I've seen it all now

This particular story has got me totally befuddled.

Childrens parties have got out of hand - the mums seem to enjoy trying to outdo each other.

OK the wee boy's parents should have told the host rather than him just not show up - but hey - the host was also wrong putting the invoice into his school bag [ well OK the teacher did it for them but they didn't want to speak to the boy's parents ]

Sum this up - lack of communication and lack of common sense on both sides
 
I think it may be because they the child that didn't attend had said they would attend. This is normal thing with birthday parties but is a pain in the neck when you have paid for something up front. in in effect she paid the sum for someone who didn't attend. The child who didn't attend from reports was given an invite with contact details so the parents should have given notice they had double booked. But I really think that both set of parents are being idiots...
 
There's no suit been filed (nor will there be), so no plaintiff, just a whingeing parent.
Then there's another whingeing, and rather rude, parent who couldn't be arsed to do the right thing and let whinger 1 know that child of whinger 2 would not be attending birthday "party".
6 of one and half a dozen of the other.
Clearly a slow news day.
 
I think the parents of the "party boy" are being plain obnoxious as the facts stand right now, although I wouldn't mind betting there's been a little here, perhaps a previous disagrement.

Either way, I'm not sure that going to the small claims court would be fruitful. The woman paid £15.95 for the child's place, the child never turned up. It didn't cost her any extra than she was going to have to pay if the child had turned up....... very very strange.
 
Was not the parent who put the letter in the child's bag actually a teacher at the school?

Either way I have helped to organize parties for my little one and it is almost a given that someone wont turn up for one reason or another, I certainly wouldn't have invoiced someone if they had not turned up
 
Steve Smith said:
If there's no contract then there's no chance of getting remedies.



Invitation, not invite. I got annoyed when I heard it called this on the BBC news earlier!


Steve.
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I thought that too but could a party invite and a positive response to the invite be taken as a contract? In the same way as a verbal agreement could be taken as a contract?
 
No. There would have to be an agreement in place that the fee would be paid if the child didn't turn up in order for it to be claimed.

Invitation!!!! GGGRRR!!!


Steve.
 
Steve Smith said:
If there's no contract then there's no chance of getting remedies.
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I imagine they'd be no chance of getting remedies as if, by so minr miracle, it ever got to a court room, the judge would be to busy laughing
 
Steve Smith said:
No. There would have to be an agreement in place that the fee would be paid if the child didn't turn up in order for it to be claimed.

Invitation!!!! GGGRRR!!!


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I'm not doubting you Steve....... Just thinking what a legal eagle trying to make a name for themselves would do to try and make something stick :lol:
 
Russ77 said:
I'm not doubting you Steve....... Just thinking what a legal eagle trying to make a name for themselves would do to try and make something stick :LOL:
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Make themselves look a dick is what they'd do. :lol:
Positive (or negative, for that matter), RSVP's don't remotely form part of a binding contract.
 
Have to say , I'm willing to bet that a certain yummy mummy's boy will find that invitations to any of his future birthday parties may well result in less than 100% positive responses.
 
I loved this article as it gave them a chance to use the DM sad face pictures - again
 
Wow, now that is news.

Shock revelation that some people are utter dicks.

Who'd have thought it.
 
We had three last minute no-shows at our wedding last year @ £75 a head. Maybe we should have billed them too. :rolleyes:

How pathetic.
 
I don't think this has any legs at all.

Outraged Mother 1 has to pay for x people to attend her brats party. And pay at the time of booking I presume. At the time of agreeing Brat2's parents obviously thought that was no problem.
Later it transpired that Brat 2 couldn't attend. Granted politeness says they should have told Parent1, politeness is not enshrined in any legislation.
However, it's irrelevant, as Parent1 has already payed out, she would not it seems have got her money back anyway, so she has lost...erm nothing.
No loss, no claim.
School teacher hopefully wasn't knowingly involved, and should put parent1 in one corner, and parent2 in another, and not allow either out at playtime.
Move along now, it's not a spectator event.
 
ST4 said:
I can't get it. The plaintiff isn't actually out of pocket
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There is not and never will be a plaintiff (or defendant) in this (non) case.

No one goes to court over £15.95.


Steve.
 
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Question is ..... (Sorry for prolonging this debate...) were the parents of the "no show" kid expected to pay for the event if their kid had gone, or was the paying parent going to foot the bill for everyone as part of the treat. If they were going to be expected to pay anyway, then they should pay up and stop squabbling .... Even though their kid apparently had an urgent date at grandmas which clashed .....

Begs the question about who are the kids here ......

:bat:
 
I feel for the poor kid that didn't get to go because the no show kid had taken up their place. Makes me really sad.
 
yay this means i can invoice all those girls who didnt show up for dates when i was younger .... whayyhay 7D mk2 here i come
 
big soft moose said:
yay this means i can invoice all those girls who didnt show up for dates when i was younger .... whayyhay 7D mk2 here i come
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If they bottled it not wanting to date you,
what make's you so sure that they'd cough up now?
Besides even a grey Import is still a little over a grand,
your teenage years must have been very very disappointing :p
 
Cobra said:
your teenage years must have been very very disappointing :p
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well if you make a habit of hitting on every woman beteen the ages of 16 and 30 that you meet, a minority are bound to have second thoughts ;) - they probably realised that every other man they met would be a disapointment afterwards and decided to save themselves the years of emptily searching for a substitute :lol:
 
big soft moose said:
well if you make a habit of hitting on every woman beteen the ages of 16 and 30 that you meet, a minority are bound to have second thoughts ;) -
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Actually, a few years ago, I worked with a guy like that,
he certainly wasn't one of natures Adonis's, but he worked on the law of averages, too.
And claimed the the results were well worth the "knock backs" ;)
Although we did get the odd complaint from the female "customers" too :D

But I guess these days it would be classed as stalking ;)
 
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So this woman is £15.95 out of pocket? I hope I get similar bills for my Daughters Birthdays.
 
Cobra said:
Actually, a few years ago, I worked with a guy like that,
he certainly wasn't one of natures Adonis's, but he worked on the law of averages, too.
And claimed the the results were well worth the "knock backs" ;)
Although we did get the odd complaint from the female "customers" too :D

But I guess these days it would be classed as stalking ;)
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Its only stalking if you ask the same woman twice - otherwise its just inappropriate (tbh I exagerate for comic effect - I generally kept it out of the work place, and of course i'm happily married these days anyway)
 
Cobra said:
Actually, a few years ago, I worked with a guy like that,
he certainly wasn't one of natures Adonis's, but he worked on the law of averages, too.
And claimed the the results were well worth the "knock backs" ;)
Although we did get the odd complaint from the female "customers" too :D

But I guess these days it would be classed as stalking ;)
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One of my uncles (again not exactly God's gift to put it mildly) used to say "Even if you get 9 slaps in the face, it's worth it for the one that doesn't slap you" (I've cleaned that up a little ;) )

While I'm digressing I think it's only fair to mention some of his favourite chat-up lines (bear in mind this was a balding overweight 50 year old talking to very attractive women in their late teens/early 20s)

"You've got the body of a goddess and I've got the mind of a sewer rat"
"Do you want to go halves on a bast**d"
"You're sex you are"

To be honest I struggle to comprehend how I come from the same genepool :lol:
 
Russ77 said:
"You've got the body of a goddess and I've got the mind of a sewer rat"
"Do you want to go halves on a bast**d"
"You're sex you are"
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Subtle :lol:

I never sunk that low - generally I just relied on my sparkling wit, but I did go through a period of using " If i told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me" as an opener
 
big soft moose said:
Its only stalking if you ask the same woman twice -
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And there in lies his problem :D
big soft moose said:
I never sunk that low - generally I just relied on my sparkling wit,
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Ah OK now we understand the knock backs if you were using lines like that.

It was corny in the late 70's when the Bellamy brothers sang about it,
and its still corney now. :p
 
Google "Kev's courtin' song"... NSFW and not an approach I'd recommend!
 
Cobra said:
Ah OK now we understand the knock backs if you were using lines like that.

It was corny in the late 70's when the Bellamy brothers sang about it,
and its still corney now. :p
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remarkably succesful though ... thing with corny lines is that you can always say you were being ironic ;)
 
viv1969 said:
Make themselves look a d*** is what they'd do. :LOL:
Positive (or negative, for that matter), RSVP's don't remotely form part of a binding contract.
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Even if the RSVP was a binding contract, wouldn't the inviter-parent be unable to claim off the invitee-parent as she had not suffered a loss due to the non-attendance?
 
Nikon_Nick said:
Is that the "Do you **** on first dates..." song?
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yep

do you .... on first date ?
does your dad own a brewery ?
can i see your... ?
won't you show them to me ?

(I went out with a girl who's dad really did own a brewery once.... she didnt on first date as i recall)
 
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