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Best CF stories part 2

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HepLaurenceLB · 30/01/2021 11:01

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

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rosetylersbiggun · 10/02/2021 20:54

He finally had enough and told her "yeah, I run a mobile fish and chip business and that's where the van's going to go." Chaos ensued ...

Ha! That's so funny. One of my neighbours actually did start a mobile fish and chip van during lockdown last year and the entire estate was delirious with joy. His first night out people queued for up to two hours to buy from him.

Not a CF story just a cute story.

A big change from where I used to live where my neighbour listed my driveway on JustPark without my knowledge.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 10/02/2021 22:12

My neighbour listed my driveway on JustPark without my knowledge

Come on, you can't just leave it at that!!! Shock

What happened - did a "surprise car" just appear one day, and how did you deal with the CF neighbour??

JustNotFunAnymore · 10/02/2021 22:31

[quote Thedarknightsarelifting]@JustNotFunAnymore do you think their tenancy was up and they had to move in with their in-laws?[/quote]
No they were already living with the in laws!

rosetylersbiggun · 11/02/2021 16:59

What happened - did a "surprise car" just appear one day, and how did you deal with the CF neighbour??

I had a whole thread about it here at the time! Grin

I was living in a house that had been converted to three flats, so the large driveway was shared between all three of us and there was just about space for three cars. So technically seeing a strange car parked in the drive shouldn't have been a red flag, but I kept seeing a huge number of strange cars driven by people who never came near the house (lived around the corner from a tube station), plus the driveway frequently had three cars parked on it when neither I nor downstairs neighbour kept a car.

I did a search on JustPark and found it listed as three parking spaces to rent.

The story doesn't have a very interesting conclusion. I reported it to JustPark and they kicked him off the site, and he moved not long after.

Broomsticksandbedknobs · 11/02/2021 20:14

Saw on Facebook marketplace 2 tables £20 so messaged and set off 10 minutes later about 10 miles away, only to find when I got there it was £20 per table. Absolutely mortified I kept apologising saying I cannot believe I read the advert wrong I'm so sorry and I'll just take one as I only had the £20 on me. Arrived home and thought I'd check the advert to make doubly sure if I'd read it wrong only to find out on messenger that they'd changed the advert after I set off and it was 2 for £20. Cheeky fuckers, wouldn't mind but they were only selling cause they'd downsized and the house wasn't big enough for them. The house was huge so god knows how big the other was.
I did get one up though as I do recycling as a hobby and sold it for £120.

moanieleminx · 12/02/2021 08:46

My cousin got in touch to tell my parents that she was getting married. We hadn't seen them for about 10 years before the wedding so mum was delighted when they got in touch, as they were previously very close. We were all excited when she asked could DSis and I be bridesmaids? Mum loves to sew so offered to make the dresses, five in total. She also makes wedding cakes as a sideline, and so offered this as a gift.

Mum worked very very hard making four dresses in total, and a cake from scratch with all the sugar paste decorations.

A week after they got back from the honeymoon, I was going past the house so mum asked me to pop by and pick up my sister and my bridesmaids dresses which had been left at the hotel.

Except they had already been sold on! My cousin left a sheepish message on the answering machine.

We have never heard from them since... (thirty years ago now)

CF's...

NoKingDingaLingTitsInAbsentia · 12/02/2021 18:44

@rosetylersbiggun

What happened - did a "surprise car" just appear one day, and how did you deal with the CF neighbour??

I had a whole thread about it here at the time! Grin

I was living in a house that had been converted to three flats, so the large driveway was shared between all three of us and there was just about space for three cars. So technically seeing a strange car parked in the drive shouldn't have been a red flag, but I kept seeing a huge number of strange cars driven by people who never came near the house (lived around the corner from a tube station), plus the driveway frequently had three cars parked on it when neither I nor downstairs neighbour kept a car.

I did a search on JustPark and found it listed as three parking spaces to rent.

The story doesn't have a very interesting conclusion. I reported it to JustPark and they kicked him off the site, and he moved not long after.

Cheeky swine! How much was he charging? Wonder how much he made!
Puzzledandpissedoff · 12/02/2021 19:06

I reported it to JustPark and they kicked him off the site, and he moved not long after

Well at least it ended well Grin

Now you mention the "three flats" I remember your post, but good gried what a CF!!!

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HepLaurenceLB · 14/02/2021 13:25

I was 7 months pregnant with twins. I was really struggling with my 3 year old. DH and I put dc3 into nursery full time for the rest of the pregnancy (even though it was a struggle financially).
My friend heard about the arrangement and phoned me very happy. “Now that your Dc is in nursery you can look after my 3 year old during the week, this will save me a fortune”. She was genuinely pissed off when I said no.

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CarrieMoonbeams · 14/02/2021 13:43

My friend was going through a tricky time, financially, and couldn't see it changing anytime soon as she and her DH were living way beyond their means.

It was her 50th birthday coming up, and she'd mentioned that they wouldn't even be able to afford a chippy as a treat.

I'm by no means wealthy myself, but I felt sad for her, so said I'd take her out for lunch to a nice local restaurant - that would be my present to her.

When she arrived, she'd brought her DH too, and said "Oh, hope you don't mind, but I said DH could come too, it's so long since either of us have had a treat!" Obviously I just said "no, of course not, that's fine" but really, who the fuck does that?! I'm pretty sure I'll get accused on here of being stingy, but I'm really not - I was a bit surprised that they both sat there and had 3 courses each and 3 glasses of wine though! He's a nice bloke, but I'd only met him a couple of times before.

I did laugh to myself when I got home though, what a bloody brass neck!

Fluffycloudland77 · 14/02/2021 14:13

@HepLaurenceLB why on earth would you look after her 3yo if yours was in nursery though? It makes no sense.

rawalpindithelabrador · 14/02/2021 14:15

[quote Fluffycloudland77]@HepLaurenceLB why on earth would you look after her 3yo if yours was in nursery though? It makes no sense.[/quote]
Because it's how CFers perceive the world: they are at the centre of it, they're entitled to all of it and everyone simply orbits round them.

Maireas · 14/02/2021 14:22

I can't believe that woman brought her husband for the lunch! That is some nerve.

rawalpindithelabrador · 14/02/2021 14:40

@Maireas

I can't believe that woman brought her husband for the lunch! That is some nerve.
I can't believe her friend sat back and paid for it all!
Maireas · 14/02/2021 14:44

I know! I'd have said "let's split this three ways!"

CarrieMoonbeams · 14/02/2021 15:05

Och, I know Maireas and Rawalpindi, it was one of those situations that caught me completely unaware. In fact, I actually felt a bit guilty that I hadn't invited her DH, because I knew how skint they are!

She's been a really good friend to me in a lot of ways over the years though.

Maireas · 14/02/2021 15:08

Well, if she's been a good friend and treated you, that's not so bad.

8misskitty8 · 14/02/2021 15:11

Ive has a few cf neighbours over the years.

First house the neighbour sent her gardener round to cut overhanging branches and he told me It was £x as I had agreed with neighbours to split the bill. I hadn’t, they were her trees and first I knew about them being cut was the gardener wanting access !
She was 20 years older than me and sent her mum who lived elsewhere round who said it was the law that I pay as the branches were in my garden. I refused, she swore at me and told me I was a thief !

Current neighbour at end of garden doesn’t maintain his fence, and has out of control ivy and plants so I installed my own fence completely in my garden. Fence was treated and prepainted.

Next day cf got a ladder and hung over his fence into my garden to paint the back of my fence. Was a bright green which dripped through to the side facing my garden. I repainted it which I could do standing in my own garden. He then tried to repaint but I went up to the fence and pretended to talk to someone on the phone about getting him done for criminal damage. He got down and didn’t try again.

Neighbour in second house gave my address when he was arrested. Police turned up looking for him a few weeks later and wanted to search my house. I directed them to the correct house.

CarrieMoonbeams · 14/02/2021 15:12

@Maireas

Well, if she's been a good friend and treated you, that's not so bad.
Well, generous with her time anyway Smile. (I still think she's a CF for that though!)
Maireas · 14/02/2021 15:19

True! Smile

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HepLaurenceLB · 14/02/2021 15:34

@Fluffycloudland77 she thought I only put my DC3 in because he has SEN. She thought I could look after her daughter because she was my and therefore “no bother”.

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HepLaurenceLB · 14/02/2021 15:36

*she was NT

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twoshedsjackson · 14/02/2021 16:30

My friend is the secretary of her local Residents' Association; anybody in the immediate area would recognise her door number from newsletter headings etc. ......which rather cramped the style of a young woman knocking on random doors, claiming to have moved in mid-lockdown and completely on her uppers, no money for food or the electricity meter etc.
When asked which house she had moved into, she gave as her door number.....that of my friend! But oddly, having been told once that they knew the resident of that house, who had lived there for years, she tried several more houses, giving the same fictitious (for her) address.

SmudgeButt · 15/02/2021 18:04

We were so relieved to finally exchange after jumping through numerous hoops to get my MiL's flat sold. The people with the freehold lived in the flat below and were very obstructive always pleading they didn't know this, that, the other was their responsibility, that they couldn't complete the forms required for the sale of the leasehold as they didn't have the information. We filled out the forms for them as we knew the answers to all the questions but they refused to sign them. Well I don't blame them as they were signing to say all the info was true and they had to trust that we were telling the truth. Instead the forms had to go to their solicitor who (legally) charged us £600+ to say the information was correct (even though they knew less about the property than the freeholders).

I was well ticked off at all these CFs but in the interest of getting the sale completed I decided it best to fork out to get this done. DH was absolutely livid with them so I had taken over all interactions. It had also been really difficult as the buyer lived 100 miles away and was also being an absolute pain.

So 2 weeks after MiL moved out and the new owner was organising the renovations from a real distance I got a call from the freeholder. All in a panic as there was water coming into his very new shiny kitchen through the ceiling as there was obviously a leak in "our" flat. I pointed out that it wasn't our flat and that he should contact the new owner. As she was still living in a different city he hadn't met her and had no contact details. I suggested he ring the estate agent. I then got a call from the estate agent asking me for a key for the flat and I pointed out that as they had requested the keys had been left with them when MiL moved out. Cue another call from the freeholder obviously very distressed as his new kitchen was being ruined. I took a certain amount of sympathy on him and mentioned that MiL had a key safe and last time I looked there had been a key there and the code was ASDF but surely the new owner would have removed the key or changed the code. She hadn't so he was able to get in and turn off the water.

Last I heard she had contacted the police about his illegal entry to her flat. I'm sure their relationship continues to flourish to this day.

paintedpanda · 15/02/2021 18:58

I was about to put the washing out last year and noticed the washing line was on the floor. When I took a closer look, I realised that it had been untied because the neighbours who back onto us had replaced their rotten old fence panels. With an even closer look, I realised they'd left the two rotten fence panels and a lot of clippings from their two massive trees hidden behind our shed!
DP is too much of a "keep the peace" to have thrown them back over like I wanted to.