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

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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.

I had friend when I was newly married who liked to go out and party when our husbands were away (army). One day I got asked if I could babysit for her friends 3 kids as they wanted to go out to the local. Thinking it would only be a couple of hours I agreed and duly turned up. It got later and later and still no show but I wasn't that fussed until her husband phoned at 2 asking to speak to her. He seemed a bit upset to find she was still out and a strange woman (to him) looking after his kids.

I eventually fell asleep on the sofa about 4 and was woken at 6 by the kids stirring. Their mum still want home and by now I was really worried. The youngest was only 2 and had never seen me before. I fed them breakfast while desperately phoning my friend to find out what had happened. At 9 I decided to get the kids dressed and go round to my friends flat to see if she was there. Got there and my friend and the kids mum were there, fast asleep with two male friends they had picked up. The mother then asked me if I would watch the kids for the rest of the day so she could recover. I declined.

Years ago I had a friend who I let stay with me rent free for a few months. She didn't contribute to anything. I had a free holiday from work. I took her with me and let her choose the destination and the hotel. On the way back from the airport she asked me for petrol money. I declined. She moved out and I never saw her again.

An old boss won a competition. Then asked me to negotiate a better prize for her. I managed it but I thought it was very cheeky but she did treat me for doing it.I had told her the answer to the question in the first place.

Did a thread about this at the time and it still winds me up. Dsb got a new partner.I'd never met her or her son. Her son was on holiday here and I was told he'd got in trouble and we needed to rescue him and look after him while she sorted getting him home. Turned out he was bored of his friends and ran out of money and she wanted a break from her kids. They did take us out for dinner a year later but I have no contact with her and she even rejected my friend request on fb. Petty I know but that was me trying to make an effort with her.

A friend of my parents was prosecuted for having underage sex with a pupil (he an unattractive senior teacher late 40s she was in lower 6th). This was obviously awful and devastating for the girl and his nice wife and kids. My sister and I were about the age as the girl at the time. He wrote a letter to my dad saying he hoped this wouldn't affect their friendship....

A friend had been on a working holiday for a year in Australia...came back to UK to nothing, so asked if she could stay while she sorted herself out.

She stayed 2 months, contributing nothing- not even food- as she was broke after her trip to Aus. She moved out during the day while I was at work. When my phone bill arrived I realised she had been phoning family for hours every day and left me with a bill of about 600quid. She left no forwarding details.

I did not see her again, until she persuaded a mutual friend to invite her as their 'plus one' to our wedding.

My (now NC) sister asked if I would have her DD as a bridesmaid and I said no because I didn't want any BMs (too low key a wedding for it) and she brought her daughter dressed as a BM anyway in my least favourite colour and during the photos pushed the kid forward constantly to be at my side. In the grand scheme of things this is one of my XSisters lesser crimes but the one that sticks in the mind most.

A friend of mine asked me if I would help her move as I had a car. The town she lived in was an hour away and she was moving back to my town.

I arranged a day/time and also arranged to go to the cinema later that night with a friend as I knew how long it would take to put boxes in car and drive her home and that I could make cinema too.

Arrived at her house to find a) I couldn't park anywhere near the house and b) she hadn't actually packed yet. Her stuff was all over the floor, all over the house. Spent the next two hours helping her to shove stuff in boxes and carrying heavy boxes down road to my car. Then drove the hour back to town.

She hadn't arranged for her new room to be ready at other end and hadn't arranged for anyone to be there to help lift the boxes. So again I was expected to carry them all in for her, plus wait for someone to come and open the room.

I'm afraid I unloaded the boxes outside and left, as I was now two hours late to meet my friend for the cinema. I don't think she she actually gave me any petrol money either!

Wracking my brain to find one to add (there must be one) but LOVING this thread & reported for classics

My flatmate's brother came to stay one night, bringing with him some friends. My flatmate stayed with her boyfriend so her bro could have her room and the others were in the hall on a mattress.

Middle of the night I'm woken by loud moans - they were having sex in hallway. It was very loud and she was shouting his name (which happened also to be my boyfriends name).

It went quiet eventually and I had to go to bathroom. I had to step OVER two naked sleeping people to get there.

Next morning not only did they use all the milk up, but also my other flat mates had thought it was ME having sex and shouting my boyfriend's name!

I did one recently. I hold keys to my neighbours' house and they were away. Our corkscrew broke so I went to borrow theirs, meaning to put it back before they came home. Only they came earlier than I was expecting, and were baffled by the fact it was missing. Big search round the whole house for it. Next time they went away, they were having some work done and I asked a relative of theirs if I could put some stuff in their skip. He said it was OK, but actually for various sensible reasons it was not. They politely took the bags out and left them near their bins on bin day. I am now feeling like such a rubbish neighbour I might take some garden flowers across later for them.

Just thought of another one.

DF Has a significant birthday this year. We treated him to a weekend away, my siblings clubbed together for theatre tokens but one of them decided that t wasn't enough. They want to take him to the rugby at Twickenham too. And perhaps the sons and partners would like to go too. They emailed me asking for something towards everyone else's tickets not even inviting dh and the exact words were 'we will reserve judgement at how much or little you care to contribute'

Friend of mine bought a new house, moved into it and then was preparing their old house for sale. They had 3 cats and never cleaned so the old house was filthy. Their vacuum cleaner had broken so they asked to borrow ours. We agreed but said we expected them to look after it and to take it to the new house in the evenings when they had finished for the day in case the old house got broken into.
They agreed. We also loaned them some stuff to 'dress' the house as a lot of their belongings had gone into the new house. I know this sounds a bit PFV but it was a Dyson that was a wedding present and one of the most expensive thibgs we owned.
A week later they let slip that they hadn't been looking after the vacuum so I asked for it back. We have to go around to the old house to collect it and they ask Dh to clean their bedroom floor which has 3 years of human hair and cat fur on it. It takes him over an hour to vacuum up. We leave.
A week later the friend arrives at my house and calls me out to her car. She has brought her new vacuum cleaner around in the boot of her car. She tells me it is so much better than mine and picked up loads of cat fur that mine missed. I am bemused. We never get back the stuff we loaned them for the house. When we go around to feed their cats one time when they're away we find the stuff in their new house. One of the throws in now in their cat's basket.
When they were house hunting she told me she was looking for a house like mine but 'bigger and nicer'.
We are no longer friends with them.

She also asked to borrow my upholstery cleaner after describing to me in great detail how she and her husband had been sick and vommed all over their house.
I said no, knowing that if I did, she wouldn't clean it out and I would end up with a cleaner filled with someone else's vom bits.
They also left a brabantia bin full of vomit in their garden for months because neither of them could agree on who had to clean it out. Bizarre.

I had to sell the family home as there was no way i could afford to stay in it as XH had walked out. My friend across the road was trying to sell her house at the time, with no luck. She suggested that i allow her to live in my house - rent free, mind you! - until such times as her house sold and then she would give me 100K less than the asking price. For some reason, she took it badly when i refused. almost 5 years on, she is still in the same house, which she finally took off the market as it wouldn't sell, and i sold mine for just under the asking price.

At work several months ago, (a concession within a large garden centre) i had gone into the restaurant to get some lunch. Tarty female, mutton dressed as lamb, was in front of me with large teens and scary husband. she wanted macaroni, but not the perfectly fine final portion that was there. she wanted fresh. the girl behind the counter she said that fresh macaroni would be about 5 minutes, but this was fresh. The place was heaving and the macaroni sells like hot cakes every day. This woman then demanded that the server go and get the fresh mac and when she said she wasn't allowed to do that as there was nobody else serving at that point, the woman went nuts. She humiliated the server very loudly, drawing everyone's attention to the scene. the temporary restaurant manager came over and she ended up with fresh mac, a discount on all 4 meals, free soft drinks/coffee and the manager doing a Uriah Heap impression all through their meal, making sure that everything was fine. the woman visibly preened and then announced to all and sundry that you had to know how to deal with 'these people' and that she had never had to pay full price for anything because she knew how to make a fuss. I had not been wearing my uniform at the time, i would have called her out.

My DSD emailed my DH to say she was going to be in our city for work and had a suite at a hotel in mind. So that he could come and stay with her for a few days in a fancy hotel.

She was quite clear she did not want to see me (which is fine by me) but she also was very clear she didn't want to see her brothers who adore her.

So she really thought I was going to spend 5 days alone with our sons and their high care needs trying to explain why Daddy gets to stay with her in a hotel and she doesn't see them at all?

I booked a week in another city so she had to come and stay in our house if she wanted to see Daddy dearest. DH agreed it was the best solution.

My brother asked me to move a car for him from the mechanic to his place. He had bought this vehicle at auction. I did it (i was a mug for most of my life regarding him and his needs) and when i arrived at the mechanics, i found the inside of the car was covered in mould. Cranking the window open (the driver's seat was the only ok bit of the car) i set off for his home. As a police car drove past the other way, i realised this bloody car was not taxed! When i yelled at DB for that, he just shrugged it off. After all, it wasn't him who would have been charged.

had splashed out on a new baby steam steriliser (1988) it cost £30 which was not cheap at the time. When my son was 7 months old, friend had just given birth and asked could she borrow it for her new baby. I agreed as I wasnt using it as much but had also just found out I was pregnant with my second so told her I would need it back for my new baby.
Baby arrives and I had been asking friend for steriliser back but she was non commital and vague. Finally find out she had sold it.

Worked for a guy who had the most god awful sponge of a boyfriend.

The boyfriend was a rich architect but liked to save money by getting to do piles of photocopying for him.

Somehow, he ended getting me (muggins) here to organise a surprise birthday party for my boss. This took place at a very expensive restaurant in London.

At the end, not only did I have to pay for myself (naively assumed he would as I had organised the whole thing and worked for a pittance as a lowly secretary) but he asked me to "chip in" for the boss's meal!

My boss was terribly embarrassed and insisting on paying my meal and my contribution to his.

He dumped the greedy twat, thank goodness.

Getting me

Can I say that it's entirely possible that some of you may just need to practise saying "No" a bit more?

And Cashmere Coat Lady!!

Dc desperatey wanted gps over for christmas. For many years I offered to have dgrandparents over and offered to do everything so they wouldn't have to contribute any time or money, all we wanted was for them to visit.

After many years of refusing because they preferred to go on a christmas cruise (normally they go on a cruise twice a year) one year they finally they agreed to come. We spent a lot of time just making sure all the preparations were done and food ordered, we were all so excited for the dc to have their gps there on such an important family day as christmas!

Only for gps to phone us saying they had managed to get a late deal on a christmas cruise and that in all honesty our en suite guest room and christmas meal would not be as high a standard as what they would get on a cruise and so they would not be coming after all.

I am loving this thread. Thanks op.

my ex husband ... decided we were getting back together (after leaving me for the OW) - walked into the house builders office (I was buying a new build) and told them to stop the sale and said 'we' were now buying a 4 bed - they phoned me to confirm

then when he decided to tell me we were getting back together I suggested he finish with the OW first ...he said no because if it didn't work out with me he'd end up 'on his own' - I told him to fuck off ...

My "friend" came round for a little do we were having, moaned about the food (buffet) and then asked if I would prepare a plate for her to take home for her daughter's packed lunch for the trip she had the next day. Also, did I have a can of Coke as that was her daughter's favourite?