Prom limo no show

facade

AdrianC wrote: »

I'm just boggling at £500 for a taxi ride to their school.

Proms* have been hyped up into a "Once in a Lifetime" event. The girls spend £100s on frocks & beauticication, (boys aren't far behind nowadays ) and everyone wants to make an entrance. They have to be on time, as the school gather outside the venue to watch each other arrive, do photos etc. £500 between 6 or more in a 30foot long hunmmer is par for the course.

If you rock up half an hour late, everyone is inside.

*Imported from USA, like "Trick or Treat". We just had a Leavers Disco..............

loskie

Plus these limos are death traps.
Cut n shut
no seatbelts
side facing seats with no restraints.

And you put your kids in them?

maninthestreet

loskie wrote: »

Plus these limos are death traps.
Cut n shut
no seatbelts
side facing seats with no restraints.

And you put your kids in them?

Back in the 70s and 80s, back seats in cars had no seat belts, but no one was bothered.

zappahey

maninthestreet wrote: »

Back in the 70s and 80s, back seats in cars had no seat belts, but no one was bothered.

I understand that celebrity !!!!!philia was quite popular, too.

loskie

maninthestreet wrote: »

Back in the 70s and 80s, back seats in cars had no seat belts, but no one was bothered.

they obviously were or we would still be in that situation.

droopsnoot

facade wrote: »

*Imported from USA, like "Trick or Treat".

TorT is apparently based very much on old Celtic traditions. The term itself seems to be from there, but the activity comes from over here, long before the US existed. If the word of Wikipedia is anything to go by, that is.

Hoof_Hearted

It's time we stopped importing the crasser elements of American culture -- on second thoughts, all American culture....

dannyrst

facade wrote: »

Proms* have been hyped up into a "Once in a Lifetime" event. The girls spend £100s on frocks & beauticication, (boys aren't far behind nowadays ) and everyone wants to make an entrance. They have to be on time, as the school gather outside the venue to watch each other arrive, do photos etc. £500 between 6 or more in a 30foot long hunmmer is par for the course.

If you rock up half an hour late, everyone is inside.

*Imported from USA, like "Trick or Treat". We just had a Leavers Disco..............

What if you're the first ones there?! Tell the limo to go round the block and come back. Then the next ones do that same. Prom never starts.

Save £500 and tell kids they either don't go or they walk!

LandyAndy

At least they were all saved from the most embarrassingly chavtastic arrival at the prom.

Horizon81

Hoof_Hearted wrote: »

It's time we stopped importing the crasser elements of American culture -- on second thoughts, all American culture....

Agree, including the fuss around having to buy teachers gifts and saccharine cards for merely doing their job. And did this nonsense of infant age kids having a 'graduation' before going into junior school comer from the US? It's pathetic.

As for the OP, if the owner is hanging the phone up after shouting at you, you'll get nowhere without legal action. I'd take the half money and run.... if that's still an option. I know most of these chavtastic prom/hen do cars round my way tend to belong to people who live in, shall I say, not very salubrious areas.