"boy, five, sent £15.95 party no-show invoice"

EDIT Beaten to it – deleted.

I think Hora needs to nip onto Mumsnet and ask some pertinent questions on this issue. Or any other questions he may long have been seeking answers too

Like “Where do babies come from?”

I think Hora needs to nip onto Mumsnet and ask some pertinent questions on this issue. Or any other questions he may long have been seeking answers too

I like having my nuts attached to my groin thanks.

I’m following this with baited breath…
We’re throwing a laser tag party for my lad at the end of the month, and want to know if I can rightfully sue everyone for the £12 per head if they no show…
(though that includes pizza, which I’ll probably eat, but won’t let the feds know that…)

DrP

with baited breath

best to avoid the worms 😉

It never surprises me how people can be so awful, and yet so entertaining.

Should be an STW strap line

I don’t normally go in for stereotyping, but Derek Nash does look like he’s a Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday. I need a picture of the birthday boys mother to decide who’s at fault here.

https://www.facebook.com/julie.rider.395

???

Just seen this comment posted on BBC website:

‘1134.Del – VAT will have been applied to the original invoice for the party. Unless the parent is VAT registered or the invoice was issued through a VAT registered company (My Son’s Birthday Party Ltd for example) then VAT is not applicable to the attempted recovery of £15.95, assuming the party was arrangned through said company.’

The mill appears to be overflowing with grist.

I don’t know if people have been followign the James Blunt story today as well but this ties the two together quite well;

@Claire_Phipps: Perhaps James Blunt can pay the £15.95 for that kid’s missed birthday party, then we can all get on with our day

I imagine they couldnt be arsed with getting a present, wanted to offload their spawn on the grandparents. Great though they are kids LOVE going to parties.

Or maybe the terminally-ill grandparents have come over from Australia and it’s the last time they’ll meet their grandson who adores them (and he hates the annoying kid whose party he’s been invited too)? 😉

So, so, so happy I don’t have kids

BoardinBob, you do understand that this sort of thing isn’t a common occurrence don’t you..?

facebook conversation has been printed on the Telegraph site for those having an afternoon coffee break..

Both parties are to blame in this, and there is more to it than meets the eye.

People who are ‘no-shows’ at kids parties (especially those where you have to pay ‘per child’) are rude, and it is out of order. (how long does it take to send a text apologising?)

I can see why the crazy mother was annoyed, but the invoice thing is ridiculous.

What’s the difference between this and a mate buying tickets to a gig after you saying you’d go, and then you just not bothering to turn up, and not offering to cover the ticket cost.

Poor behaviour on the part of the mother of the kid who was double booked.

How on earth did the parent of the absentee child think it was a good idea to have the national news involved? That child is never going to get an invite to another party ever again, poor kid. Plus IMO it highlights what a twunt he is by taking it this far. I’m sure the ‘invoice’ was sent to the parents to highlight that it’s rather impolite not to turn up when invited-and no doubt they’ve probably got form for it.

Won’t someone please think of the children.

Meanwhile in the world… almost anything is more newsworthy.

She’s a right consumer activist, found this on her FB from 8 months ago reviewing the Torpoint ferry in Plymouth.

Thanks for letting the car jump the queue and put him straight in the first lane off, so impressed ! NOT

ffs do these people seriously think this is worth the national media and do the national media seriously think this click bait is helpful? (yes I have followed every link and read every word , I also look at car crashes that does not mean we should have more car crashes)

These kids are going to be haunted by this , these parents on both sides will be remembered and judged for this. Loved the self important facebook exchange.

I’d like to see her try to get it to court. What a tvvat.

While it seems that the parents on both sides of that little dispute are indeed arseholes I’d say that pales into insignificance compared to those folks in the media that seem to think it’s front page news!

Having read the facebook exchange, I’m siding with Tanya. Julie has just confirmed that she’s an asshat. I feel sorry for her kid.
TEAM T!

Clearly this is a viral marketing campaign, but who for? Ski slopes?

#JeSuisTanya

Torygraph running with reprint of full Facbook exchange between the two mums: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11355215/Childs-birthday-party-no-show-fee-Parents-Facebook-row-in-full.html .Amazing lack of self awareness on both parts.

It’s the most viewed story on the T’s website. I can’t disagree with anyone that says that this shouldn’t be front page news, but also find myself strangely drawn to it as it develops, to see where it will go.

Might make an interesting case study on a journalism course idc.

Edit – Also the most read and shared story on the BBC website!

You are paying for 1 x child’s party at the ski slope including snow tubing and tobogganing and lunch,

Have we been had?

I reckon one of them will be on Celebrity Big Brother by the end of the week.

[edit] Associated Press have picked this story up in their international Twitter feed now 🙂

I can’t disagree with anyone that says that this shouldn’t be (front page!) news, but also find myself strangely drawn to it as it develops, to see where it will go.

Might make an interesting case study on a journalism course idc.

There’s no story that can rival watching the aspirational middle classes letting themselves down, surely?

One of the first comments on the Telegraph piece says it all:

#jesuistanya

I’m with Tanya too, the invoicer deserves a national point and giggle, what a total idiot.
#jesuistanya

I notice the Fb link to Julie is broken now…
I really can’t bring myself to read the Fb exchange linked to, it just comes across as a slo-mo car crash.
Having said that, sending a bloody invoice is just crass. 🙄

My kids have both been to the same £15.95 format party at same (local to us) “ski” “slope” (having “skied” there i use both terms cautiously) -they reckon they were brilliant fun parties.
Fwiw knowing the leisure centre and other parents who have held parties there, they will usually provide extra food or goes on snotubes/toboggan o the pther partygoers in lieu of kids that have not shown up, if mum had asked she could have got some more value out of her day. Apparently JNL are not best pleased with the ‘publicity’. 🙁

Awesome, it’s gone international

This is not the first time Alex has not turned up to a party that he has been invited to, either. the amicable way round this I believe would be to pay me the money and let a lesson be learnt, I hope this is agreeable? Julie

How can anyone think that bitch slap will be viewed as agreeable?
Makes the exchanges on here look civilised

Boils my p*** that it has even risen above local paper level. Disgusted that it has reached nation telly level.

ChubbyBlokeInLycra – Member

Awesome, it’s gone international

Yep, made the front page of USA today too[/url].

USA TODAY Network reached out to the Plymouth Ski Slope and Snowboard Centre for comment.

and they told us: “eff off, we don’t speak to anyone who ‘reaches out to’ us!”

😆

Am I alone in thinking …

Doesn’t look like it but I’m certainly not giving the issue any more thought after seeing it on the bloody news.

This is ‘news’, but the killing of hundreds or even thousands by Boko Haram last week barely makes the news.

I weep for humanity, I really do.