Page 21 | Best CF stories part 2

HepLaurenceLB · 2021-01-30T11:01:20+00:00

First thread [[https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3905995-Best-CF-Stories]]

StrongTea · 08/03/2021 12:21

Used to work with someone who expected a scone with his tea every morning. Never contributed to the “tea fund” Earned much more than the other staff. Just really mean.

anniemouse · 08/03/2021 14:10

I used to work with someone too who never contributed to the tea fund too. They were the highest earner too! I know it was only a couple of quid a week but it was the principle and irritated me that he expected others to fund him.

anniemouse · 08/03/2021 14:13

My best CF story was about another Mum on the PTA. She always offered to help and get involved in the summer and Xmas fairs. Then I found out that she used to ferret away the best bottles and donations and take home left over bottles of alcohol from the Pimms and Irish coffee stall to 'look after'.

CrazyCatLazy · 08/03/2021 17:42

The builders using other peoples houses as holiday homes are top tier CF to me. Wow!

2020nymph · 08/03/2021 19:13

@CrazyCatLazy

The builders using other peoples houses as holiday homes are top tier CF to me. Wow!

Love that you have CF tiers! 😆

2020nymph · 08/03/2021 19:23

I would dread going out for dinner with dbil & exdsil. We only went out for family meals for special occasions and that was enough! We always split the bill equally. They would always order the more expensive items. Exdsil would always find something to complain about and complain until we were given a discount. After a while I noticed that they would always pay last and realised that they would say put the rest on their card so using the tips we had put in to pay towards their share and leaving the waiting staff without a tip. 😠 when questioned, exdsil reasoned that she had complained because the food/service wasn't to her standard so they didn't deserve a tip.

Lorddenning1 · 10/03/2021 22:24

Any more?

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 10/03/2021 22:52

I used to be an operating theatre nurse. As a general rule, we provided our own lunches, but if we were involved in a long case, that went over lunchtime, Sister would order in sandwiches, and would bag up a round each for the nurses, who were always last out of Theatre, because we had to clean up, wash and sterilise the instruments etc. The surgeons finished the operation, and walked out.

There was one junior surgeon (a house officer), who used to eat the sandwiches provided for him, and then nick the packs of sandwiches left for the nurses. He had no excuse - the bags had the names on - he was just a greedy fucker.

I remember coming out of Theatre, after a really long case, having finished the cleaning, and long past lunchtime, starving hungry, to find a solitary slice of tomato in the bag with my name on. Bastard.

DdraigGoch · 10/03/2021 23:16

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

I used to be an operating theatre nurse. As a general rule, we provided our own lunches, but if we were involved in a long case, that went over lunchtime, Sister would order in sandwiches, and would bag up a round each for the nurses, who were always last out of Theatre, because we had to clean up, wash and sterilise the instruments etc. The surgeons finished the operation, and walked out.

There was one junior surgeon (a house officer), who used to eat the sandwiches provided for him, and then nick the packs of sandwiches left for the nurses. He had no excuse - the bags had the names on - he was just a greedy fucker.

I remember coming out of Theatre, after a really long case, having finished the cleaning, and long past lunchtime, starving hungry, to find a solitary slice of tomato in the bag with my name on. Bastard.

Would lacing some food with laxatives have been an option? Often works for workplace lunch thieves.

PyongyangKipperbang · 10/03/2021 23:22

DD is an ODP and after a particularly long case a trainee doctor came out before the rest and cheerfully helped himself to a couple of coffees and cakes from the load laid out for the theatre staff. Misunderstanding you might think.....except that he was in theatre when the order was taken on the understanding it would be paid for after surgery. So he KNEW that it wasnt his to take.

There was UPROAR! He made a pretty big mistake in nicking one of the surgeons coffee.... Needless to say it never happened again :o

gummygator · 12/03/2021 07:18

@pinkyredrose

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.

If you had seen how the car was parked you wouldn't have any doubt. Even without the baby on board sign it was bad parking from them, the car park is massive and it was a quiet day. I actually just think its common courtesy to park considering others, elderly, heavily pregnant etc all tend to need to open the door wider and unless its heaving, I avoid parking directly next to someone. I'll happily be the CF to defend my mum and stop someone shouting in her face while she has my child. (my bad language happened with the toddlers door closed)

gummygator · 12/03/2021 07:23

[quote Thedarknightsarelifting]@pinkyredrose granted telling anyone to fuck off is far from the moral high ground.[/quote]
Not the moral highlight of my life but I was so hormonal and protective.
Never happened again, I think the hormones hulked me out.

AGirlCalledJohnny · 13/03/2021 18:28

Fair enough gummygator I’ve had a few brushes with my inner Hulk over the years

Smileandtheworldsmileswithyou · 16/03/2021 03:22

Any more? I love these!

chonkyy · 19/03/2021 01:25

@popNlock your 'friend' was horrible trying to get you to take your shorts off. What did they say when you left?

dentydown · 30/03/2021 16:33

My ex boss used to invite him self into meetings, eat the food then leave. Normally food would be for after, but he would open it all up, look in the sandwiches, complain that there was nothing he liked... then dash off to something important. Nah, you wanted a free lunch!

Sidewalksue · 30/03/2021 16:52

@PretendLife

I'm not sure if this is CF or just bizarre. My friend used to live near a huge garden centre that had a really nice cafe we often went to for lunch. We were there one day and it was really quiet, loads of spare tables, the cafe part was arranged in 3 sections with planters/trellis dividing them up. We were sat in the far section, just us and there were about 6 other tables occupied in the other sections, everyone well spaced out. All very civilised.

A couple of women came in with 5 kids between them. I would say 4 were primary school age and one of about 3. They plonked the 5 kids down on the table next to ours, bringing an extra seat over for number 5, and put it as the end of the table nearest to us. They then went to a table for two together across the other side of the cafe! they could see the kids table from where they were but there were several tables they could have put the kids on between us and them.

I just don't understand why they sat their kids next to the only other people in the area? my friend thinks they were CF's leaving their kids next to us while they had a nice child free lunch.

As soon our food arrived we packed it all up on trays and moved as far away as possible from the random kids. The look on one of the womans face, furious, like we were unreasonable for not wanting the company of 5 kids......

OMG someone did this to DH and me. DD had started school and we were having lunch at a garden centre which has a central half wall plant thing in the middle. Woman plonks 2 kids next to us and goes to the other side. We actually got up and moved and she came over to complain her kids had been ‘left alone’. No YOU did that! People are mad.

There was a woman at playgroup who did anything to ignore her child. He had a really runny nose (really!) one day and he went to her for help and she kept saying ‘go ask that nice lady, no that one’ etc. Sorry I’m not wiping anyone else’s child’s nose. Everyone kept having to say ‘go see mummy’. She was too busy drinking tea and chatting to her friend.

Sidewalksue · 30/03/2021 17:15

I have another one. DD had a friend from primary, her mum was a CF. She doesn’t work and doesn’t drive and thinks it’s everyone else’s responsibility to drive her about and pay for things.
Anyway she sent her DD to one secondary school and I sent mine to another, not a massive difference in distance. She told DD when she saw her that she would have sent hers to the same school as her as I could have driven them there and back every day. I wouldn’t have and DD walks anyway.

boxingdayagain · 30/03/2021 17:42

My friends were sitting in their mum's living room one evening entertaining some extended family who had been visiting their DM in hospital. Their DM was sadly very ill, and it was expected that she maybe had three or four months to live. Their cousin, who was visiting scanned around the room and piped up "so when Auntie X dies can I have this sofa, the tv and the curtains please?"

peekiboo · 30/03/2021 17:52

@boxingdayagain

My friends were sitting in their mum's living room one evening entertaining some extended family who had been visiting their DM in hospital. Their DM was sadly very ill, and it was expected that she maybe had three or four months to live. Their cousin, who was visiting scanned around the room and piped up "so when Auntie X dies can I have this sofa, the tv and the curtains please?"

That's horrific! My jaw actually dropped open at this!

PyongyangKipperbang · 30/03/2021 18:22

Sadly it doesnt shock me at all @peekiboo

When my aunt died another aunt and her DD's practically turned up with shopping bags.

dentydown · 30/03/2021 20:15

The sending kids over to your table thing resonated with me. When i was 16 (years ago ) I was having lunch with my mum in a local cafe (spud-u-like). The mum actually sent her 6 year old to us so she could eat her meal in peace. Then when I objected to her kid poking my potato, she had did the “well I want to eat my food in peace”.

DemiBourbon · 31/03/2021 12:13

NDNs are serial CFs, really entitled. We have a drive which fits one car on it and measures just about one car wide, which is fine as we have one car.

NDN have two cars and one drive so park one on the road, but about 18” over our drive. This meant that sometimes we couldn’t really get off the drive at all but if we could manage it we always had to turn left and go all round the estate to get onto the main road instead of turning right and driving about 5m onto it.

When we brought this up with them, their question in pure rage was ‘but how will we get our car off our drive if we don’t park over yours?!’

dentydown · 31/03/2021 14:26

@DemiBourbon I’m fuming on your behalf!

makingmammaries · 31/03/2021 18:20

I'm hesitating about telling this horrific one. An elderly friend, P., contracted a terminal disease. Medicalised suicide is legal here and she booked hers. I went to visit and say goodbye a couple of days before, and was drinking tea with her niece in the kitchen when some strange crashing sounds came from the corridor. 'Don't worry', said the niece, 'that's just J. taking out the (very expensive, antique) armchairs. P. agreed that she could have them.'
I have no doubt that P. agreed, but couldn't that woman have waited at least until she was, like, dead? Instead of lying there ill and listening to her possessions being shipped out?