Best CF stories part 2

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

£100 per week = £5200 per year. X 15 years = £78000.

@TomHardyAndMe, sorry x-post!

@Rainbowandscarlett at your mum. I bet hundreds of mnetters just did the maths about your neverending loan.

I honestly can't believe that she did that to you. Did she live a luxurious lifestyle that you funded, or is her meanness like a compulsion, that she does even if she doesn't need the money? Awful behaviour, I'm so glad you eventually got rid of her.

@RuledbyASD I have even a better one and @Rainbowandscarlett she sounds a bit like my mother , was a poor student but living with my partner (was 24 at time)(middle of recession too so work was scarce for him) he was away working one time and my mother called over, I was very sick in the bed, needed a doctor however couldn't afford one ( live in Ireland and doctors visit is 50e each time plus pay for whatever your prescription costs are). She offered to pay and bring me in. No problem was delighted. Got sorted and she brought me home and put me to bed, got better a few days later . All good so far - my birthday was a few weeks later and she rang the week before to see what I would like. I said I would like a voucher to put towards my hair being done as hadn't had it cut in ages. She then turned around to me and said well you owe me 50e from the doctors visit a few weeks ago, instead of paying me back you can put it towards getting your hair done. I promptly hung up the phone on her. That is one of the many reason I keep my distance from her

My older brother left home (escaping our alcoholic father and narc co-dependant mother) as soon as he possibly could. For some naive reason he sent most of his pay home whilst serving abroad for safekeeping. This was way before electronic banking. He finally arrived home from his tour and the abusive twats had spent all of it. He forgave them because he was mired in FOG and didn’t know any better.

I’m much younger than my brother so I don’t remember any of this. I was told the story by my mother as if it was an amusing family anecdote (weren’t we naughty!) Abusive CF Twats more like!

My turn to be screwed over was when my god-mother handed over to them a savings book she had been adding to from when I was born for my higher education as she was moving away. I was around ten at the time and never ever saw a penny.

@stamfordhill no!!!! Apologies!! I misread that as a reasonable loan! A week is crazy!

@petridishmystery Ah that must be why because it was registered at yours it didnt know the difference

We have a public footpath going over our land and really try to keep it walkable in all weathers. Last year, after wheelbarrowing 11 tonnes of aggregate for repairs onto it, we are regularly met by cyclists who choose to ignore the 'no cycling' signs or others who just decide to walk into the neighbouring fields and tell us to F off when we object. The cf attitude just steadily chips away at whatever goodwill we started off with!

I foolishly agreed to help a friend in need, she was moving house, living in rented and the move taking far longer than planned, could I have her two dogs for two weeks... Keep in mind these dogs are the size of small ponies...

Now she had minded my 'dog-the-size-of-a-small-pony' many years earlier for 10 days whilst she was in season as I had entire males and she did not so I did think a couple of weeks wasn't a problem and I expected the same as we had done then.. owner provides food, cash for emergencies, clean tidy dog, stays in regular contact etc etc.

They turned up stinking and ungroomed, claws super long and very bewildered, turned out they'd been in kennels a fortnight...

NINE WEEKS LATER... after I have had to chase her every bloody week to ask for money to feed them with (because I was already feeding my own dog the size of a small pony plus four other smaller ones), having mostly fed them out of my own pocket because she was so hard to contact... she returned and took them home... she was very grateful and I am sure that things had gone badly tits up for her but..... no gift, no apology...nothing.

Still not sure how I let that happen!

My lovely Ma in law bought a new TV, she offers old TV to my stepson who's very happy to accept it.
My BIL pops round to Ma in laws and takes the TV meant for stepson, saying he has a smaller TV that would be better for a bedroom.
Instead of nice large smart TV which is fully working and better for playing games on, my stepson receives a portable TV with non functioning DVD player and faulty alignment.
At no point did Ma in law offer BIL the TV and was very surprised by whole turn of events. This happened today and my husband and I are sitting here just astounded by BIL CF ery

Stop being astounded and sort it out. Poor step son .

how is she suprised wasnt she there when he took the tv for himself

@SunshineCake - my husband will, he's just working out the b st way to do it

@Gabsalot - she was surprised at the absolute cheek of it

Damn I have just read to the end...come on people More!!!

I was at my baby niece's funeral when her aunt came over to me all flustered. Saying she wanted to get a drink bit didn't have enough and could I give her some money.... I did without question.

A few seconds later her twatty boyfriend appeared and asked her for his change! She gave it to him....errm yup pretty sure that was MY change...

It was a few pounds at most and a very sad day so didn't get het up about it but can't stand the girl....

Applied for a job, got through first and second interviews. Niche industry, lots of experience, Third interview I was asked to do a presentation - how would you handle this topic, sort of thing. No problem.

Two days before, recruitment agent calls and said they'd changed the brief, could I present on how I would put together the marketing plan for the next 12 months (it was a marketing manger role).

Did the presentation, all went well. They asked in interview when I could start etc.

Next day, recruiter rings me. They've decided to go with another candidate who is cheaper, but has less experience. However they think they will need some support so can you please forward them your presentation and are you happy to be contacted if the new hire struggles with your concepts.

Erm, that'll be a no. Off you fuck!

It used to shock me when I saw the number of posts similar to this, couldn’t believe that people could be such CFs. Until I interviewed internally for a higher level role which I didn’t get. Imagine my surprise when all of the suggestions I had made for improvements turned up as KPIs for me in my next performance review - despite those tasks clearly being for someone at a much higher level than I was currently on. No thanks.

hope you get the right TV for your stepson @Ladyladylady.

Reminded of a long time ago....
SIL lived away. Every few weeks her and partner would travel back up 'home' drop dogs off at MIL house then go and stay will her boyfriends parents.
MIL moaning to my husband about looking after the dogs and all the dog hairs etc.
She asked my husband and I to go shopping and buy her a Dyson because her old hoover wasnt picking up the dog hairs.So we went shopping.

A few months later my OH went to his mothers and there is an old hoover sitting there.Where is the Dyson he asks.
Well I was telling your sister on the phone how good it was at picking up the dog hairs so when she next visited she brought her old hoover and took the Dyson.
The dogs live with her so she needed it more

Eight of us went to a villa in Portugal. My X controlling friend said we would split the food and alcohol bill at the end of the holiday, me being naive said ok only to find out after that she'd split the alcohol bill 8 ways including in it my kids who were 6 and 11 at the time and highly unlikely to be drinking at their ages.
This is one of the many reasons why she is no longer a friend, I could write a book on the dirty tricks she played on me and the relief I felt when I finally dumped her is still immense to this day.

@Broomsticksandbedknobs

Eight of us went to a villa in Portugal. My X controlling friend said we would split the food and alcohol bill at the end of the holiday, me being naive said ok only to find out after that she'd split the alcohol bill 8 ways including in it my kids who were 6 and 11 at the time and highly unlikely to be drinking at their ages. This is one of the many reasons why she is no longer a friend, I could write a book on the dirty tricks she played on me and the relief I felt when I finally dumped her is still immense to this day.

But did you pay their share?

Name change as this is one I’ve told a few times in real life.

Not sure if it’s CFer or not but here we go

Years ago I went for a job interview in a subject area I was locally well known for. Interview was a bit bizarre, really probing and they didn’t seem to know the subject area well at all; I also found some of the questions were sexist and quick frankly inappropriate - especially their questions re my childcare arrangements.

I spoke to the recruiter afterwards and told her I wasn’t interested. I was worried about the standard of the company & I did raise the inappropriate questions with her.

Roll on 6 months, I get an irate phone call from the recruiter, accusing me of bypassing her and taking a job with said company directly. It took me a while to convince her that I hadn’t, and to get to the bottom of what on earth had gone on.

Long story short, after some digging (enquiries) it turned out the company were using my CV and my name (they even got someone to pretend to be me on the phone) to bid for new work. Basically using my reputation and qualifications to hoodwink companies into giving them work.

This is soooo not OK. In the course of the enquiries I made to find out if any new bidders had included my details & were promising that I would be conducting the work - I made it very clear that not only did I not work for the company, I hadn’t given my permission to be included in their submission and I was also not available.

Not surprisingly they stopped using my details. I’m fortunate that I had quite a few local contacts and people who knew and trusted me. Honestly the sheer brass of it, what would they have done if they won the work...sent someone to pretend to me 😱.

@Ladyladylady

My lovely Ma in law bought a new TV, she offers old TV to my stepson who's very happy to accept it. My BIL pops round to Ma in laws and takes the TV meant for stepson, saying he has a smaller TV that would be better for a bedroom. Instead of nice large smart TV which is fully working and better for playing games on, my stepson receives a portable TV with non functioning DVD player and faulty alignment. At no point did Ma in law offer BIL the TV and was very surprised by whole turn of events. This happened today and my husband and I are sitting here just astounded by BIL CF ery

Then go and take the TV back and collect the TV that your stepson was meant to have. BIL gets away with things like this because you're just letting him.

@Ladyladylady that poor lad!!! I hope someone will go and get him his rightful tv!

@Puzzledandpissedoff

My DH’s grandfather decided to sell his very large house and move into an old people’s home. He told his grandchildren (8 of them) that they could choose an item of furniture each

I've got a live version of that going on with the house next door, whose elderly owned died last March. Her three DCs live in different parts of the UK, and every so often they'll all arrive with OHs and DCs in tow to argue at megadecibels over who should take what

Obviously this never gets resolved because the house is still rammed with stuff, and goodness knows how they agreed the transaction but the place sold in just 3 days early this month
Clearly it'll have to be emptied before completion, but how they'll finally do it is anyone's guess

A few years ago my partner's father died. We were living abroad at the time and, like her (my partner's) brother, who also lived overseas, flew over to attend the funeral and help clear the house.

It was decided that each of the 3 siblings should say if they wanted any items of furniture, etc and if not, the rest would go to house clearance. My partner chose a few small items that we could easily carry back in our luggage (though the mandolin was a problem...), because we couldn't afford to ship anything, not even those pieces of furniture (including my partner's own piano, which she'd given to her Dad when we emigrated).

Overseas brother chose quite a few items of furniture. We didn't give it a thought until the other brother, who was executor of the will so handling all financial issues, emailed to say what the cost of shipping all this furniture to America was and he 'assumed it was OK if it was paid for out of the estate.' (i.e. the split 3 ways inheritance of savings and house sale)

My partner demurred - no, she said, it's NOT OK, because I'd have had my fucking piano AND my dining table if that was going to be the deal.

Overseas brother is loaded, I might add.

When I got married I was coerced into asking my SIL to be bridesmaid. When H2b was on his stag do I then went to spend the weekend with her and her 2yo son.

Arrived and shared a bottle of wine. The 2yo is bumbling about with no sign of bedtime being commenced (SIL didn’t believe in imposing routines apparently). She offered a takeaway menu and asked what I’d have. Made my choice and gave her cash- she then said she’d have to walk into the village to collect it so could I just mind her son while she goes? No problem. Remote village with no phone signal so once she left no way to reach her.

2hrs later I break and put the child to bed in clean pjs. 3hrs later she finally gets back clearly drunk and told me she waited for the takeaway in the pub 2 doors down and got chatting to someone! She then proceeds to make herself a sandwich because she never wanted a takeaway so I’m left to eat it alone! To add final insult to injury H2b had given his brother money for the food when I told him we were getting takeaway as they were short of cash- so we basically paid her to go to the pub!

I’m divorced now and thankfully never need to see that chancer again... (she pulled out of being a bridesmaid shortly before the wedding but not before I’d bought the dress, obv...)