To ask for your best examples of brass-neckedness to entertain us all on this dull day?

[Salmotrutta]

I've got one from decades ago.

My older brother was about 18 and going out with a girl of about 16.

It was pretty short lived as she seemed to be a bit spoiled etc. and they were only teens after all.

My brother was the one who ended it but girl seemed to think Mum was behind it.

Mum wasn't but she had asked to girl to help bring in washing during the rain when she stayed over at our house one weekend as mum was in the middle of something when rain started.

This was apparently a criminal act to ask someone for a bit of help so girlfriend moaned to brother (who I think had got rather exasperated by her anyway by this point) and he ended it.

Apparently this did not go down well.

Next thing, her little sister phoned my Mum and castigated her for being the cause of all this! Little sister would have been about 14 and mum would have been about 45!

That didn't go down well either.

When we were younger my DPs were friends with a couple who ended up getting divorced.
When the woman met another man and remarried, my DPs offered to look after her four kids for the week so they could go on honeymoon.
This was a pretty big favour, the kids ranged from troubled teen to four years old. They were traumatised, having watched their parents split very acrimoniously and her very quickly remarry.
So off they go after the wedding, a week passes and they don't come back to collect the kids. My DPs try the hotel they were staying at and the couple had checked out.
My DPs were frantic, not knowing what was happening and where they were. They appeared a week later saying they were having such a good time they didn't want to come home so booked into another hotel and stayed on an extra week. No apology, nothing. Needless to say the friendship ended there.
What made it worse was that the eldest DD has stranged my DS to unconsciousness one day in a fit of temper and totally traumatised my DS.

Many, many years ago I had a friend who really liked a drink. She was also so selfish and seemingly unaware of others' feelings, or just didn't care, we used to joke that she must be a psychopath.

At the kind if party where everyone brings a couple of bottles of wine or a six pack of beer etc, and leaves them in the kitchen for sharing, she was known to take bottles of wine from the kitchen and hide them, so she would have something to drink when the rest had run out. She often went home with the drink she brought, plus some more!

She, let's call her Tina, had a friend whose DP was a DJ who did weddings etc. Tina went along with her friend and the DJ guy to a christening that he was DJing at. Tina didnt know the people whose christening it was. Not only did she get caught once trying to steal 2 bottles of bubbly in her huge handbag, but she got caught red handed again 15 minutes later trying again!

How long ago was this Merde - their daughter strangled your son??

Did your parents not call the police when the couple didn't come back for their kids??

Ive learnt through endless kind hearted gestures where people have taken the piss that the people who ask you for the most appreciate it the least.

Its terribly sad that so many posters good natures have been roundly abused.

This didn't happen to me but a friend. He was driving locally and he saw the daughter of a friend standing by the side of the road, looking distraught. He stopped and she told him she had driven her car into a ditch.
He offered to help, got in the car and drove it out of the ditch. She was hugely relieved. He thought nothing more of it until he got arrested the following day. The woman had accused him of stealing and crashing her car. She only had third party fire and theft insurance and didn't have the money to pay to fix the damage to the car.
He is a sensitive, honest soul and was absolutely crushed that she would repay his kindness by accusing him of theft. Fortunately he didn't get prosecuted after her parents refused to believe her.

Merde one of my parents was in a police officer, the other a childrens social worker They just wanted to help her.

Whoops that was meant to Salmo obvs

Well, as is often said on here - no good deed goes unpunished

Also like a PP I had a flat mate who topped my stoly (vodka) in the freezer up with water...realised what was happening cos it had frozen solid in the bottle! Flatmate apologised then did exactly the same with a bottle of 'special' vodka a friend had brought back from Russia for me!
And I had another flatmate who was a selfish arse for lots of reasons - and I discovered my toothbrush wet and recently used when came out the bathroom once [vom] -I told him next time I would clean the toilet with it and not tell him (and keep my real one in my room) .
And baby items - a friend very kindly lent me loads of baby items for DC2 - I already had things from DC1 - but she insisted and had fancier stuff than I did (eg a cot with adjustable base height etc) - I was grateful. She cleared out her storage cupboard...but as I finished with things she asked me if I could hang onto them - she didn't want to sell them (sentimental) but didn't have anywhere to put them (there are 3 of them in a massive house - with 4-5 spare rooms, a cellar - but no garage (or attic as it was converted)) - DC2 is now nearly 8 and the stuff is still in my overflowing attic - have mentioned it a couple of times...I will be moving soon and need to clear it out ...might have to resort to leaving it all on her doorstep...

Their daughter strangled my sister Salmo

First day in my first ever job, a temp contract with a prestigious publishing house. I'm introduced to the senior editor and the first thing she says to me is 'Well my name is the same as yours and obviously we can't have two [name] in the same office so what's your middle name .. right, we'll just call you that instead'

I spend the whole of that contract confused as to when I was being addressed as she insisted on using my middle name both directly to me and when introducing me to other colleagues in different departments, whereas, the other staff I worked with ignored her and used my actual name.

I'm sure I left there with some kind of identity crisis ..

Ah! I see.

Awful - must have been a very troubled kid.

I stayed and babysat for her sake wobbly. Her H is an well established arse, and she'd only have got it in the neck if I'd gone.

Never did it again tho.

We had an Australian nanny who asked if her parents (elderly ex nun and priest but that's another story) could say for a few days when they arrived in London. We said fine but they set up camp and stayed over a month and we were too lily livered to kick them out as they were a bit decrepit - not so much as a bottle of wine bought as a thank you.

We should have learnt from this but then agreed her 17 year old sister could stay for a short while - all going well until the doorbell rings and several burly blokes in their late twenties are barging their way saying 'Helen' has invited them round for a party!

Some of these have had me completely shocked.

I've got a few but I'd absolutely out myself and get arse kicking (metaphorically speaking). I'll try and work out how to phrase a couple of them so no one thinks it's me.

But then again mine are boring in comparrison!

This was twenty old years ago but it still grinds my gears. I had booked a holiday at work in January for a weeks holiday with DH and friends for May.

My Dh and our friends all had the holiday booked from January (five months in advance), hotel booked etc.

I got called in by my boss a WEEK before I was due to go on holiday with her 'demanding' I cancel because it was half term and my colleague needed that week to be with her children!

I was twenty five and childless and my colleague was 38 with three kids. Did she not know it was half term that week?

I actually lost the row and cancelled my holiday! I am still that I did it and shocked that I was asked to!

Mine was a couple I used to babysit for when I was about 17.

At that age I was quite in demand I was studying for a childcare HNC and was really good with difficult children or children with separation anxiety. I spent a long time getting her kids to trust me but finally they managed their first night out in 5 years and were really grateful. Paid me well and offered to take me to Florida with them to help with kids (she had 4 under 5.) Once they were settled though they started having more and more nights out and getting home later and later. I had them a whole weekend (friday night to sunday night) once while they went a family wedding- they paid me £40 and expected me to be grateful because I got to stay in such a lovely house!!

I was there one xmas eve and she called at 1am to say they had gone back to her sisters and wouldn't be too long but did I mind bringing down the toys in her room for the kids. I spent until 5am putting together a bloody toy kitchen and various bits. She staggered in at 5.30am with no money to pay me and no money for my taxi home(part of the deal as they lived 1 mile away) so I had to walk home.

They then phone me up at 7pm on new years eve to ask me to babysit (still hadn't paid me) but I had plans with my bf so had to say no but she was livid- screeching down the phone that I was unreliable- how could I do this to her and how teenagers today had no work ethic etc. She then said that as she had to find someone else and likely pay double I could forget the money she owed me and she would take someone else to Florida, I had burned my bridges.

The real kicker was 2 weeks later when she called and asked me to reimburse her for the cost of the name change- luckily my mum took that call and gave her what for. Even nearly 20 years later she still goes on about "so and so who never paid you that time."

Apologies if this is brass necked but marking place as I need sleep. Im up to "AnnaLegovahTue 12-Aug-14 16:26:38"

A neighbour of mine used to use my tumble dryer to dry her baby's organic cloth nappies as she 'didn't want to abuse the environment having a tumble dryer of her own' Never offered to pay for the electricity though.

Also

I once worked for a company where parking crap to say the least. My boss gave me a parking permit which was great. A colleague who worked part time asked me if she could have it as 'her car was more expensive than mine!'

A former male friend asked me before Christmas if he could stay at my small one bed flat in London when he visited for a week (I think) between Christmas and New Year (or around New Year's Eve) - anyway, DS was due on the 7th of January (!), so he could have been born at any time during December, plus I had a huge bump and felt usually tired. So, I politely said I couldn't have him there at that particular time.

Apparently he was upset, as he later told my mother. Oh, the shame.

This thread has had me howling and cringing aaaaaalllll day! Will done OP!

At uni I had a most unpleasant pair of housemates (the rest were nice).

One of them (went to Harrow School, called himself'Bruv') asked to borrow my alarm clock one morning. I said sorry, but no, as I needed it to wake me at 7 (long before mobile phone alarms). He pondered this for a moment (as the cogs of his not too speedy brain thudded around), before saying (honestly, word for word) "You's gettin' up at 7. I's gettin' up at 5 for a flight. Therefore my need is greater, so the alarm clock is mine." I still said no, and the cheeky git waited till I was asleep before sneaking into my room and taking it anyway, causing me to over sleep.

As he was waiting for me to fall asleep, he ate a load of other people's food (he never, ever bought food) and left messy plates/cups/packaging all over the lounge. We put it in his immaculate bedroom for him to sort out after his weekend away. He was furious about this upon his return, as apparently we'd been disrespectful.

It was years ago and it still pisses me off. What. A. Twat.

My 'friend' used to ask bully friends to host Body Shop parties.

I agreed to host one to sell the overpriced- shit high quality goods and she expected me to deliver the orders she got!

Not me but my sister and her friend were asked by another friend to hire a van for him and drive him and his stuff back down to London after Uni as he doesn't drive. For some reason they agreed thinking a trip to London might be fun. They helped him load up his stuff and drove down arriving in London at about midnight at his parent's multi million pound townhouse.

After helping carry all his stuff in he basically says "nice knowing you" and shuts the door in their face. The twat left two young female skint students in the street after midnight in London.

They slept in the van and then drive home paying for the petrol for the way back. Funnily enough they never spoke to him again!!

A friend of a friend was looking at her neighbour's daughter's wedding photos when she noticed that the ones of the bride and her parents taken before the wedding were taken in HER garden. She was at the church waiting for the ceremony to begin. Apparently her garden was nicer than theirs!!