15 Stories That Prove You Can’t Get Away From Impudent People

We are all different, and each of us has our own quirks and flaws. But sometimes whims of others cross all boundaries. The heroes of this article prove that some people live quite well without regrets.

• I was riding in a taxi once. It was an hour journey to another city. Along the way, the taxi driver was talking non-stop about how little the journey cost and how he and his family didn’t have enough money for food.
  When we got there, he openly asked me to give him a big tip. I replied that my salary hadn’t been raised for 3 years and asked him to make a discount. For some reason, he didn’t appreciate my request. Strange. © ZlayaPravda / Pikabu
• A classmate invited me and the other guys to a birthday party. We weren’t close, but she kept begging me to come. She kept reminding us that we should bring her presents. I thought it was weird, but it was embarrassing not to come.
  So, we were sitting in the restaurant, they brought us the bill, and she said with a happy face, “I’ll only pay for the first round of drinks, and you pay for the appetizers yourself.” At the same time, she was eating food from our plates and sipped our drinks. And in the end, she asked the girl who was being picked up from the restaurant by her father to give her a lift. I was shocked.
• We decided to organize Secret Santa at work, and I was in charge of it. I told everyone in the office that participation was optional. I made a list of those who responded. And in the evening, a girl from another department called me and said, “Those who don’t participate in Secret Santa, they won’t get presents, right? Don’t you think they’d be offended?”
  I tried to explain to her the logic behind this game. But she said that I should buy presents for those who don’t participate as well. They will be upset if they don’t get presents.

• My mom was cleaning our stairwell. A neighbor from the other wing comes up and says, “Shall I open our vestibule for you?” My mom asks surprised, “What for?” And the neighbor says, “Well, you’re cleaning here. Why don’t you clean up in our vestibule as well?”
  My mom decided to teach her a lesson and said, “Then you can go and vacuum my place, agreed?” For some reason the neighbor didn’t agree.
• We dated for 7 years, shared almost all our expenses. I often paid more for the rent than he did. Before my birthday, he promised me a surprise.
  We took the subway to the end of one of the lines. He brought me into some building and with a magician’s gesture got the keys out of his pocket, opened the door, and walked me into a flat. The flat he’d bought with the money he’d saved while living with me.
  The flat was registered in his name. And so, in the middle of the dust and concrete walls, he got down on one knee and proposed to me. I said no. I’d rather renovate my own place. © Overheard / Ideer
• After the wedding, we came back home early in the morning. So, we sleep peacefully, and suddenly the doorbell rings at 8 a.m. It’s the mother-in-law, her youngest son and daughter with her husband who came to us for breakfast. My husband immediately began to run around them. He hissed at me when I tried to object, saying that it wouldn’t cost me anything to fry some eggs.
  So I went out to the guests in my husband’s shirt. The female half started to get nervous about my outfit. The guests didn’t wait for the eggs and left. There was a scandal with my husband after that because he couldn’t understand that the whole situation was sick. Then he left to calm down his relatives, and I packed all my things and went back to my mom to sleep.
  Mom laughed at me, then, when the ex called to reconcile, also laughed at him. I filed for divorce almost immediately. The ex tried to reconcile many times, but kept saying that it’s our duty to welcome the family at any time of the day. So we split up. © Overheard / Ideer
• My spouse invested in our friends’ restaurant. They were supposed to pay him back a tidy sum when the business started to bear fruit. It’s been a year and still no money.
  Recently, one of the borrowers said, “Well, you gave us that money as a gift. You said that you believed in us, that if we don’t have the money, we don’t need to pay you back.”
  The fact is, when they borrowed from my husband, it was never discussed as a gift and the terms were completely different. I am amazed by the arrogance of some people.

• When I was a student, we were given the task of making a presentation about advertising in different countries. I chose Japan. I informed everyone about it in the group chat.
  When I got to class, it turned out that the classmate who had chosen the Czech Republic decided to steal my topic. He approached the teacher before the class, said that he was not feeling well and showed the presentation before me. And then he went home happy.
  It’s good that the teacher understood my situation and believed me. Other classmates also confirmed that he was preparing material on the Czech Republic. I stopped talking to him after that.
• I couldn’t sleep because of the neighbors’ party downstairs. I understand when people want to have some fun, but not on Monday. I banged on the radiator, no reaction. I went downstairs and knocked on their door for a long time, because the bell didn’t work. But nobody opened the door, although I could hear them talking.
  But when I started yelling, they opened the door and brazenly asked what was the matter. So, I asked them if they had watched episode 3 of Game of Thrones. Turns out they hadn’t yet. So I told them all the spoilers and went to bed. Because you have to be respectful of your neighbors. They were quiet afterwards, by the way. © Ward 6 | Stories Anonymous / Telegram
• I have 2 classmates with whom I don’t communicate anymore: one owes me $4, the other owes $15 for drinks in the bar. Both are not poor, but they found it easier to cut off contact with me than to pay back the debt after I reminded them. They pretend not to recognize me when we meet in the street, and this has been going on for years.
  What I don’t understand is, wouldn’t it be easier to return the money than to run away every time? It would have been okay, if they forgot, but no, they didn’t. 2 big blokes have been running away from me for years now. © Overheard / Ideer
• We were selling our car that we had owned for 2 years. It was in excellent condition, but we wanted a new one. A close friend asked to sell it to her and her husband 50% cheaper than we wanted, saying that the car would be in “safe hands.” We, of course, refused.
  I swear, she told the whole town that I was a greedy bastard and couldn’t give them a tiny discount. I suspect she embellished the story. Now even our mutual friend won’t say hello to me. Cool. © Eavesdropping / Ideer

• My brother Joe (55M) is about to marry Sue (27F). A few months ago, Sue asked both me (60F) and my sister June (53F) to be bridesmaids. I was touched, as I have only met Sue a few times (they live in another state). Besides myself and June, there are 4 other bridesmaids, all under 30.
  When Sue sent me the link for the bridesmaid dress, I was horrified. I’m sure the dress will look lovely on her young friends, but I would not want to be seen wearing it in public. It’s super sexy — plunging neckline, thigh-high slit, so clingy that it would reveal every lump on my rump.
  Please understand that I am not a prude. I am reasonably fit, and I enjoy dressing up, but I am 60 years old. I would not be comfortable showing that much skin at a formal event with all of our relatives present.
  I called Sue and nicely asked if there’s a more modest version I could wear. She insisted this was the dress she wanted all her bridesmaids in. She wouldn’t budge, and not wanting to cause family strife, I didn’t push it. So I ordered the dress several sizes too large.
  I took it to a seamstress and had her take it in so it fits, but doesn’t cling so tightly to my backside. Using some of the extra fabric, she fixed the neckline so it doesn’t reveal so much boobage. And she lowered the height of the thigh slit to a few inches above my knee, rather than nearly to my panties. The adjustments are very subtle and hardly noticeable. It actually looks great on me now.
  When Sue heard I’d had the dress altered, she flew into a rage! She texted me that she does not want a “chopped up dress” in her wedding pictures. I sent her photos of me wearing it, but she’s not having it. Joe called and told me that I’ve been “disinvited” from the wedding party, and they have replaced me with another friend. And now they are not speaking to me at all. © Fluffy_Vast_8210 / Reddit

• Recently, I overheard my relatives talking about me. They complained that I had started to give their children little money for birthdays. And in general, my gifts are rubbish.
  I used to give really large sums of money. And every time they said something like, “Oh, what are you doing? We don’t need that much, take it away.” So I started giving like everyone else.
  And then I realized that the money goes not on the children and not in the children’s piggy banks, but on adult wants and wishes. And I began to give what the children asked for, so that the gift went to the child. Yeah, people get used to good things very quickly. © Overheard / Ideer
• We have 2 big cats. As a consequence, every couple of months we make a big order for bags of food and litter. The weight of the purchase is usually about 100 pounds. And every time I have to deal with insolence and rudeness on the part of couriers-loaders.
  When placing an order, marketplaces charge us extra for delivering the cargo to the flat. There is an elevator in the house. But every time the couriers call and say, “Come down, we leave it at the entrance.”
  I wrote several complaints about the couriers. My husband and I decided that I will be picking up the phone when the delivery calls. The conversation immediately went in a different direction:
  — Well, ask your husband to come down and carry half of it. It’s heavy.
  — Yeah, no problem. But we’ll share the extra charge for the delivery to the flat then, okay?
  The courier hung up after that, apparently offended, but still delivered the order. © Velelada / Pikabu
• I went to the hospital for a check-up. Naturally, when they put a Holter monitor to measure my heartbeat, it was simply impossible to get home without adventures. I ordered a taxi.
  The driver didn’t even reach the place, but pressed the button that he had already arrived. Free waiting time ended, the paid time started. I called and texted him, but he ignored me. Eventually, I complained to support and they canceled the ride.
  Suddenly an unknown number calls, I pick up and it’s a taxi driver. He starts shouting at me, saying how dare I cancel the ride. He’s almost there. And he was okay with the fact that it had been 20 minutes since he “arrived.” I just hung up on him.

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