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.

No, small and wiry.

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When I first moved out at 18 I got a full time job and my own little studio flat in east London near where I grew up. All my friends, who still had the luxury of living at home, thought I had it made.
I booked a trip away with my then bf and some of his friends and as a favour to one of my friends, who was having a hard time getting space with her bf (also a friend), I said they were welcome to use my flat for the week as a mini staycation, even left them a bottle of wine and said to help themselves to the fridge etc. Obvs, stupid move among 18 year olds but we’d all been away camping together at festivals etc and they’d been a couple for years, I thought it would be fine.
The day my flight gets in, I send a text telling them what time I’ll be home for them to meet me with the keys.
Massive angry diatribe text back about how they’re out for the night and can’t I just stay at my bf’s.
Super hurt, I say no way, I have work the next day and no work clothes and want to go home.
Eventually they say they’ll just have to put the key under the mat as I’m being ridiculous and taking the piss.
Flat was a mess, dirty glasses and plates everywhere, bed messy and not remade when I’d left them fresh sheets, all the towels used and wet on the floor.
I literally never heard from them again until years later when my dad died and they sent a card. What a pair of CF’s!

Posted this before...was getting rid of a bookcase offered it to MIL and other family members first, since no one wanted it so it ended up in the charity shop. Over a year later MIL said that she had now decided that she would like it and since we'd gotten rid of it we would have to give her money to buy a new one. She was told where to go.

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I have a couple of minor ones and they’re from friends.

One friend was getting married and didn’t want to pay for it. Wanted to do everything on the cheap. Kept dropping hints about “giving a friend a £100 to do a buffet” as her soon to be husband wanted her to do it herself. When none of us volunteered to do her wedding buffet they decided they weren’t having a doo, as they just wanted to pay someone £50 with all the kit to do the music and DJs were too expensive.

So anyway, fair enough they are not having a doo and we were invited to actual ceremony. They still put a twee poem in about receiving cash gifts! I know you don’t give money to get a “free” wedding breakfast but I just thought it was the height of CFness not to even give your guests a cup of tea and then put a poem in asking for cash!!

Another friend, we used to meet up a group of 10 of us and all bring stuff and have a buffet. She always buried hers in the corner or under the table so it never got ate and then took it home again.

@Jimdandy that reminds me of MIL and our wedding. CFer nearly got herself uninvited and banned!

DH and I were paying for it ourselves with £1000 gift from my mum and stepdad and £1000 from my dad and his wife.

To keep it small I said I wanted our 2 DDs as flower girls and my DSis as MOH only (to help direct my DDs). Mil went mad insisting I have SIL and DH's 2 nieces (who refused to refer to me as an aunt even though I had been with DH all their lives). I told MIL I couldn't do that or I'd have to ask my DNs too making it 9 bridesmaids. She said I shouldn't have my DN's, only DH's DNs.

Foot went down. Nope.

MIL refused to buy an outfit because they were too expensive. She threw a huge tantrum that my DM had a nice MOB outfit and she didn't but still refused to buy one. MIL is loaded. My DM had to scrimp and save. She threatened to wear her black work trousers and a shirt if we didn't buy her one. She refused to buy a secondhand one.

No. Foot down again.

She ended up buying a nice one. However, whoops! I forgot to disclose to her that the boutique I took her to, 2 days before the wedding, selling cheap outfits was in fact, second hand. She thinks she got a bargain.

MIL's friends owned our venue and were catering it. MIL actually fucking cancelled our evening buffet so that her friends could attend as guests. It was a couple of weeks before the wedding!!!! When I asked who would be making our food she shrugged and told me my DM and aunts should do it.
My entire family were travelling from the other side of the UK, most a 5 hour drive, some an 8 hour drive. MIL and her family however lived local.

I re-booked the caterers but did remind them that they were more than welcome to come as guests and to leave their staff to it. (Which is what would have happened anyway)

Mil asked what kind of vintage car was picking them up because she wasn't getting in just anything. Same goes for DSIL and her family. I said we couldn't afford wedding cars and DH's and mine was a one ride wedding gift from a friend with a vintage car. She threw a fit.
She also wanted us to hire a bus to pick up all her evening guests family who were local, many within walking distance (small village) and a few from the next village and to drop them home again afterwards. From our tiny budget there was no way we could afford to transport any guests. They were invited and would be fed well and even a few drinks provided but we weren't picking them up too!

MIL realised that as a few of her siblings didn't want to come (DH wasn't close and MIL is.... grating), that my aunts and uncles now outnumbered her side. She demanded that I uninvite members of my side.
She also insisted that HER aunts and uncles be invited. People DH didn't even know. DH said no and she said "Why not?! Quayboard's aunts and uncles are invited! Why shouldn't mine?!" DH reminded her that as the bride, mine should be, just like as the groom, his also were.

She put in orders for corsages and buttonholes for her side of the family and we had to pay. At £10 each it added £100's to our flower bill and she didn't even wear hers because she doesn't like them.
We were only intending on buying for the wedding party, not the rest of the guests. My side bought their own if they wanted them.

All this and she knew we were paying for our small, low key wedding paycheque to paycheque and on credit cards.

I almost called the whole thing off a hundred times, all thanks to MIL's demands. There were quite a few more but my post is too long already.

@QuayboardWarrior she sounds like a fucking nightmare! What has she been like ever since?!

Our next door neighbour preferred parking Infront of our house because they have a large sap dropping tree Infront of theirs.
Over the years we have widened our drive and dropped curb twice as the kids, who still live with us have learned to drive. The neighbour however continued parking Infront of our house. My DH politely asked him to park either on his own driveway, or Infront of his own house. He got quite angry and said we were selfish fuckers and being greedy about the amount of Street we were taking up, and told us we were incompetent drivers for not being able to maneuver around his car. He hasn't spoken to us since.

Some of these are just

Ex boyfriends mum asked me to house and animal sit while they went away for a family holiday to Florida when I was about 19.
I’d only been going out with him for about 6 months so had only met his mum a few times but I agreed. Ex dropped off the keys the night before they left reassured me the animals were lovely and to make myself at home.
Arrived to this huge house let myself in to find one of the dogs had shit all over, the kitchen was covered in dirty dishes and a note from his mother.

The ‘note’ was in fact a 4 page detailed list of instructions. The dog couldn’t be left alone for more than an hour as he has separation anxiety.
The cat is diabetic and needs insulin and specific amounts of food at specific times.
The rabbit must be let out into the garden at X Y and Z times- careful getting him back into the hutch he tends to nibble. (The rabbit was fucking feral and the most vicious thing I have ever came across- I still have a scar on my hand from it)
The windows are washed inside on a Tuesday.
All floors must be hoovered daily.
They didn’t have time before they left but if I would change the sheets (in the 5 bedrooms) and remake them I would be an angel.
No time to wash the dishes but if I could do them and give the kitchen a once over that would be great.
Huge box of cleaning products left out with post it notes on each one saying what they were to be used on.

Anyway I was young (and a fucking idiot) followed the list to the letter. Took time off the 3 jobs I was working as the dog couldn’t be left and cleaned their house according to the list.
They got home and instead of a thank you his mum acted like she had done me a favour in allowing me to stay in their house.

Ex came around 2 days later to say he had met someone else a month before his holiday but didn’t want to tell me until he was back in the UK- I wonder why.

Only just found this thread, it's gold!

I need to know what happened in @Jokie situation from page 1. It sounded like it deserved it's own thread!

@zisforstripyoss: check out page 2:
"Well, the neighbour came home from work (he's a keyworker) and for 5 mins there was a series of beeped horns and "who the f**k is parked here?!" Before the visitor came out looking sheepish and moved their car. The neighbour had told them to park there because that person is "out all day anyway so it doesn't matter". There were some choice words said and then everyone went inside. I was in the middle of making dinner so I was trying to hear what I could from across the road.

No, not South Wales but near it."

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My DSiS always has a lot in summer. She lives in a "holiday destination" area of the UK and regularly gets people who treat her village as their own second home and who "deserve" more because it's their holiday.

Over Easter, people arrived from London and were angered that "everything here is shut. We're on holiday"

Oh I saw that update, I was hoping for more ongoing neighbour drama, haha, like alphabet street!

I once rented a house from the council that was for people with key worker jobs to attract them to a county with high housing costs. I was a teacher and my housemate was too. One day the heating broke down. After freezing my butt off and going and buying a plug in radiator, i found out once the heating was back on that the council had sent round one plug in radiator each for us and the housemate had put them.both in her bedroom.
She also bought an answerphone and put it in her locked bedroom and would go away for the weekend. She'd tell me on Sunday when she got back that I'd had a message on friday asking if i wanted to go out. (This was before mobile phones)

@Zisforstripyoss: thankfully not! They've done it a few times since but the visitors have always left before the owner comes home.

@FatherDickByrne I think I’m being stupid about yours. They’re allowed to put fencing up just for their own garden. Is it that they didn’t ask permission to untie your roses?

I have a CF and karma story. I flew to the US a couple of years ago to meet some friends so was travelling alone. For a reason I can’t remember I was in a bit of an obscurely timed flight so it was only about 25% full. When I checked in I realised the emergency exit seat were free so nabbed the window one. Hurray, lots of legroom and space!

Anyway, I boarded and settled into my lovely seat. Five minutes later a woman is standing over me screeching (and I mean screeching at full volume) that I had taken her seat. I was a bit confused and fished out my boarding pass and all seemed clear that I was in the right place and her seat was about 10 rows back. The drama and yelling continued and the staff came racing over to calm things. I tried to explain but she wasn’t having a bar of it. At this point she was nearly in hysterics, gulping, screaming and crying about my behaviour, threatening to punch me, threatening to hurt herself. All very crazy. She gasped out that she always booked that particular seat but had failed to do so for this flight and that I had to move or she wouldn’t be responsible for her actions! Fuuuuuuuuck!

As I said, the flight was pretty empty so I told the steward that I was happy to move. It was all just too much drama and I could see it turning really nasty. I figured that she was a very nervous flier and there was something about that seat that helped calm her nerves. The lovely steward looked at me in complete relief, helped me get my stuff then very loudly said “Thanks so much madam. We have got a lot of space free in business class so let me take you up there”.

Mad lady’s hysterics stopped instantly and she demanded the upgrade instead. The steward very coolly said no and reminded her that she had her special seat. As we walked through the plane I asked if he was sure about the upgrade and that I was happy to move back in economy. He very quietly told me that she was a frequent flier and that was her MO to get the emergency exit seats without paying the extra fare. Every flight she got on apparently. I had the best flight and was treated like a queen by the lovely crew!

@RedRed9, they sawed through and removed part of my trellis in order to replace it with their fence. The wall that separates our properties is jointly owned and I had permission from the previous owners to put up the trellis along the top. It was professionally fitted and cost quite a lot of money. I feel they should at the very least have spoken to me about the situation. I think they behaved in a very entitled and high-handed way!

Part of my DH's family live in a different country to us but his cousin was in our country doing a uni course. At the end of it her mother asked us to look after her bike for a few months. She was going back home but would be applying for jobs in our country. Fast forward six months and there's no sign of her coming back. We ask the mother who says it's nothing to do with her (except it was you who asked us to look after the bike because your mid-20s daughter was apparently not grown up enough to do it). Cousin doesn't reply to messages. Fast forward two years and the bloody thing is still in our shed and we've heard not a word from her. So as we needed the space in our shed for other stuff, and by this point the bike is rusted and tyres rotted, we decide to bin it as clearly she has no intention for coming back to the UK. A further two years later (so four years after we originally took the bike in, and with not a single message from her in those four years) out of nowhere we get a message from her saying she's about to board a flight to our country as she's got a job, can we get in touch with her ASAP so we can arrange to get the bike to her.

No thank you, no sorry I haven't been in touch, nothing. My DH started to write a message back to her and started it "I'm really sorry but..." I told him not to apologise to just keep it short - we hadn't heard from you in four years, you hadn't bothered responding to messages we sent to you so we assumed you didn't need it and binned it.

She never replied to the message and we haven't heard from her since. The Christmas card from her parents also stopped that year.

@Winterwoollies she's never really changed. Always a strain to put up with but the wedding did seem to turn her into a mega MOGzilla. She had a list of wedding demands longer than my wedding planning list!

We didn't ask for anything from her (she did keep making points about tradition and how the parents of the bride should be paying though) and in the end she paid for the DJ (we never asked her to) but tried to insist he only play certain stuff. We spoke to him just before the wedding and he agreed to a range of songs that DH, our guests and I would all enjoy.

@QuayboardWarrior ugh, she sounds like a controlling cow. I hope you don’t have to see her often.

@QuayboardWarrior So she wanted your parents to pay for all her wants and freeloading guests she wanted to invite? She is defiantly out of touch with how it works these days 😂