Waitrose ordered stuffed turkey gone missing on 24th! Compensation?

missprice

At some point I am quite sure the OP will look back on this Christmas and laugh about it. Makes no difference if you micro manage the day or don't care what people will eat on the day it can and will go spectactularly wrong sometimes.

As a kid I remember my mother finding out on the day itself that the cooker did not work, at all. She had to go to neighbors house to cook the turkey and everything else. The stories that were told about that turkey crossing and recrossing the road were legend for a couple of years.

Then the time I lent a boyfriend my last fiver to visit his mum just before Xmas, told him to get the money back off his mum and buy a lump of meat in his way home Xmas eve.
He forgot the money and the meat and we ate tinned pie that Christmas day. Not the greatest Xmas ever but darn funny now looking back.

The ones you remember are usually when it all went wrong. And quite likely were emotional at the time. I was livid with that boyfriend. But you get over it.

paulineb_2

The thing is, compensation isnt going to make up for the stress suffered is it?

Getting the turkey free was a decent offer.

SimonSays

Emotions are running high on this thread. I hope no readers are cooking meat otherwise it'll all go to pot.

Pollycat

SimonSays wrote: »

Emotions are running high on this thread. I hope no readers are cooking meat otherwise it'll all go to pot.

My meat has already gone (in)to (the crock) pot.

duchy

I for one hope the OP looks back and laughs at the "not emotionally prepared" comment. (I still don't really know what she meant TBH) but it's true-no-one remembers the perfectly cooked Christmas dinner but everyone fondly reminisces about the year it all went erm...Not quite according to plan !!

Do I think she over-reacted and cut off her nose to spite her face by refusing another bird ..... Yes ...... but then to me Christmas dinner is about the people and the meal is "just a roast" with a few extra bits...... and if the meal all went wrong I'd stick on a pot of pasta or whatever and roll with it . I don't buy into "it must be perfect" and my hope is she learned a little of that so future Christmases won't be blighted or ruined if things don't go exactly to plan.

Mylo_The_Moggy

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

Nope. One of them went way over 1000 posts. It was about Aldi not accepting credit cards!

That was a CLASSIC thread!!!

SimonSays

The subway thread has to be up there too

Mylo_The_Moggy

SimonSays wrote: »

The subway thread has to be up there too

Yep, without a doubt! "The Meatball Sandwich" lol. :D

prowla

Mylo_The_Moggy wrote: »

Yep, without a doubt! "The Meatball Sandwich" lol. :D

That one eventually rolled out of the door.

Morglin

Pollycat wrote: »

Maybe the posters agreeing with the OP are those people who obsess about Christmas and micro-plan every last detail so that every tiny little aspect of 'THE BIG DAY' will be perfect and they understand how the OP feels as that's how they would react to a hitch in said plan.....

And maybe the posters who think there's been an over-reaction here are people who are more laid back and can take a deviation from 'the plan' in their stride without saying 'Christmas was ruined because......'

To be honest, I don't over stress, although I would imagine everyone actually wants their Xmas to go well, without any hassles (unless they are masochists), and I would have taken the exchange turkey, got the stuffing etc., and used that, but this thread has got pretty unpleasant at times, and gone a bit OTT with 'different opinions'.

It seems one starts with sarcasm, and then others jump in, playing some sort of 'follow the leader', proving that far from being laid back and jolly, they are, in truth, rather spiteful.

Lin :whistle: