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4 girls aged 17

  • 05-03-2019 12:15AM
    #1
    Redshoestoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭


    4 girls aged 17 are coming to stay with me for a week this summer. Two of them are my granddaughters. I haven't been around teenagers since their mother was a teenage so I'm not up to date on teenage stuff. I live in Dublin. They are coming from suburbia USA. Do 17 year olds go 'clubbing'? Would it be safe to let them out at night in Dublin? I could drop them off and pick them up but they certainly would want me to be hanging around. Perhaps 17 year olds are not allowed in clubs, I'm so not up to date I'm not even sure what the legal age for drinking is in Ireland, 18 I suppose.
    Any insight would be very much appreciated.


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  • #2
    s8n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,757 ✭✭✭s8n


    The popcorn in in the oven


  • #3
    LessOutragePlz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭LessOutragePlz


    Send them off to the nuns for a week that will sort them out!


  • #4
    KathleenGrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    Either this is a windup or it is the makings of a movie.:D


  • #5
    Mike Oxlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭Mike Oxlong


    Oh lordy... this is going to end well


  • #6
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,364 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Could end in tears


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Crips and coke, the other kind.


  • #8
    KathleenGrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    KathleenGrant wrote: »
    Either this is a windup or it is the makings of a movie.:D

    Quoting myself and all but hey, can I help write the script!


  • #9
    PropJoe10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,582 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    Posting this in After Hours is only asking for trouble!


  • #10
    Redshoestoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭Redshoestoo


    It's not a wind up! It's not unusual for grandchildren to visit their grandmother. I just wish they were much younger, it would be much easier to entertain them and I wouldn't be worried about keeping them safe while they are with me.


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Redshoestoo wrote: »
    4 girls aged 17 are coming to stay with me for a week this summer. Two of them are my granddaughters. I haven't been around teenagers since their mother was a teenage so I'm not up to date on teenage stuff. I live in Dublin. They are coming from suburbia USA. Do 17 year olds go 'clubbing'? Would it be safe to let them out at night in Dublin? I could drop them off and pick them up but they certainly would want me to be hanging around. Perhaps 17 year olds are not allowed in clubs, I'm so not up to date I'm not even sure what the legal age for drinking is in Ireland, 18 I suppose.
    Any insight would be very much appreciated.

    I'd ask their parents about their habits in the US, and what they think is acceptable with different and more lax laws here.


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  • #12
    Redshoestoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭Redshoestoo


    Is there a more sensible place to post?


  • #13
    Kevin Finnerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Kevin Finnerty


    Who's gonna be first?


  • #14
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    drinking age is 21 in the US, so tell the Irish ones to keep an eye on their American cousins,


  • #15
    KathleenGrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    Redshoestoo wrote: »
    It's not a wind up! It's not unusual for grandchildren to visit their grandmother. I just wish they were much younger, it would be much easier to entertain them and I wouldn't be worried about keeping them safe while they are with me.

    You said you are unsure about legal age to drink but you are a grandmother!
    I call bull****!


  • #16
    Charlie19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,062 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    You wont have to entertain them, they'll be too busy posing for Instagram shots.


  • #17
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    PM me and we'll arrange something.


  • #18
    Snotty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Snotty


    Giggidy


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Post some pics OP, that way if we see them wandering around Dublin lost or drunk, we'll be able to help them out, yaknow?


  • #20
    KathleenGrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    Snotty wrote: »
    Giggidy

    :D


  • #21
    Force Carrier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


    On the plus side 17 girls aged 4 would be worse.


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  • #22
    Spanish Eyes
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    Send them to the Gaeltacht. Sit back, relax and they will have a ball and will be someone else’s resbonsibility.


  • #23
    Ted Johnson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 210 ✭✭Ted Johnson


    Dilema: how to post a jokey comment in this thread without coming across as too rapey.


  • #24
    upinsmoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭upinsmoke


    Give them plenty of Johnnie's, don't want them to go back pregnant


  • #25
    Redshoestoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭Redshoestoo


    KathleenGrant wrote: »
    You said you are unsure about legal age to drink but you are a grandmother!
    I call bull****!

    OMG. I'm the grandmother not the mother! I don't hangout with teenagers everybody I know is over 60!! I never think about stuff like that normally.


  • #26
    Rikand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,968 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    4 coming over, 8 going back


  • #27
    upinsmoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭upinsmoke


    Redshoestoo wrote: »
    OMG. I'm the grandmother not the mother! I don't hangout with teenagers everybody I know is over 60!! I never think about stuff like that normally.

    You seem to know a fair bit about technology from your previous posts


  • #28
    Hobosan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Hobosan


    I've legally changed my name to 'The Luas' for occasions just like this.


  • #29
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,763 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Ted Johnson wrote:
    Dilema: how to post a jokey comment in this thread without coming across as too rapey.
    Too late for that now, you got there already.


  • #30
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    PropJoe10 wrote:
    Posting this in After Hours is only asking for trouble!


    I think that was the idea, this being Troll Monday and all.


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  • #31
    Redshoestoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭Redshoestoo


    I think they'll be ok. I'll give them my high powered air gun and mace spray that I like to have with me in Dublin after dark.


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