Best CF stories part 2

[HepLaurenceLB]

First thread
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3905995-Best-CF-Stories

We'll pretend I didn't have a name change fail and I'm back...😆😅

6BloodyDarrener
Nope she knows I'm not well off. Shes was veey sick a couple years ago..really sick. I did everything for her. Physically..financially as she hadn't anybody else. Shes completely recovered now but I think she feels like I'm just here for her now.

I do know the sil she is a lovely woman. I will get her a bottle of white wine...that's it.

Well I like diamonds. I shall start dropping hints now to distant acquaintances.

I have few small.cf stories about her I was always too afraid to post incase someone recognised me but fuck it.

She had a big birthday a few years ago..wanted to go on sun holiday. I had moved abroad at the time so figured we would pick a date and meet there. No no..she wanted me to fly home from where I was living,stay for the night...get her... go back to the airport..go on holidays..come back to home country..stay a night or two..go back to airport and fly back to where I was living.
And I...like the fucking moron I was...did it !!

She had great fun telling everyone how we'd gotten a week away so cheap between us...except I had to pay for double the amount of flights and take twice the time off work.??? God I was an idiot..

Well I like diamonds. I shall start dropping hints now to distant acquaintances
Yes...my own birthday isn't too long away

My friend was a bridesmaid for a mega-Bridezilla. The bride wrote a letter to each bridesmaid a few months before the wedding telling them that they would be required to take part in a 'water goddess ceremony' on the morning of the wedding. This would involve them all going into the sea (in May, in the UK) and each bridesmaid had to do a performance. It was presented as a requirement. The bridesmaids were also required to each make a wedding cake for the bride (she wanted a table of dozens of wedding cakes). She also threw a wobby because some of the bridesmaids didn't finish work until 5 on the day before the wedding, so couldn't spend the whole day at the venue setting up.

@tinglymint there was no babysitter it was always the plan to mug me off. I wasn't the drug taking twats that they were. The children were gorgeous and it was a pleasure I think about them on occasion now they'd be about 20 at a guess. I hope their mum is less of a dick now. As for the so called friend we went NC shortly after that, were in touch briefly when she had a daughter but then started pulling all the same stunts again.

Feel for you over the bonus, wellhair

I was the employer in that scenario, and back when I recruited locums as well as permanent staff I offerd a bonus for locums who introduced another decent one
Instantly I was deluged by claims from those insisting they'd "found" x, y or z, even when they'd had nothing to do with it and even for ones who'd already been on the books for years

Which was foolish of the CFers, because not only did they miss out on their bonuses - they never got any further work from me either

When we sold our the house the new buyers were keen to move in. They asked through the solicitors if we would move two weeks early and into rented so that they could move in as they had holidays booked.
Obviously we said no. They weren't happy and asked again.
Then on moving day things were a little delayed and I ended up at the new house carting stuff in off the lawn on my own whilst our moving party rushed back to clear the second/last lot of stuff out.
They bumped into dh as he was done and he asked what time they were moving in. The reply was that they were going to completely redecorate before they moved in as they were still living with his in laws so no rush to get in!!

@JustNotFunAnymore do you think their tenancy was up and they had to move in with their in-laws?

@JustNotFunAnymore

When we sold our the house the new buyers were keen to move in. They asked through the solicitors if we would move two weeks early and into rented so that they could move in as they had holidays booked.
When I sold my last property (a while ago now) the new owners were also keen to get me out early - which actually worked for me as I just moved in with a friend. However they had to agree to pay for the storage of all my stuff in secure storage for three months, which was paid via the solicitors. It then took the pressure off me during the time I was sorting out my new purchase - win/win in that case and, as my friend only charged me minimal rent, I managed to save money too. 🌹

I just remembered another one, although I think I may have shared on here before.

In the pub 1 night making plans (ahh remember those days?!) a weekend we wanted to book something a friend realised they had a wedding to go to. We were drunk enough to think it'd be funny to text them asking to move the wedding. The groom immediately phones back quite annoyed - friend explaind they were, of course, joking. Turns out groom was a bit sensitive as his brother had already genuinely asked them to move the date - but not before he'd checked availability with the church and reception venue so he could propose dates. Apparently they'd only need to move it 1 week.

@wellahair

This is the best cf story ⬇️

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9224369/Minister-says-Boris-Johnson-bailing-Scotlands-sluggish-vaccination-rollout.html

Read the headline..

Don't normally read this daily shit but that's were I go to look at the daily figures since this pandemic.

I don't get who is being cheeky, JRM, Boris or NS?

A CF once tried giving my mum a telling off in a car park.
My mum had driven me to a hospital appointment as I was whale sized pregnant and on the way back we stopped at a shopping complex, parked in a spot with no one either side and went for a look.
My toddler starts getting bored after awhile and my mum offers to go to the car with her while I finish up. I was a minute behind.
As I approach the car I notice a woman gesturing towards my mums car and as I get closer I notice a car parked next to my mum (massive carpark with so many empty spaces) that had parked at an angle leaving limited room to get the toddler in. my mum had gently opened the door leaning it against the other car door (not the best but little choice). The owners came back and it was the woman shouting and swearing at my mum in front of my toddler. Now my mums not a pushover but she was busy trying to secure the car seat restraints and this younger woman clearly thought she was alone. She did not expect a heavily pregnant impatient me to waddle over. I quickly shut her down told her to stop speaking to my mum like that, she then tried to shout me down about the car door. Her face when I told her to fuck off (after my mum had closed the toddlers door) and if they had more consideration for others and had bothered to look they would have seen the baby on board sign. Her partner looked like he wanted the ground to swallow him up.
Whether it was wrong to lean the door or not the fact she was shouting and swearing in front of my toddler made me so angry.
My mum laughed all the way home as I usually avoid confrontation!

@cleanasawhistle

My OH friend is a roofer. He lives in a small village and mentioned a few times about never being asked about by neighbours to do any work. Often comments about another roofing firm turning up to do work etc.

He had spotted a new roof being done on a neighbours house and also noticed when the work was finished that the standard wasnt very good.
Middle of the night he answered his phoned to an irate man shouting you have to come now we have rain pouring in through the roof.
Roofer asks why are you phoning me....answer because you are a roofer and we have an emercency.
My OH friend told him where to go.

Hang on, you’re telling me he told the neighbour where to go because he didn’t use him? Just because they’re neighbours?! Yeah it’s not the unfortunate neighbour who’s the CF it’s your OH’s friend! I have a tradesperson on my street but that doesn’t make me duty-bound to use him!

@Camphillgirl

CFNeighbour asked me to pick up few items for her at shops. I gave them to her with bill which was about £6. She offered me £50 note and asked if I had change. When I said no she said she would give me money ASAP. Few days later she again asked for shopping. This came to £3. When I told her she now owed me £9 she told me to take it out of £50 she claimed to have given me before and asked for the change. She died few months later leaving vast wealth. No wonder.

What did you say to her when she asked for the change??? Please tell me you didn’t GIVE her money??

@RuledbyASD

Middle of the night he answered his phoned to an irate man shouting you have to come now we have rain pouring in through the roof.

He could at least have been polite when asking for help though.
It’d be a nah from me too I’m afraid.

@rawalpindithelabrador

Canadian brother ended up paying for the entire 20 person meal, drinks and all!

I always wonder, in situations like this, what if the people left holding the bag are not able to pay? I mean, you'd have to have enough cash in your account or a credit card with that left on it. What if you don't? Because personally, a lot of why I've never been victim to a freeloading twat like this is because, when I was younger, I seriously did not have the money to sub another person. I always had to work alongside going to college and then uni and budget to the penny, not able to stump up for flatmates or colleagues on the spot so had to just say, 'Nope. I can't pay for you,' if they tried it on.

This happened to me! Went to the type of bar where you get a free drink on entry then buy more drinks and settle bill at the end (including an entry fee). I don't drink much so only had free drink. One of the guys ordered more drinks and then left with a prostitute without leaving money behind.

Came to leave and the rest of us couldn't meet the bill. Staff obviously wanted money. They kept saying I had to pay and must have had drinks. I'm trying to explain I didn't buy extra drinks and it's not me who owes the money. It was also abroad in a country that could be dangerous, in a sketchy bar, most of us didn't speak the language, and in fact had only all met that evening...I was terrified. Fortunately one of the guys visited the country fairly often, could speak the language and did some fast talking to get us out. Think he regretted meeting us and offering to take this mismatched group out! We then didn't have enough money to get the number of taxis home we needed so had to go four on a back seat with me and another girl on laps.

Genuinely wished I hadn't gone - but if I hadn't I'd have been left to make my own way home from the previous place we'd been and it had felt safer to stay with the big group. And it would have been fine if it hadn't been for CFer leaving without covering his share of the drinks.

@RuledbyASD no, he told him where to go because he'd evidently used a cowboy to save some money. If someone does a shoddy job then you call them back to fix it.

Last year of school I was working in a travel agency, and my two best friends talked me into using my mega discount to book 'a girls holiday to Greece'. Only broke it to me AFTER I'd booked it and shown them the confirmation with all our names on including mine, that I wasn't invited - the girls trip was just them and their new group of friends. One laughed at how ridiculous it was that I thought I was invited. I'd slowly been pushed out for a year or two before hand but that was the final straw.

It was already booked but in my name so I cancelled it. They found out it was cancelled too late, and ended up in a caravan in Devon for a week while my other friend and I went to Orlando for 2 weeks and had the best time ever.

Zero regrets. I haven't spoken to either "friend" since.

In the early 2000's, my BFF was in her second year of university as a mature (24 year old) student, in Brighton. I had been dating a new man (now DH) for a few months and we arranged to go and visit (staying at a nearby B&B) for the weekend. DH was in his NQT year of teaching and I was working as a Finance Administrator, so neither of us were earning a fortune, but we figured we had more cash than my student BFF.

On the day we arrived, we met at the pier and went for lunch at a restaurant of my friend's choosing - I'd offered to pay as a treat for her. The place she chose was really pricey (for us!) and I ended up paying nearly £100 for lunch for 3 of us.

We decided to while away the afternoon in a pub, where DH and I alternated paying for rounds. I was drinking vodka and Diet Coke, DH was on pints, but my friend was on the vodka and Red Bull - which was extortionate, at £6 a time! DH and I decided that it was our treat, we had offered, I didn't see her terribly often, I really missed her and she was a poor student! We spent a fortune, but we had a fab time and my friend was grateful, saying: "Thank you so much for this guys - there's no way I could afford lunch out and an afternoon in the pub, I really appreciate it!", and we were having such a wonderful time - it was my first time introducing DH to BFF, so it felt like money well spent. I knew I'd have to tighten my belt for the rest of the month, as I'd already spent most of what I'd budgeted for the whole weekend!

It was coming up to 6pm and we decided to move on to a different pub. My friend asked if she could quickly pop into Boots as it was en route. I went to go in with her, but she kind of insisted I wait outside with DH, so we decided to take the opportunity to have a cigarette while we waited as she said she wouldn't be long. By the time I'd finished, she was still in the shop, so I decided to go and look for her.

I eventually found her in the Dental section. In her hand was a teeth whitening kit - worth £40! But that was not all.. at her feet was a shopping basket, containing a bottle of Ralph Lauren perfume (£50?) a Max Factor mascara (£10) and a large bottle of multivitamins (£10) and a huge box of Berocca tablets (£10).

BFF was like a deer caught in headlights when she spotted me - she knew she had taken the piss. I just told her to get a move on and she said she'd already paid for the perfume at the Fragrance counter, that it was a birthday present for her DM (buying your DM the same perfume you wear - how stupid did she think I was?!?), and she was "just looking" at the other stuff in her basket and had NO intention of actually buying anything...

She did indeed leave without buying anything else, but when we got to the next pub, I announced "Your round then!" to her, and asked for a double vodka and Red Bull! We carried on in rounds, but with all 3 of us taking turns from then on - and I moved back to Diet Coke mixers! I didn't tell DH about what happened in Boots that day, cos I was so keen for them to like one another and she wasn't usually such a Cheeky Fucker - she'd clearly been saving it up for my visit!

@BetsyBigNose

That’s really hurtful. Did the friendship survive that?

@RuledbyASD

Learned a lesson though. I got special shopping for CF purse. Put £50 note inside to use for shopping next time. Used £50 note for her shopping and Put change back in CF purse. Then had exact change next time she tried it on. It was deliberate on her part...don’t ask.

and if they had more consideration for others and had bothered to look they would have seen the baby on board sign

That does seem a little entitled of you, baby on board signs are really appealing to parents who think the world should put their kid first. Most of the time when I see a car with a sign there's never a kid in the car anyway. I fear you may have been the CF in this situation.

NCed because i just told a friend about this thread and my story and don't want my usual name outed.

I was living in my first rented home aged 19, a single parent and broke. The house was freezing and honestly shouldn't have been declared fit to rent out. It was very old fashioned, and so, with permission from the landlord i had painted, put decent flooring in and generally improved it. The cold was still unbearable but anyway.
The house had been the childhood family home of the now retired landlord who had moved hundreds of miles away.
One day i recieved a card, the note inside it informing me that the landlord was coming to visit some people in the area for a couple of weeks, and could i move in with my parents for those weeks so she could have the house. I would need to move my stuff into the spare bedroom, and i would have my rent deducted for those two weeks (no mention of my elec bills or any other bills being covered). I was gobsmacked. I got in touch to tell them that this wasn't suitable. I had a child who i didn't want to move about and we would be staying. Oh that was fine, they'd fine somewhere else. No acknowledgement of how cheeky the request was. The note seemed more of an instruction and i was young and afraid that i would be kicked out if i didn't allow them to stay. Thankfully my parents were there to help me reply and reassure me.

Many years back we bought our first home which needed loads of work we tried to do at weekends as we both worked ft. My dh's family had history of using him to do jobs at family member's homes and not small jobs making it impossible for us to do our own home.

Final straw was his dm asking him to undertake a full rewire of his uncles large property for free. In return we were told we would get a washing machine. Sadly this machine turned out to be a really old rusting, leaking pile of rubbish. His wife then rang asking for money for it. We had to get it taken to the tip.

The family then complained I was mean and stopping dh from doing freebie jobs.