Have you ever encountered anyone this cheeky?

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Inspired roughly by a couple of threads recently...
I used to have a friend (used to being the operative) who would come round to my house to smoke. Her reason being that she didn't want her house to smell like smoke and she didn't like smoking in the street as she thought it looked 'common' (her words)

The punchline being that I didn't smoke
That friendship ended when I saw the light and realised that she was using me! She was happy enough to make my house stink and I was too polite (at the time) to ask her not to as I thought I was being a welcoming host.

Has anyone encountered anyone with more brass neck than that?

Every time I read this it gets worse
Please tell me you're all makingthem up now to try to outdo each other?
No? There really are people this cheeky in the world!

Elastic what a cow she was! Poor you with your stroke! Unbelievable! Did you ever have it out with her?

My friend's husband was recently made redundant. His 'mate' asked him for a 'loan' of twelve thousand pounds 'seeing as he has some money to spare'. The mate has lived the high life- massive mortgage he can't afford now, porsche, convertible bmw etc, exotic (and many) holidays with his very extravagant wife. My friend's dh gave him eight thousand pounds as a loan but doesn't t expect to get it back. My friend is livid as her dh still hasn't got a new job and money is very very tight. The 'mate' didn't socialise much with her dh when he was living the high life and 'mates' wife certainly didn't !- is this a gobsmacked looking emocion?

Old story but when pil come to visit they seem to become obsessed with food and drink and literally eat us out if house and home (think three bowls of cereal and toast later)
They never even buy a pint if milk.
When we go to them there are very basic rations.
No treats even for the children and small portions if very basic food with no side dishes.
I now refuse to go and extend then the same austere menu when they come here.
They also like to stay as long as humanly possible.
So for example a weekend visit will mean they are sat here still at 7 on a Sunday despite a three hour drive and work on Monday.
Very strange.

Mil once came up and woke me from my illness induced sleep to ask me to make them toast as dh was bathing dds

I didn't

in fact doesn't even come close

Reading some of these with amazement. I have a few stories of my own but they would pale in comparison .

Genuine question, though. I have frequently been taken for a mug at the time, and am getting better at saying No, complete sentence, all the rest of it - when I notice that someone is taking the piss. The trouble is that quite frequently, I don't. I just go along with the way things are and it doesn't even occur to me that the person is doing this. I only work it out afterwards, sometimes a very long time afterwards when it's too late to do anything. I then end up simmering with resentment at them and anger with myself for being taken for a mug. So although advice that we should stand up for ourselves is useful, I think I'm a step behind that. I need to work out how to even recognise the times when you need to stand up for yourself. Does anybody else get that?

Like in some of the situations above - I'd just have gone along with it quite cheerfully, and then been bewildered at the end that it meant we now had no pizza, or whatever. I'd have assumed that gooseberry woman was indeed entitled to the fruit that I'd thought was mine, and that I had got it wrong. .

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1270398-to-not-pay-for-this-takeaway-meal/AllOnOnePage

There you go, fuzzpig. Took me a while to hunt that down but was interesting to reread it!

DH would be more of a mug if I let him, when he was younger he'd fall for lots of sob stories and hand over cash, but is now very causious with most people. However, l did have to stop him giving up his share of an inheritance from his Great Aunt to his DB before BIL's wedding - the money would (and did) take a year off our mortgage - but BIL was saying to DH how he was struggling to pay for the wedding SIL wanted, and they wanted to buy a house and had no deposit saved. DH was recounting this to me and saying we didn't need the money, but DBIL did, it wasn't like we'd been expecting or earned this money, so wouldn't miss it etc.

Then I pointed out DH drives a second hand estate car, his DB at the time was driving a new sports car, SIL-to-be had over the previous year been given 2 handbags from BIL with a total value of about £4k. they had, over the previous 2 years, had 4 long haul holidays, and SIL had just walked out on a perfectly good job to set up her own business - which was making no money. Basically, I pointed out their lack of deposit and money for their dream wedding was down to choices they made, which was theirs to make, and I'd rather have a year less on the mortgage than subside the downsides of their choices.

He did come to his senses on that one. (although that was mainly because SIL turned into Bridezilla so he stopped thinking I was being mean and decided the wedding and wedding prep was bad enough without feeling we'd paid for it. I think if she hadn't he'd still feel bad about his DB's lack of funds and thinking I was heartless.)

In other ways, I hope he never stops being generous, but is getting better at telling the difference between those who do and don't deserve help.

Brilliant Tidy
I might change my name back in honour of that thread and Id forgotton the tattoo one

Haha, I'm disappointed the tattoo thread disappeared actually.

Tidy - i remember htat! I was on in with a different name. Well done, do you have anything to do with her anymore?

Don'tmindifido my friend's dh generous to others. Initially he was going to get her to write the cheque to his 'mate' so the mate would know she knew about the 'loan'. But he wrote the cheque- didn't want 'mate' to think she held the purse strings!!! Her dh didn't buy her 40 th birthday present or significant wedding anniversary present (when he had a job). She is bloody raging. Can't say i blame her.

An old schoolfriend contacted me from abroad asking if she and her family could come and see us during their holiday in the UK. Me being too nice sayd yes it would be lovely to see them, what were their plans etc? She replies that money is tight and they dont want to do anything that costs anything so can they just stay with us for 3 days? (5 people 3 DCs) warningbells ringing all over by now, and I seem to remember her being tight even at uni)
Anyways I explain we have a tiny house, are in the middle of building work and cant provide much entertainment for 3 DCs at home as we have a baby. They still arrange to come.
From the minute thy arrive the husband complained about everything, -the kids didnt like our food, can we buy different bread, there is no TV in their room(!), and to top it all he kept talking about his recent payrise and the two wages he was enjoying from doing a little extra at work. Total prat. 3 days later DH and I are so drained we both wanted to cry. Our only consolation is that they were going on to stay with another friend, staying for a week.....
I still laugh at the husband helping himself to DS £££ organic weaning yoghurst in the mornings, even when I asked him not to. He just smiled and said they are nicer than those other ones. PRAT PRAT PRAT.
I never spoke to them again.

I think of anything, this thread has taught me we need video entry on some posters front doors. It's for your own good.

I must give proper fuck off vibes, no one asks me for anything.

Dontmind - yeah, I posted up thread about some issues we'd had when I stupidly loaned her my car. Since that though, I haven't really spoken to her.

It's hard dealing with people like that because they genuinely don't seem to have a conscience.

Fortunately, despite not wanting to speak with the selfish cow, she's over a barrel wrt her DC. She needs the free childcare so can't take the LO away from the family as revenge for us not playing ball. Took me a while to realise that, which is what prevented me from stopping contact before. So it's very very limited now, and I have no intention of changing that.

This is a brilliant thread, I'm shocked that so many people are so scrounging and brass necked .

The mexican house dickhead takes my prize for sheer audacity.

Luckily I have nothing to add but keep them coming, it must be cathartic to share cheeky bastard stories!

I've just read your thread Tidy. Speechless

I loaned money (only a tenner but I was at uni) to a friend whose parents paid for everything, she repaid weeks later by throwing a ten pound note across a table at me in front of other people with a sneer on her face.

I worked and paid for everything myself. The people who saw it told me it showed me what she is really like.

If she reads this, I know all about the alcohol problems, cocaine fuelled threesome and weight gain. And it cheers me right up.

Ooooo, the take away thread has reminded me of the day my 'friend' came round for dinner. I'd done a night shift the prevous night so was pretty knackered.

I decided to do a shepard's pie. Nice and easy and my shepard's pie is fecking awesome (not blowing my own trumpet, is just a fact). I use both regular and sweet potatoes, use lots of veg and put in a spoonful of sugar. I'm also very generous with the cheese.

Delicious, no?

No. She got in a massive grump because she wanted a roast dinner and refused to come round.

However one week when she was tired/skint she served up packet macaroni and baked potato I was notithing but polite about it.

Thanks for the link, tidy, I'm off to read it now!