never knocked again? In my head it's gone from a little bit of swearing at them, to something uber gross like weeing on the doorstep .... (Forgive my depraved mind....)

Neighbour whose garden backs into mine came over at 8am one Sunday morning screeching that my dog had been shut it all night barking and keeping her foster son awake. I said this wasn’t possible as my dog was shut in at night with no way of getting out and also my baby son slept at the back of the house so it would disturb him most if anyone and it didn’t. She went bat shit, told me I was training my dog to bark and ruining the neighbourhood at which point I told her to get off my land (always wanted to say that)
That night, I was up with my son and did hear a dog barking, but it came from a different neighbouring house.
Next day I went round and told her the house she needed to speak to expecting an apology to be honest. Instead, she demanded I go to the house with the dog and tell them they were to shut their dog up or she’d call the police on me for not maintaining the neighbourhood. Think she was more mental than CF to be honest.
They also complained when we had bbq’s saying the smoke went in their house despite being a good 100 metres apart.

One of my CF dogs nicked the turkey off my brothers plate, when I was serving up Christmas dinner, a bit of the gravy had also been licked off, so I put more turkey on the plate and swished the gravy about I told my db a few months later

I came home from the school run to find a cherry picker in my carport which then stayed all day as it was repairing the neighbour's roof. Nobody had asked me about it at all.

Also had someone park their car across my driveway for a week. Because of a technicality the police wouldn't move it and because it was on a public road I couldn't get a tow truck company to move it either.

I have also opened my front door to an industrial crane laid across my front garden as the other neigbours were having work done and decided to use my garden to assemble it and had sawdust and polystyrene balls blown into my garden with leaf blowers whilst they were clearing their work area.

At no stage did anyone knock or ring to check it was ok. I would have said yes.

We are moving soon and I can't wait!

What we happened to the OP that had her CF neighbours trying to steal her woodland?

@lyralalalaYou mean she wanted to stop Mary taking her own cakeshome?

I wrote last year about a friend’s CF husband . Briefly, another friend was treating 3 of us to a holiday as we had supported her through a tough time. She was paying for flights and villa. Fabulous . Not long before we went one of the friends Carol decided she couldn’t leave her DH ( Dick) for a week and tried to persuade / insist that he went too! Turned out that he had booked a cheap flight and was looking forward to a free holiday ! Lots of stress but neither went .

@MostTacticalNameChange brilliant

I love this thread

Thank you PrincessHoneysuckle. You are doing your bit for country and Queen!

@copycopypaste the lady that inherited the woodland. I wonder that too ....

Loving this thread as a bit of light relief.

Halfway through and still laughing at the burglars assistants 😂

And loving the dog in the picture - gorgeous.

Ooh I have a current CF situation.

We own a very small house which, due to circumstances beyond our control, we can’t sell so we rent it out and rent a bigger house ourselves.

With the new rules we were concerned that our tenant wouldn’t pay her rent but we understand the situation and would just have to take a mortgage holiday if she doesn’t. Anyway she did pay so we were relieved but a few days later, we got a message from the bank saying that she was trying to claim it back. I sent her a message saying that I understand the new rules it if she want to take a rent holiday, she needs to let us know well in advance so that we can sort the mortgage and that it had now been paid. She messaged back saying that she didn’t know about the rent holiday and could we send her back £350. We said no as unfortunately the mortgage had now been paid and she send a number of messages basically begging. We offered to do a weekly shop for her and she sent us a list and I dropped it off all fine. Then just now she’s messaged again 4 times asking to borrow £20 for craft supplies for her children 😵 which she can pay back when she gets money tomorrow. I feel like a right bloody idiot now as I spent all Friday feeling awful that a family we’re going hungry and trying to help and she’ll have money tomorrow to buy craft supplies!

@Mumdiva99 I can promise there was no weeing involved, I wouldn't have wanted to add that to the water damage

I did swear a lot then I took a plant and a gnome that she had by her front door hostage.

@Oldbutstillgotit
I remember that thread of yours. How is Dick lately? Still trying to blag his way into other people's holidays?

Not cf exactly but very odd. We were moving house when I was 18 and selling to a young couple moving in to their first home together. Approaching exchange they went silent and our estate agent was chasing them. A couple of days later, the agent rang female buyers phone and reached her very confused husband. He was not male buyer and was not aware that his marriage was over. They pulled out of the sale but offered again about 3 weeks later and everything went through.

copycopypaste and mumdiva - the lady with the woodland had a very sad life event happen, understandably there was never an update about the woodland after that.

@VeryLittleOwl - oh no, poor woman, I hope she's ok - that woodland story was bananas !

I remember another one a few years ago where a woman was clearly being taken for a ride, where a school mum was dumping her kids on her over the holidays both for free and also when she wasn't working If I remember correctly - whole of Mumsnet said she needed to tel this woman no and she did but the woman kept coming back at her with more excuses as to why, as a
SAHM should look after her kids

I used to be friends with a supreme cf. looking back I can’t believe what a mug I was. Here are ones I remember.

Loaned them 2 camping tables, they broke both and never replaced or paid for them

Allowed them to borrow our car and tent as she bleated about never getting a holiday.
Car came back with completely empty tank (it was given to her half full), stinking of fags, full ashtray and covered in dog hair. Tent was ripped and covered in bird shit, we had to throw it away.
I passed on my ds large Brio collection for her ds, she sold the lot on eBay for a tidy sum.
There were many other things we helped her with, she took us completely for granted and never offered as much as a bottle of wine in thanks.
I cut contact with her when she moved to the other side of town, hadn’t heard anything for about 2 years when a woman rang me out of the blue saying cf had named me as a reference for a job she was applying for. I just told her I couldn’t comment because I no longer knew her very well. The brass neck of her was breathtaking.

CFer neighbour. Mum, Dad and 18yo kid.
The mum didn't have a license but Dad did, but Dad was failing health so Mum did all the driving on a provisional license as she would never be able to pass (I once went in the car with her and it was terrifying!)

Dad took ill and was moved to a hospital for end of life care so driving was out. They asked for little bit of help now and then in the difficult times. Okay I reluctantly said.
It started with an occasional lift to work for the kid. The work was a big place in the next town where a high number of our locals worked there so they would all be on the buses or car pooling together. Next door's kid must not have wanted to do what his workmates did because he started expecting me to take him more and more. Not a HUGE sacrifice but annoyed me a bit when there were plenty of other options available. What made it worse was he then started to expect errands too.

"I need to go to my mate's first so go to X street and then I can go to work" I'd drive him there and end up sat in the car like a fucking idiot for over 10 minutes while he chatted and had a cig with his buddy. He'd then get back in, thank me profusely and I'd drop him at work.
Then it was, "I need to pick this vital prescription up so go to X chemist first" we got there and chemist was closed. He played the desperate card until I agreed to take him to work and then wait around almost an hour til lunch was over and get the prescription for his dad. (His dad was coming home)
Then he started messaging in a panic needing a lift home after back shift was over at 10pm so I'd put my cuppa down, change out of my PJs and drive out only to be left sitting while he had a fag with his workmates immediately before getting in, making my car stink to high heaven!
This continued a while until I had to be the mean bitch suddenly not helping a desperate family with a sick dad out when I turned up for the third time at 10pm to find he'd forgot to let me know he'd changed his mind and was getting a lift home with a friend!

Now the dad has gone and I'm still being asked for lifts and running around for them. It's hard to say no but then it reaches piss take level. It got to the point where they were saying, "We need picking from the bus stop at 4pm". The bus stop was nearby so less than 400 yards away. Now I have a pre prepared list of excuses because I don't want to fall out with them as we'll be living in close proximity for many years to come.

Dsis 2 needed a new fridge but couldn't afford one right away, as i was moving to a place that had one already i said she could borrows ours while she saved, but that i would need it back eventually as the place we were moving to we wouldn't be staying at long term

After a while she ended up moving to a new place that already had a fridge, but as we were also going to be moving in a couple of months to a place that didn't have a fridge said it was no problem to store our fridge till our own moving day so we could have it back as agreed

A couple of weeks before we were moving my dad mentioned in conversation that dsis 2 was selling the fridge to a cousin of ours as she didn't need it anymore! (He knew it hd originally been my fridge, but didn't know of mine and dsis 2 agreement) i rang her up and was fuming, but somehow managed not to completely lose my shit and reminded her of our agreement and that it was only ever borrowed and pointed out that you cant just sell something that don't belong to you! I remained civil & polite, tho given how angry i was, i was rather blunt!

On moving day i finally got the fridge back, delivered to my new house by my dad who had hired a van to help us (we paid) i got him and my dbro to put it in the corner of the room where it would be staying and they left to go and get another load, dbro's gf who was at the new house helping me happened to open the fridge, and started gagging

When i looked i saw that the inside was covered in mould, mostly black, it was everywhere almost completely covered the inside and in all sorts of nooks and crannies & stank to high heaven 🤮

Took me 2 hours before i was satisfied it was clean enough to put stuff in, tho i did end up waiting 24 hours with the doors all open to give it a good airing to be on the safe side (not while plugged in of course)

@LolaDarkdestroyer .... errr this was meant to be fun and light hearted

Thanks for your contribution OP

@Blingismything ...

I recall that, didn’t OP have a lane and field at the end of her garden too...? Or am I thinking of a different poster 🤪