you’ll now walk past that takeaway because it left you with a bad experience.
No, I can handle a bad experience. Rather, I'll walk past that takeaway because of the subsequent shitty attitude. Everything else up until that point didn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Mistakes happen, people are fallible. The measure of a business isn't mistakes, it's how they deal with those mistakes.
I ordered food, they overcharged me 10p. At that point I couldn't have cared less, for the sake of 10p I would never have mentioned it. I paid with a £20 note and got change from a £10 so I politely said "sorry, I gave you a twenty..." Without even checking what she'd just put in the till she huffed and puffed and pulled out a tenner, I thought her reaction was kinda rude so that was the point at which I said "and you overcharged me 10p" to which she yelled "YEAH, ALRIGHT!" like it was all my fault and hurled the coin across the counter at me.
Plus the chips were crap.
Didn't read it all but you sound like a robot. Buy a life? Find need, help someone poor. Ffs this thread is so stw when people can't even heat their homes. Maybe you should pursue religion. I hear it is as empty as pointless wealth.
Cheap boys weekend for 3..
1 Travelodge or premier Inn with extra beds. £50 tops, split 3 ways
Fuel (my car does 70mpg) £60, split 3 ways
2 lift tickets £70 each
Dinner at the onsite beefeater or whatever. £20 each.
£137 leaving £6 per day for lunch. Done
Why are you justifying your boy’s weekend? You are in a place I cannot comprehend.
Cheap boys weekend for 3..
So,
Hotel for three £50 'max'. (how?)
Fuel £60. (how does a 4k car get 70mpg?)
Lifts £210. (no idea here)
Dinner £60. (sounds reasonable)
Then divide by three, I get that at £127 each?
No drinks? No breakfast? No souvenirs for the family? No other expenses? It's the accommodation price that's killing me though, I've been charged more than that pp before now for a tent pitch.
Just be grateful you're not going.
"So...how many peanuts did you have?"
Check my maths here?
£60 of fuel at today's pump prices (around £1.80/L) = 33L of fuel.
33L = 7.25 (UK)gallons.
7.25 gallons at a claimed 70mpg = 507 miles.
Where are you driving from and to that's 250 miles away, has a Travelodge for fifty quid and is drivable there and back for a weekend break either with one night's stopover or costs £25 per night?
Revs is about 250 miles from me. Can team it up with dyfi for an awesome weekend. That might add a fiver more fuel. Uplift starts at 10 so it's an early start, but doable out sat back sun
Travelodge owestry is £56 for a room for 3 tomorrow night, I've seen it cheaper with a bit of notice.
https://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/166/Oswestry-hotel?checkIn=29/05/2022&checkOut=30/05/2022&rooms [0][adults]=3&rooms[0][children]=0
Car is a diesel 1.6 Vauxhall. Official mpg for the astra with that engine is 88!
Wow really?! Worst thread ever, get a grip! If you are really genuine I feel sorry for your family. Pretty sure this is a massive wind up.
£6 per day for lunch. Done
a cheap loaf of sliced white and nick some of the little jam pots/wrapped butter from the restaurant the night before?
thats got to leave five pounds to put aside for a rainy day or give to your wife to take the kids out for a treat?
Travelodge oswestry is the pits. I live in that town. The premier in is nicer.
Lots of nice places to stay within your budget. Treat yourself.
There is no beefeater at Travelodge but there is a run down burger king. You'll get a microwaved frozen meal that's still frozen from the pub at the premier Inn. Why not book into Weston pools or Stonehouse brewery for food round the corner? More expensive and a lovely treat for the proletariat like me. Definitely worth it.
Fuel (my car does 70mpg) £60, split 3 ways
I’m not rich but if I was driving to ride with friends I wouldn’t ask then for money towards fuel. I’m going anyway, they’re just along for the ride.
So 250 miles, let's say an average of 50mph, that's five hours' travelling. You'll want to be ready to go at rope drop to get your money's worth so, arrive at 9:30, maybe a half hour stop halfway for (unbudgeted) breakfast and a stretch, you're leaving at 4am. Sooner you than me.
How about this. Go up the night before, have the next day's riding far more refreshed from not having just sat in the car for several hours, is that perhaps a 'value' spend of an extra £9?
What’s the budget for stretching?
Also, if I were driving my mates on a trip and I knew I had lots more money there's no way I'd ask for petrol money. I'd just turn up with a full tank and not mention it.
If said friends were comfortably affluent, we'd just take turns driving.
do you have a prenuptial -
no. I don’t believe in them, as I don’t plan on getting divorced.
*thumbs up smiley thing - I don't know how to do them on PC*
That and your recent contributions on family holidays tells me you're perhaps more generous than you think. You're tight with yourself more than others and are aware of your issues (hence this thread) You try not to let them spill into the lives of your nearest and dearest. You're working on it - keep trying.
Perhaps work on handing over more decision making to your wife.
Revs is about 250 miles from me
You can get your own Soleros mind 😉
