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Auntycaz

meerkatsmimm wrote: »

I had 2 jtd vouchers plus with other coupons my £60 shop cost me £35 which mr meerkat was impressed with.:)
Got scundered at mr a...printed 10 persil/comfort coupons to buy the 21wash comfort pure & 10 wash non bio liquitabs....the sa called till supervisor, which took 10 mins on it's own, and while I'm standing (36wks pregnant with extreme swelling) the sa lays all my coupons out individually, and loudly claims he's never seen so many coupons etc etc....I'm getting redder and redder as I've never actually had an issue with multiple PDF coupons before. He even started saying that there was nothing on the coupons to say they were for persil or comfort (I think what he really meant was there was no picture on them to help him figure out if they are being used against the right product)... Anyway when the supervisor arrived she quickly said I could only use one coupon for each item in one transaction, and no I couldn't put them through in 10 separate transactions. Apparently the manager made this rule up yesterday:mad::mad:
I'm emotionally unstable at this stage, my darling meerkat had been with me, going on, and on, and on, and on about wanting sweet, a ham sandwich....but stop at customer services on the way out as I want the manager to personally answer for my embarrassment...after all there are no signs limiting the number of items each customer can purchase, nor the number of coupons allowed per transaction! It wasn't like I was using the coupons to buy milk & cheese :o:o anyway, turns out the lady I had asked to find me more of the persil out the back was the duty manager and she seemed bemused that I'd been refused and told the customer service advisor to put the other 9 through for me (I was in tears at this stage)....she went down to the till I'd been served at & came back with the persil but no comfort, I decided to let the comfort slip as I don't use softener normally and I just needed to get out and have a seat.
And here's the stupid thing...I joined the asda baby club and got the coupon for the free huggies starter kit which I also had in my trolley...the kit is reduced to £3 but the coupon scanned at £5 so they were happy to allow me a free £2 towards other items but were refusing to allow me to use the coupons against the actual items....my money saving escapades are going to send me into early labour at this rate :eek::eek::eek:

This wasnt in Gr**sby was it? I had trouble putting 2 through at the same time. The assistant on self service was fine but a duty manager said I must have photocopied one of them as they had the same barcode. Have hardly been in there since. If they have any offers i buy them in T's and put them through the price check thingy.

Beki88

Hi Brand8 sorry not messaged about meeting up, DS had my tummy bug. Hope you are ok and get to bed soon young lady

Was it meerkatmum that said about literally ph(herself)sl?
Well when I was younger I was a little (more than a little really) tipsy and was in one of those girly giggling moods, walking up home I slipped on some ice, bare in mind I live on a hill, well every time I tried to stand up one leg went one way the other leg went another way, my friends started laughing calling me bambi which made me start to laugh which made the slipping worse, after literally 15 mins or so of laughing so much and legs splitting I accidentally pee'd myself we were all so drunk it just made it even funnier but I felt so embarrassed! So yes ahem it does happen even to non pregnant ladies!

dcon_blue

jumblejack wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

I wondered when someone would pick up on that!!

It just seems so apt. Gotta call it something. 'the 2 ounce of everything and 2 mins in microwave Cake' seemed a bit of a mouthful!
:rotfl:

What about a 'Desmond' Cake?

SpiralingDown

caz2703 wrote: »

There are some fab absent fathers out there. Ex is a great example. He is fab to his first ex and and their kid but it was left to me to look after our sons. In 2 years he barely bought a toy (as per my previous post) but he also never bought them any clothes but was happy for me to buy not only clothes for his sons but to dress his other child in appropriate clothing i.e. not full of holes or too small, yet he was happy to hand over double the CSA rate to his ex plus pay extras to her :mad:

His kid was sent round to us 2 weeks in a row with holes in their shoes in the middle of winter so I caved in and bought new shoes. A couple of weeks later we find out his ex has bought fancy Kickers (to be kept good) and my ex never even paid me for buying those shoes. And to cap it all, his ex had a fab social life, holidays, flash car, big house, new partner who is loaded yet we had nothing except a 2nd hand car covered in dings and a wing mirror hanging off and the only option for a holiday this past summer was to drive from Scotland to Essex as we couldn't afford to fly 5 of us over and hire a car (too many passengers for his dad to pick us up). Funny how when we split he could afford to keep flying over so I guess his parents were happy to pay for him and his kid but not me & the boys. Don't get me started on them as they are as bad and complicit in this.

I hope I haven't offended or upset you caz, I really didn't mean to.

In my experience with working with the kids in out clubs for every good absent dad we have 2-3 crap ones.
A few of our mums take the view of someone else who posted on here, whereby they allow the Dad to make the mistakes, don't badmouth him in front of the kids and are there for the kids when 'dad' mucks up. The day will come when the child can make up their own mind about their 'donor' and that's when they'll realise that mum was there to do everything for them and he was never there.
Or in some occasions the other way about, we have 1 single dad who's wife left him saying she needed her own space so left him with her 4 kids from a previous relationship and their twins. The dad of the other kids said they had nothing to do with him and to put them in care (he rang social services) but this guy wanted to keep his family together and had to go to court to gain custody of kids he'd been looking after for 9 years!! Social services stated that because there was no blood link he couldn't keep them and they went to foster parents until the eldest to the judge that she wanted to live with her step-dad because although he wasn't biologically their dad he was their dad because he done everything a dad should do and loved them no matter what. I'm glad to say that along with reports done by various agencies he was granted full custody and has just adopted them all so no one can take them away from him again

HAMMIEHOO

Right everyone, I am shattered so off to bed for me.

Help yourself to drinks, honesty box behind the bar.

Fudge_Cake_2

dcon_blue wrote: »

What about a 'Desmond' Cake?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Good one!

I'm going to leave you all to it for tonight. Have a fab time on the night shift, see you all in the morning. Sleep tight :A xxx

tessietwo

jumblejack wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

I wondered when someone would pick up on that!!

It just seems so apt. Gotta call it something. 'the 2 ounce of everything and 2 mins in microwave Cake' seemed a bit of a mouthful!
:rotfl:

Joking aside it's a really good way to remember a recipe.:T

rufydoofyM

HAMMIEHOO wrote: »

Right everyone, I am shattered so off to bed for me.

Help yourself to drinks, honesty box behind the bar.

Ok and thanks. nitey nite:)

nahteb20

Good night all,
Can hardly keep my little peepers open, Sweet dreams all xxx

freddies_flyers_two

Night night guys Im bedward bound!