Best CF Stories

[CupcakesAndCastles]

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

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3106500-CF-friend-or-AIBU?postsby=SilverBirchTree&fromid=73884652

This is the tail of the antique ram castrator which is one of mn cf stories I always remember (obv not as good as Mexican house thief, but I think cf has the capacity to do something like that)

I seem especially vulnerable to this! I have a couple. First one was awful- started work at a new company, initially wasn’t sure about my new manager (who was instantly acting like I was her best mate) but quickly became good friends. She was in a crappy relationship and phoned me in the middle of the night saying she’d left him and had nowhere to go- she moved in with DH and I rent free. We helped her find a new place, hired a van at our cost to help her move. Fed her for nothing, deep cleaned her flat, went over at the drop of a hat when she was lonely...

I should’ve seen it coming a mile off, but she met a new bloke at the same time I feel pregnant. She really screwed me over when I was on maternity leave, totally ditched us, and left me alone when I was very unwell and vulnerable. I left the company 2 years ago and haven’t heard from her since! It’s taken me a long time to recover mentally.

@PatchworkElmer
You sound so kind
Hope you’re in a better place mentally now about it but all the fault is hers

My other one isn’t as bad, but I’ve met a new CF through exercise classes. Always wants lifts to fitness events (but only if she has no better offers)- they’re a considerable drive away but she never offers fuel money, or to buy me a drink when we’re stood at the bar next to each other, or to pay for parking. We went out for a meal before lockdown and when the bill came I said “shall we just split it?” She said no because she wasn’t prepared to subsidise my (one) glass of Prosecco. My bill was £1.25 more than hers!! Cheeky cow- she’s had that 100 times over in lifts from me in the last couple of years 😤

@Shoxfordian thanks. I am better now, though still have ‘moments’. She actually got married just before I left- by which point her treatment of me had tipped into open bullying. But bizarrely she invited us to the wedding (despite inviting every woman from work apart from me on her hen weekend, and making a huge deal about it so that people were openly asking me why I was being left out). We felt we had to go to the wedding as we’d look petty otherwise. It was awful- we were shoved on a table right at the back, with her husband’s friends and her step mum (people she really disliked 😂). The step mum asked me how I knew the bride and then said “and do you like her?” which I think speaks volumes!

We shouldn’t have gone obviously. We’ve done a lot of thinking about what we did to ‘deserve’ being treated that way, and there’s honestly nothing: the only thing I did ‘wrong’ was ask to go back part time after having DC, which she seemed to take as a huge betrayal for some reason 🤷🏻‍♀️

The woman I work with expects a lift home every time her DH can't pick her up, sometimes that can be 5 days a week and we work a split shift so twice a day too. I also live in the completely opposite direction to her so I go 10 minutes out my way. I wouldn't mind so much if I was offered petrol money. Still haven't found a way to tell her to piss off...

Perhaps not the best CF story but this is my
earliest CF story:

I was about 5 yrs old, standing in front of my house
eating a candy bar which my Mum had given to me.
CF neighbour kid next door, who is a couple years older,
several inches taller, and much larger than I, comes out,
walks over to me and says, "Gimme some."

I say, no.

Bigger kid sucker punches me in the stomach, and storms off.

I start crying.

The End.

Wasn't fun, but I'm still proud of myself for using the complete
sentence, "No."

@BananainPyjama

That's kind of your fault for the house one. You shouldn't have given the money, that's your nieces problem, not yours. You could have missed out on getting your own house because you're a pushover. It's easy to say no in future.

A lady came to pick up a large garden hammock in a mini, thereby ensuring we had to load it into our car and drive it to hers. Which isn't the end of the world but would have been nice if she'd asked if we minded.

No that's when you smile and wave, while 'browsing the internet' videoing the idiot and watch her try to fit a hammock into a small car.

It's their own fault. Take the money, dump the item outside and walk away.

When I was a student, for Christmas DF gave me a book. Now, this book was on a topic I had no interest in, nor plausible reason to take an interest in at that time (think "building surveying for dummies" or "how to breastfeed"). The CF then immediately asked to "borrow" it because he needed to use it.

This became a running joke. Five fucking years later I finally wrestled the book from his hands on the grounds of CFery. It still sits on my bookshelf, and I'm yet to need it...

@Smileandtheworldsmileswithyou, I didn't actually say anything to her as I refused to engage with the CF after that. However the other mother (who gave her the free pass) and myself made sure all the other class mums knew about it. She was never really popular anyway because she always thought her little darlings could do no wrong .

I went to softplay with a friends husband and our DC (18 months). Friend had gone back to work and he was meant to be doing the full time childcare. He said he had forgotten his wallet so I paid entry. Once inside I saw him start to walk away. When I challenged him he said he was going to a nearby cafe and would be back in a couple of hours. I told him no, he had to stay to look after his own DC. He was most put out. When I gave my own DC a drink and a snack his child cried and he said to the toddler “I am so sorry HepLauerence hasn’t brought any for you”. I did give his DC some but I was very pissed off.

@HepLaurenceLB

Did you tell your friend?
Did you at least say to the guy that when you take your child out for the day, you need to bring food for them.

@WhereverIGoddamnLike I did tell her but she could never see any wrong in her DH. Even when he brought his DC round to my house soaked to the skin on a wet winters day. Her legs were bare and she had no coat. I put her in dry clothes and a snowsuit which I made clear I wanted back. Never got them back.
She must have realised the problems in the end because she put the DC in full time childcare, so that her DH had time to be a useless layabout (resting actor).

I’ve told this before on here.

I have an weird autoimmune disease and had to try several different medications before settling on one.

At the time I worked in an office with a big fridge that everyone put their lunches in.
I made myself a bacon and avocado sandwich and laced it with the medication I had to take.

Placed sandwich in a bag and wrote “medicated lunch of Heidi!”. Placed said bag in a tupperware pot and wrote Heidis medicated lunch in sharpie on tub.

Lunchtime comes and my tub is empty.

I look through bin hoping it’s been thrown due to meds. Boss asks what I am doing and says “don’t be ridiculous, no one steals from the fridge”
Meeting later on bosses secretary throws up all over boardroom table. Avocado and bacon everywhere.

I look in, meet bosses gaze and then call an ambulance. I tell paramedics what has happened, giving them details of the drugs, they nod and cart get away to have her stomach pumped.

I broke my arm last year.
A friend who doesn't drive gets a lot of lifts from me.She can be quite cheeky and asks a lot of my time.My OH has occasionally helped her out also when I have been busy.
I told her I wanted to go to the farmers market and my OH would drop me off but he had to be somewhere so wasnt sure what time he could pick me up again.
So I decided to say why dont you come and then your OH can pick us up. Great she says as she was planning to go anyway.

My OH dropped us both off.
After farmers maket we went to cafe.
She said what time is your OH coming back for you.
I said he wasnt sure what time he would be finished his errand so we would stick with the plan of her OH coming for us.
She kept repeating message your OH and see if he is coming.
After a while of me ignoring the hints she said when her OH pcks her up they are going straight to town so cant give me a lift....less than 10 mins drive away.

I bit my tongue so didnt say the one time I need a ift etc...
But decided that day she would get no more lifts from me usless I was actually planning to go there anyway.
She never even visited me while I was stuck at home with a broken arm.

Covid happened so she hasnt been in a position to ask for a lift so will wait and see if she thinks everything will go back to normal

@HeidiHoNeighbour

I’ve told this before on here.

I have an weird autoimmune disease and had to try several different medications before settling on one.

At the time I worked in an office with a big fridge that everyone put their lunches in.
I made myself a bacon and avocado sandwich and laced it with the medication I had to take.

Placed sandwich in a bag and wrote “medicated lunch of Heidi!”. Placed said bag in a tupperware pot and wrote Heidis medicated lunch in sharpie on tub.

Lunchtime comes and my tub is empty.

I look through bin hoping it’s been thrown due to meds. Boss asks what I am doing and says “don’t be ridiculous, no one steals from the fridge”
Meeting later on bosses secretary throws up all over boardroom table. Avocado and bacon everywhere.

I look in, meet bosses gaze and then call an ambulance. I tell paramedics what has happened, giving them details of the drugs, they nod and cart get away to have her stomach pumped.

Did she ever explain herself???

Heidi I wonder if she saw the labels and thought it was your cunning way of trying to put off lunch robbers instead of being actually true.

Not that that makes it OK! I'm amazed that people do this.

@Cuntitinthebin

Never saw her again.

Boss put out a memo telling people to not steal from the fridge...

@HeidiHoNeighbour did she die or just not return???

@HerselfIndoors

It’s weird isn’t it?!

I just hope the paramedics constantly reminded her that this is what happens when you steal!!

@Cuntitinthebin

Hopefully just too humiliated to return!

@HeidiHoNeighbour were you ok not having the meds?

@HeidiHoNeighbour it serves her right for stealing.

@billybagpuss

Yeah, in fact told my boss I had to now leave early to take my meds. He had no choice but to let me go.

@BashfulClam
Absolutely!!