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MMF007

I have 2 friends with boys awaiting A level results. One says she feels sick everytime she thinks about it, the other said she would have been fine but last year her extremely bright daughter got a lower grade than anticipated in her best subject and had to go through clearing. I feel so sorry for everyone stressed out by it but the clearing process ended up with a really good course and a very happy student
My fingers are crossed Doveling!

mardatha

They all sort themselves out in the end Doveling and teenage drama is far too much for us, watch your stress levels. You'd be no good to him if you had a stroke!

Softstuff

I hope all goes well Doveling, it's such a tough time. Everything's crossed xx

VJsmum

Doveling wrote: »

Hope you can get some help Softstuff.

Up since silly o'clock. Tension headache.
A level results tomorrow and my man child is very grumpy and stressy.
Not a lot I can do but listen and absorb the grumps.

Ah good luck - the good thing is that these days they know if they've got their uni place before they know their results. My DS knew at about 8.00 AM that he'd got into Liverpool JM so was very happy. By the time he got his (completely sh!te :cool:) A level results he didn't care, cos he was in :rotfl:. (he got in because he did a BTEC as well and got the equivalent of an A*). I failed my A levels the first time round, only got DEE the second time, but here I am, now doing a PhD.....

More marking and number crunching for me. CHeese and lentil loaf with salad for tea - I am liking this meal planning lark. Both 'children' will be in bed for some time to come - DD has a day off and DS didn't get in till about 2 after going the football, i suspect that quite a lot of :beer: will have been involved....

I also have to choose what to have for dinner on the 1st December... :eek::rotfl: My niece is getting married and the invite came through. i realise it is necessary but seems very bizarre..

ivyleaf

Not to worry VJsmum, by December you'll have long forgotten what you ordered and it will be a (hopefully) nice surprise

moneyistooshorttomention

VJsmum wrote: »

I also have to choose what to have for dinner on the 1st December... :eek::rotfl: My niece is getting married and the invite came through. i realise it is necessary but seems very bizarre..

Personally - when I have to make an advance choice on a meal - I write it down/put a post-it note in my diary or the like. It's surprising just how many people don't remember what they've chosen - and it helps me ensure I get what I've chosen (rather than find someone else has had it instead - because they couldnt remember).

I must say my first thought was "enviable to have the choice". I've never forgotten my brother's sit-down meal wedding reception (choice wasnt given - but he knew I was vegetarian) and they hadnt catered for me. So when I politely said "I'm one of the vegetarians" to the waiting staff and was waiting to see what we were being given they were distinctly perplexed and I got an obviously cobbled-together "weekday lunch" type meal and one course was missing altogether.:cool::(:mad: :cool: Though that is rather typical of his attitude towards me - but I hadnt learnt what he was like at that point....

All these years later and I've come to regard that incident and a couple of other separate ones as "At least I know what he's like and I'm not living in blissful ignorance about him. It's best to know".

nursemaggie

Virgin Media are at it again. I have had a bill for next months broadband. I have been a couple of hours on the phone again. This time the person I spoke to acknowledged they had restarted my account. He also acknowledged that I had cancelled and had, had an email to confirm it.

I got two more of the same email with no date for the cancelling and not acknowledging the agreement we came to. He said I would get a letter in three to five days. If I don't get it by Monday I will go to the Ombudsman. I have had enough of incompetent lying companies. My inbox is full of the correspondence with all the incompetent companies who never give me any service. I dare not delete them in case they come up with a big bill in the future. I once got a threatening letter from a company about a bill I had paid in full 5 years previously. Luckily I was able to prove I had paid it because I had kept my bank statements for 7 years. Were they embarrassed, the company had changed hands since I paid the bill. I cannot remember what it was for or who they were.

I went on their website and there was a sort of forum for customers to exchange complaints. What good that is I don't know because someone had posted the same sort of thing happening to her. She had reported it to offcom. I think I will follow what happens.

FairyPrincessk

Sorry to have been a bit awol. I'm working a long shift on clearing tomorrow and things are a bit busy as OH is obviously working the other end of it with his sixth formers. It is tough being on the other end because we know how anxious everyone is, and we also know that what can seem difficult or devastating at the time often comes out for the best in the end. I've never worked clearing and I'm dreading possibly having to turn a student down, but hoping they'll find somewhere that feels right in the end. We don't have this system in the states but I remember being devastated when I wasn't accepted into my top choice Uni. Turns out I ended up in a far better place for me but I didn't know that at the time. I ended up being happy in the long run and that is really what matters.

mardatha

Things always work out ok in the end FPK yes

fuddle

Fpk it sounds like you're an empathetic person who feels hurt on behalf of others. I have a tenancy towards it but my youngest DD is crippled with it. She really takes others misfortunes to heart. I hope you can get through it OK and I hope the youngster is OK.