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.

[Yangsun]

Broke up with boyfriend who had been cheating on me. He assumed my dad and I would still b perfectly happy to do a five hour round trip to Heathrow. After all how else was he supposed to get there?

[Salmotrutta]

Hahahahaha!

[MorphineDreams]

I was in the bank recently and a woman blatantly pushed in front of me in the queue. I said 'excuse me, I was here first' to which she replied 'yes but I have more money than you therefore I'm more important'.



It took me a full ten seconds to decide what to do whilst I picked my jaw up from the floor and ended up barging in front of her whilst sticking my nose in the air and ignoring her tuts.

[Greyhound]

Worked for a woman who decided to use my wages as petty cash whist we were on business trip. I was 22 and v v naive. I was also paid a pittance. She never paid me back - over 22 years later, I haven't seen a penny...

I resigned.

[BoffinMum]

Last AP, before he was sacked. Aged 24.

1. Wanted 20 a week on top of the 110 I was already paying him recompense for hanging the washing out in nice weather rather than putting it into the tumble drier.
   
2. He borrowed our car to take his girlfriend to a firework display, and the car developed an alternator problem and wouldn't start. While he was waiting for the recovery service to come,which I had shelled out something like 160 to join as an emergency member, the police stopped to check there hadn't be an accident or anything like that. He was shocked that the police didn't organise a hot drink and a blanket for them both (they hadn't bothered to take much with them in terms of coats, cash and so on, just assuming other people would bail them out if there was a problem. She was working as a vet, so not short of cash).
   
3. After I had sacked him for being nasty to me every time my husband's back was turned, and for not doing any work and just sitting in his room pissng about on the internet when he was supposed to be looking after the kids, he demanded I pay for his flight home, and once I had done that (anything for an easy life) he insisted I paid for two pieces of luggage on Ryanair as well, at something like 60 each.
   

My god, he was a miserable grasping bugger.

[Luxluna]

Next door neighbour came round one Sunday afternoon (her nickname was 'shameless') knocking on the door as per usual. My mum fobbed her off but saying I wasn't in. She came back 20 minutes later, I answered the door (as I knew she would just keep coming round until she saw me). She informed me that they had just bought a new kitten and I wanted to know if she could HAVE the following items from me,

Cat litter tray
Cat litter
Cat toys
Kitten food
Baby milk (kittens are supposed to love it)
Cat bed
Cat Collar
Full fat milk (If didn't have any baby milk)

I said NO to all requests, to which she replied that all the shops are shut.
its was around 1pm....

She was really put out that I couldn't offer her any of these items. Although I would think that my own cat would of been far more put out when she would realised that all of her belongings had been given away.

[sherbetpips]

Luxluna are you the local RSPCA?

[SaucyJack]

I had a friend who asked me to babysit for her on one if the rare occasions I had to myself as my (then) two DCs were at their dad's for half-term.

Turned up as arranged only to find her HUSBAND was off work and was upstairs on the computer. Apparently he didn't like being left on his own with his own son (!)

[Unexpected]

I want Youthecat to be my friend! I certainly don't want to get on the wrong side of her!

[primarynoodle]

when I was an aupair..... got left with the 3 kids (under 10) alone for two weeks while parents went away - INCLUDING ONE WEEK OF HALF TERM!!! - and they left me £20 for food and petrol etc.... then asked me to provide reciepts. Two kids still in nappies!!!!!!

but to top it all off when they returned we were out, so they fucked off to the pub and left me a list of jobs to do like "clean the slats of the blinds in our bedroom"

I think there was literally steam coming out of my ears.

[Salmotrutta]

I was in the bank recently and a woman blatantly pushed in front of me in the queue. I said 'excuse me, I was here first' to which she replied 'yes but I have more money than you therefore I'm more important'



That's the winner so far!!

[creampie]

2 Christmases ago I hosted a big family get together at ours, lasting several days. On Boxing Day I suggested we go out for a meal so I could have a bit of time off cooking for everyone on top of looking after our 2 month old.

When the bill arrived, my "that's £20 each, then" was met with stony silence and raised eyebrows.

Apparently, since I was the person who wanted a bit of time off from being everyone's skivvy, I should have picked up the tab! Needless to say, I haven't offered to host anything since....

[scarletoconnor]

my pil who turned up for a 'visit' 2 weekends ago along with their duvet and pillows telling us they had decided it would be best if they stayed as they don't like driving in the night.

They arrived at 10am and live an hour away

[YouTheCat]

Unexpected, I'm not scary, honest. I just look scary unless I make the effort to smile.

I'm really quiet in RL.

[Lala5]

A friend asked to borrow my blow-up bed for a festival. I said sure no problem, just come over and pick it up when you want.

She says 'I can't drive at the moment, can you possibly drop it off?'. She lives half an hour's drive from me but I was going to town anyway so I said no problem and dropped it off.

Two months later I'm getting ready to go to a festival and realise she still has blow-up bed. I text her to ask for it back.

She says 'sure, but you'll need to come and get it on Saturday morning and it will need to be before 8am as I'm working nights and going to bed after that'.

What!?!

So I get in car on a Saturday morning at 7am, drive over to pick it up. She answers door in pyjamas and hands it over with no apology for keeping it so long or making me come and get it.

I get home unroll it - it's wet and mouldy. She never bloody dried it or cleaned after it got wet at the festival in the rain.

[Groovester]

Brilliant thread!

[honeybeeridiculous]

How funny this thread should come up!

I have just been queuing in the post office, only 2 windows open, quite a long que
This woman comes along, I'm the next to be served and there are about 7-8 people behind me.
Instead of joining the back of the que, she goes to the window from the other end iykwim, and therefore doesn't que at all
Well I was and marched up to the woman and pointed out that there was infact a que that we had all been waiting in for the past 10 minutes and she had pushed in
"Don't worry darlink she says! I just have a question to ask! I'm not buying anything
The cashier was and also informed her of the que! but woman chose to ignore her and carried on with her questions anyway
Brass neck doesn't even begin to describe it!!

[Flangeshrub]

I had a little one yesterday.

I was in the station at a sandwich concession stand with my two whingy DDs. I was clearly first in the queue with a pile of bottles of water, pre packed sandwiches etc. My 3 year old was having a meltdown (can I say that, can't remember) and 99% of the population just look with compassion and would never queue jump as they know your pain.

Anyhow a horrible imperious middle aged woman appears and from behind me shouts, "one coffee to go, now!" And hands the money over my shoulder to the cashier. For a moment the cashier hesitates and then decides to serve this woman first

However! Said cashier then decides to give woman her comeuppance by, after taking imperious woman's money, serving me slowly (I had then realised I needed some croissants and had no change so had to use my card and after my transaction was finished she sauntered over to the coffee machine and asked if she wanted milk. The woman looked furious.

Silly bitch and thanks to the sales assistant who made my day.

[Salmotrutta]

Lala - that's so rude of your friend.

These are all priceless.

Keep 'em coming!

[Lala5]

One more from me - we were getting married and my family were paying for the whole thing, including amazing weekend full use of a beautiful country house.

We decided that we would have a party the night before the wedding in the house for the bridal party, as a thank you to everyone for coming and to introduce everyone before the big day. I said we would be providing the food and drink, and we'd already made lists of lovely food to make for our guests.

MIL-to-be phones me three days before the wedding to ask what we'd be serving at the party, because she wanted to know now whether she needed to send out for a fish supper for her DH if he didn't like the food.

[vladthedisorganised]

Ooh Lux you reminded me of my ex-neighbor..

We'd not long moved in to a new area and knew nobody at all. DD was a couple of weeks old and I was seriously sleep deprived. There was a knock at the door - one of our neighbours had come round, I assume to say hello as it's the sort of thing I'd do for a new neighbour.

After elbowing her way into the house she demanded a tenner for her daughter's school trip - no awkwardness, just a "my daughter's got her school trip tomorrow and needs spending money. They're just going up the road so she'll only need a tenner, that's all right isn't it? I might pay you back if I feel like it!"

Once I'd picked my jaw up off the floor (and suggested that DD might have a rare condition that caused her to projectile vomit over anyone wearing perfume) I noticed where she lived.. they had a much bigger house than us and a boat. A boat! Not only that, but the school in question had a cash machine next to it..

Not someone I missed when we moved out!

[feelingmellow]

My friend had to take her young daughter to an orthodontist. I said I would drive her as it was going to take her 2 buses to get there . I sat and waited in the car park for about an hour (more fool me) and when they returned my friend was chortling that she had been able to claim the return bus fares from the clinic. She didn't offer them to me and I was too -stupid- polite to say anything - I just drove them both home.

[chicaguapa]

Someone I know left her (very nice) DH when their DC were 4 and 1. Then she met someone else, married him and had two more DC. She asked her exH if she could change his DC's names to that of her new DH so they could all have the same surname.

[eatscakefornoreasonwhatsoever]

Other than my sil who said she wasn't coming to our wedding because she had a party to go to (this with 3 weeks notice) yet decided two days beforehand that she and her boyfriend would grace us with their presence after all and age could just eat her granny's meal because Granny didn't eat much and would be fine with a sandwich. .. I haven't much to contribute. I do love reading other people's stories though

[Luxluna]

Sherbitpips I think I was the only left on the row of houses that would open the door to her.
There was a incident when we wouldn't answer the door to her (me and my mum again, who was visiting) we had switched the telly off and sat in silence, hoping she would go. My mum poked her head around the living room door to check if she had gone, only to find the bloody neighbour crouched down looking through the letterbox..