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.

[ladyfordington]

Last summer, I came home one morning to find my retired next door neighbours sat in my garden, on my patio furniture, with morning papers and cups of coffee....

When I went out and asked what was going on, the wife just replied quite happily that they didn't think we'd mind, and that actually, they'd been sitting out there most mornings after I'd left the house for their morning coffee because our garden gets more sunlight than theirs and the patio looks so nice since DH finished it.......

I was utterly gobsmacked and (stupidly) didn't even challenge them, although DH put them straight when he came home!

[7Days]

I love this thread

[Salmotrutta]

ladyfordington - whaaaaat???

[OnIlkelyMoorBahtat]

God the neck of these people! One that I thought of immediately when I saw this thread was a poster on here who was single,and one evening her her cousin rang her and said to her "how would you like to spend Friday evening with a gorgeous young man"; the poster thought her cousin had set up a blind date for her but when she got to her cousin's house to meet the 'date', it turned out that her cousin had in fact "arranged" for the poster to babysit her small son while she (the cousin) went out on the lash with a mate!

[MorphineDreams]

Went out for a chinese meal with friends and their 10 month old baby. It was a horrible meal actually (and wrong drinks, filthy high chair, bad service) and we already felt resentful of paying, but as we went to settle the bill we noticed a discrepancy. They decided to charge us £2 because the baby had had a bit of a prawn cracker from her mum's plate. I wouldn't had been bothered if they'd said beforehand, but £2 for a prawn cracker nibble?

I actually complained about the whole thing and the manager tried to say it was because they were busy - they weren't - then offered a measly 10% off at that specific restaurant. No ta.

[Salmotrutta]

And at Lexlunas mum getting caught out by letter-box-peering neighbour!!

[edamsavestheday]

Blimey, these make my story look very small beer. My youngest (half) sister decided to go out for a birthday meal. Group of about 12 of us. We all enjoy the meal and when the bill comes my Dad says he'll pay for drinks. Nice of him as the party includes his ex-wife (my sister's Mum) her new husband and each of us daughters has a boyfriend there.

When we tot up the money everyone's put in for the bill, we come up way short. Very strange. We go round everyone, and it turns out my ex-Stepmother/littlest sister's Mum and her new husband have totted up what they ordered TO THE PENNY and only put that in, instead of dividing the bill per head like the rest of us. Even though my Dad is covering the drinks bill and they both had plenty! NB ex-stepmother's new husband is loaded and it's his now stepdaughter's birthday - how tight?

We go round again, and my sister admits that not only are we all subbing her (fine), her boyfriend 'has come out without any cash' so he wanted paying for as well - without even mentioning it, let alone asking nicely!

Last time I went out with them without checking how the bill was being split in advance...

[MorphineDreams]

Oh and my friend, well outside of his house is a bus stop where a lot of people stand and wait for the bus, people looking in can see the TV.

He once got a knock on the door, it was one of the people waiting for the bus asking if he could turn the channel back over - he'd wanted to watch the end of Diagnosis Murder.

[AbbieHoffmansAfro]

An ex of mine had neighbours who complained when he parked his car on the road immediately outside his house. Apparently that was their spot (they lived opposite and about 2 doors up) and he should have parked on his drive and left the space on the road for them (they also had a drive, but too many cars). They tried this argument several times over the months after he moved in before giving up. All I can say is, they were brave as well as stupid. He was not one of those people who shied away from confrontation!

My SIL completely lost her rag with DH after he refused to travel across London 2 weeks before my due date and the day before the builders left and we were to move back into our house, so he could help her pack up her one room's worth of stuff and get it into storage before she went away. We didn't have a car. He was supposed to take two trains to get to her and hire a van to get her stuff to a storage place. Hiring a man with a van herself was too big an ask, apparently.

She knew our circumstances (builders were late finishing, we were in a panic, I could hardly move, baby could have come any time) but she still left it until the absolute last minute to start packing and rang DH with a day's notice demanding he help her out because there was too much to do. And while she was ringing him screaming down the phone about being abandoned she was posting happy little updates on Facebook (I do mean literally at the same time) telling her umpteen FB friends how excited she was about her trip.

[Salmotrutta]

Hahaha!

Diagnosis Murder!

[CheeseToastie123]

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.

Awesome.

He once got a knock on the door, it was one of the people waiting for the bus asking if he could turn the channel back over - he'd wanted to watch the end of Diagnosis Murder.

Did he? I would have, this one I actually really like.

[WobblyHalo]

I want to know what SaucyJack did? Did you stay and babysit or leave the DH to it?

[MorphineDreams]

He did haha, ever the good host.

[ladyfordington]

Salmotrutta - They genuinely couldn't see anything wrong with letting themselves into our garden...when DH spoke to them about it later, they said they only sat there when we were out, so what was the problem?

Generally speaking they are nice people but they have massive boundary issues! Another time DH found the husband in our garage cutting wood with a circular saw - because his wife wouldn't let him do in the house as it was too messy so he saw our garage open and went in....

[AbbieHoffmansAfro]

Oh, and there was the girl who gatecrashed my 16th birthday meal with school friends at a local restaurant. She wasn't invited because we didn't get on-mainly due to her insane competitiveness over everything from school grades to boyfriends.

She ate and drank her fill because I was too nice to kick her off our table, then refused to pay any more than a token amount towards the bill. My friends stumped up because they didn't want me to have to pay for her. We mocked, she smirked. It was all very odd and quiet nasty.

All these years later, she wants to be added to my LinkedIn network! Er, no.

[NellyNoodle1]

I suppose this happens a lot but I remember once driving round collecting people to go to a meal we had arranged at an Indian restaurant in the next town. My drinks and meals came to under £10 - the rest of them were ordering drinks like you wouldn't believe - bottles of wine, spirits and when the bill came the organiser said 'that's £25 each then'. I'm normally such a coward but I just couldn't take this - I normally don't mind splitting the bill as normally everyone has had roughly the same and I usually end up paying a bit more as I don't eat three courses or anything but I put my foot down this time and said I would be paying for what I had had plus a tip. No one had even bought me a drink for driving!

[PeachyParisian]

Have reported the thread for classics

As a 19 year old au pair I was hired for a 30 hr a week position with 2 lovely little DCs. Turned out it was actually 60+ houses a week and I was to wake up at 5:45 to make the parents breakfast. The baby, who's bedroom adjoined the parents on the level above my bedroom, woke one night at around 3am. The mother brought the baby to me and asked if I'd heard shed woken up and why hadn't I gone in. She was breastfed.

Just had a text from my landlord telling, not asking me, that he will be showing someone round at 5 today (whilst I'm still at work). I've told him he'll have to wait.

[Tanith]

Only this morning, got a knock on my door.

Three kids we know slightly who've with my much younger DD because they're bored and there's nothing else to do - well, actually, they come to play with the toys.

I explained they couldn't come in: I'm working and I'm up to my ratio limit.

"But you're a childminder!" they said as they barged past.
DH eventually got them out, arguing all the way.

"Why can't you

[DramaAlpaca]

It's not a patch on some of the stories on here, but this one still annoys me.

I sent my children's outgrown Playmobil to my SIL, who lives abroad, at her request. She told me her children would love it, and she'd happily take it off my hands. There was lots of it, in perfect condition, and it cost me a fair bit to send. I didn't mind at the time because I knew my little nephews would really enjoy playing with it.

Two weeks later I spotted that she'd advertised it for sale on Facebook.

Cheeky mare.

[HerRoyalNotness]

We sold our car to BIL on an interest free loan when he was desperate for a car and couldn't get a loan elsewhere. About the same time, as we were moving abroad, I loaned my little car to a friend who'd moved to the UK. He had the cheek to have a go at us for making him, FAMILY, pay for a 10k car, while we GAVE to my FRIEND a 4k car. He figured he should only pay half of the car value to us. I did explain to him that actually FRIEND was my xSIL that I had known for 15yrs at that point, and consider her family also, who had just left an abusive marriage with no home, no furniture, no job, no recourse to benefits and 2 teenage DC. The prick.

About a year later, the car was "stolen" and burnt out by the "thieves". He and SIL then had a wedding renewal for their 10th anniversary, we suspect using the insurance payout. He had form for having cars "stolen" and being burnt out. He still owes us 5k for the car 6yrs later.

[Dubjackeen]

Haha, loving these. Can't think of any really good ones.
I was in a cafe one day, and after ordering, got up from my table to get a newspaper from the stand near the counter. A woman at another table barked 'salt' at me, indicating the salt cellar at the table beside her. I looked at her blankly, and sat down with the paper, whereupon she proved well able to hop up and get the salt for herself. She was, at all times, nearer to the salt than I was.
I was sitting in a cafe recently, and observed a group arriving in. There was a queue of about ten people. One of the group who had just arrived walked to the cash register, so plonking herself at the top of the queue, and started shouting back to the rest, to ask what they wanted. She actually seemed oblivious to the ten people already queuing, but one of them pointed her to the end of the queue.

[fairnotfair]

Many years ago, I was working in the Midlands as a graduate trainee stockbroker. Four of us were sent down to London for a few days for professional training exam cramming. We were put up in a dodgy hotel, but we were allowed to go out to restaurants for supper and claim back the cost (to a strict and not-very-high limit) when we returned to the office.

One evening, one of our colleagues said that we'd be meeting a good friend of his for supper in Covent Garden. Fine, we thought; very nice. So we pitched up at the restaurant, and there he was, with three of his own colleagues. We got a table for eight.

They were extremely unfriendly and didn't even try to make anything approaching conversation. Discouraged, we talked amongst ourselves at the other end of the table, and ordered the cheapest pasta dishes, because of the daily limit we had to stick to.

Colleague's friend and his pals all ordered lobsters. Lobsters. We were quite because (in the brief conversations that they had bothered to bestow on us) they'd been moaning about how incredibly badly paid they were.

When the bill came, it became clear that they were expecting us to pay for their meals...

[Salmotrutta]

Oooh *Peachy I've never had a thread in classics!!

[WilburIsSomePig]

This was over 20 years ago. My (ex) friend called me at work and asked me to pick her children up from school. She sounded so worried so I immediately left work citing an emergency and picked them up and took them home with me. I found her house keys and a note through my door to tell me that she'd gone away for the weekend with her new boyfriend. Oh and could I feed and walk the dog too? No one ever believes me when I tell them this.

[flippinada]

Enjoying this thread - must try and think of my own example of brass necked-ness to share. Nothing comes to mind at the moment. Keep up the good work though, very cheering on a grotty day :).