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?

Yes car seat was returned after speaking to my lovely sil, who to this day, 16 years later, is still mortified. Bil is still a dick though, who thinks that his dc's are far more important and precious than anyone else's.

An otherwise lovely friend of mine has a blind spot for her dog. Once DS and I went for a walk in the park with her and her dog, who in turn is a fiend for chasing any kind of ball.

A man came into the park with a toddler kicking a little football about. The dog headed off towards them, she got it back under control before said dog reached the ball, but instead of putting her dog back onto the lead she told the man it would be best if he put the ball away. Which he did, and left the park.

She genuinely saw nothing wrong with that, so I chose other times and places to meet, without dog, after that.

Only just found this thread and really looking forward to reading it in full!

DH and I got married abroad and a now very ex-friend couldn't afford to travel out for it. Other friends decided to club together to buy her a plane ticket and sort out accommodation for her so she could come. This was their wedding present to us. Lovely thought! Ex-friend accepted and attended the wedding. Once the wedding was over she proceeded to travel all over the country sight-seeing, which involved two internal flights and a week's worth of hotel accommodation. Clearly, we she said she couldn't afford to come to the wedding, what she really meant was that she couldn't afford to come and have the holiday that she had wanted to have. For years after (until she became ex-friend) she would talk about the wonderful time she had had and how generous everyone had been.

DP and I were out shopping a few weeks ago, there was a woman and her young son there, she was looking at clothes but standing in the aisle blocking the way at the same time. DP and I politely tried to get past them but she ignored us and wouldn't move, then said to her son "don't move out of the way Jack, stay where you are." (Jack is a made up name). We were gobsmacked, ignoring us and not moving is one thing, but purposely telling your young child not to move out of the way ?

Contented sigh... What a great thread, I have read it all over a cup of tea, lots of head-shaking, tutting and "cheeky bastards", so satisfying! I agree Mexican holiday nutcase man is the winner, but also enjoyed dog towel lady, gooseberry lady and sandwich nabber lady as well. Definitely a classic!

I have nominated this for classics, as I expect a few of us have. It is utterly wonderful.
My favorite is the marmite sandwiches 'but I LIKE marmite sandwiches' is now going into my everyday dictionary as code for 'entitled'

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eccentricelastic just google mumsnet classics and you'll find it. Be prepared to lose many hours of your life! If you have parents in law make sure you check out the 'anal PIL' thread, it is brilliant.

Please your friend did send them a bill for petsitting I hope?

Why did she pay her for the eggs?

Why did she do it at all?

I'd have contacted her from FL and told her she needed to find a qualified pet sitter asap and not to think about fucking me over again.

Them's some high maintenance chickens!

Mine used to let themselves out/put themselves to bed and just peck on the back door when they were hungry.

Those chickens sound cheekier than the friend..!

I'm gobsmacked at these cheeky fuckers! The Mexican holiday stealer

OK cheeky chicken woman is coming close.
Apart from anything else, £1.80 for 6 eggs is egg-stortionate.
Did your friend get the money back for the mite treatment?

This thread had helped me through a week of hellish nightfeeds. I love you all! I just think of the woman poking three gooseberry bush discontentedly and I can't stop smiling

A neighbour popped round with her DCs, who are the same age as mine.

The two eldest were playing happily at the other end of the room when my DC piped up: "Mummy, X has had a wee wee". And, sure enough, there was the biggest puddle on the floor.

I looked at neighbour, neighbour looked at me. She then said she couldn't really do anything about it right now as her littlest DC "probably needed a feed".

Right.

So I cleaned up her child's piss, without so much as a thank you or an apology from neighbour.

Said child then came to sit near us on my NEW rug, still in piss-sodden clothes. Neighbour did nothing. I paused with baited breath, wondering if she was going to do something. Nope. So I offered fresh pants, trousers and socks and even changed her bluddy child's clothes for her.

Neighbour and children then said their farewells, and off they went. And, to this day, the clothes have never been returned.

tigerlily thanks, I found the classics thread and have just spent an hour or more reading one of the posts, and found I needed oat cakes, a banana and choccy cake for supportive sustenance!

I'm supposed to be preparing work for my classes tomorrow, and it looks like colouring books n crayons are gonna be the order of the day instead !!

Luckily I'm only working one day this week, so will call at supermarket tomorrow after said class, to stock up on vital supplies to see me through reading the rest of the threads!

Go MN!!!!

I've just remembered another 'friend'. Looking back she was pretty bitchy and sneery, but it was a good year before I realised how unpleasant she was.

She reads the daily mail, takes it seriously and links it to facebook.

She went away and asked me to run her shop and feed her cats. She never had customers so wasn't a big deal and she was going to pay me a small ammount to do it.

I did it. Worked Thursday, Friday, Saturday and did my usual job on Saturday night. Shop was freezing and filthy (so was her house so I don't think she realised how bad it was). As I said, no customers so I cleaned up and tidied while I was there. She wouldn't pay the council for a bin so I carried the bin bag home with me to disposed of.

She picks up the key on the Sunday evening. No word of thanks. No money.

I go into the shop on the Monday, make small talk at the counter with her for fecking ages. No mention of money.

Get a text Tuesday. If I come in after 2pm she'll have it for me. I go in at 2.30pmish, she sneers at me over her glasses and spits at me 'I don't have your money.' I ask why and I'm told that her husband only just left to get it but won't be back for ages. Honestly, she looked at me like filth. I reckon she had no intention of paying me.

I go home, have a rant on my SiL's facebook wall about it. My DP sees how upset I am and drives around to her house to ask for it. He brings it home. I write off the friendship.

The next day I get a text from her asking if I'm home. I felt it was none of her business so I ignored it (think I was in Tesco at the time). A few minutes later and I get another text askling if I can mind her shop again that week and feed her cats. I say no, obviously. My excuse is that I have my own job to go to (true). I'm just paying for my shopping and I get another text telling me they've put their key through my door for me to feed their cats. They didn't even ask.

Muggins here feeds the cats - I do like cats.

On the Friday I get a shitty facebook message from the 'friend' telling me that 'she has no idea what she's done to offend me but she doesn't deserve to be slagged off on a random facebook page and not to bother feeding the cats on the Saturday, she'll get someone else to do it and she'll pick up her key on Monday --when she knew I'd be sleeping ready for a nightshift'. She also copied the message to my DP for no reason ast all.

Clearly she'd trawled through my facebpook page reading all of the posts I'd put on other people's wall. Can't run her fecking shop or feed her cats but can stalk people on facebook for hours.

I did reply relling her what she'd done but I don't think it went in.

Obviously we no longer speak.

She seems to have done this to a lot of people. Her own family don't speak to her, her in laws don't seem to like her and she has few friends. I get the impression she treats a lot of people very poorly.

Some of these are just jaw droppingly cheeky. I can in no way compete with a lot of them, but a couple spring to mind:

We moved in with my BIL, SIL and their 2 kids (6 and 11) when DD was tiny (months old), in hindsight it was a ridiculous decision but at the time I was suffering from PND and could do with the company and any help I could get. It turned out that they had seen me coming from a mile off and as well as subbing (not that I ever saw the money again) their rent and the bills, they decided I was their built in babysitter. I would ask the kids where their mum and dad was when I got up in the morning quite regularly, only to be told that they'd gone out for a few hours or the day, when I asked who was looking after them they would respond "you!". It was news to me and many a plan had to be cancelled/rescheduled as a result. I did eventually snap and needless to say we no longer live with each other (DH is now XDH so don't have to deal with them now anyway).

I lived in a shared house with 4 others in my early 20's, it was a pretty riotous place admittedly but one housemate tool the piss big style. I had the ground floor bedroom, it was a pretty big room. I once went to NY for a week with work, upon my return aforementioned housemate was chatting to me and offered to show me photos she'd taken of a party she'd had in the house whilst I was away. So I was sitting there being taken through these piccies until we got to a load that were clearly in my bedroom; there must have been at least 10 people sprawled all over my room, the floor was a state and some drawers seemed to be open as well as possessions strewn around. I asked what the hell she thought she was doing having a party in my room - she just didn't get what the problem was.

Many years ago pfb was born in May and me and then dh decided that due to him having alot of work commitments I would spend eight weeks in our holiday home with baby. He would spend first two weeks with us then my mother would join us, he return to work then come back for last two weeks and bring us all home.

Mother arrived with four suitcases and two sun loungers which all went missing. As she didn't speak the language we spent two hot days chasing up the airline. They found and delivered the suitcases but the loungers had ended up at a freight terminal three hours away. DH had gone home but mother insisted she could not enjoy her holiday without the sun loungers so muggins drove all the way there and back. All this with exbf four week old baby.

My fantasy had been that I would loll around in the sunshine, establishing feeding, idly eating grapes..... Mother wanted to go shopping, every day. Mother tutted every time I bf and kept demanding whether I 'had' to do that.

Holiday home had one double bedroom and two very small singles, mother took the double so I ended up sleeping on the floor in the lounge so I could co-sleep with pfb.

About a week in I was doing an early morning feed, about 5am, when she stormed out of the bedroom shrieked 'that baby is ruining my holiday!' and flounced in to the bathroom.

While she was in there, I gathered everything up, threw it in the car and when she came out I told her we were going home. We got back to London at 6pm that night without exchanging a single word.

And breathe.......

A friend (well, she is married to a friend of mine) called to commiserate with me when I split up with a long-term boyfriend. Just for background, I was in my late thirties and keen to have a family, so pretty gutted. She asked me if I was free on Friday night and when I cautiously said yes, she asked if I would like to spend it with a really interesting guy who was keen to meet me. I said OK.

She then told me she was meeting up with her NCT group near me and would drop her 4 month old baby off with me for the evening and then get back late and stay the night

To cap it all, when she got back about midnight she asked what we'd done for the evening and when I said I just snuggled him next to me and watched tv crying she got a bit tight-lipped because she didn't allow him to watch tv

I can think of 2 cheeky fuckers I've had to deal with in my life:

'Friend' and housemate at Uni, I'll call her Hideous Harriet. She was the child of a single mother who had poisoned her mind against all men and encouraged her to feel constantly hard done by and out for compensation.

Since I and all the other housemates were the offspring of married parents HH reasoned it was up to us to redress the balance for her at all times. I came home in a rainstorm to find she'd taken all my towels from the bathroom to stop a leak from the roof, rather than her own. She constantly took our food, wanted to 'borrow' money and clothes, and enjoyed every misfortune any of us ever suffered.

She was so bad with refusing to pay for drinks (despite jumping into every round going if someone else was paying) that one night the entire house walked up to the bar with her then took a theatrical, choreographed step backwards and said 'Finally, HH you have to get a round in'. She refused, and claimed not to know what we were talking about. I refused ever to go out with her or buy her a drink after that.

One night she picked up a bloke in a club and invited him back (a common occurrence). She would always give them coffee and just when they thought they were in, tell them to leave. One night she banged on my door to say she thought that night's bloke wouldn't take it well, and I should go and tell him She got a mouthful of abuse. Our daft fellow flatmate went and did it. I did get our landlord fellow tenant to warn her about that little habit. Fast forward umpteen years, she wants to be my friend on Facebook. Ha!

Second cheeky fucker was briefly a boyfriend, then a friend. He had a tendency to cocklodge (what a cock it was, though) and used to borrow money and would be slow to pay it back, though he always did eventually. Final straw, he borrowed £300 ostensibly for some emergency, then forgot and wore the Italian shoes he'd bought with my money out when meeting me. I was not happy. He whined that he 'deserved' something ice. Not with my savings, he didn't. I made him pay it pronto, no more loans.

Fast forward a couple of years, he rang me from the US where he was living off his latest woman. They were splitting up, in horrendous trouble (immigration, the scams she pulled to get money to keep him were being discovered) and he needed £3k to ship his stuff, including a motorbike with custom chrome finish, back to the UK. I told him to sell the stupid thing, oh, and his Cartier watch collection if he needed money. He put the 'phone down on me. Saved me the trouble of telling him to sod off. He was a 'friend' for far too long, but I learned a good lesson. No one has 'cheeky-fuckered' me from that day to this.

EldritchCleavage - he sounds just like my ex who coincidently also lives in the US and has recently married (I'm sure just for immigration purposes)
He was a cheeky fucker too..

Not in the same league as some of these, but I have a cheeky Germans story too.

We live on a lake in Switzerland, and one day I looked out and saw a group of people, clearly a family, sitting around on our terrace in the sun in their swimsuits. I called my husband, who went down and asked them what they were doing. The dad said that they were just resting after their swim. They had come up through our garden (clearly private) and sat around our table. DH said, quite politely, 'I'm sorry, this is a family house', to which German Dad replied indignantly, 'We're a family too!'

DH really had to push to get them to leave - they were very comfortable and quite resentful that they couldn't just stay where they were. It was bizarre. I would have been so embarrassed.

Some of these are proper jaw dropping and go way way beyond a 'it was worth asking' attitude.

My dsis is an ultimate piss taker and asks for unreasonable things and just shrugs it off if the person says no. With no thought for the person who has just been put in an akward position. But sometimes she gets what she wants so just carries on.

She asked my DM to go on their honeymoon with them as she wanted to take the 4 DC but couldn't afford childcare for them. So my DM did and spent the whole time cooking all the meals and doing the shopping (because it was Dsis's honeymoon) and looking after all 4 DC whose ages ranged from baby to 10 iirc while Dsis and BIL went out every day on their own. Before she went, my DM said she would do the same for us, but had been run so ragged said she would never do it again. Not that I'd have let her anyway. Should mention that DM had to pay to go on the holiday too, Dsis didn't even cover that.

Another time Dsis asked me if she and DM could come round for a coffee the following day and I pointed out that I was at work. Then I found out that they had arranged to meet at my house as Dsis was thinking of moving and wanted to have a look around my area. And my DM had arranged to meet someone who'd she sold something to on ebay there. I found out because I got a call from Dsis when they were outside my house looking for my spare key and wondering where it had gone. (I put this on mn and was told IWBU as they were family).

Dsis always used to go through my cupboards and let her DC help themselves to snacks etc. To an extent I didn't mind giving my DN's food, but when you meal plan and are on a budget it's annoying when she's helped herself to the last two yoghurts that were going to last until the weekend. I tried doing it at her house once to see if she would mind and she was very arsey about it.

We haven't spoken since August as I just got fed up of the self-entitled piss taking. Not that I was ever complicit, but even being put in a position where I had to say no or put my foot down used to grate.

How could I forget my stepmother, df died leaving her very well provided for (he was the managing director of a very successful company) a huge detached house, a couple of cars, lump sum and a very generous pension. My GM outlived him but at the time of his death was in a nursing home.
Df paid an allowance to his DM so that she could have little luxuries, buy herself new clothes etc. When df died my stepmother stopped the allowance saying there had to be cutbacks now she didn't have df's salary which was laughable as the pension and lump sum would have covered df's salary and the house was mortgage free.
Then she really outdid herself when GM died and she refused to pay for the funeral even though it was df's wish that it was paid for from his estate (dh and I funded the funeral bill) but she turned up and demanded that she lead the mourners into church.
Mind you we should have expected it really as she wanted to sell df's belongings to me and my brothers and sisters when we asked for something to remember him by.