Have you ever encountered anyone this cheeky?

[TastesLikePanda]

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?

[K8Middleton]

Wow wow wow at so many cheeky buggers! I always used to think how does this happen? Until it happened to me this week. I had to check with 4 people that I wasn't being unreasonable because I was just astonished anyone would have the brass neck to ask.

Can you look after before school and take to school with your dc? We both have work at 9am and it's a pain to get there after 8am drop off sent at 7pm the night before by parent I do not know and met for the first time 3 days earlier.

Funnily enough I could not look after random kid from 7am and herd RK, dc1 and baby along a busy route to school.

Never apologise, never explain.

[expatinscotland]

See, mugs are mugs because they allow it. The second they started descending on that pizza, I'd have snatched it away and said, 'Hey, go get your own! We're starving!'

And someone in your own house with the door closed to your own living room? And you couldn't use it? Throw the door open, go about your business and give them an hour to pack up and leave.

I've done it, too. DH had a friend he met online come stay with us whilst I was 5 months pregnant. I told her no smoking in the flat, we had a nice balcony.

Woke up for work in the morning and the living room was like a fecking nightclub the air was so fuggy with smoke.

I told her to get out.

The person who never has any money on them, there's a reason for that. Stop spotting them. 'Oh, I don't have any money on me!' 'Again! Oh, well, gotta feed the kiddos,' then you go on and do it and stop buying them FA.

[EarlyInTheMorning]

Expat, your DH met a female friend online and she came to stay????

[expatinscotland]

I knew her, too. Believe me, she was minging. But I threw her out for smoking in the flat when we asked her politely not to smoke indoors.

[SingingSands]

My cousin invited me back to her flat so we could get changed for a hen do. She gave me a quick tour then said "you can get ready in there" and shoved me into the lounge. She had a shower then shut herself in her bedroom. There were no curtains in the lounge, huge windows as it was on the 3rd floor of an Edinburgh tenement and I was 7 months pregnant! I didn't fancy flashing my flesh to the entire streets I got changed in the hall instead!

[pedrohedges]

My neighbour stole my wheelbarrow, i know it was mine because it had my name on it (kids got one of those label machines)
He also stole my yard brush, his kids pick my flower and his girlfriend asked to use my laptop to see pictures of aborted babies as she was planning an abortion.
The last one i told her to sod off, i was that shocked.

[ShanksYoni]

OP - mine's similar. My Grandma used to smoke occasionally, outside so that I would still go round with DS1.

Her "friend" used to smoke whenever she visited her, because she didn't want her husband to know she smoked. By the same token, she would smoke my grandma's cigarettes because she couldn't buy her own in case her husband found out.

[YouDontWinFriendsWithSalad]

I loaned about £100 to a friend at uni. I shouldn't have done it - friend's parents were loaded and gave her money each month for rent and spends. But she always spent it on booze, clothes etc. I was a normal, skint student.

I kept asking for the money back. Friend eventually threw her hands in the air and said to me with a sneer "why are you so obsessed about money? You're so boring."

[MrsRajeshKoothrappali]

"You're so boring."

The friend who'd come to my house and use my laptop/wander around our bedrooms for ages called me boring was.

My crime? I told her she'd have to leave (after I'd cooked her dinner, she's used my laptop for two hours and I'd watched her delinquent son throw his my plate on the floor) because I was knackered due to just having worked a nightshift and feeling under the weather.

I think that was the last time I invited her round.

[Tishtash2teeth]

We rented out our house to my BIL and family when we moved away for a few years. The garden gate was falling to peices and FIL offered to fix it and asked DH for money for materials.

A few days later he told DH he was planning to put a double gate at the bottom of the garden so he could park HIS campervan (which he lived in) in our garden. And could he have £200 in order to do this!

When DH explained to him that we didn't want the fence removing and replaced by a gate, he didn't talk to DH for 6 months. He regained contact one week before his birthday!

Another example I have is that I was in town with a good friend and she made a point out of having to return her top to Miss Selfridge. I ask her "don't you like it anymore". She snapped back "I still like it but I we'd money to buy YOU a birthday present"!

[MrsRajeshKoothrappali]

Once, not was!



This thread is winding me up but I'm sooooooooo enjoying it!

[Whojamaflip]

Many years ago when I was in a flat share with a work mate we both adopted kittens and when they were about 6 mths old she left to go home. She asked if I would look after her kitten until she got settled in a new flat (she was initially staying with her dm who wouldn't have a cat in the house)

Fair enough............haven't heard from her since and the old cat was pts last year at the ripe old age of 16

[FatimaLovesBread]

EOS please tell me you told BIL to fuck off?

[EverybodysSootyEyed]

when i upgraded my phone my bil and sil asked if they could have the old one to give to their mum s hers was really old. they needed to get a new cover because it was broken and a sim.

i said fine, sent it over with charger and all accessories etc

come xmas, we are all at mil's and i asked if she liked her new phone - cue confused look from mil and glares from sil - turns out it was all wrapped up under the tree as her xmas present!

they could have at least told us!

[HeadFairy]

I think this is my favourite story of outright cheekiness

[mamadoc]

Ex friend, complete user.
I put up with her for ages because she had a hard life and I felt sorry for. Later on I realised that in some cases you make your own luck.

Dh and I did loads for her including babysitting, DIY, lifts, meals, lending money (never repaid), use of our phone, computer, printer. If you gave an inch she would take a mile every time:

Invite her for morning coffee she'd still be there at bedtime.
Let her use the phone for an important call (of course she'd never any credit on hers) she'd be nattering to her mate for an hour.
Offer a lift once and suddenly you're the unpaid taxi service for every occasion. (Her answer to being refused was why don't we put her on our insurance, then she won't have to bother us)

One of the cheekiest was the occasion she turned up unannounced early on a Sunday am with towel and toiletries expecting to have a bath at mine as she had no money for hot water.

Another time she came with a load of wet washing to hang on my radiators so as not to have to put her heating on.

She seemed to think that as we are a working two parent family and she's a single mum we somehow were obliged to be her personal charity. It quickly went from us sometimes offering to help to being obliged to be constantly available to bail her out. When we wised up and started saying no we got such nasty abusive texts, calls and e-mails we had to change all our contacts.

Lesson learnt. Channeling expat from now on..

[JollyJumpingJelly]

A"friend" I hadn't seen for a while came to see dd at 5 weeks. After about 5 minutes, she asked if her and (new boyfriend I have never met) could take her to the zoo alone in a few weeks as 'he really likes babies'.
Haven't heard from her since saying no!

[Thisvehicleisreversing]

My DM still holds a grudge with her SIL for something that happened 25 y ago.
My DM had a beautiful silver cross pram that was my DB's. By the time he'd grown out of it her SIL was pg so my DM said she could have it for her new baby. She was very grateful and kept saying how kind it was and how beautiful the pram was etc.
After the baby was born my mum saw her in town with the baby in a different pram. My mum asked if there was a problem with the original pram "oh no" SIL replied " it was so nice I returned it to Mothercare for a refund, bought this one and still had some money left over"
My DM was too shocked to say anything.
As you can imagine my DM still goes on about this now.

[Rockinhippy]

I had one today, not a friend though, - I face paint & noticed an ad for a local upcoming fete offering stalls for hire, so I emailed, with attached flyer, asking details of the stalls for rent & if they had a face painter yet, as I didn't want to do it if I wasn't the only painter, not really worthwhile.

Return email recieved today - Thank you for your enquiry, we can't offer you a stall, but we love your work and think a facepainter would be a great idea, so we would love to book you for our fete. We can't afford to pay you , but we are making a donation to insert local kids charity we are sure the children will love having their face painted whilst their parents shop

[Rockinhippy]

Oh & how could I forget the wonderful fur coat & no knickers DM of my DDs old nursery friend...

She took the pee with play dates - frequently invited her DD to ours, in front of my DD - so putting me on the spot her DD was sweet enough, but harder work than mine as she was obviously mollycoddled & therefore could be quite demanding - the favour was never returned - always promises to DD as she was leaving though, but only ever happened once - I would have told her to sling her hook months earlier if it wasn't for the 2 DCs loving each other so much.

One time she came to pick up, DH offered her coffee, she turned around to her friend & said, oh wonderful, that's what you call good child care - but that was nothing to the day I was in upstairs & heard frantic banging on my front door - it was this DM & her DD - puzzled as both girls should have been at nursery, mine was - found out later her DD had been sent home sick & she was bringing her round for me to take care of so she could work - thankfully I ignored the door -

[Ledkr]

My friend cane to soft play with minimal amount if money and forgotten card. She can't afford to get in so I lend what I've git left after paying for my dc. We get inside and i scrape together enough for a drink.
Friend then has a drink and a panini with my money
On the way home asked to stop at her house for purse then back to local shop to buy food. I said no.
Same friend asked if she can stay at mine with her dd to share my sitter.
Then pulls a bloke and goes AWOL untill midday leaving me to get up hungover with her dd while my (older) dc sleep until late.

[Jollyb]

DP's crazy cousin from NZ stayed with us when she first moved to London. He hadn't seen her in 16 years. She hadn't yet found a job but signed up for an expensive flat share in Clapham with three friends, all in a similar position. DP then received a text asking if he could be guarantor for their rent!


She also tried to burn down our flat but that's another story. . .