Have you been taken for a fool !

MarathonRunner

Mmm yes . A friend always asked for help when she was throwing a function , always happy to help with catering and making drinks etc but started to notice the hostess was busy socialising with all her chums while I was stuck in the kitchen and clearing up afterwards . After hearing a passive aggressive comment about how I always took over at her functions I stopped helping and when invited told her I didn't have time . Strangely I don't get invited anymore .
There's only so much foolery I'm prepared to tolerate !

That's exactly how I was treated. She did not realise I was quite slick at it and did not like the thanks I got. While she was off gossiping.

You’re a great role model for the ‘quiet achiever’

ATM I am enjoying wasting the time of a ‘romance scammer’ and warning everyone else this group is targeting on Instagram.
I enjoy asking questions they don’t have a pat answer to, and asking for photos they don’t have! Such as “oh can you take a photo of you and your dog snuggling by the fire”
If lots of us waste their time and warn others maybe we can stop making it worth their while to scam vulnerable women!

I was taken for a fool who I thought were for real. I gave them £10k to help their business - got them to sign legal work to confirm it was just a loan etc. A month later they the business was taken over (not sold) and I never got the money back.
It made me feel stupid and that I could no longet trust my own judgement on people

I hope not

Among other things Ive worked on a chat (aka sex) line so I am not in the least intimidated by verbal violence or swearing. I used to do the dominatrix calls,

I advertised a bed for sale in a paper and got one of those inane callers doing what I think was his first sex call (Ive got ten inches waiting just for you).

I told him I was from another planet, psychic, and knew exactly where he was speaking from. I then detailed exactly what I was going to do to him.

He rang off.

An hour later he rang back and apologised.

One poster said they' play themselves down' or words to that effect. Do remember that other people will judge you by your own evaluation. Therefore false modesty can be judges by some as stupidity.

Once, ages ago, but badly. Felt very sorry for a boyfriend of a dd, whose parents (so he said) had rejected him. Gave him a substantial amount of cash in order to enable him to start the further education course he wanted to do.,

Not long afterwards, my idiot dd let him drive my car (she was allowed to) whereupon he pranged it, laid into the other party, and was charged with ABH.

Idiot that I was, I arranged an initial meeting with a solicitor for him - he didn’t show up.

So I went to his flat - no reply. Since he’d hinted at suicide to dd, I thought the worst, seriously panicked and called the police.

They managed to open the door - he wasn’t there. (The police were very kind and understanding.).

When I eventually managed to contact him (pre mobile phones) he simply told me, quite unconcerned, that he’d forgotten.

That was absolutely It as far as I was concerned, but only after he’d pursued dd to the university where she’d just started, and tried to break her (hall of residence) door down, did she finally finish with him. After that, the mere mention of his name would make her shudder.

Good grief Witzend !!!

I'm sure many of us have been taken for fools at some point. I know I certainly have, especially when I was younger and didn't have the guts to stand up for myself - you're an easy target if you're quiet and unassertive.