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Countdown to the big day and other disasters
« 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:
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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
« Reply #1 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:

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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
« Reply #2 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????

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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
« Reply #3 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????

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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2019, 05:38:44 AM »
Are

You

Fucking


MAD???

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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
« Reply #6 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

Well, whatever, nevermind

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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
« Reply #7 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

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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
« Reply #8 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
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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
« Reply #9 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.
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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2019, 12:15:01 PM »
Oi  ...Less of this wedding talk .... cussing:  they all need ...

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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
« Reply #12 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
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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
« Reply #13 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

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Re: Countdown to the big day and other disasters
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