Best CF Stories

[CupcakesAndCastles]

Lockdown sucks, what’s the best CF stories you’ve read?

These are making my blood boil.

Wasn’t there a thread on here about a woman who went to lunch with a friend who kept stealing her kids food

I’m sure she never ended up confronting her!

@PunishmentSnart that was my thread. I didn’t ever have a chance to talk to her about it because Covid shut down everything the following week so we haven’t been to lunch together since.
I actually stopped reading the replies to my OP because of the abuse I received. I was told that I was a terrible parent and my children should be pitied for having me as a mother.

Has there ever been any updates on the pregnant woman who kept stealing the OP's Grape flavoured Ka cans at work?

And the woman in an office who wouldn't pay for her Friday lunches until she was months behind owing when everyone else paid on the day? I think it was some sort of deli with a good deal.

Went out for a work meal with scary boss. There were about 12 of us. I had a pizza, no alcohol. Nice male colleague had a risotto, no alcohol, the rest went for it. Meal was obviously expensive due to wine etc being consumed by everyone else. Bill comes and I start looking at it, suggesting each person work out how much they owe as nice colleague and mine were the cheapest. Scary boss about yells at me to split bill , which we did. One of other nice colleagues said "don't worry Flibberty, just pay your own " so I did.

Next day at work, scary boss about yells at me for telling everyone to split the bill 🤔 And how nice colleague only had risotto and paid more than they should have. Twat .🙄

And the woman in an office who wouldn't pay for her Friday lunches until she was months behind owing when everyone else paid on the day? I think it was some sort of deli with a good deal.

I don’t remember the details but iirc the woman eventually paid up, but the OP stopped doing lunches for everyone and it caused some upset.

@GreenTeaMug that makes sense then why they were entitled and didn’t bring stuff to stay thanks!

They assumed it was a rental arrangement. I don’t know how anyone has the neck to rent out a room in someone else’s home!!

I know, and after we were told what the sitiaiton was we thought they must have eben a bit disappointed as they were treated like friends not paying guests.

It made alot of sense though afterwards. Some odd things we could not work out about suddenly fell into place.

@greenteamug what did you say to the CF when you found out?! I hope you demanded all the money he’d made!

And the woman in an office who wouldn't pay for her Friday lunches until she was months behind owing when everyone else paid on the day? I think it was some sort of deli with a good deal

I remember this one! The worst part about that thread was that none of the other colleagues were on OPs side - or only one was.

The rest were only interested in OP continuing to order for their benefit despite the fact she was increasingly out of pocket. The rest were arguable CF too.

@Daisyhut I don't think you deserved the criticism, what is wrong with some people, mumsnet can be the best place for advice or the worst.

Moonbaby - nothing.

CF is in our circle of friends. DH has known him for 40 yeras and did not want me to say anything. He was being terribly stiff upper lift about it. I think it hurt him alot though.

(I may have let the information slip out though).

I have 2 about the same ex next door neighbour M. M was a single mum with 2 kids, boy of 18 and girl 14. M noticed my son (15) would cycle everywhere and was always tinkering with his bike.

M knocks on our door my son answers and she TELLS him ' my son's bike is broken you need to fix it'. My son goes over and it's a simple job to sort the chain out. Shows the 18 year old how to do it. 2 days later mum bands on door and demands my son fixes it again. My son goes and fixes. Few days later. She bangs again and son goes and tries for ages in pouring rain to fix it whilst son and rest of family go inside for their dinner and shut the door on him. He can't fix it. M tells him 'when your dad gets home send him over, don't let him get comfy for the night just send him straight over'

When my husband comes home our son tells him the message and what has been going on (neither of us were aware of her demanding my son fix the bike). M waits 5 minutes after my husband gets home and knocks on door demands my husband and comes and fixes bike as her son must have it for the morning! My husband tells her in no uncertain terms that in no way is he fixing the bike, she is never to ask my son again and he wants her to fuck off and never come to our door again!

Dominic CF Cummings

Before bike incident M knocked on door asking if we knew anyone who had a van she could hire to collect a dining table she had bought. It was fairly obvious I had a van. I offered to help her free of charge as I had no idea what a nightmare she would be.

The following day we drive about 8 miles to collect table. We get to house and lovely man with dog answer door and in we go. I stand in doorway petting dog for a minute until I hear a whistle. Thinking it's the owner calling the dog I follow dog into living room. It was M whistling for me!!

She then continues to bark orders at me and the nice man (in his 70s) his to lift and move table to van. She doesn't offer to help until I say 'it will be easier if you get that side'. She does bare minimum but barks orders and is so rude. We drive home and she jumps out of car and goes in. I start to move table from van and she doesn't appear. I go to find her and she is sitting in her living room with both her teenage kids chatting. She fully expected me to bring it in myself! Never said thank you! She sent her son to help me which he did begrudgingly

Again my story is not as terrible as some on here! I had a friend that i got to know as we worked in ajoining departments at work. We were both single at the time and would socialise a lot and got on really well and there was no hint of what was to come. After being friends for a while we decided to book a holiday together and got a very good last minute deal to turkey. When we arrived i realised she had brought nothing....no clothes, no suntan lotion and barely any money. Even though she was a couple of sizes bigger than me she raked through my case and pulled clothes out to wear, which i never got back but i was ok with that as she only showered once the whole week in a very hot country, she borrowed all my lotion and by halfway through the week she had to borrow money. I also had to make new friends as she made her way through all the male employees of the hotel and only saw her briefly during the day!
When we got home she told all my friends, who she had started hanging around with, that i had borrowed the money from her!! After a couple of months of harrassing her for the money she gave me a cheque which subsequently bounced, which my bank charged me for, but when they submitted it again it finally cleared.
I took myself away from her after that but then found out she had been encouraged to leave work because it tured out she had lied on her CV about being able to carry out certain proceedures and a patient had nearly died!
She applied for another job quickly to get out of there and in her hurry put me down as a reference which i didnt know about until the paperwork came through the post!! It was all questions about her timekeeping and appearance etc which, as she wasnt in my department, i didnt know the answer so i had to reply that i didnt know the answer on the reference form. Hopefully they would have realised that she only put me as a reference as her direct work colleges may have told another story. I never did find out if she got the job!

cupcakeandcastles OP Thank you for starting this thread. It's a classic and so entertaining during lockdown

Loved being reminded of the Mexican house thief and lunchtime ordering lady who wasn't paid back by one colleague CF tales and all the new ones PPs are sharing
CF and parking threads are my absolute favourite!!

radness75 Giving your name as a referee without the courtesy of prepping the supporter beforehand is CF in itself and when I've been asked to give a reference in that way, the resulting reference has been very much "the letter of the law", as in "I worked with this colleague from xdate to ydate" - you were right to be clear that you were not in a position to answer some of the questions being asked. You could damage your own career by making false statements on her behalf. A canny employer will pick up on this, and the real killer can be "Feel free to get in touch", which roughly translates as "I'm prepared to say things in a phone call that I wouldn't put in writing". Wondering whether she got the job or not is very apt; it can take a long time for reality to catch up with duckers and divers, but eventually she will run out of sensible people like you who get her measure. The bigger the fibs, the greater the crash; I heard of the rise and fall of a "dynamic" (tr. "talks a good game") headteacher who actually thought they could claim academic qualifications falsely, and that nobody would check! I think they begin to believe their own lies, and the dread of their lives can be people who have met them connecting and comparing notes.

@cstaff

I hope so. I think the guy who nicked the seat thought the policeman would just back down. It was like watching a cartoon seeing the smirk slide off his face.

I think the guy who nicked the seat thought the policeman would just back down. It was like watching a cartoon seeing the smirk slide off his face.

That was indeed funny, but I rather fancy his reaction when challenged (and he probably does this all of the time) might differ depending on if the rightful occupant of the seat that he's stolen turns out to be anm angry rugby-playing body-builder or a petite, timid young woman. If the former, he probably apologises for the 'misunderstanding' and then goes off to another carriage in the hope of finding one of the latter.

@Daisyhut you didn’t deserve them
Comments at all, but I couldn’t get my head round why you wouldn’t just tell her to stop?

@Moonfacebiggins

You are very kind and your poor ds

I would have told her to help with table I think

@PunishmentSnart because she is a lovely, kind woman who just happens to have this crazy blind spot about taking others food. I find her lack of manners excruciatingly embarrassing and I have not challenged it.

My kids still get enough food as I order extra. I simply spend a little extra money. I do need to stop her in a sensitive way.

That's quite selfish to your DC of that 'lovely friend ' though Daisyhut You've been very nice about it ...

Damn. My previous CF reminiscing story didn't post ... it's little and very old as DC were young back then... I'll try again... but make it shorter

A CF school mum I hardly knew (except had dropped off her DD home a couple times for her -and chatted cats & Year R stuff & at kid parties in passing) asked me to feed her cat for when she and her family were going on a long 4 day weekend away

Turns out :-

She didn't leave enough cat food to last the 4 days- one pouch only

She left her dog for me to walk or let out into garden. feed and take care of

She left her family's washing out on the line for me to "bring in and fold incase it rained"

All added in texts after she'd left "if I could just .." as they'd been "rushed off their feet packing" their (huge) MPV car and her "mum had decided to go with them so couldn't have the DDog afterall"

I'm disabled and walk with a stick, can't walk a dog nor negotiate obstacles in her garden to bring in a heavy load of washing and my (then old) cat only ate a vet prescribed diet so she expected me to take my cat's food round or " if I could just pop" to shop to buy enough cat food for weekend and few days after as they didn't (& wouldn't) have time as they'd also get back too late

I replied to get someone to take dog, no go on the washing - weather was nice anyway- and I'd done my online shopping already (to be fair she probably hadn't remembered my cat ate food from vet only but still...)

DDog and his (sleep?) crate were gone when I returned later to hers

On their return after weekend, I didn't even get a nice Thank-you nor paying for any cat food I'd had to take round- it wasn't cheap. Just a 'cheers' next day and rest of text was a moan as if I'd let her down as 'BIL had to go round to get DDog and wasn't happy...' and ... 'they'd had to stop at one stop on way home and cat food was a fiver in there' !

I made sure I wasn't ever available for cat cover again after then... She definitely kept catching me for lifts to from school parties at the last minute...

The best CF story I have is of my boss. He prefers to spend other people’s money despite having plenty of his own income. Boss is the owner and managing director of the entire company that I work for and a few years back when they first started as a business, the deputy director said she’d forgotten to bring lunch so would go to KFC/Subway/whatever. Deputy went out to get food for herself and CF boss as he had forgotten his wallet, fair enough it could happen to anyone.
Fast forward five years and he sends her out every single day to buy his lunch and drinks, if he wants a drink from the lobby machines he sends her to get one for him. He hasn’t paid for a SINGLE THING IN MORE THAN FIVE YEARS. When I asked why at the start of my job he said “Oh it’s just the way we do it now and she’s happy to do it soooo...”. I have tried telling the Deputy a dozen times to make him pay but she hates looking ‘tight’.