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.

My best Brass Neck Stories would totally out me on here so I can't tell them to you all.

I do however derive a delicious pleasure by repeating them to people in RL...

Found out SIL and BIL had had their baby 6 hours after the infant had been born because a random mutual friend posted a congratulations message on her wall and it appeared in my Facebook news feed. This is DH's brother, he didn't bother to even just text him to let him know he had a new nephew.

The person who had a go at me for not returning a phone call despite knowing I had been in hospital having a miscarriage.

I've remembered another one.
Dh and I gave our nieces vouchers for Christmas one year (their request).
Dh gets a phone call from SIL to say one of the vouchers is torn and she's worried the shop won't accept it.
She makes him drive to her house, take the voucher to the shop to see if they would accept it, then drive back to her house to give them back.
I would have told her to take it herself, but dh is too soft.

My second childminder took the piss on many occasions. Ds was weaned and old enough for cows milk. One day he was extra hungry, so she gave him an extra cup of milk and a biscuit-which she charged me for. I would send him with home made meals-she decided it "didn't look nice" so gave him what her kids had-and charged me. Ds was ill, so I took day off, paid her for that, ok. Her dd was on the books for a model agency, she needed the day to go for her portfolio doing, orthodontic work for modelling,(she was 6) etc. I at this point was getting very as I saw my holidays vanishing. And yes she bleddy charged me.
A friend of mine was then going into cm, so I moved ds to him. (His best mates mum') first cm, screamed blue murder and threatened to report me to council and how was she going to afford to buy her new parrot? Dh went to pick him up on last day and gave her piece of his mind.

New parrot??

Will no-one think of the Psittacosis?

I did one myself. Which was out on Christmas Eve, planning on walking two miles home but it was throwing it down. (Me, best mate and DH out). Anyway nipped and ordered chinese, had a drunken brain wave and asked if they delivered. Yes was there response so I asked if they could deliver my Chinese to my address but deliver us three as well. They said yes and we offered the driver about £10 (double taxi fare) he just wished us merry Christmas.

Worse. My mum won 4 x premiership season tickets. She had one, dbro had one, dbro best mate had one and my dm bil had another. She happiky let the others havr them. My mum used to have to get taxis and buses due to disability, but as you can imagine there were a queue of people who would happily take the tickets if one of the 4 users couldn't get. In return they would give my mum a lift saving her money. One week she asked if she could have her bil ticket as he was working. His response, yes, but I want £10 for it, it would cost them that anyway. Mum explained about it saving her money and he went nuts saying tough, no money, no ticket. Mum told them where to stick it, he then replied saying he'd sold the season ticket for £350 so now no tickets to have and wasn't it funny, theyd booked a much deserved holiday. Hmmmm I rang the club explained everything and my mum was still classed as having purchased four tickets so they cancelled bil season ticket and reissued my mum a new one. It was a pretty satisfying text to say hope your holiday doesn't cost too much because when whoever you sold it to turns up they will be told its cancelled and it will be confiscated.

I had a friend/ex-work colleague who aspired to be an h'actor. Only he couldn't afford it so wangled some free photocopying plus franked envelopes and sent everyone whom he knew a letter basically asking us to sponsor his worldwide talent, invest in his future and be repaid in his glory and memoirs. Only 85% of his friend group were penniless students who, like him, waited on tables to make needs meet. As far as I know, not one person took him up on his investment.

Ooh RatBag - awesome!

One of my neighbours asked me to write a cha

oldgrandmama Oh my god, shocking!

I'm honestly astounded by some of these stories.

I still remember a housemate at uni demanding to use my mobile phone and actually getting angry with me when I said no (early days for mobiles, phenomenal call charges). I've moved in before them and I remember lying in bed one night listening to them trying to open my door which I'd locked because they wanted to see all my stuff and see if there was anything worth 'borrrowing'.

Bloody phone.

One of my neighbours asked me to write a character statement for her to give to social services to say she was a great mum. She was having problems with her shit head ex who was trying to get custody.

All of this would be fine, but she smokes weed around her kid, has had violent fights with the ex in front of him and keeps her boy off of school whenever she feels like it. I have told her that the violence isn't on around her boy, so she knows that I don't think she is a great mum. I have also had to remove shit head ex from the building when he kicked off in front of the boy.

I told her no. I said I didn't agree with the above things and wasn't happy to lie to social services. She wasn't too pleased.

Just been to Asda for last minute holiday bits. The lady in front (age56, she said) asked the check out guy was he sad that he had red hair!
What the actual fuckety fuck!!!

She then went on to ask what colour hair his parents had and when he has children he might not have that gene! I was to say the least!!

I asked the guy if he knew the lady (old witch) and he didn't. He said he actually likes it, so good on him!

Oh I didn't make that very clear. Shit head ex is only ever an ex temporarily. She takes him back after a couple of weeks and it all starts again. She has told me she likes having him around because he always has weed.

This thread is hilarious, have nominated for classics

The tenner is in the post...

I think my male flatmate who never did any cleaning or washing up.

He got really angry with me for washing up a kitchen load of pots and leaving them on the drying rack - without drying them up! After a brief pause I ended up chasing him out of the house that night.

We didn't have much kitchen equipment. So I bought a kind of saute pan to cook my evening meal in. One day I came home and it had a post it note on saying not to use this pan as he would be using it tonight.

Which reminds me of a female flatmate - I bought a clothes airer to dry my clothes on. Whenever I went to use it, her clothes were on it sopping wet. I took them off once and carefully laid them out in the airing cupboard, so they could dry. That made her livid. You just want to scream BUY YOUR OWN!

Fortunately I only have to share with dh and dc now. And they know the rules.

I wouldn't even have put the clothes in the airing cupboard.

I'd have dumped them on her bed and said "You do know this is my airer don't you?"

Actually, you've reminded me of another one.

Back when I was a student we had flat mate who used to sneak into my room and listen to my records on my stereo. Another flat mate caught her red handed when she knocked on my door to speak to me thinking it was me in there!

I'd forgotten all about that!!

It was nearly 36 years ago after all...

Actually, I had some pretty shitty flatmates a good few years ago (80s/90s). There were the ones who buggered off leaving me with a whole house worth of rent and bills to pay. Then one that didn't know how to clean a bath. . And one who was dealing and got beaten up in our house.

One of the ones who left me with the bills was minging. She'd leave dishes for weeks with mould on them then complain that we made a mess. I'll bet she has a cleaner now and is probably a right twat to her.

Can't beat flat mates for Brass Neckedness - unless it's a neighbour using your Mexican house or patio or swimming pool!

Oh I have some more...
My DC's friend's parents don't have a car for 'environmental reasons'. Result is that me and other parents end up ferrying this child around....this has gone on for 5 yrs now - this now young teen's parents never ask or say thanks...their DC asks our DCs - and our DCs feel bad if we say no. Usually it is fine - we are going anyway etc - but if we are arranging lift shares etc it can be awkward...feel bad saying that there isn't room...but obviously the more children/car owning parents who lift share the less it is your turn....
They all go to one activity together -usually walk - but it finishes late, we take turns giving them lifts home - but we have a car full -so unless one is off sick etc we can't fit this child in.
This child is supposed to walk/catch a bus there and back with a young woman who is mid twenties. The young woman is socially inept - not sure if ASD. Her parents drive but they are older - one won't drive in the dark and the other (she says) is too old to be expected to go out so late . Instead she pressurises anyone there to give them both a lift home - even expecting people to drive a mile or so in the opposite direction to do so. When it was mine turn I used to put my extra seats up (7 seater) and give them a lift too - a bit of a hassle cos I usually had lots of rubbish in the boot etc but didn't mind too much...until it became expected - and I felt like she was taking the piss.
This young woman TOLD me I should always do the late pick up so they could have a lift home. She also complained when I wasn't doing both the to and return lifts to somewhere a bit further away - again she was counting on me to get them there and back . Once I had an horrendous bad cold (flu?) - I saw her when picking my younger DC up earlier and said my DC wouldn't be going that evening cos it was only me who could pick up and I really wasn't well enough. The young woman said 'How are we supposed to get home then?' I have now become hardened and just say no/ignore - I won't put my seats up etc. Even so she will come and stand at the passenger door waiting...
One week it was absolutely chucking down with rain and the young woman wasn't going. I took them along - including the child whose parents don't drive - I had room as one of the lift share children was going later...
When another parent turned up to take them home the child was expecting a lift back too - she was the first to jump in! But there wasn't enough room for them all (and this child must have realised that). Other parent felt bad - she couldn't let her make her way home alone, in the dark and rain - so said she'd make two trips. All the other children were offering to go on the second run and so have to wait in the rain - this child said nothing and stayed in her seat...as it was the parent had to tell her to get out and wait with her child and another as they all lived closer together.

OW's mother spreading the rumour that I'd had an affair and that was why we'd split up.... (They now live together and he is XH). Said mother is supposedly a pillar of the church, but I happen to know she and MIL fell out over a 'man friend' (FIL had admittedly passed away at this point)...
Talk about covering your own indiscretions by throwing mud!!!

Should add that the rumour was repeated to my DF by someone who had it direct from the mother...

I've been reminded of the flatmate, who moved his girlfriend in unofficially but didnt up their share of rent or bills to compensate. However what really got my goat was going to use my toothbrush in the morning only to discover it already wet from very recent use. It turned out his girlfriend had been using mine instead of bringing her own and didnt see what the problem was. She had also been making free with all my toiltries in the bathroom.

I used to go riding 10 minutes from my house, but a friend started coming to. I cant remember how it started but I ended up having to go the opposite direction to collect her (took longer to get to her house than the stables) and drop her afterwards, this went on for months without her ever offering any gratitude towards for this.

The abusive ex bf had some neck. He made me go to his parents house 2 hours away for the weekend whilst I had d&v from food poisoning, and then I got told off for not wanting to eat whilst I was there, apparently this was rude.

The same parents gulit tripped me and my now DH to go and see evil ex in hospital after he had his gall bladder removed, as he had no friends and it was all my fault.

Oh yes, this evil ex, when we eventually split up due to his behaviour, he stated he had been job hunting elsewhere in the country but had expected to stay in my bed with all the "extras" until he left me. Like that was ever going to happen

When dd1 was 2.0 and dd2 only two weeks old, DSis came to stay with her 4 children - oldest was 12 and youngest only 4 months.

The morning after the first night they stayed I got up with both DDs, and dn12 got up with dn4 months. I was massively anaemic and bf so made myself beans on toast - ended up making it for the 3 eating kids too. Fine. It got to 9am and DSis not made an appearance. So I'm entertaining 5 kids. Then dn4 months monumentally poos all over DD2's rocket. Dn14 turns to me and says 'your turn'!!!

I march upstairs to wake DSis. She tells me she know what it is like as she had two two year apart (ten years earlier!) and that she worked full time so she needed the sleep more (she was on Mat leave!).

She doesn't know it, but she is never coming to stay again.