Best CF Stories

[CupcakesAndCastles]

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

@HarderToBreath

I'd love to know what you included in the newborn basket. Would be great to get some ideas of what to do with my wee one

A CF on a CF thread - did you miss the bit where @CharDee actually sells the baskets?

I thought EXACTLY the same 😂😂😂😂😂

@HelloBambinos

How did that happen more than once? I’d have sacked her the first time

@Bozlem80

Neighbours daughter came back from abroad where she lived for the winter hols along with her young daughter, neighbour doesn’t have broadband, daughter kept asking for my password I kept saying it’s running slow (which it was) one night I had to go to hosp & asked neighbours daughter if could babysit kids till DH got home (phone was off tried ringing him) this was October, fast forward to January & my broadband was running really slow so looked up how to change password, managed to do it then not long after got a txt off the daughter asking why MY broadband wasn’t working?

Not long after DH rang to ask why I had changed the password because neighbours daughter couldn’t use it & her little girl wasn’t well & NEEDED the broadband, a huge argument started not long after, DH took her side, she offered to pay but told her to fuck off, still convinced something went on between her & DH?!

If she's kind enough to babysit your kids you should be kind enough to give her your WiFi password.

My neighbour invited us to join a new years eve dinner at an expensive restaurant with twelve others all paying for themselves. His SIL husband and child also came and parents went through the card ordering most expensive things on the menu for 6 year old who didn’t
eat any of it. When the bill came neighbour told us all that WE all would chip in and pay for child’s meal. He also told us how much we each owed. Girl sitting next to me declared she would go to till and pay on her credit card. Neighbour got angry telling her he had stipulated cash only. I followed her to find he had divided bill up to exclude him, his wife and in-laws so we others covered their bill. The girl told me she had known him as holiday rep and they always did that.

He now runs skiing holidays in Austria and is still at it with huge grin on his face.

However what goes around comes around, he is totally broke and lives in shitty rented accommodation. Everybody he knows has been shafted by him and shafted him in return.

I put some DVDs on our local Fb selling page. A bundle of 50 or so for £10. The buyer told me her address and told me to put them in an Uber . At my expense.....

Oh bc another one came to mind. A few years ago before payday I was down to about £13,in the bank so went out to the bank during my lunch hour to get out my final tenner so I could buy dinner ingredients on my way home. One of our colleagues said he forgot his wallet and asked a colleague if he could borrow a few quid off her. Her response was ‘I haven’t got any cash but Bashful had just been to the bank, bashful give x that £10 you got out!’ CF offering my cash. I did explain I needed it to for shopping and wouldn’t be able to go to the bank for more (too embarrassed to admit I was really skint and couldn’t actually get more cash out!) who offers other people’s money?

She was also the person who wanted me to cancel a week off as her done needed to go to a hospital appointment. I was getting married (eloping so hadn’t told our families but ended up telling her to get her to back off) she said ‘oh I’m sure you could shuffle things about!’ The actual day she wanted was my wedding day and her done was only going for a regular check up.

*son not done

I was once invited by a farmer to go ono his land to go blackberrying, they were very plentiful and easily accessible. As I know my friend loves blackberries I suggested we went the following dau, she declined as she didn't like getting her hands scratched. When I returned she sent her son round, Mum's said can she have her blackberries! She really couldn't understand who I said no, I was a dreadfully selfish person apparently.
Years aog I was asked to give a lift to a new colleague, it wasn't out of my way so I agreed I'd do it for a couple of months until he sorted himself out. All he did on this free left was rant and rave about the iniquity of the motor car and how we should all be on bikes. The arrangement didn't last long.

One of my friends was renting a house at uni. The two other tenants left, and he needed to fill up two rooms. His friend in his class said “me and my girlfriend and her brother are looking for somewhere”. When he came back, this guy had gone in his room and taken a lot of his stuff and used it/given it away. Things like cigarette papers, sweets, noodles etc. Money (about £20 in change) was missing. 1st red flag. This guy apologised and said “must have been my friend that stayed round”.

Then two weeks later, 3 more people move in with the brother. A three roomed flat (the living room was used as a bedroom) with 7 people living in it. They all took 30-45 minute showers, made him split the bills 3 ways. He objected but they kept reminding him, if he complained he would be made homeless. He was trapped. He managed to move in with a nice friend eventually. I helped him move in my mini! We did have to wait for them to leave for uni, all cloak and dagger stuff. When the guy said “I have no one to fill the room” my friend laughed in his face and said “you have 4 people in one room, how about 2 of them”

The CF would park in his nice friends parking space attached to the flat in the town where he lived. His nice friend was renting his parking space out to a bar manager, but CF kept parking there. In the end his friend got a lock for the bollard. CF rang nice friend up and started to rant at him. Nice friend told him to get lost and pay for his parking.

I always used to take parcels for my neighbour.
I did not mind.
But once I took a large huge box for him.
It was big and literally blocked my whole hallway, I could hardly open the front door with it, it blocked the access to the stairs, also it was literally touching the radiator so I was not keen on it just in case whatever was inside would melt or gone off.
I saw the neighbour arriving home just after lunch.
Nothing happened, he did not come to pick up.

I left it as though maybe he is busy etc.
The same next day.
When I spotted him outside, I mentioned that I got his parcel .
He just said : oh I know, I was hoping you would keep it for few days as have no space at home..
Wtf!!????

Currently working with a CF only she's had 10 weeks off with 'her back' (there's no manual lifting in our job whatsoever, it's not physical at all) . One of my colleagues had a text from CF saying she did some packing when they moved house so it's made her worse so she can't come back. If she was fit enough to pack she is fit enough to return to work.

My DP works in freight distribution and they have to go in with a bad back and are put on light duties.

@kateluvscats - of course it would be unreasonable not to let the neighbour's dd have the WIFI password whilst she was babysitting - but one occasion of babysitting doesn't entitle the neighbour and her dd to use of @Bozlem80's WIFI password in perpetuity!

We went to a cousins kids christening... thought cute cos they don’t normally take the time with us much (they inherited loads, we didn’t FYI). Got there and they had loads of food and decor but none of it set up... one said you wouldn’t mind helping would you? And got us to do it all.... then about an hour in we realised they’d asked us early. Then one asked me to help with peoples coats... chatted to the catering lot who said the family had specifically said they wouldn’t pay for waiting staff. So that’s when I realised they’d invited us, as staff .... cf family. To top it off they had a professional camera lady there, and she said that tbh she did have a schedule of who to take pics of and we weren’t on it. So... there’s that

Oh I forgot! I heard one of them saying to their friend “you can hand your coat to the staff in that room” which was aka me! They’re such twats! Imagine being that cheap and rude my poor mum had bought a special hat for it too, pretty sad

@kateluvscats
If she's kind enough to babysit your kids you should be kind enough to give her your WiFi password
One night's babysitting in October doesn't mean that the daughter should still be using the WiFi in January.

If she's kind enough to babysit your kids you should be kind enough to give her your WiFi password

It's also really poor security. Anyone on your wifi can see the other devices on your network and if they do any mischief online it will be traced back to your account by the IP address.

I once casually said to a waitress from abroad working in our favourite hotel that if she ever came to my city, to get in touch. Somehow she managed to stay in our place for 3 months, complete with her boyfriend. He used to wait on her hand and foot, we barely saw her. Getting them to leave was a challenge...think we lent them cash in the end.

Turns out it was her smoking in the staff rooms under our guest bedroom , that had ruined our holiday.

One of my work colleagues kindly offered to arrange the end of term 'knees -up" in her garden instead of us all going to a local pub. Perfect. She suggested a BBQ, obviously everyone was happy to bring their own food and drink but she wanted to have ticket system where each person paid £10 and she would go and buy all the food and basic drink.
We turned up (DH and I), to find her DH on the door with a clipboard crossing peoples names off before entry to the garden where we were presented with a boiled frankfurter in a roll. No drink except squash. There were about 40 people there - she must have made about £360 that afternoon!

Years ago I had a friend who was having a really bad time, young kids, husband left, so one night we arranged that I would go over with a bottle of wine and ingredients for dinner. I got there, and she said "I hope you don't mind, I have accepted an invitation to go on a date, so since you are here anyway, could you babysit?"...and off she went! The kids weren't even in bed.

A few years ago we went out for dinner as a group for NYE. We all had a set menu and most people were drinking so we decided to split the bill. We took the total, added on the tip and divided by the 11 of us that were there. From memory, it came to something like £35/40 a head and we had to go up and pay at the bar individually because they were having issues with their card machine.

We took it in turns to go up and pay and two of my friends who are a couple were the last ones to pay so theirs should have been about £70/£80. Because of how the restaurant were working it out, a large part of theirs ended up being the tip. What did they decide to do? Just pay the remaining amount for the food bill and not leave any tip at all! Not only did they deprive the hard working waitresses of their tip but they also paid significantly less than the rest of us.

My lovely friend overheard the whole thing and was too gobsmacked to say anything.

Anyone mentioned the coworker who took over the office fridge - www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2629482-My-colleague-has-thrown-my-lunch-in-the-bin

I had a boyfriend who had an affair, I was devastated. Then he said it was over and he wanted to make it work with me, "but I've booked a holiday with her, so after that can we try again?" When I said "no I don't think so" he said "But I've already paid for it."

You'd think he was just trying to make me end it - which I did - but then he was really upset that I wouldn't take him back!

Don't think I've mentioned this one before ...

The PTA committee at a school where my ex used to teach decided to hold a buffet and drinks to thank the (many) volunteers - just the usual sort of thing with standard food and beer/wine
It was all going okay until they announced the buffet was open "and it'll be £10 each - oh, and £5 extra if you want drinks"

Fair enough if it had been touted as a fundraiser in the first place, but this was supposed to be an appreciation of folk who'd already given very generously of their time and money

Mine isn’t as cheeky as others but I had a colleague who never ever had her wallet on her so we would almost always had to pay for her when we’d all go out for our lunch break. At first I would just say that it’s cool and she can choose what she wants to eat, as it would be awkward for her to sit there and not eat, only for her to proceed and choose several things in the café or something like a kid in a sweetshop. Once in a blue moon, she’d “treat” us, she’d hint at how much it cost and how much we owed her. We then found out that she owns multiple houses and this job is merely a “hobby” for her to just pass her time.