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Title: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 24, 2019, 04:57:46 AM
July 8th I have a willycam experience in the mid afternoon and then I am driving to Scunthorpe to stay the night prior to the Boy's graduation ceremony in Hull the following morning.

Failing to get any sense from the Boy about arrangements:

What will you be wearing?
Cap and gown
Yes but what will you be wearing under that?
A suit
Have you got a suit?
Silence....

Where are we meeting?
Silence....

Have you got tickets for the ceremony?
Silence.....

WHat about lunch afterwards?
Silence...

I e mailed Mrs Nick. SHe informs me that:

1. The ceremony is from 10.30-12.30 followed by drinks for students and staff at 1.00. Banghead
2. Lunch has therefore been booked in a restaurant for 4.00    eeek:
3. The Boy is contacting the appropriate team today to enquire about tickets Banghead Banghead Banghead

I ask where we are meeting prior to the ceremony

Silence.....

This may well become a fiasco  noooo:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Barman on June 24, 2019, 05:14:06 AM
July 8th I have a willycam experience in the mid afternoon and then I am driving to Scunthorpe to stay the night prior to the Boy's graduation ceremony in Hull the following morning.

Failing to get any sense from the Boy about arrangements:

What will you be wearing?
Cap and gown
Yes but what will you be wearing under that?
A suit
Have you got a suit?
Silence....

Where are we meeting?
Silence....

Have you got tickets for the ceremony?
Silence.....

WHat about lunch afterwards?
Silence...

I e mailed Mrs Nick. SHe informs me that:

1. The ceremony is from 10.30-12.30 followed by drinks for students and staff at 1.00. Banghead
2. Lunch has therefore been booked in a restaurant for 4.00    eeek:
3. The Boy is contacting the appropriate team today to enquire about tickets Banghead Banghead Banghead

I ask where we are meeting prior to the ceremony

Silence.....

This may well become a fiasco  noooo:

 lol: lol: lol:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 24, 2019, 05:16:55 AM
WTF am I meant to do for three hours in sodding Hull???
Is it really a three hour drinks reception???
If so, what condition will the Boy be in by 4.00????

 facepalm:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Barman on June 24, 2019, 05:28:33 AM
WTF am I meant to do for three hours in sodding Hull???
Is it really a three hour drinks reception???
If so, what condition will the Boy be in by 4.00????

 facepalm:

You could spend a lovely afternoon with Mrs. Nick...  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 24, 2019, 05:38:44 AM
Are

You

Fucking


MAD???

Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Barman on June 24, 2019, 05:41:38 AM
Are

You

Fucking


MAD???

 rubschin:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Steve on June 24, 2019, 08:27:52 AM
Are

You

Fucking


MAD???
You're the one spending money and giving up time to go to a do that The Boy clearly doesn't give a stuff about

Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Barman on June 24, 2019, 10:11:02 AM
Are

You

Fucking


MAD???
You're the one spending money and giving up time to go to a do that The Boy clearly doesn't give a stuff about

 happ096
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Steve on June 24, 2019, 10:24:07 AM
My parents didn't show much interest in going to my graduation, I showed even less so I went to work and earned money

45 years later I'm still struggling to give a stuff.   It's just a ruse to make money out of people that have better uses for it, right up there with overblown weddings imho
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 24, 2019, 10:26:47 AM
I have some sympathy with this point of view (especially the weddings bit  whistle: ) but The Boy has come a very long way in 17 years and this is a sort of important punctuation point.
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Steve on June 24, 2019, 10:31:32 AM
I have some sympathy with this point of view (especially the weddings bit  whistle: ) but The Boy has come a very long way in 17 years and this is a sort of important punctuation point.
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: apc2010 on June 24, 2019, 12:15:01 PM
Oi  ...Less of this wedding talk .... cussing:  they all need ...

Dj...... Thumbs:

LOVE letters.... Thumbs:

Garden Games... Thumbs:

Foreworks .... Thumbs:

 cloud9:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 24, 2019, 12:22:23 PM
When Mrs Nick and I got married we had lunch afterwards at the Star and Garter on RIchmond Hill. We said "Lunch for 30 people."  When they found out it was a wedding they went bonkers as they would have charged us three times as much for the same lunch, had they known  angel1
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: apc2010 on June 24, 2019, 12:38:08 PM
When Mrs Nick and I got married we had lunch afterwards at the Star and Garter on RIchmond Hill. We said "Lunch for 30 people."  When they found out it was a wedding they went bonkers as they would have charged us three times as much for the same lunch, had they known  angel1

Nice venue ..wasn't it for veterans tho .... rubschin:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 24, 2019, 12:41:26 PM
SOrry redface: redface: redface: redface:

https://www.petershamhotel.co.uk/ (https://www.petershamhotel.co.uk/)
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Steve on June 24, 2019, 01:05:44 PM
When Mrs Nick and I got married we had lunch afterwards at the Star and Garter on RIchmond Hill. We said "Lunch for 30 people."  When they found out it was a wedding they went bonkers as they would have charged us three times as much for the same lunch, had they known  angel1
:thumbsup:

If you'd known then what you know now would Greggs have been involved? (Meals on Wheels being a tad unreliable)
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 24, 2019, 02:02:44 PM
It was necessary at the time  noooo:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Steve on June 24, 2019, 03:41:12 PM
A couple I know got married at Chelsea registry office (cos that's where the stars used to have their second weddings and they thought why not them too) then got two taxis round to the Ritz for tea with their closest friends (no not us)

Apparently the Ritz cottoned on immediately and were extra responsive (which takes some doing as they are  :thumbsup: 3 anyway) taking loads of pics for them etc

And I've always thought since that THAT was the way to do it. 
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 24, 2019, 03:49:25 PM
I have been checking up on the prices at the place Mrs Nick has  booked


 Shocked: Shocked: Shocked: Shocked:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Steve on June 24, 2019, 04:59:51 PM
I have been checking up on the prices at the place Mrs Nick has  booked


 Shocked: Shocked: Shocked: Shocked:
noooo:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Barman on June 24, 2019, 06:30:27 PM
I have been checking up on the prices at the place Mrs Nick has  booked


 Shocked: Shocked: Shocked: Shocked:

 point:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Grumpmeister on June 24, 2019, 07:30:28 PM
WTF am I meant to do for three hours in sodding Hull???
Is it really a three hour drinks reception???
If so, what condition will the Boy be in by 4.00????

 facepalm:

Nick, it's Hull, the place they managed to misspell by one letter. Question 2 gives you the answer to question 1.  rubschin:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 24, 2019, 10:05:57 PM
Don't forget  the cost of  official pictures  Shocked:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: apc2010 on June 25, 2019, 12:02:07 AM
SOrry redface: redface: redface: redface:

https://www.petershamhotel.co.uk/ (https://www.petershamhotel.co.uk/)

Glad you remember well ......... point:  it's me with the knacked memory ..
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 25, 2019, 04:58:02 AM
The Boy (who starts his job as a fork likft truck driver today  scared2: ) has said he will "try" to e mail me a ticket in due course  noooo:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Steve on June 25, 2019, 08:32:48 AM
You need a degree to be a fork lift driver?
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 25, 2019, 08:38:32 AM
Summer job
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Steve on June 25, 2019, 08:43:07 AM
 rubschin:

I left Uni on the Friday started (what passes for) my proper job on the Monday.  Doesn't it work like that anymore?
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 25, 2019, 08:53:02 AM
Nope noooo:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: apc2010 on June 25, 2019, 11:37:07 AM
Nope noooo:

Give him some dosh for a gap year......... Thumbs:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 25, 2019, 11:38:36 AM
 evil:  I have actually done something to that effect in my will  :thumbsup:

Instead, I am sending him links to jobs about paid internships..... eveilgrin:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Steve on June 25, 2019, 12:02:48 PM
evil:  I have actually done something to that effect in my will  :thumbsup:

Instead, I am sending him links to jobs about paid internships..... eveilgrin:
Is that another term for rent boys?
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 25, 2019, 12:09:28 PM
 Spank2: Spank2: Spank2: Spank2:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Barman on June 25, 2019, 12:31:22 PM
Nope noooo:

Give him some dosh for a gap year......... Thumbs:

He'll have to have a gap year! For his edukashun like!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 25, 2019, 06:33:24 PM
Oh yes ..this appears to be The Brats plan  angry041: angry041: angry041:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 26, 2019, 04:11:53 AM
Well, she needs a holiday  whistle:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Barman on June 26, 2019, 04:14:19 AM
Well, she needs a holiday  whistle:

 lol: lol: lol:
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 26, 2019, 06:03:30 PM
I have arranged to meet her on Saturday at 2.30pm.

Apparently I have to make sure I send her a reminder on Friday night and an alarm call on Saturday to make sure she gets up in time  censored: angry041: cussing: Banghead
Title: Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
Post by: Nick on June 26, 2019, 06:09:43 PM
Will she have to remind you to bring your credit card?  eveilgrin: eveilgrin: