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?

The worst bit IMO of the Mexico story was the ending:
"We haven't spoken since, unless he wants to borrow something."
The utter cheek of the man

Cannot believe Mexican vacation man! What a nut!

Is he from another culture where things are more...shared, OE something?

That Mexican guy is a lunatic I bet he got the shock of his life being turfed out on ear like x funny as !

I'd go rooting through his shed n borrow stuff while he was out x

WeAreEternal

That one REALLY takes the biscuit! Unbelievable!

Some of these are crazy but the Mexico holiday house wins without a doubt. I am open mouthed in shock.

Where I used to live I had a neighbour who would "pop over" at wine o clock and help herself to a healthy glass. One evening she saw the venison stew I'd just made and stood there picking chunks of venison out, eating it off her fingers them dipping them back in. Why the fuck didn't I say anything?

On my last night before I moved away, her husband gave her twenty quid and told her to "take stuffez out for a drink." Well the cheeky cow pocketed the twenty quid and told me she would come over and bring wine. She came over with a bottle containing about an inch of GINGER wine and some soda water and proceeded to share it between us. Was not impressed.

I bet the Mexican house stealers wife knew something was amiss. Surely if you were staying in your neighbours house, 6 or 7 times, you would bring round a thank you gift or at least mention it?!

I had a friend would invite me and my DD round for coffee and to play ,shortly after her mum would ring and she would disappear for an hour or so ( whilst I looked after her DC x2 ) and then come back apologise about poor DM who was having terrible problems etc.

This happened frequently and one day she got call from Poor DMand she disappeared upstairs . This time she was gone ages so I went up to check she was ok and found her asleep in bed .
Yep she was using me to look after her dc so she could sleep.

She also when on a night out with several friends would go to the cinema and we would have a meal afterwards . She would say she had eaten already and order a drink.She would then proceed to try everyones food,have a slice of someones pizza, share a dessert etc and then when the bill came say - "I only had a drink" grrrrrr
She wasnt struggling to get by at all - fancy handbags etc

I'm seeing a pattern here! :o

Behind every cheeky bugger stands a sucker.

Case in point:
'She would say she had eaten already and order a drink.She would then proceed to try everyones food,have a slice of someones pizza, share a dessert etc and then when the bill came say - "I only had a drink" grrrrrr'

Back in the day, I was a comfortably-off, childfree professional who mingled with similar folk who enjoyed rock climbing and hiking. We also liked to go for meals afterwards.

There was one guy who was very comfortably-off and made no secret of it: a childfree by choice, single man who worked abroad often as a petroleum engineer. He was forever tittering at us 'mortgage monkeys' because of course, everyone can be mortgage-free by 35.

It soon became apparent how he did. He was one of those 'I only had a drink' types - no tax or tip, either - who asked to try out peoples' dinners.

He got away with it twice before everyone started telling him, 'Oi, Brett, you cheeky bastard! Go buy your own fecking dinner!'

Come bill time, when he tried to not pay tax or tip, another person called him out. 'I just had a drink.' 'Yep, and with tax and tip, that's $8. I have change for a ten,' and stuck his palm out.

He stopped trying to take the piss once he know no one would put up with it.

It's a wonder some people can sleep at night!

Resting their heads on naice pillows in a lovely house in Mexico, clearly.

I mean, think on it. I'd be totally embarrassed to go out to behave that way over and over. So why take that from others?

To be fair Expat she got away with it twice before we started to decline invites involving her.
I didnt think I was a "sucker" when she pulled the sleeping stunt on me as I wouldnt in a million years have ever thought anyone would be so cheeky - I wouldnt do it so why would I expect anyone else to.

I gave a few items of clothing (2 party dresses, coat and hat, pair converse) to friend at school for her DD.

A few weeks later she was all excited that some person had given her some stuff (all items i had given her) and she put them on eBay!! And made just over 50 quid! I just stood there like a muppet and said nothing .

Fair to say she never got anything from me again, and friendship fizzled out too!

K, fair enough, Love, I'd never have thought to do that, either.

I wonder if anyone ever told her they stopped asking her to go with them because she is a cheapskate.

Cheapskates make my blood boil because I haven't met a one yet who is actually poverty-stricken, skint or having a really bad patch.

I agree Expat cheapskates make me cringe - my BIL would sell his granny for a fiver -meh

Fuck me. The Mexican house thief wins hands down. I have a cheeky as fuck relative, but nothing on that level!

I say again, fuck me. I am stunned.

These stories are amazing. It's the fact they get so annoyed when called on their behaviour that gets me. Nobody just shrugs and says well it was worth an ask, they get offended. :o

Not Mexican house bad, but I couldn't believe Sil's brass neck.
All cousins, 3 of mine and 2 of hers went to the same primary. We went overseas for 8 months and rather than put their v expensive uniforms in storage and then have to sort out getting it again in a hurry I left it all at MIL's I might have mentioned it to sil and told her she could use anything while we were away. Idiot that I am. As we were flying home, 2 days before term started, sil took it all.

FIL-where do I start...looking into our cupboards for stuff he apparently left behind(he hasn't lived here for the last 15 years),that's about 5 years after I asked him to shift his crap belongings.He didn't have time or space (neither did I hence the request),he eventually came to collect it after I threatened to dump it on his doorstep.
Helped himself to some ornaments from our house.I hate ornaments but asking for them instead of taking them would be nice.
Dumped his rubbish at our place -he and his wife bought a new duvet and gave us the old one "for the dog".Yes,medium size dog needs king size duvet.
I'm not going to mention their digs at us,so far I managed to ignore them but they boil my piss

Ex friend no.1-stingy like hell was always asking when I was going to visit her.When I pointed out(after numerous visits) that it's exactly the same distance to me as it is to hers she told me that "fuel is soooo expensive".Yeah,and my car is running on the fecking tap water.Oh,and being childless person (at the time)leaves me with all the time in the world to run with her errands(even after 12 hrs at work).

Ex friend no.2-borrowed some money.When I asked for it she said "I thought you gave it to me.Complained about being skint all the time.Fair enough,she's SAHM and her DP earned NMW.After her complaing how hardly done she was-one DC without winter jacket and the other without shoes because she couldn't afford it,I took her shopping(paid by me).Next week she called me to say her DP was going to visit his parents overseas and she gave him 300 quids to buy her some fags in duty free shop.

I haven't got many friends now.

Mexican house thief has had me snorting with laughter and indignation! I wish I know someone who owned a house in florida that I could steal... ;)

My original 'smoking at my house' story looks lame now compared to some of these!

I've remembered a cheeky BIL that I have... phoned up DH and asked to
borrow £500 - he earns loads more than we do according to his constant boasting so we were confused as to why he would need it. He refused to tell us. He also has a habit of borrowing money from his parents and never paying them back so funnily enough we were not too keen to give him the money and very reluctant to do so without a decent explanation as to why. When DH refused, BIL just said 'well, thanks for nothing' and hung up...
Again, kind of lame compared to stealing a holiday home or a bush full of gooseberries!

Am in at Mexican holiday house. And YY to whoever said the DW must have been in the know. If she thought you knew, there should have been thank you cards and presents each time.

I don't have anything on the scale of some of these. One Christmas though, we were at PIL for lunch. There were a number of people there, and PIL house is quite small and not very many chairs, and of the chairs that were there, varying degrees of sturdiness. There were 2 toddlers and they do have a toddler table, and it was clear that all the adults could sit down if the toddlers sat there. So SIL sits her DD down on the proper chair very quickly and then doesn't move her, even when our mutual MIL can't sit at the table for the meal. We were all and now reading expat's comments, I'm pissed off with myself for not saying anything. Mind you, this is the woman who, on another family occasion where I didn't eat immediately due to feeding newborn DD, hurried to take the last roast potatoes for her third helping as I announced I was finally able to come and have lunch.

Tidy !
Your takeaway thread was one of my faves - have namechanged since then.

My friend used to pop over to mine to have a poo when we were younger. Then she'd spray my expensive perfume to cover up the smell afterwards - she once used half a bottle!

She used to come because she was living with her boyfriend and didn't want him to know she pooed?!?!