Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

DH reminds me he had a skin reaction too to ours. It was just a skin reaction for him but people react differently,!

Cool bath?

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

We dug out the anti-histamine cream. It had best before 2003 on it. Whereas BB dates don't mean that much to me, 10 years out of date could mean either it would do nothing or be too powerful, so we binned it.

We are taking a picture every hour to check its not getting worse. It isn't, but then it also isn't getting better.

I'm not a pharmacist ( but i have studied pharmacology); I'd have thought it would just be less active rather than more. Is there no way of checking online?

silvercar

Had the most exasperating conversation with santandar today.

Trying to move DS2's savings account to a better rate. So I tell the CS girl that it is my son's account, pass the phone over and he gives permission for her to speak to me. But that isn't good enough and she will only speak to him. So he repeats every question she asks to me, and I give him the answer. She then decides that I am prompting him. So he explains that I set the account up so of course I have the details. But that isn't good enough - as she can hear me prompting him she can't accept what he is saying.

So I ask for her supervisor. She gives me all the reasons why she can't accept what he is repeating from me. I ask for the supervisor again.

Music on hold....

She returns to say I am allowed to speak to him, but she still needs to talk to him! So we have this three way conversation that took ages. Like having a parrot holding the phone.

Nikkster

zagubov wrote: »

I'm not a pharmacist ( but i have studied pharmacology); I'd have thought it would just be less active rather than more. Is there no way of checking online?

Could also degrade into something different/ no longer be preserved...

I'd probably have used it if I didn't have anything else, but I'm definitely not telling silvercar to!

silvercar

zagubov wrote: »

I'm not a pharmacist ( but i have studied pharmacology); I'd have thought it would just be less active rather than more. Is there no way of checking online?

I googled, got this: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=760743

None the wiser.

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

I googled, got this: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=760743

None the wiser.

That's not very informative, is it?.:D

Better give it the body-swerve until we find something more reassuring or positive.:)

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

Had the most exasperating conversation with santandar today.

Trying to move DS2's savings account to a better rate. So I tell the CS girl that it is my son's account, pass the phone over and he gives permission for her to speak to me. But that isn't good enough and she will only speak to him. So he repeats every question she asks to me, and I give him the answer. She then decides that I am prompting him. So he explains that I set the account up so of course I have the details. But that isn't good enough - as she can hear me prompting him she can't accept what he is saying.

So I ask for her supervisor. She gives me all the reasons why she can't accept what he is repeating from me. I ask for the supervisor again.

Music on hold....

She returns to say I am allowed to speak to him, but she still needs to talk to him! So we have this three way conversation that took ages. Like having a parrot holding the phone.

How old is DS2?

I refer you to my previous comments about kids needing to understand what real life is (which I know we have agreed to differ on in the past too)

Nikkster

michaels wrote: »

How old is DS2?

I refer you to my previous comments about kids needing to understand what real life is (which I know we have agreed to differ on in the past too)

I get passed the phone by my parents. Should I let them know?

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

How old is DS2?

I refer you to my previous comments about kids needing to understand what real life is (which I know we have agreed to differ on in the past too)

This is his "you are not getting it til you are an adult in maturity as well as age" money. So whereas legally, he could have the paperwork and make all the decisions, I'm not letting that happen. It isn't a life changing amount of money, but could lead him to being not so careful with money as a student and then having nothing to fall back on when he starts work. It was in an account in his name that I had control over. The only reason it is in his sole name is the inland revenue rules on accounts changes once children hit 16, so we had no choice but put it in his name.

The one thing he has learnt today is to avoid santandar!

All I was doing was protesting that they had rolled the savings account into one paying 0.4% interest, when they had an almost identical account paying 1.7%.

silvercar

Nikkster wrote: »

I get passed the phone by my parents. Should I let them know?

That is the joke. I phone up places for my mother and it is much easier just to say I am her.

Previously DS1 and DS2 have interchanged, where I just need one of them to give permission to speak to me.