LirW wrote: » My family drama beats your family drama.
LirW wrote: » My sister is acting the bollox at the moment, as much as I love her. So she's a single mother in her mid 20s and currently about to finish her degree in psychology, therefore there's a lot to do. Her boy is turning 1 next month. Now my mother and her mother had a big fall-out a few years ago and haven't spoken since, there was a lot of really heavy stuff involved. Anyway, a few weeks ago my mom had the idea to visit her mother for a week and stay with her and talk it all out (My mother lives on the canaries, my nan in Austria). Now my mother tried to find a reasonably cheap flight connection soon enough and asked my sister if she could imagine asking the nan how she'd think about it. But my mom couldn't find a reasonable flight and had to cancel the trip for the near future and told my sister that the plan is scrapped for now. My mom doesn't have a lot of money so it's kind of a big deal to find a cheap flight. Now my sister couldn't keep her mouth shut and asked the nan anyway and she actually got quite excited over it... silly silly her. Then a week later, after my mother was a bit cross with her for hyping my nan up, my sister sent her a voice message: Hey if you still consider coming, how about you fly back with me when I visit you in September, you could stay with me and look after the baby, because there's sooo much going on at college at the moment (insert: I'm a stingy b1tch and my baby is too precious to be sent to a childminder) and in exchange I'll drive you down to nan and you can meet for lunch or so. My family drama beats your family drama.
miamee wrote: » "Now my mother and her mother" = "Now my mother and my mother's mother"
LirW wrote: » After reading over it I think it didn't really come across what's the stinge about it! Shame on me. I try summing it up, my sister took the opportunity to cheekily ask for a free babysitter for a week instead of simply paying someone like everyone else who works/goes to college. She genuinely doesn't see why she should pay someone to take care of her precious child of the century because my mother was considering coming over for a week for something entirely different which didn't work out.
AndrewJRenko wrote: » My first reaction to hearing of a single mother in the family who needs a bit of help to get her professional qualification would be to ask what kind of help she needs. Is it really 'stingy' to ask for help from a family member? Meanwhile, we're plastering the airwaves and online adverts with 'just ask' 'just talk to someone' campaigns around mental health.
Paddy Cow wrote: » In this case, yes. The op's mother has already reared her children and was coming to spend a week with her own mother. She is short of cash and wouldn't be making this trip often. For her daughter to expect her to come and stay with her to look after her child is incredibly cheeky and stingy. She's not asking for help. She's hijacking someone's much needed holiday. That's not a sign of someone with mental health issues. It's a sign of someone who needs a good kick up the arse.
The_Conductor wrote: » Honestly- my head hurts trying to make headwind into deciphering the two cases from the last day........... I'm not sure that either case reflect anything out of the ordinary- other than perhaps the sister who wanted a free baby sitter- was conscious of money being short for her mum, and when the trip fell through- then still expected her to buy flights over to go baby sitting for a week. The least the sister could do is pay for the flight- if she wanted a baby sitter? As for the name change on the flight tickets- I still don't know what happened- and I've reread it three times. Actually, I'm not even sure who the baddie is- or why.......... I'm getting old and grouchy (but not stingy!)
The_Conductor wrote: » Honestly- my head hurts trying to make headwind into deciphering the two cases from the last day...........As for the name change on the flight tickets- I still don't know what happened- and I've reread it three times. Actually, I'm not even sure who the baddie is- or why.......... I'm getting old and grouchy (but not stingy!)
AndrewJRenko wrote: » Congratulations on your ability to diagnose the situation with such certainty from such a long distance and such little knowledge.
The_Conductor wrote: » As for the name change on the flight tickets- I still don't know what happened- and I've reread it three times. Actually, I'm not even sure who the baddie is- or why..........
Paddy Cow wrote: » Fitz has a friend who owes him €90. His father in law can't go on his stage so he was going to sell his FIL's ticket to his friend for €190. €100 to change the name on the ticket and then pocket the other €90 to recoup his loss from his friend. He realised that was a sh!tty thing to do and told the FIL's son he had got €90 back for his ticket. The FIL gave the money to his son and now Fitz has the hump because he thinks the money should be his. Fitz you are 100% in the wrong here. Your friend owes you €90. Not your FIL or his son. Getting money back for your FIL does not make you entitled to it. People are spending 100's of euros to go to your stage and you're cribbing over €90 that isn't yours and you think you are in the right?
PandaPoo wrote: » A lady came up to me yesterday looking for a refund on a bottle of wine. It happens from time to time, exchange if it's not open or maybe it's corked. She said she's drank a glass out of it and there's nothing wrong with the wine, it's just not to her taste. She got it as a gift and wanted the money back. I told her I couldn't give her a refund without a receipt and I'm not sure I can even let you exchange it because there's nothing wrong with it. I price checked it and it was an €18 bottle!! I told my supervisor and she said yeah let her exchange it but it has to be from the alcohol section. I couldn't believe that she was allowed get an exchange on it, it's not a restaurant, you can't drink some and change it. So I told her to get more wine to the value of €18 or higher. She comes back up with groceries and I said I'm sorry it has to be from the alcohol section. You can get beer, wine, spirits.. She was furious. She still wanted her money back. I tried to explain that it was a goodwill gesture that we were even letting her exchange it, it probably wasn't even bought in our store. She came back up with a bottle of wine for €6 and said she'll take the €12 cash. I was losing my patience at that point. You have to get at least another €12 in the alcohol section, or I swap the wine and you don't get any cash. She storms back off, and comes back with bottles of 7up, coke, fanta etc. I had to walk her down and she begrudgingly chose some cans to make up the difference. F*cking entitled people!
dieselbug wrote: » Am I reading this correctly You took back a partial bottle that she had drank from!!!!
Panthro wrote: » The supervisor was in the wrong to allow that bint to get away with such nonsense.
dartboardio wrote: » Ok.. My boyfriend gave me €20 last week to buy tickets for a gig we were supposed to go to. I said sure I’ll get dinner and I’ll get the tickets on my card with that €20 you gave me,All fine. That night I got the dinner €30 our taxi €10 and bought us extra drinks to bring home, 6 bottles each or whatever. Another €15 euro. We didn’t end up going to the gig so I kept the €20 but presumed it was MORE than covered. He then initiated we get pizza last night which I paid for, all grand, €15. In his mind that €15 was his because we never bought the tickets. So his €20 was still ‘active’ He then initiated we visit the cinema tonight and proceeds to hand me €4 for his ticket. I paid for the sweets and popcorn and tickets. €30 total. And a taxi home, another €10 We’re standing in line to order our popcorn, I want my own because he will hog ours if we share, he then says ‘I have €5 credit left so that can cover the extra popcorn’ I say, credit for what? On your card or something? He says no, I’ve a fiver credit left over from the €20 I gave you, since I only ‘spent’ €15 of that on pizza last night!!!!!!
fitzparker wrote: » Nope your wrong. Originally I was telling my friend to give me the €190 he was going to pay anyway €100 name change and the €90 he owed. But I didn't I never mentioned the €90 he owed and said to give me €190 so I can give FIL €90 to recoup from his loss... That's actually doing a good thing.
fitzparker wrote: » What I didn't like was a surprise I gave the father in law of this €90 and he basically didn't give a fcuk about it and gave to his son instead within 30 seconds without even saying thanks to me.
fitzparker wrote: » Put it this way. In easoer terms I got father in law surprise €90 but told his son first. He called dad and dad said he can have it. Son calls me back and it's nasically "he doesn't want it transfer to me" I would have rathered A decent person would have took the money said thanks then did want ever they want with it.
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