Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

Sunshinemummy

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Sorry no time to read back.

DD has returned from a couple of days in Yorkshire. Her car has been vandalised while away:o It's hard to say what's happened to it but it looks like someone has been jumping on it or there's possibly been a couple fighting over the bonnet. She is devastated. It's a brand new car.
What I'm wondering is.....the windscreen is a mess....it's as if someone with trainers ingrained with gravel, has been kicking and scuffing the glass.Its a mess:o
Does anyone know if there's anything we can use to make good the glass?

Thank you

That is terrible.

Will her insurance cover the cost of new glass?

pippo

Arthien wrote: »

Afternoon all! Just been for a lovely frosty afternoon walk, love this time of year when it's sunny and chilly and wintery :xmassmile I rediscovered that I quite like Baileys yesterday, really fancy one to warm me up now, pity I've missed all the deals

It's always simpler if everyone pays the same, and I can understand that it might look tight (in a bad way) to want to split it precisely, but personally I don't generally eat or drink that much as I have a small appetite and tend to be the driver, so I always end up feeling ripped off if others have had multiple courses and several bottles of wine and only suggest splitting it equally at the end of the night! :eek:

I can go either way, but like/need to know what is happening with the bill beforehand, then, if i'm not eating/drinking (I know, quite unlikely) I acn opt out, if needs be.
The one that always gets me is when it is suddenly decided that we will all pay for X's meal for some obscure reason. I have no problem with the obvious ones like birthdays, but when somebody is moving desks or their brother has graduated....

Serendipitious

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

I had to pay £20 board from when I turned 16 (and was still at school), I was only allowed to go to college if I was totally independent... I ended up moving out when I was 19, my siblings moved out even younger (one moved out at 14!) I don't want that for my kids, but I think I have gone from one extreme to the other...

I had to pay too, out of holiday jobs.

And also from age 16, I was only allowed to go anywhere provided I could get myself home. Mine did not do lifts or taxi me anywhere. The very idea!

Paid for my own wedding, paid for my own divorce too.

They did some babysitting for me to go to work, but only for work purposes, never ever for social reasons. And when my dad retired, he announced he wasn't spending his retirement child-minding so that ended that.

Then the demands began (in the name of duty) to see to them in their old age. :mad:

pippo

scamps1966 wrote: »

Afternoon peeps.



I'm 63% Tight. LOL

My wife and I used to hang out with a couple when our kids were young and nearly every time we went to a pub, the bloke would disappear to the toilet leaving me to get drinks for everyone including the kids. When it came to his round, the kids didn't need one!! I would get the next round in, again, for the kids. Then this couple would make an excuse to leave. My wife and I put up with this for about 4 years until we got fed up with them!

Also, we would go on holiday, usually Woolacombe, and after a day or two, they would turn up and stay for at least a couple of days! It's not as though they didn't have any money, they had more than us!

If they took the test they'd probably score 100% :rotfl:

We had a friend like that (drink wise) We went out regularly to a quiz and he was always the last to buy a drink, hoping that when it got to his turn we would have had enough. We all decided to force him into buying a round. fortunately his wife came out with us that week and she blasted him saying 'for f...s sake P... put you hand in your pocket and buy the bloody drinks!'

cjj_2

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Sorry no time to read back.

DD has returned from a couple of days in Yorkshire. Her car has been vandalised while away:o It's hard to say what's happened to it but it looks like someone has been jumping on it or there's possibly been a couple fighting over the bonnet. She is devastated. It's a brand new car.
What I'm wondering is.....the windscreen is a mess....it's as if someone with trainers ingrained with gravel, has been kicking and scuffing the glass.Its a mess:o
Does anyone know if there's anything we can use to make good the glass?

Thank you

Aww TM I'm so sorry. I live in Yorkshire & this has happened to me twice. First time the roof was all caved in . Second time roof was not quite as bad but bonnet all scratched from someone's shoes. There are some horrible people. I will ask oh about the glass xx

Edit - oh has just reminded me it's happened to us 3 times. We had one up for sale once outside the house and that was damaged in this way. He says try polishing it out with compound, bit of a long shot but there is a chance xx

emerald21

Serendipitious wrote: »

I quite agree.

I actually stopped doing the meals out when I moved up here. Before that, I often used to meet them halfway, about every 4-6 weeks, to catch up over a long lunch at a really nice independent pub. Me treating them, of course.

Made me smile, because they'd always both eat from the menu, 3 full courses, drinks bill, the lot, whereas I was quite happy with something from the specials board and a jug of water.

I wouldn't allow it full stop.

emerald21

underperky wrote: »

Our children never see the cost of anything when around mam and dads bank

But a lady I know in her 40's expects large expensive presents as she has no children and expects the parents to buy her the equivalent cost of 2 adult and 3 childrens Christmas presents that are given to her siblings families and gets quite narked if she thinks her parents have " diddled her ":eek::eek:

Although her parents paid for only her to go to uni she had no overdraft etc etc and she now earns more than any of them :eek::eek:.

But now forgets that they did that .... and even at her age wants what she thinks she is entitled to off Santa :mad::mad:

Blooming ridiculous and more fool them for doing it.

emerald21

Anon wrote: »

Thank you - did you enter the same details in error to claim or different details? No reply from a few weeks ago when Mrs Anon won (before realising the delete repeat trick). No reply for another family member from earlier this week.

Between the Anon family who played, won and claimed, we had 3 vouchers that said they had already been redeemed on another account and 2 that haven't arrived.

Given your response we are not sure whether to just write them off or follow up? We were quite lucky in the end and did cash in "a few" .

Anon

If it was me I d leave it at that.

Sunshinemummy

Serendipitious wrote: »

I had to pay too, out of holiday jobs.

And also from age 16, I was only allowed to go anywhere provided I could get myself home. Mine did not do lifts or taxi me anywhere. The very idea!

Paid for my own wedding, paid for my own divorce too.

They did some babysitting for me to go to work, but only for work purposes, never ever for social reasons. And when my dad retired, he announced he wasn't spending his retirement child-minding so that ended that.

Then the demands began (in the name of duty) to see to them in their old age. :mad:

I think your parents are twins with mine.

My parents had the kids for a few hours whilst I gave birth...

We have lived around the corner from them for 22 years, apart from mum coming to ours for a drink every night they were not interested in the kids. She was interested in one of my sisters kids..... weird.

When the DS3 was doing his AS levels they started being demanding of him which ruined his AS levels. They got more demanding, and when dad died, mum was even worse.... sadly I do not think I like her.

An example of her behaviour - I had reminded her that it was DS1 birthday approaching and if she got a card I would post it for her, she did not do this so I bought a card and asked her to right it... she refused saying that she had not wrote him a card in three years and she is not starting now. DS1 sends her flowers for xmas, mothers' day and her birthday.

She really is a horrid woman, and now she has dementia she is worse.

Sunshinemummy

cjj wrote: »

Aww TM I'm so sorry. I live in Yorkshire & this has happened to me twice. First time the roof was all caved in . Second time roof was not quite as bad but bonnet all scratched from someone's shoes. There are some horrible people. I will ask oh about the glass xx

Edit - oh has just reminded me it's happened to us 3 times. We had one up for sale once outside the house and that was damaged in this way. He says try polishing it out with compound, bit of a long shot but there is a chance xx

Flip. I live in Yorkshire

I once left my purse on the top of my car... it was there the next morning (I think this was a time when bubbs was not visiting our great county!) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: