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

645 replies

Salmotrutta · 12/08/2014 11:15

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.

OP posts:
KittiesInsane · 15/08/2014 12:13

Can I have an animal one?

We are supposed to be feeding the neighbour's cats. One of them has been missing for the past three days, so I've done the rounds of asking other neighbours, phoning all the local vets etc... and the blighter has just strolled home with a smirk and what looks like half a lamb chop in his jaws.

Humph.

FatherDickByrne · 15/08/2014 12:15

I had a rather entitled lodger. The w/e she moved out, a friend of hers came to help her. The idea was that they'd load the car with her stuff & then drive together from London to Cumbria to spend a few days at her parents where she was dumping her stuff. Except the car was too full so lodger told friend to get the train & meet her up there. This after the friend had slaved all w/e helping her pack & clean.

Tanith · 15/08/2014 12:15

helpmesolveaproblem that's shocking! I really would report her.

Legionofboom · 15/08/2014 12:17

One Christmas, years ago, we were at the in-laws. SIL hands out presents which are CD's for everyone.

There are a few surprised faces at her choices given that they are nothing like anything the recipient would listen to but everyone politely smiled and said thanks.

SIL announces 'oh I wasn't sure if you'd like them. I bought a load of stuff I wanted, taped it and then the shop who wouldn't let me return them so I thought they would do as Christmas presents for everyone'.

So thoughtful.

WallyBantersJunkBox · 15/08/2014 12:27

There was a very well known character who worked in the launderette in Crystal Palace in the 90's.

I was waiting for my new washing machine to arrive in my flat, and had gotten rid of my old one. So on the Saturday afternoon in between I took my washing up to this particular launderette.

Loaded machine and sat down to wait. Old lady comes out of back room, and gives me a piece of paper. It had a list of things she needed buying.

I must have been Shock faced, because she said, "well what are you going to do, just sit there and watch your washing? I can't leave the property so you'll have to do it for me!"

It was the most bizarre list - filter things you put on the end of a cigarette, corn pads etc. Confused

Funny thing was, I walked into the pharmacy still with Shock face and list, and the assistant said - "shopping for X at the launderette?"

Got back with the shopping and she hadn't even unloaded my washing, and didn't even say thank you for the shopping! Just sat on some manly armchair out the back puffing her fag and knitting.

WallyBantersJunkBox · 15/08/2014 12:29

Not a manly armchair - manky!

Sadieno · 15/08/2014 12:37

"I used to have a school friend who accepted endless lifts off my Mum but whose parents never, even once, gave me a lift."

Worried this is me and this is what they really thought. Sad

Though my (at the time probably best) friend knew what my parents were like (not very pleasant or caring characters) I spent a lot of time at his house, and often late, and often accepted lifts home. Wondering now if perhaps I shouldn't have. My parents didn't give me lifts anywhere either, though.

wonderingwoman64 · 15/08/2014 12:49

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Legionofboom · 15/08/2014 12:58

I'm a bit disappointed by your correction WallyBantersJunkBox I rather liked the idea of this old lady sitting in a manly armchair Grin

lanbro · 15/08/2014 13:02

Our ndn, aged 17, was doing his own landscaping business. We used to pay him a tenner to cut our grass every fortnight. We had a double ladder platform that he asked to borrow for doing some hedges. No problem. Then asked again so dh offered to sell it to him for £100, much less than we paid and had hardly been used. He was going to save up but I said why not just have it but do our grass for the rest of the summer ie 20weeks to pay for the platform. 2 cuts later over the course of 8 weeks, and knowing he was busy, I said to his dad that if he was too busy we'd just have the platform back.

Came back that afternoon to find the platform lying in our front garden where anyone could have taken it. Ten minutes later up turns ndn demanding to know what's going on, reckoning he'd done the grass 8 times and shouting culminating in calling me a cunt! Said he would have to see dh, who I called to come home cos I was furious. Dh goes round to see him where he's offered on to the grass (for a fight), called names, threatens to get his dad on us and says there'll be repercussions! A 17yo boy! Even wanted paying for the couple of cuts he had done!

We actually saw his father before he did, explained what had happened and he laughed it off saying he had a short fuse and was probably taking drugs! Nice

Gilbertblythesmissus · 15/08/2014 13:38

Me too Legion. In my mind it was brown leather with a winged back.

WallyBantersJunkBox · 15/08/2014 14:04

No it was more like something from Stig of the Dump!

How she was allowed to make a launderette smell so smoky I'll never know - the owners were probably scared of her also. Grin

Legionofboom · 15/08/2014 14:40

How she was allowed to make a launderette smell so smoky I'll never know

Did she look like this by any chance Wally ?

To ask for your best examples of brass-neckedness to entertain us all on this dull day?
Thumbwitch · 15/08/2014 15:04

Haha, that's exactly what I thought too Legion! Grin

WallyBantersJunkBox · 15/08/2014 15:22

Sadly not, she was grey..skin, hair, teeth, overall.....

ScrambledEggAndToast · 15/08/2014 15:50

When I was about 13, a girl asked me if she could borrow my brand new trainers while we were away on camp. I stupidly said yes. On the last day, she wore them home on the coach after insisting that she had packed her other shoes. I was a little uneasy but she insisted she would give them back to me at our next club meeting. I never saw her or my trainers again I was stuck wearing my old pair with holes for months as my mum couldn't afford to buy another new pair.

javierbademswife · 15/08/2014 17:22

I once asked my (child free) sister to babysit for me. She told me that she couldn't, because it was Christmas party season and she didn't know what might come up. She was living with us, rent-free at the time.

PegPlusCat · 15/08/2014 18:39

I once asked my (child free) sister to babysit for me. She told me that she couldn't, because it was Christmas party season and she didn't know what might come up. She was living with us, rent-free at the time

I started reading this thinking well it may not seem like a good excuse but really she doesn't need to look after your kids..oh wait. No.

poguemahon · 15/08/2014 19:03

Last week at a park in Cheltenham.

Me, DH and our 2 dc sitting on a bench - I go over to the cafe to order some sandwiches and when I get back there's a small boy eating an ice cream on the end of the bench where I had been sitting.

No problem with that, obviously I don't own/can't bagsy the bench.

But when I return to sit down with our food and get the whole of my family to scooch over so I can sit down mother of small boy carries on standing there while her toddler takes up probably 25% of the bench - he could easily have shifted over by 10 inches or so and I would absolutely have asked my DC to move over in such a situation.

She, however, says nothing so there's toddler on one half of the bench and then four of us on the other half of it attempting to eat our lunch!

I suppose I could have asked her to move him up a bit but she was so odd I didn't fancy and encounter with her.

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 15/08/2014 19:30

I think Misssss from the blocking-car-in thread is going to be along in a minute. Grin

scarffiend · 15/08/2014 19:42

Nowhere near as bad as others on this thread, but here's my contribution...

Out for lunch with some friends and DD (aged 18 months) and DD needed her dirty nappy changed so I take her up to the disabled/baby change loo. Someone was in it, so I waited & entertained my whiny DD. Person comes out of the loo, I go to take DD in when this old dear comes up behind me and says 'oh, are you waiting for the toilet?' (No, I just hang out around toilet doors with a smelly bummed child) 'Only I need to be at the theatre soon and I haven't had my pudding yet!'

Shock rendered me speechless and miserable old mare waltzes in in front of us...

CruCru · 15/08/2014 19:48

Sadieno - nope they gave her lifts but
Just never offered me one.

I had a friend who went to the private school. Her mum had a bit of a thing about me going to the comprehensive and one day asked me if I wanted to go to an event at my friends school that evening. Sure, I said. It turned out to be the open evening - she wanted me to go home and announce that I wanted to go to the private school.

Same friends mum was going away to Malaysia for a few weeks in the summer and suggested that I could come and stay for a bit. When I asked my friend, she said that her mum expected me to stay over every night that she was away (I was 14). They were shocked when I said that my mum wouldn't let me (and I liked my own bed too much).

gimcrack · 15/08/2014 19:57

At uni, I arranged to meet an ex housemate for a drink. She had forgotten her purse. No problem, I can stand her a couple of drinks. Couple of weeks later, we arrange to meet again. But oh, what a surprise, she's 'forgotten' her purse again.

Oldraver · 15/08/2014 20:31

This a minor cheeky one but still had me stuck for words.

Went into the Co-Op with DS and he went to get one of the kiddie trolleys, a woman and a little girl (who was stamping her feet) were either side, DS waited his turn but she said to go first.

A good 5 minutes later woman sidles up to us and says "can my DD have (swap) that trolley" I was slightly gobsmacked and said pardon and she asked again if her DD could have the trolley as 'she prefers that colour'

I was so stuck for words I just nodded in DS's direction and said she could ask him....he said no..

I was so taken aback you would pander in this way to a child..the whole saga must of been going on for a while

AnnaBegins · 15/08/2014 20:33

I have a couple...

One very similar to a story already posted - I moved into a new flat the day before my housemates, so said they could use milk, butter etc for their first day before they could get to the shops. Except apparently one took that to mean forever. 3 months later, I had been noticing stuff going missing, but after coming home from lectures and rehearsals at 10pm to find all my food missing, I bought a fridge Grin

The same flat mate thought she could leave all her washing up and I would do it. No such luck, I put it all in a crate (that had holes in) on her bed!

One from school: our school choir was asked to sing at a wedding, and the couple paid us what amounted to £50 each! It was all in £20s and we had no £10s so took it into school the next monday to get some change. Music teacher took it all off us, gave us £20 each and pocketed the rest! Teacher hadn't even bothered to come to the wedding!