Best CF stories part 2

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

You mum sounds absolutely lovely @UnrequiredName, her kindness to that gentleman must have meant the world to him x

Thanks @BloggersBlog she really is. He must have known he didn't have long left because the night before he thanked her and told her he loved her

Oh goodness me, that is so lovely yet heartbreaking too. She will get her reward (not that she did it for that I can tell from your post) but kindness often attracts kindness x

@UnrequiredName

Thanks *@BloggersBlog* she really is. He must have known he didn't have long left because the night before he thanked her and told her he loved her

Bless her. What a lonely end he would’ve had without her I totally get why it grates with madam basking in her unearned glory. Rant away! This is a safe space

@UnrequiredName I would go in and ask her why she feels she needs all the attention when another local lady was there day after day for a year helping him? I'd do it in front of a long queue and lots of her colleagues. Not mentioning it is your mum of course.

ColdCottage I didn't realise at the time that it wasn't reasonable! My head was all over the place.

@UnrequiredName that's so awful for your poor mother...she sounds lovely.
My mother went through something similar. She helped out a elderly couple of neighbours for years...giving them lifts everywhere, going food shopping, hospital visits, arranging help for them in the house. My dad did building work for free etc. They were friends. The couple themselves used to argue a lot, the wife wasn't a nice person, but he was lovely so we got used to it.
When the man had a stroke my mam visited him every day in hospital (The wife said she didn't want to, or want him home.) She bought him pyjamas, dressing gown etc. as the wife wouldn't send any in. It was so sad for him. He died not long after, and left everything to his wife, apart from 1,000 to my parents in a bank account. The wife's sister arrived, after years of not visiting, told the whole neighbourhood that my mam had conned him into leaving her everything and that the poor wife was destitute. They got him cremated and refused to collect his ashes. Eventually another neighbour got authorisation to collect them, and my mam spent the money on a plaque to remember him. The wife sold up and moved to America to be with her sister...who promptly placed her in a care home.
The man was so lovely, and my poor mother had months of people talking about her. My parents eventually moved and this had a lot to do with it.

@magicstar1 That's awful. Sounds like a trait of the wife's family to be nasty. Your poor mum, hope she's happier now. This man had no family at all and very little in the way of money so no one could accuse my mum of something like that. In fact, the only thing he reallty had was a cashbox in his house containing £300 which mysteriously disappeared in the days after (key safe outside the front door). There were a few people who had the number and luckily my mum had the forseight to take his bank card home with her or that would have been swiped too and there would be nothing to pay for his funeral with (when he's finally able to be laid to rest)

@ColdCottage She knows who I am unfortunately or I would be very tempted. Happily, my mum is very well known in the area because she's involved in a lot and has worked at the local school for decades so word is spreading of it's own accord anyway

Not so much CF, more entitiled but still makes me angry when I think of it. Friends have two children who they sent to a certain type of school. One day, walking along the road past a shop with lots of flowers planted out, their son (perhaps 4/5) started ripping them out. Shopkeeper comes out and asks them to stop their child. Their response was "well you shouldn't have the flowers out the front if you expect them not to get destroyed". The sheer arrogance just astounds me but is typical of their family.

@twoshedsjackson

DynamoKev this reminds me of the time, many years ago, that my late DM went for the next grade up in her job, didn't get the promotion (married woman with DC was the reason , I suspect). She miffed but accepted it, until they brought in a younger male to, in effect, become her boss - once she had "shown him the ropes". Why on earth they seriously thought she would happily train a newbie to be her boss at a higher salary than hers, is beyond me. She was polite but vague when asked to provide in-house training.

This happened to me, brought a man to a newly invented position on twice my salary. What we did was niche, exporting, currency movements, letters of credit etc, his expertise was in finance for selling cars in the UK.

Every time one of the sales team came in our office, I grabbed my fags and went for a smoke outside, he'd join me on the step wanting me to tell him what to do.

He lasted 6 months, I was then offered his job, his salary plus 10%.

@Thisbastardcomputer I do so love a happy ending. Good for you.

A friend of mine was having some work done to her house a few years ago. The builder convinced her she'd be more comfortable if she lived elsewhere for a few days whilst it was all completed. She gave him a key so he could come and go.

She had a parcel delivered one day, so went to collect it. She arrived to find the builders two kids playing in the back garden, his wife cooking a meal in the kitchen and the builder watching telly with a beer in hand.

@much
OMG that is unbelievable. The whole freaking family decide to go on holiday while he is allegedly working. Tell me that your friend kicked them out there and then.

Oh. I wonder @Muchmore if it were the builder I had in the past!

New kitchen being installed, gas and water moved etc. I was heavily pregnant and had a toddler so he said we should go away for the week

When we came back NOTHING was done. Your post rang some bells for me

@LongTimeMammaBear wow, how did you react?! I cant believe the audacity of some people.

@cstaff she kicked them all out immediately, they didn't get to eat their food or take it with them (they'd used all her pots and pans), but she felt equally begrudged about them not having it, because all the washing up and cleaning she had to do!

But at least your friend was around to catch them at it, Muchmore

I have friends with a holiday home in a lovely part of Italy, and when some work needed doing they paid up front for an English guy to go out there instead of employing locals (goodness knows why as they speak fluent Italian)

You know where this is going ... precisely nothing got done because of "supply problems" and countless other excuses, and the "extra person" the neighbours noticed convinced them took his wife over for a holiday instead

@Muchmore

A friend of mine was having some work done to her house a few years ago. The builder convinced her she'd be more comfortable if she lived elsewhere for a few days whilst it was all completed. She gave him a key so he could come and go.

She had a parcel delivered one day, so went to collect it. She arrived to find the builders two kids playing in the back garden, his wife cooking a meal in the kitchen and the builder watching telly with a beer in hand.

Bloody hell! I hope your friend read them the riot act!

Wow @Muchmore 😳

@Nesski
I hope your friend’s wife is now his ex wife
Wow

Good builders and contractors are like hen’s teeth. Walked into my ‘fixer upper’ DH convinced me to buy (never again!) to find half of them smoking and cracking beers in my bedroom, while the other half were tiling my shower without waterproofing it. Sacked them all on the spot. It was mayhem

Thisbastardcomputer this is the content I’m here for!

@Shoxfordian he's a cheeky fuck AND a cheap fuck. She won't leave him, got two kids and no real prospect of getting a job as it's pretty ingrained in her country for her to be a SAHM, and he has a very high earning power. He says things like 'I have shit loads of outgoings per month', my husband asks him what they are, and his answer? 'tax bill, money into children's savings accounts and a bit for her' (to which she has to buy all the food and stuff for kids). That said, they've just bought another house with a 400k deposit. The rich don't stay rich for no reason...

My ex never tipped. I used to leave a tip, and as soon as we left he used to dawdle, then pick up the tip I left and keep it. It got to a point where I would hand it directly to the server. He would then call me stupid in front of her. He thought he looked like the big man, in reality they must of pitied me

@Nesski

That’s a shame, he seems very disrespectful to her from your comment before, it’s not so much being tight as not caring about his pregnant wife

Funnily enough I had one last week, and its very unusual for me.

The stone wall at the bottom of our garden has collapsed, and needs rebuilding. We've had one quote so far for £3.5k, which is probably about what it should cost. Gave neighbour behind us a copy of the quote with whom the bill should be split.

Last year, there was another wall collapse further down the street, this was rebuilt at similar cost and was split between 3 houses that were affected, 2 in our road and one in the road behind us.

Last week, neighbour behind us called round. Said he'd spoken to his neighbour in his road who ws affected Last year. Said as he'd only paid 1/3 of the bill he wanted to pay 1/3 too.

I had great pleasure in setting him straight.