Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

chewmylegoff

Spirit wrote: »

You seem to sidestep things you do not want to do pretty often. Have you ever actually been rail roaded into anything?

i have to spend on average about 3 weeks a year in australia when i'd rather not go at all, ever. plus, in a few weeks time i have to go to my sister's wedding when i'd much rather be going to a friend's birthday.

also every sunday i have to go grocery shopping and clean the flat, which are my least favourite things ever, and i definitely have to be railroaded into both, every time.

Spirit_2

MiddyMum wrote: »

feel absolutely awful as we had a silly little fall out and I hadn't spoken to her for a couple of months.

That is sad news for you I am sorry to hear it.

Silly ... and little ....sometimes time passes and there are longer spaces between communications - she was your friend and if time had allowed this little episode would be water under the bridge. Even in your post you are recognising her achievements alongside the loss .

LydiaJ

Not sure what to say, MiddyMum, but thinking of you today.

SingleSue

I don't like coffee so I don't buy it....mind you, middle son is partial to a cup of coffee and at times, I have toyed with the idea of buying a jar but then I look at the price and think "Begger that! He can stick with water or fruit juice or buy it himself!"

Odious stuff.....much worse than any stinky ciggie.

SingleSue

Sad news Middymum, my condolences.

silvercar

Spirit wrote: »

How do you go from being a major contributor to not being here at all?

It would feel like a falling out to me.

I think it was a general falling out with the rest of the board rather than with us in particular. A realisation that her own view was so different from everyone else's that she felt out of place.

silvercar

MiddyMum wrote: »

So I just found out a friend of mine passed away a couple of days ago....feel absolutely awful as we had a silly little fall out and I hadn't spoken to her for a couple of months. She is only 28, and has just got a place at medical school. She worked so hard for that place! I don't know the cause for her passing at the moment but literally feel numb today.

So sad. I'm sure she knew your tiff was a minor one and you would have made up in time.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Ok, so......i do what...walk into asda and buy frizzease? Then what?

Yes and no.

The middle part is walking into asda and buying frizzease.

The first part is an exercise in learning and patience. You need to learn how to play the game. The patience is reading up on the threads that explain how to do it, but it is a thread full of drivel that you have to follow to find the gems.

The last part is that you get paid in Asda price guarantee vouchers that you then spend in Asda, either on more frizzease or on other stuff.

In short hand you buy 5 lots of frizzease along with a very cheap shampoo. Additionally you buy at least 8 items that price compare to Tesco. Then you go home and go through the Asda price guarantee website and (hopefully) that gives you the voucher reducing your price of frizzease down to pennies.

Then you rinse and repeat.

Spirit_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i have to spend on average about 3 weeks a year in australia when i'd rather not go at all, ever. plus, in a few weeks time i have to go to my sister's wedding when i'd much rather be going to a friend's birthday.

also every sunday i have to go grocery shopping and clean the flat, which are my least favourite things ever, and i definitely have to be railroaded into both, every time.

Can't help with the Australia thing - although I thought we had give that up and found punishments closer to home.

I have however some expertise on your Sunday chores.

a)Internet shopping. There is no need whatsoever to go grocery shopping unless you want to.

b)Pay a cleaner to come in and do the chores on a Friday so that there is nothing to do on a Sunday.

Both of these are entirely reasonable responses.

c)You will need to create a displacement activity to fill the newly freed up time. Children would do it. Then you could take them out for the morning whilst Mrs Chewy has a rest.

chewmylegoff

Spirit wrote: »

Can't help with the Australia thing - although I thought we had give that up and found punishments closer to home.

I have however some expertise on your Sunday chores.

a)Internet shopping. There is no need whatsoever to go grocery shopping unless you want to.

b)Pay a cleaner to come in and do the chores on a Friday so that there is nothing to do on a Sunday.

Both of these are entirely reasonable responses.

c)You will need to create a displacement activity to fill the newly freed up time. Children would do it. Then you could take them out for the morning whilst Mrs Chewy has a rest.

a) I attempted this but it is unacceptable as they appear to send you the vegetables and meat that they couldn't sell in the supermarket;

b) I attempted this and even offered to pay the full amount, but apparently OH will not have a "strange person" in the house cleaning it under any circumstances. I argued that this was unreasonable as I didn't want to waste my time cleaning when I could easily afford to pay someone else to do it. My solution was to offer her the money that would have been paid to a cleaner, and not help. This went down well as you can imagine...

c) I was thinking that golf would be more appropriate?