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We managed to find out where her grandmother lived (local)and got her there, but I don't think Mum and Grandmother got on very well, so she wasn't best pleased.

The CF fiancee of my (male) friend once told me that he didn't want to do anything for his 30 birthday apart from spend the entire weekend with her and their child.

I said that would be lovely and that I'd give him his present when I saw him next

A few days before his birthday I got a facebook message from CF fiancee. "I know how life can be really busy so I thought I'd give you a prompt to remember to still buy [Guy's name] a 30th birthday present even though he isn't having a party."

Fuck. Off. I don't treat my friends as pay per view.

Another friend was staying in my town with a group of friends from uni and sharing a furnished apartment. She texted me, "You might want to bring us some teabags from home."

You might want to say please, darling. It was the beginning of the end of our friendship.

@FMyUterus what a cheek! my restaurant story is a few pages back very similar to yours actually, I don't do split bills either and I make that very clear to people and I ask the waiters to give me a separate bill as well before I even order and someone on here called me tight fisted . Good on your DH for arguing as well! what is it with these cheeky fuckers at restaurants there seems to be loads of these stories on here

@millefeuille1 what a fucking cheek! I reckon yours is up there with the Mexican house thief. I assume you took the girl along with you for the day? Please tell me you had words with the mother over this and told her she was a piss taking cheeky fucker! I really hope you sent her a bill for all that childminding you did as well LOL

@Luciferthecat666 I know. It's also amazing how many people have crawled out of the woodwork since he's been made a judge. Funny how it wasn't important to see him when he earned 20,000 as a newly qualified solicitor but now he's a judge on circa 150,000 (after a lot of training) he's Now amazing to know

Posted too soon! But that's a cf thread for another day!!

millefueille1, I'm not surprised about blithely packing a child off without checking.
At one of my previous schools, the PTA organised a day trip to France; families could book seats on a coach, block booking on the ferry to save money, when we arrived in France, parents would take their own children off under their supervision for pre-Christmas shopping or whatever they wished to do, back to London together on the coach. Possibly, parents might agree to take a child who was a friend of their children by mutual agreement, but it was made clear that children were no being supervised by any staff who chose to go along. Some staff "wore both hats" and had their own offspring at the same school, some wanted to come along simply to shop for bargains! Risk assessment was a more light-hearted affair in those days, but anybody who has been on a boat with lively youngsters could forsee the need for care and caution.
When the application forms started to come in, it became clear that some parents were attempting to send their primary school-aged children unaccompanied. They figured it was worth the money to have their children taken off their hands for the whole day, and were happy to pack them off to foreign climes (admittedly, only the other side of the Channel!) with no clear knowledge of who would supervise them all day.

I did have to call round to speak the mum eventually as we were going on holiday for two weeks and I was worried about the girl. I didn't call her out on what had happened to that point but just said we wouldn't be around for a while. She just said "OK" and shut the door.

@millefeuille1
That’s such a sad story really. Loads of CF revolves around childcare. That poor girl and what a rude mum.

@FMyUterus I hope you told them to fuck off! Cheeky fuckers are one of my pet peeves I love putting them in their place. I was doing my shopping in Tesco and when I was on the checkout with my stuff this woman cut in front of me (didn't even ask) put her one item in front of mine and said she was in a rush. I wasn't having none of it I politely asked her to cue and she kicked off saying she had one item she's in a hurry. Check out lady asked me to let it go, I was having none it and a supervisor had to get involved in the end and told rude woman to go and cue up like everyone else! She was fuming and gave me dirty looks the whole time I deliberately and slowly packed up my shopping. The thing is had she politely asked me I would have let her go ahead as I've done it before but it was the fact she just cut in front of me and about five other people who had all cued for a good 15/20 minutes!

@millefeuille1 You must be a very nice person I would have told that mum not only is she a cheeky fucker but also a careless mother! who would palm their child off on someone they've never met and know nothing about. Please tell me she didn't send her daughter round when you got back from holiday?

She did continue to visit for some time after that - she was my daughter's best friend - and we just accepted it for what it was. I don't think she had a very nice home life and it wasn't her fault, after all.

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DD was in Reception so I had little insight into birthday party fuckery at the time. I invited some children to our modest-sized house and had planned various games, made up lunch boxes, party bags etc. I didn't know any of the parents well at all as rarely did the school run. I had specified on the invitation that parents could stay. Wealthy CF mother arrives at the door with her daughter plus another girl in an extravagant party dress. She says "It's okay if Annabel comes to the party too isn't it? She's my daughter's friend. I'll pick them up at x time." This child was a total stranger to my son and didn't even attend the same school. I'd only made up enough lunch boxes and party bags for the invited children so had to scrabble around for this child. I just couldn't believe the cheek!

Second example: I was a mature student and had quite a long commute to uni. CF other mature student clearly lived by "better to ask forgiveness than permission." She messaged me early one morning asking me to give her a lift to uni as her highly-paid husband needed the car that day. I agreed but had to hurry as she lived on the other side of our very congested town. I obviously would also need to drop her back home, adding a good 45 minutes to my journey that day. I didn't mind doing it as a one off and petrol money was neither asked for or offered. During the uni day, she waited until a group of other students were around us and then announced that she would need to get a lift from me for the foreseeable future on Tuesdays and Thursdays as she had altered her child care arrangements and her DH wanted the car to make the school run easier! This was all presented as a faite accompli. I declined and she was most put out and moody with me for weeks because I wouldn't facilitate her desired schedule. She would also forget her bank card and ask for me to pay for things but it was very hard to get the money back.

@ProfessionalWeirdo

I once lent a teacher friend a waterproof coat for a school trip. She lost it on the trip. A few months later, when another trip was arranged, she asked me if I could lend her another coat!

I have a similar tale. I had bought brand new waterproofs for DD1 to go on a school trip. She wore them once. I saved them for DD2 as they weren't cheap, (who would one day be going on a similar trip). DD2's class started doing outdoor work, walks etc and a classmates mum asked if she could borrow DD1's waterproofs (DD2 had a current set that fit).

Each week I would get them handed back and then be asked to lend them again a few days later as the mum never bothered buying even a cheap set, despite knowing the kids would be doing these outdoor activities for the term. Eventually they were just torn to shreds and had been further ruined by being put through a washer every week. There were now huge gaping rips in them and a split crotch. I actually told the mum that I couldn't take those back because they were now torn so much they were useless so would need replacing. Yet instead of buying me a set back as you would expect, she just said "cheers" and walked off with them.

Another restaurant one. On a mates big birthday. There were shitloads of people we didn’t know, so we (me and close friends) asked if each table could pay and split their bills. (And pay towards birthday meal) oh no it’ll be fine. We on our table were a mix of skint and veggies, so we’d all had the set menu and house wine.Turns out, of course, that these people we didn’t know had gone a la carte and ordered the most expensive things on the menu and the most expensive wines, which they kept on their table. Galling yes. But then turns out they didn’t pay towards birthday boys meal, so the bill was short. Whilst we were trying to sort it out they fucked off, as they had to travel back to their city. And then we saw them in the pub an hour later.

Last Xmas group meal I went to (actually 2018 didn’t go last year): two of us had the cheapest menu options, most had just a starter/ main or main/desert. 2 CFs each had starters, filet steak, dessert and fancy coffees (one CF also ordered a cheese board to “share with everyone” but ate it all) and both had been propping up the bar for some time beforehand. The humongous bill, which included all the bar spend, was split equally.

Never again!

My mum, sisters and DPs took a special family trip to Malaysia a few weeks after my dad died. My mum (Malaysian) had been my dad's full time carer before he passed away and she hadn't been back home for 10 years, so we decided to go and see family for Lunar New Year at what was a very tender time for us all in our grief.

One evening DP and I were in our hotel room and received a knock on the door from an older couple who it transpired were the parents of my Malaysian 2nd cousin who was at uni studying finance in London (I knew the cousin but had never met the parents). Without making any real conversation or offering any condolences for my loss they asked if we could take a few things back to the UK for their daughter. Although my luggage pretty full for the 3 week trip I said I could probably take something, as it didn't seem like an unreasonable request and I had one or two spare pockets. They then left the room and came back with two enormous carrier bags of random shit. DP and I apologised saying that our luggage was already rather full and we wanted to take back some of our gifts and shopping. The dad then started picking up our bags to see how much space we had left and started packing things into it from the carrier bags. We were so shocked that in the end we agreed to take about half of the items. A few hours later I found out that they'd done the exact same thing to my three sisters and between us we had 6 carrier bags of someone else's crap.
When we told my mum she was fuming and gathered up all the bags they'd foisted upon us and dumped them all back at their house

@Faerysmoke I love your mum!!!

My neighbour locked herself out of her house. She had a toddler at the time. I was going to work when I saw what had happened and said she could sit in my house whilst waiting for her DH to drive home with keys. A few days later, I checked my bank account and there were payments to Amazon. I rang Amazon and they said they were for DVD's I had rented that day!!!

DB and SIL rang me out of the blue a few weeks ago, hadn't heard from them in 2 years, To 'catch up', to then ask if they could borrow our caravan. Their plan was for me to tow it to Scotland, meet them there, then go and fetch it a week later. As they hadn't been able to go away this year they decided that they could use our van.That'll be a no!

A friend messaged earlier in the year.
Was I going shopping in the morning.
I replied yes.
She asked if she could come,cupboards were bare and husband was doing an extra shift at work etc.
I picked her up,we did some shopping,went for a coffee.
Driving her home after a couple of hours about 11.30am she asks am I coming in for a cuppa.
I said no sorry need to get home put shopping away ,grab a sandwich and am then meeting my sister about 1pm.

How long will you be at your sisters ?......dont know.
Well will you be one hour or two ?.....dont know.
What are you actually doing at hers ?....cuppa chat and helping her with a recipe.
How long will that take ?....I dont know but I dont need to rush or put a time on it.
Can you not go tomorrow instead ?....No I want to go today ,she is expecting me and why wouldnt I go today .
Will you be heading back this way by 3pm ?.....no I wont be coming this way. When I have finished at sisters I will be heading straight home to get the tea on.

She gets her phone out ,slams on the screen.....can I order a taxi for 2.50pm I need to be at _ school at 3pm.

I drop her outside her house,she gets her stuff out and strops off in a mood .

@Faerysmoke Wow they actually went down your stuff and put it in your luggage! I would have kicked them out the second they did that never mind agreeing to take back half of it! Good on your mum for taking it all back to them What was their reaction when she did that?

Just found this thread and want to leave a comment so I can read it all, some of these stories are

I've a few to add, when ds1 started school it was my first experience of whole class parties & as there were 2 it was usually 40+ kids a time. Always the same child whose parent did a drop & run, they were 3 when I went but friends of mine said parents had been doing the same since before they turned 2. More often than not parents didn't know party organiser well if a t all but just expected a room full of strangers to watch him. Did the same when ds had a soft play party, mum told me at school he was coming but dad dropped him off, without speaking to me at all despite me being stood at the entrance (holding newborn ds2), put boys first name only on sign in sheet with no contact info at all & left. He then had an accident because he was climbing the outside of the play equipment & fell, not hurt thankfully but very upset & asking for mum & dad who I had no way to call. When he picked him up I explained & his answer was it happens all the time & perhaps if have found it easier to keep an eye on all of them if I'd paid to have exclusive use!

I've also been in the bill splitting situation, big work meal, me & friend being fairly young & more interested in drinking than a multi course meal have £8 pasta dishes. Get out one drinks throughout at the bar. Senior managers in attendance & on significantly more money than us are having multiple courses, ordering wine which comes no where near us. we had drinks vouchers for rest of the evening in other bars so had enough for food & taxi. Bill comes & they decide we're splitting it, we ended up having to pay £45 each (had to put on credit cards), we queried but we're told that's how it was done, should not have gone if we weren't prepared to do it & threatened with disciplinary action if we didnt (was out of work hours, no connection to the business & we were naive so had no idea this wasn't ok).

Also not sure if my MIL isn't a bit of a CF too, keeps offering to buy us things we need as gifts, always presents as it's her doing it but will then go round t o other family members to day she's decided we're getting Owner & Dh thi s so you need to give me £x for your share. There is no prior agreement or chat before she asks for the cash. Last time it happened the person she told had already got something, they were instructed to return it & give money to her instead

I met a lady on the estate where I moved to and we got talking as we have children roughly the same age, met up a few times for coffee etc. I drive and she doesn’t. I drove past her at the bus stop one day and said oh are you going to work? I’m going to the shop next door so I can drop you... she gets in the car and after about 5 mins says, oh actually seeing as I’m not getting the bus I’ll be too early to work so drop me to town (20 mins in the opposite direction) and I‘ll do my shopping then get a bus to work. I was caught off guard so I agreed, We get into the town and I say right I’ll drop you here and she says oh no I need dropping over there (another 5 mins out of my way and a really difficult place to pull into in a busy town!!) needless to say I distanced myself after that but now and again I’ll get a text when she needs something eg ringing me at 7am because she’s missed her bus and needs a lift to work!! Or do I want to go to the shop with her because she needs to go shopping but can’t carry it all on a bus! She’s always putting on Facebook ‘can someone pick me up from work tonight I don’t want to get the bus home’ 🤦‍♀️

@Ownerofmultiplechimps

I've a few to add, when ds1 started school it was my first experience of whole class parties & as there were 2 it was usually 40+ kids a time. Always the same child whose parent did a drop & run, they were 3 when I went but friends of mine said parents had been doing the same since before they turned 2. More often than not parents didn't know party organiser well if a t all but just expected a room full of strangers to watch him. Did the same when ds had a soft play party, mum told me at school he was coming but dad dropped him off, without speaking to me at all despite me being stood at the entrance (holding newborn ds2), put boys first name only on sign in sheet with no contact info at all & left. He then had an accident because he was climbing the outside of the play equipment & fell, not hurt thankfully but very upset & asking for mum & dad who I had no way to call. When he picked him up I explained & his answer was it happens all the time & perhaps if have found it easier to keep an eye on all of them if I'd paid to have exclusive use!

I've also been in the bill splitting situation, big work meal, me & friend being fairly young & more interested in drinking than a multi course meal have £8 pasta dishes. Get out one drinks throughout at the bar. Senior managers in attendance & on significantly more money than us are having multiple courses, ordering wine which comes no where near us. we had drinks vouchers for rest of the evening in other bars so had enough for food & taxi. Bill comes & they decide we're splitting it, we ended up having to pay £45 each (had to put on credit cards), we queried but we're told that's how it was done, should not have gone if we weren't prepared to do it & threatened with disciplinary action if we didnt (was out of work hours, no connection to the business & we were naive so had no idea this wasn't ok).

Also not sure if my MIL isn't a bit of a CF too, keeps offering to buy us things we need as gifts, always presents as it's her doing it but will then go round t o other family members to day she's decided we're getting Owner & Dh thi s so you need to give me £x for your share. There is no prior agreement or chat before she asks for the cash. Last time it happened the person she told had already got something, they were instructed to return it & give money to her instead

I would have told them to crack on with the disciplinary then took it a solicitors and let the fun and games begin! Because you can bet your last tenner their boss would hit the roof for such an abuse of their position and bringing the company's name into disrepute!

My CF did something similar (its a few pages back on this thread) what is with food and restaurants that CF think they can behave like that