Limo on last day of school

mountainofdebt

Poppy9 wrote: »

Sorry but only chavs and old biddies play bingo so guess you are old biddies :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Poppy ....I never knew you liked to live dangerously

jellyhead

Janepig wrote: »

You're right, it is probably a bit chavvy, it's just that it's been the done thing on their last day for a very long time. I think it would be a bit more chavvy if it was just one or two turning up for a few kids, but with ours it's more of an organised thing for all of them, I think they leave at about lunchtime and the younger kids are allowed to come and wave them off. I guess it wouldn't make a hell of a difference they had a coach or a couple of mini buses really, same thing, it's just a means of transport to the bowling alley. They usually have a leavers assembly and shirt signing the day before. I can't wait for next year when DD takes part and MIL will be bumping her gums about how there was never such a thing when she left school and she was put to work the following day, etc..... :rotfl:

I think it's probably preferable to a "prom" where the temptation is to get them tarted up, even at such a young age. Jeans and t-shirt and a limo to bowling is not as bad as it could be.

Jx

I want to meet your MIL :rotfl:

I used to be on the PTFA helping out at the disco, and the differences between the girls surprised me. Some of them wear jeans and a t-shirt with a picture of a kitten on it, some wear prom dresses but some wear shorts that are barely there and a skimpy top with a sexual message on it.

Yes, I agree that if it's something everyone's doing then it's more of an event, and going somewhere in the limo makes more sense than just driving around in it.

And in OP's case it's something they all do, or at least almost all, so it's a big deal to be left out. i think the school ought to get involved, because this won't be the first or last time somebody gets left out.

Janepig

jellyhead wrote: »

I want to meet your MIL :rotfl:

You really DON'T want to meet MIL!! She's worse at Christmas and birthdays - my two are fairly spoiled, but not as bad as most kids I know, and she goes a bit OTT with them herself, but it doesn't stop her having a good old moan about how she didn't used to have anything much for birthdays and Christmas when she was a child. Every time.

Jx

jellyhead

Just a satsuma, and a handful of nuts if she was lucky?

Janepig

jellyhead wrote: »

Just a satsuma, and a handful of nuts if she was lucky?

Not even that I don't think. She got a pair of knickers to share with her sister and a day off from scrubbing doorsteps.

Jx

lostinrates

Toto wrote: »

I have honestly never thought of myself as being an over protective parent. What with this thread and the leaving kids alone thread I need a rethink maybe?

But I can't see myself going to a bikers club and asking a complete stranger to take my child off, god knows where, on the back of a motorbike.

Several times in my life people have knocked on my door and asked me a favour ( usually to do with ponies, once to do with a dog). I have not once yet kept their kids, riding off into the sunset with them or feeding them to the dog

People who have a passion for something tend to be enthusiastic about sharing the joy of it.

I have met few bikers, but the ones I have met have been fun and kind. One helped out at a now closed school for ' difficult ' children. He looked scary but was a sweety. Another occasion I spoke to lots of bikers was when a large group of bikers in a. Sort of cavalcade ended up on the same road as me and a horse. It was an amazing experience ( my horse was brilliant about it, the bikers were considerate in the extreme, and later I passed them as they had stopped at a pub up the road. They all came over to meet the horse who had impressed them, and offered to buy the horse and I a drink to make up for the excitement caused :rotfl:.

duchy

I like the idea that chav quotiot has anything to do with affluence -some of the chaviest girls I've come across (I used to work in a high school) have come from very nice middle class families ...... so don't get too smug too soon !!!

Agree about the bikers - most are complete poppets when it comes to kids or animals needing a good turn. Some of the bike clubs raise amazing amounts for charity -year in -year out too. They probably have more class than some of the parents we've discussed in this thread !

Poppy9

mountainofdebt wrote: »

Poppy ....I never knew you liked to live dangerously

hehehe Jane knows I'm only joking as she's younger than me!!

duchy wrote: »

I like the idea that chav quotiot has anything to do with affluence -some of the chaviest girls I've come across (I used to work in a high school) have come from very nice middle class families ...... so don't get too smug too soon !!!

Agree about the bikers - most are complete poppets when it comes to kids or animals needing a good turn. Some of the bike clubs raise amazing amounts for charity -year in -year out too. They probably have more class than some of the parents we've discussed in this thread !

Ooh I'm doing alright thanks. My DD at 18 doesn't have a chavvy bone in her body! I'm not smug though as I don't think smuggness is an attractive trait!

Plus my OH is a mid life biker so he's obvioulsy got class

So I am win, win, win :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Toto

lostinrates wrote: »

Several times in my life people have knocked on my door and asked me a favour ( usually to do with ponies, once to do with a dog). I have not once yet kept their kids, riding off into the sunset with them or feeding them to the dog

People who have a passion for something tend to be enthusiastic about sharing the joy of it.

I have met few bikers, but the ones I have met have been fun and kind. One helped out at a now closed school for ' difficult ' children. He looked scary but was a sweety. Another occasion I spoke to lots of bikers was when a large group of bikers in a. Sort of cavalcade ended up on the same road as me and a horse. It was an amazing experience ( my horse was brilliant about it, the bikers were considerate in the extreme, and later I passed them as they had stopped at a pub up the road. They all came over to meet the horse who had impressed them, and offered to buy the horse and I a drink to make up for the excitement caused :rotfl:.

No disrespect meant to bikers at all I know a number personally and I would trust them all completely. It was more the idea of inviting a stranger to ride off with my child I was thinking of, it sort of goes against everything we teach them doesn't it. But I do get your point completely, I realise in this case it probably is me over reacting.

Poppy9

Toto wrote: »

No disrespect meant to bikers at all I know a number personally and I would trust them all completely. It was more the idea of inviting a stranger to ride off with my child I was thinking of, it sort of goes against everything we teach them doesn't it. But I do get your point completely, I realise in this case it probably is me over reacting.

I thinkk you are wise to be careful who you let your child go off with. No doubt parents thought their child was safe with Mr Saville!