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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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this cold is really driving me bonkers now. apparently i have a temperature, but only because my normal body temperature is so low I'm always cold and I'm not cold now.0
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lostinrates wrote: »I usually round it up so if we were charged 27:50 I'd make it 35 but if it were 25 I'd make it 30. which is mad. Its only really just occured to me its a csh in hand transation.:o
If (and it is a big if), I tip, the £27.50 would be rounded up to £28.00 but the £25 would stay £25.
Told you I am a stingy begger :rotfl:We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Poor Sue - and everything's so much worse when one's tired, too.
It's a very difficult situation for you, and all your boys. Vent here as much as you like.
Does he do this outside the home? Are your GP and any necessary specialists helping?
He has done it at my parents house and a couple of times at my brothers...scaring my pregnant sister in law in the process, she had not seen it before and it scared her.
No specialists involved now, they tend to drop you pretty soon after diagnosis especially if the diagnosis happened after they started school. To get advice from the service who diagnosed him would need a referral and an urgent appointment takes approx 8 months to come through.
Could try the GP again but he tends to just refer to CAMHS...the place that takes 8 months for an urgent referral.
You can probably tell I am ever so slightly disillusioned with the whole thing.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
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One of my favourite bits of the garden this year. I love the shape of the poppies in bud and in seed head and the pinks matching the pink of the flying saucer on the poppy buds, but also the pep of the Sidharthan (is that a word or did I make it up in my head?) orange. I admit, its not subtle or tasteful, but its joyful and I'm thrilled with it.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I've always been confused by the concept of "good service" in a restaurant - and, in tipping conversations, never knew what it meant. Upon enquiring, I have never been to the type of restaurant where you get service. The best places I've been you get to sit down and there's a tablecloth on the table. The process is: you sit down, waiter gives you a menu, you order, food comes, you eat it, bill comes, you leave. No service there to tip for.
So ..... I have absolutely no idea what "good service" actually means.
To me, it is if the person giving you the service is attentive, goes the extra bit and is polite to requests, no matter how weird or strange...with my lot, they get a lot of that! :rotfl:
We went to Pizza Hut the other week and the waitress was absolutely wonderful, she noticed I had a stick and that youngest was acting a wee bit weird and responded well to my request for a table not in the main hubbub of the restaurant because youngest is autistic...the table she then placed us on was brilliant, not just for access for me but for youngest to be better able to cope.
She also must have known something about autism as the way she interacted with youngest was absolutely spot on, putting him at ease, not easy bearing in mind youngest is not a people person.
She also responded well to our weird and wonderful requests for food...eldest is the worst one for that and everything was just as we ordered, she had made it very clear to the kitchen staff our requirements.
She got a very decent tip.....very unusual for me.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I usually round it up so if we were charged 27:50 I'd make it 35 but if it were 25 I'd make it 30. which is mad. Its only really just occured to me its a csh in hand transation.:o
Are we talking Xmas? Or every visit?
..and I've made a mental note to tip the chimney sweep.
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Earlier tonight the TV had a documentary on supermarket "price wars"; with the big chains seeming to take us for idiots.
Next there's a documentary about RBS and where it all went wrong, and we get to see industrial-strength idiocy.
A very MSE evening's telly! Also a not very uplifting one.:(There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
I watched the one about the supermarkets.....I thought it was normal to carefully check the prices compared to weights, or if the deals work out cheaper or more expensi e than usual etc but obviously, it isn't!
Or am I just ever so slightly strange........We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
Our chimney sweep only comes every other year,
I didn't realise such professions still existed until someone mentioned it. I sometimes wonder if there are other things that pass us by that others do.
.:o
Pass a coal merchant on the way from work every day; there's not tons of them left (but obviously enough to keep the chimney sweeps in business!).There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0
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