Anyone else ever secretly impressed with how cheeky people can be?

[2ndtimemum2]

Having read another thread where a woman was asked to go 40 minutes out of there way to drop someone elses child to school, or the poor woman who's been asked to give daily injections to her neighbour because her kids couldn't be bothered has gotten me thinking are these people absolutely mental or how are people brazen enough to make these requests?

It seems like a daily occurance where a poster seems to deal with some crazy cf!!! I don't think I'd have the actual nerve or be brazen enough to make some of the ridiculous requests that people have made so I'm secretly impressed that there's these group of people who don't even think twice about these off the wall requests!

In laws came to ours many times. Absolutely loaded and had no kids. Ate out of house and home every time, whether planned or impromptu. Several times we had takeaway and they paid nothing as they don’t carry cash. Always promised to get the next one and the same thing would happen. Been to theirs all of twice in many years. Once was for a family lunch on the hottest day of the year. They served packet soup (virtually impossible to eat or at least enjoy on a day like that). Second time more impromptu. She went away for a bit came back with a nice spread which she gave only to him. He sat and ate in front of us with small kids. So we left and said needed to get snacks for the children. They shrugged and off we went.

Oh and they went halfway around the world to stay with my extended family whom they’d met about twice and allowed their hosts to pay for everything. Don’t see them very much any more - funerals basically. They were apparently upset not to get evening only invite to a couple of family weddings. Gee I wonder why.

When DD1 was little I had a "friend" from the baby group who would leave her 6 month old with me all day whilst she went to work and pay me £20, no huge deal there but it was expected I would do it as I "was at home anyway". Then she got a puppy and asked me to go to her house every day (40 minutes walk, I didn't drive at the time) to let her dog out. At this point I said no and she stopped contacting me. I knew then that she would be really successful in her career (she is now a prominent name in female finance in SE England) because of her willingness to use anyone to further her ambitions of world domination. Fair play to her, it always seems to be people like that who go far in life.

My SIL once asked me to work from home so I could look after her newborn baby.