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.

I started a thread about this and it's been suggested I put this here :o

I have a good friend. Met her when we lived in the same dorm at college and have been close ever since, so coming up on 14 years now.

She is my DD's godmother and I am unofficially her DD's. I say unofficially as her DD has never been baptized as she and DH haven't found a church they like, but she refers to me as her DD's godmother. So we're certainly not strangers!

Last January she asked me if, when she and DH went to Vegas that February for four days, I could watch her DD, who would have been just shy of three and a half at the time. I said yes, I'd love to as I don't get to see her DD much and it would be fun.

She then said she would bring a pack n okay for DD to sleep in. I said "well she'll be a bit big won't she, I can just borrow a toddler bed from my SIL.". She said that would be nice and then said "will you put it in your room?"

I said probably not as DD (then 8/9 months) was still co-sleeping and waking a lot so it would be better to put the bed either in the room that was DD's (though she wasn't using it at the time) or, if friend's DD was a bit lonely, in my 6 year old DS's room.

Friend hemmed and hawed for a bit then said "well please your DD's room and not DS's."

I asked why and she said "It's just in my line of work" (she is a therapist) "I have a different world view, and I'm so paranoid about DD being molested. It's nothing personal at all to your DS, I just have seen people's lives ruined in an instant, and if he got curious..."

I was so I finally just said "well...if...um, you think that's necessary..." thinking WTAF. She then said her DH wanted her to ask, since our house was old, if there was any lead paint around.

A few weeks later we went out to a movie and she drove me home. (She's rarely at my house because she lives a few hours away.) She asked to cone in and use the bathroom and I said of course, but warned her it was unusually messy. She went in, then called me in to speak to her.

Now. A word about the bathroom. It was very messy indeed, full of laundry because that is where are washer and dryer are and the dryer was broken. So laundry etc everywhere. It was very untidy but not actually dirty as I do wipe toilet/sink everyday.

So I go in and she says, waving her hand to indicate entire bathroom, "what are we going to do about this...because I can't sell this to DH."

I stared at her and then said, well, of course it isn't usually like this and even if it were, I would tidy before having guests, even a three year old guest.

Then it dawned on me and I said "well, of course I will tidy it anyway but...your DH isn't going to see it, you said you were dropping DD off before you leave."

She hemmed and hawed again for a bit and then said (and by this time, may I add, we were sitting in the living room which, minus the odd toy, was perfectly tidy as was every room BUT the bathroom :o ) "well...he said " I don't really know Cheerful...he said he needs to see your house before he thinks DD can stay here."

I should add, I have known her DH as long as I've known her. I have a drawing he gave me for my 21st birthday in a scrapbook. I'm 32 now.

I was, again, stunned, so I just said "well that is ridiculous, of course he knows me but if he thinks he has to..."

But later talking to DH he absolutely hit the rood and said "no way am I letting

I used to waitress in a restaurant and one of the other waitresses was having an affair with the restaurant manager.

One night she asked a colleague to watch her tables for a bit (cig break) but she was ages. So long that the colleague covering her was getting worried. He went to find the manager but he was also nowhere to be found.

Said waitress was then discovered having a meal in a nearby restaurant with her manager (who was also on duty) during their shift.

My brother and sister were highly annoyed with me, as having arranged our mothers 60th birthday afternoon tea at the Ritz Hotel I actually asked them to contribute to the cost of their own meal. My brother deleted me on Facebook for being so horrible.

For my birthday one year I went out for a meal with about 15 friends. Right at the beginning of the meal I mentioned the bill. It was the general consensus that we would split the bill 15 ways and if anyone had anything expensive they would chip in extra. For example, a couple of friends had a bottle of wine so paid extra for that. Everyone happy.

A couple of friends who are married to each other have form for being a bit careful but all agreed so I thought no more about it. Anyway one of them didn't like their meal. There was nothing specifically wrong with it, just not to their taste. I suggested speaking to the staff as it was a great restaurant and I'm sure they would have offered an alternative but they didn't want to. Okay.

Bill comes, extra monies for wine etc. are deducted and total is divided 15 ways. Money appears from all directions. I start counting it up but we keep coming up short. Lots of scratching of heads, everyone starts putting in a bit more and eventually we make the total.

I think about it a bit over the next few days and later the next week went to see a friend who was at the dinner. We're discussing it and it turned out that the couple who hadn't liked one of their main meals simply hadn't paid EITHER of their shares of the meal.

Apparently in their mind if you don't like one bit of your joint meal you don't have to pay for any of it. Instead you just make your friends pay for it. They did have a bit of form for stuff like this but it was so ridiculous, I hadn't even noticeed it. The thought had never crossed my mind.

It was too late to mention it after, but speaking to most of the other dinners, virtually all of them HAD noticed but didn't want to cause an argument. They were never invited out again and we see much less of them now.

Sorry everyone I've just remembered another one.

We look after holiday homes. One client pays for the minimum package which means we look after her pool and sort her post. We'd got friendly so we were also doing her garden for free.she started asking more favours and my dh insisted because he didn't want to lose a client but this was the final straw.

On a previous trip over her car died. Dh tried to fix it but couldn't. Our mechanic friend looked at it and said it would cost more to fix than the car was worth. So she left it and returned to the uk. A couple of months later we get a call saying she's coming over again and needs me to sort her out a car. I try a hire car and its too expensive or too short notice. Then she asks if dh can take time off work and bring mechanic friend to take her car shopping I say not a chance.

So then she gives me her budget and specs and asks me to source a car for her. She doesn't work and does have access to the inernet. I find a few and email her but she doesn't respond. So I call her and I was quite angry at this point saying, so this isn't urgent then, she replies with oh sorry I was having a lie down and anyway I don't do computers. So I told her what I'd found. She liked the sound of one of them but didn't want to catch a bus or get a taxi to the showroom so would I ask the manager to pick her up!and it had to be first thing on her first day here she couldn't possibly wait for dh and mechanic friend to finish work.

I didn't know the guy, I'd never done any business with him before I just googled English speaking second hand car dealers in the area and made that clear to her. Anyway to my absolute shock he agreed to pick her up at her specified time. Although he was 5 minutes late and she phoned me to complain about that. I had a go at her at that point saying she's lucky I'm not charging her for my time, I'd call the bloke to find out where he was but she needs to reimburse my phone credit which she agreed.

Anyway bloke turned up. She went to the showroom. She bought the car. Bloke and car were dodgy. She expected me to sort it and accused me of exploiting her and making commission out of it. I never spoke to her again but dh refused to sack her as a client. We now do the bear minimum and only deal with her husband but they haven't paid us for 6 months. She didn't pay that phone credit either.

My DP gets the odd favour off a guy who runs a shop but in return he has to sort his pain in the arse daughters car when it has issues (which is always as she can't drive and doesn't look after the car) she's a spoiled little madam, hence her never taking the car to her garage and daddy running round getting my dp to sort it for her but she's very moany if things are "overpriced" I remember her moaning once for DP asking for a tenner for labour! Also she stropped when he couldn't do the car when he had a full time job working six days a week, 12 hours a day so was just too exhausted from work and sundays he wanted with his family. The latest is her car is due for MOT (our baby is coming c section 29th of august) and she's wanting everything done for then despite knowing i am having surgery and dp will be snowed under with a new baby, a recovering fiance and our 5 year old starting school. the worst thing is the things her dad gives my DP don't cost him ANY money and he doesn't go out his way at all anyway, DP has to go to HIM and collect it! DP maintains they are helpful but she's such a pain in the arse I'd rather go without. One week she was calling every single day and if he didn't answer she'd get her dad to call for her (she's 28 btw so not a young girl)

We also have a fair amount of space front of the house so we said to a, now ex friend, he could store his car there for 2 weeks but then it MUST go as we needed the space for a project my DP was working on. 2 weeks turned into two months, the car was left in bits on the front drive, he'd turn up daily to repair it then knock on the door to ask DP's advice all the time as he was clueless about cars anyway and was reading out of haynes manual trying to brake it. Needless to say, we never offered him the drive again. :S

Oooh also reminds me of another guy we lent the drive to. He got into a smash up in his expensive sports car, he knew a little bit about cars though so took it back and we said he could have 3 weeks of the drive to sort it out, he was pleased and said he'd be down every day fixing it so he could give us our space back. Anyway he turned up maybe once a week, sometimes never, and would expect DP's help to and the smashed car sat on our drive for 2months! When he finally got it done he didn't offer any money, no thanks! It was only when DP mentioned to him about it he begrudingly bought us a bottle of 70cl vodka (not even a litre! ) Again, another friend we don't see nowadays.

Just remembered this one.

My dd died when I was 19, I was his next of kin being his only child and never being married to my mum. The house he lived in had previously been my grandparents house and had been left in a will for my dd to live in and then to be shared between me and my cousin. Since my cousins dd had died a few years before the house was to come to us in due course.

It was the day of my dd funeral, his coffin had just gone in the ground and my aunt looks at me and says "well, I suppose its all down to the solicitors sorting out the house now, will you make sure you clear it out quickly so your cousin isn't hanging around too long waiting for her share (cousin was only 15 so I suspect the aunt had designs on the she any way)

She got her come uppence though since she never knew there was a clause in the will saying neither of us could benefit till we were 21 so I really hope she never actually saw the money herself (strangely enough I never kept contact after that)

We had an open bar at our wedding and there was more than enough to go round, which meant that there was some left over at the end. A friend of mine came up to me at the end and asked if they could have some to take back to their hotel to drink! I gave them one of the cheaper bottles of wine just because I needed to leave to go on honeymoon and she turned up her nose and said that wasn't exactly what she was after but she'd still take it in case anyone else wanted it! I was

My brother has and SIL have brass necks the size of London. (have posted about them before)

Made my DM babysit their twins when they were small 9-5, 5 days a week when SiL was (quite) ill and then when DM also had to babysit their third child, no thank you, flowers/chocolate etc this carried on until the twins went to school (about 5 years), DM and DF had to move cities so getaway from it all. Then they went mad as they would have no one to babysit. DM has never offered or wanted babysit again :( (they twins were the first GC)

Also years later my brother is kitchen joiner and use to come up and stay for a few weeks at my parents, who were in their 70s and do some work where they live (two hours drive away) with all his mates/workers who got up at 5am every morning, make breakfast and then come in late sometimes after boozing and wake them up. Again never a thank you and treated the place like a Hotel.

SiL also use to get free magazines, coupons etc of my mum and brother always charges my parents when he does some minimum work on their house like put in a bench top on the kitchen. Who the fuck charges their own parents for some minor work on their house, (they are quite well off) I have never charged mum for doing her taxes, neither has my other brother for all the electrical work or my other brother who has bent over backward to help them.

They also built their 'dream house' and lived in it for a few years and then they sold it off because it was too big (we think because they're running out of money- brother sold his business and now is a real estate agent, SIL doesn't work due to health problems and has always free loaded off my family). And now live in my nephew's house on the cheapest rent possible but he's to kind to say anything.

They (and SIL family) have done many other hurtful things, not just to my parents but to myself and other brothers. We sadly think that SIL only married my brother for my parents wealth :( My brothers, mum and I have been NC with them since my DF funeral (July last year)

Came out of my house one day to find a painter for next door in my garden! No idea if he was there when I was getting dressed! :0(

Texted neighbour to ask if he needed to be in my garden.

Long and short I felt I had to agree to let him come in our garden as felt mean saying no even though it meant it was really inconvenient for me - never a thank-you or a sorry. Found out since legally they are not allowed to do this!

The only reason they needed to use my garden was because they didn't want to prune their bush!

I was ill at the time and all we had was a wooden screen up at our window and he could see straight into the bedroom where his ladder was!

Just wanted to cry! :0(

When DD1 was a young baby, I was exhausted as she screamed all the time. DH worked full time. FIL and MIL were planning a visit to London. MIL got a list of about 20 hotels from her travel agent and wanted DH to visit them all to see which was the nicest one (he worked in the tourist industry so was able to blag his way in). This took up two of his days off work until I begged him to stop.

When MIL came over, she said she was so worried about her precious son not having any time to himself!

In the end they stayed with us. We were pretty hard up but they didn't offer us a penny towards expenses. They didn't even bring anything for the baby. Though they managed to go to Brighton for the day and spend a huge amount on a lunch at some hotel. They were fucking selfish bastards - still are!

Some of these are quite breathtaking on. The league table of Brass Neckdom!!

We have an apple tree in our garden. Sil comes along one day and says, "Get me a carrier bag." No please or will you.
I ask what it's for and she replies, "I'm taking a bag of apples home with me."
Like fuck she was! I would have willingly offered them if she'd asked politely, she never got so much as a pip after that.

A mother of a girl in ds's dance class asked me if ds could go round to their house to do some of the routines with her dd that she had missed. Im not overly fond of the mother, but after two requests we agreed. As they don't live far, I dropped him off I didn't want to stay and socialize with said parent and went to do a bit of shopping before I collected him again. I pulled up at the house and the dd came out, said they were still busy and she would phone me when I should fetch ds. This was about 1pm. Around 3pm I still hadn't had a phone call so I went to the house to get him anyway.

When I got to the house there were no cars outside. I rang the bell and ds answered. I asked him where everyone was. He said that the mother and the dd were invited to another friends, and so they went and left my ds at their house.... the older brother was there whom we have never ever met, and ds was sat there watching tv on his own! Ds said he was to shy to ask the older brother to use his phone as the friends mother said she would call me to fetch ds on the way to going to their friends house. She never did! I was bloody spitting mad. Ds was 10 at the time.

Back in the day when I was still a professional musician:

Wife of the head of a small local charity told me they'd recently had to tighten their belts a bit and could no longer afford PFB's violin lessons. So, as her DH was a charity worker, would I mind if I gave her DD her weekly violin lessons for free?

I then had to explain that a) PFB's violin lessons were hardly a necessity, and b) violin teaching was my livelihood! How did she think I was going to pay my bills if I gave her DD free lessons?

Charities (especially churches) are the worst for assuming professional musicians, dancers, artists, designers, sound technicians, etc would just be delighted to proffer their labour free of charge or for a pittance.

Fine if you ask nicely, recognise you're asking a massive favour, and accept graciously if we say no. You can FO to the far side of F if, when we say no, or "yes, I'll give you mates' rates my fee will be X", you do a catsbum mouth or try to guilt us or, worst of all, get angry and abuse us.

I discovered one of my daughters friends had stolen a nintendo game boy and a pokemon game from her, I was very upset as they had been friends for years and she had spent a lot of time in my home. I called the girls father and he went through her room and found the said items. He made her bring them back and she was supposed to apologize, when she got to my door she flung the items at me & said "I've been grounded for 2 months because of you , you bitch whore". Her father called me about 15 minutes later , after running all the way home she had arrived crying and she had wet her pants; I tell you right now, if I had been able to jump the front gate she would have had a smacked face too. She was 15 I was 42. She never showed her face at my door again.

Cheerful gawd, she certainly sounds like hard work.

A couple of years back DP and I agreed to host PILs for Xmas. Money was tight, so for several months we bought a couple of extra things per week in our weekly shop and set it aside for Xmas. This included a lot of spirits, as PILs drink like fish.

The day before they were due to arrive, PILs texted DP to say that they wouldn't be coming down. This was a bit annoying as we'd put so much effort into making it nice but figured we'd enjoy ourselves anyway.

A couple of days later they decided they would pop down for New Year instead. We already had plans but rearranged them as DP didn't get to see them very often because they were so flakey. They weren't sure when they would leave but would "let us know".

DP had to work one of the days (retail) and I wanted to go to the sales, but they said they would be fine at home on their own so we went ahead. Came back to find that they'd left, taking with them all the alcohol and 90% of the food and leftovers, plus the TV out the kitchen "because it will run on the battery in our van." (It belonged to my brother, it wasn't even ours!)

Needless to say they brought nothing with them in the way of food, drink or even gifts (we had spent probably £50 each on their presents).

XP couldn't see the problem and thought I was being stingy. (He is now XP.)

So many cheeky people about!

Recently we had a mystery bush nicker. This is our first summer in our new house and SOMEONE in the middle of the night, using shears, lopped off the middle top section of our hydrangea bush! Our next door neighbour is aghast thinking we may accuse her, she informed us it happened last year too! The bush is in our front garden quietly bothering nobody, poor thing.

But the really cheeky story is about 20yrs old. When living in a shared student house, a very unfriendly and yobbish co-tenant asked if his mate could stay in my room as I was going to be away for the night. I said no and locked the room. When I returned he had kicked the door in, smashing all the door frame so his mate could use it! Never even explained or apologised. My dad had to drive over and fix it all. What a knob.

I put curry powder in his marmalade as revenge

I repeatedly and politely let my new neighbours know that the washing line in the shared garden was put up by me and used daily but to please feel free to use the other poles with one of their own. Every day I went down and their things were on mine. One day I'd had enough, I took their things down and left them in carrier bags by their door. After using it again I finally lost it and put a note through saying 'GET YOUR OWN FUCKING WASHING LINE!!' They cut mine in half and made their own with MY line!!

I'd also informed them that the BBQ, table and chairs were ours after I saw then using them. I asked that they at least clean the racks and ask permission if they could use them in future (the racks remained unwashed.) Following week, another BBQ which she denied although I could see her clearly out of my window. The second it had cooled the whole fucking lot (washing line included) was taken to the MIL's around the corner.

I can still drop a bollock if someone brings this up now!!

I haven't had time to read the whole thread yet so apologies if it's on here. Does anyone remember the couple with the Timeshare who neighbours begged them to use it? I don't want to spoil the story but it was hilarious!! I've forgotten my PW to go on MN on PC, can anyone remember it to link?

\link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/a1735637-Have-you-ever-encountered-anyone-this-cheeky#38589771\house in Mexico?}

yes Mexican house thief has been linked.

Mine was a bastard ex. I was totally in love, thought he was the love of my life, that kind of thing. We lived in different countries, saw each other about once per month. I was visiting him and he dumped me. No warning, totally out of the blue. I was of course in shock. His reaction: "Well, that's nothing. When my ex broke up with me, it was so much harder for me!".

The next morning - I was falling apart and barely able to function by then - he dropped me at the airport, even though my plane was only in the evening. Because it would otherwise ruin his day, to see me cry, you see.

My ex mil has a huge holly tree in her front garden. She went ballistic when she found one of the florists from the local market helping herself.

Reminds me of DD2 (15) on a recent DofE trip she and her friends walked through what she insists was an Edamame bean field - well some sort of bean anyway - and she and her friends just decided to snack out on beans though another friend begged them not to.

I was quite shocked actually!