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I love a CF story so it would be great to hear any new ones please!

Please tell me that was all said with your tongue in cheek 😂

One of the other local mums that I became friends with when the DC were small split up with her partner and regularly told us that she really wanted to take her DC away for a holiday after the crappy year they'd had but just couldn't afford even a few days at the seaside. Her DC also often talked about how much they would like to go to the seaside. Eventually, a friend offered her free use of a relative's static caravan but she go upset and said she'd love to but didn't have a car and couldn't afford the train fair. So another friend took her there (3 hours each way) and I brought them home after the holiday. Other friends donated buckets and spades, baskets of food treats etc to help them have a much needed break. None of us were particularly well off and we were all busy so the petrol cost/time away from our own families were not unnoticed but we wanted to help her and her DC have a bit of a break. So far nothing CF about it. But just a few weeks later she went on a foreign holiday whilst her DC were with their dad and spent loads on new clothes, fake tan etc. It became very clear that when she'd been telling everyone that she barely had money to feed her DC this was only because she was putting lots of money aside for her holiday.

Reverse

Unfortunate, but should have checked it before handing them the money...

Years ago my mother signed up for a points card (I think it was Nectar but I’m not 100%)
she gave the card to my dad (he never questions anything-ever) and told him just give it to the nice lady at the counter when he paid for petrol at the bp garage
he did this for years until my uncle asked how many points he had and my mother overheard and got really funny about it

turns out he’d been paying for his own birthday and Christmas presents (both within 3 days of each other) via the points for years!

she would have got away with it if it hadn’t been for my uncle!

A now ex-friend used to expect me to put her up every time she came to London. I didn’t mind if it was convenient, but she didn’t seem that bothered about whether it was or not.

Once she messaged me saying ‘Thinking of coming down bank holiday weekend, maybe we can do club X?’ I noticed she hadn’t even asked if she could stay. I replied ‘Where are you thinking of staying? You can have my sofa if you need it, but Sarah’s staying in the spare room at the moment because she’s split up with Dan and has nowhere else to go’. Friend replies saying ‘Okay, see you at the weekend. Going to need that spare room though - too old to be sleeping on sofas, lol!’

Er, no - I am NOT going to make my virtually homeless friend sleep on the sofa because you fancy a night clubbing.

My MIL used to buy new things for her house every few years

Im talking rugs and curtains and the like.

She would always offer them to DH (her son) and then try and charge him almost the full market price for it.

If he refused it, as in didn’t want to pay so therefore didn’t want the item, she would strop about and say, well ok you can have it.

She’s always been a greedy bitch though. She used to raid his piggy bank when he was younger so she could go on a shopping spree

A few tears ago I worked with a girl who liked McDonald's for lunch, I was trying to lose weight so brought a sandwich from home with me but she wanted me.to come.to keep her company. She asked me fro petrol money to McDonald's 🤦‍♀️

I used to know someone who was always on the cadge. I once took sandwiches for lunch and she hinted that I should give her one of mine. Needless to say I didn't.
Why should I give mu lunch away because she didn't get organised.

Todays thread about CF guests is spectacular

Out for coffee with DH and 2 week old baby. First time out, still sore and a shell of myself.

DH proceeds to the counter. CF woman appears at the table beside us, which still had the dirty tray belonging to the previous customers on it. CF bitch picks up manky tray and shoves it on my table telling me "it's okay they come and clean it". I was a bit dumbfounded at the level of CFness and felt like crying anyway, I let it happen.

DH appears looking puzzled at the table. CF face dropped. By this point I was fuming. I told him what the CF did while she sat there continuously making nervous attempts to interject. Hope she burnt her tongue on her coffee.

When I was a student I found a handbag on a riverside bench near my house. It had loads in it, including keys, a purse containing about £150 cash, bank cards, prescription glasses, etc. The name on the cards was quite an unusual one so I took the bag home, looked up the name in the phone book (yes, I’m old and nobody had mobiles or home internet at the time) and after ringing three or four people with that name located the woman whose bag it was. When we established it was hers, she said “Oh. How will you be getting it back to me, then?”

I said “I’m around for the rest of the day now, shall I give you my address so you can collect it?” and she said really irritably “Why on earth can’t you simply drop it round to me?” I pointed out that that I had no car and wasn’t really keen to take two buses and a 45-minute walk each way to get to her house which had a name, no street number, and was in a hamlet outside town in the middle of nowhere, to return something she had lost and which I had found for her. She sighed really irritably and eventually did agree to come and collect it after I said the only other alternative was for me to take it to the local police station. She picked it up that evening in her very expensive car and insisted on going through everything in it in front of me and counting the money in the purse to check I hadn’t stolen anything before flouncing off. At no point at any time, either on the phone or in person, did she say thank you. Amazing.

I once went to see a sporting event with a male friend (no romantic interest) who was very green and refused to own a car or even drive. Hence why he generally had to get lifts from people. It was an evening event and no convenient public transport was available, so I picked him up, using my taxed and insured car and petrol and drove us to the event. When I came to pay for the parking, he very begrudgingly paid half of the cost of the parking. I wouldn't have expected him to pay for the petrol, etc because it was a short trip but a couple of hours parking until the charging period run over was quite a small amount and he didn't even pay for it as his part of the thing! And on the way back, he made a couple of digs at me about driving being bad for the environment...

I'm advertising a small property for rent and am getting near daily CFs enquiring about it. Most of the CFs want all bills included, which at present rates would soak up most of the quite small rent charged. I'm only asking for a small rent (60% of the mortgage cost per month) in order to find someone nice who will stay there for a longer term as opposed to someone who will abuse it and because I get soaked for cash anyway so wouldn't see any profit, but nope, so many of them want bills included in the price. Its an absolute bargain. I'm thinking of putting the rent UP in the hope of attracting a nicer type of tenant!

Second-hand, I know the people involved but we don't socialise: "Jenny" would text a bunch of friends asking if anyone was free on Saturday evening, then when someone answered in the affirmative it would turn out that what Jenny actually required of them on Saturday evening was to babysit her offspring. I have no record of anyone falling for it more than once.