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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Nick on October 30, 2007, 11:06:27 AM
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Moral advice required.
Mrs Nick is very absent minded and is forever losing stuff - keys, specs, vital papers. This is daily. Her usual stance is that I have maliciously hidden whatever item it is, since she prefers to balme me than herself. SHe also puts stuff in the oddest places (e.g phone in the fridge). A few years back she had to deliver a large sum of cash somewhere and decided it would be safest to hide it in her underpants (a reasonable idea IMHO) but forgot she had put it there and managed to flush it all down a toilet when she stopped en route for a pee. noooo:
Before we went away in the summer she had withdrawn £500 from the bank to pay a workman. She put it "in a safe place" and promptly forgot where she had put it. She whittled endlessly over the summer and went through periodic bouts of rummaging, but the cash never turned up and I paid the guy myself in the end.
Earlier on, looking for a misplaced key cussing: I experiementally opened up a disused garlic pot and lo and behold £500 in £50 pound notes.
Should I tell her?
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I probably wouldn't own up. whistle:
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Moral advice required.
Query 1 - A few years back she had to deliver a large sum of cash somewhere and decided it would be safest to hide it in her underpants (a reasonable idea IMHO) but forgot she had put it there and managed to flush it all down a toilet when she stopped en route for a pee. noooo:
Query 2 - I experimentally opened up a disused garlic pot and lo and behold £500 in £50 pound notes. Should I tell her?
Response on query 1 - How can you NOT known you have cash down your knickers UNLESS you wear VERY STRANGE knickers or have little albeit no sensation down there whistle: A large amount of cash in notes would surely feel very uncomfortable and similar to a weggie after a while and surely a large amount of cash in coins would jingle whistle: However if it was in coins this could bring a whole new meaning to the phrase 'spending a penny ' .......
Response on query 2 - Yes and no - Don't tell her because it's finders keepers rules in our house BUT do take her out for a nice treat and get a little nice teat for yourself eyes:
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get a little nice teat for yourself
Whatever are you suggesting? eeek:
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get a little nice teat for yourself
Whatever are you suggesting? eeek:
A little treat - such as something you have wanted for ages but not felt justified in spending family funds on before. Don't now what sort of treat floats your boat so to speak but if it was BM then we all know it would be probably a fish eye lens or currently now a new motorbike.
As I am committing to having corrective lazer eye surgery this coming Friday afternoon scared2: there has been copious mention of motorbikes being needed lately - sort of along the lines of uhm well if you're spending that type of money on YOURSELF ¬!!!!!!!
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That's not what you said!
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That's not what you said!
what did I say then ??????????????????????
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teat
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Technically, it's the 500 that you ended up paying the guy. So, keep it (bank it) and tell you found it and it's now in a safe place again whistle:
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Not telling her would be a protracted punishment of a kind I rarely get the chance of doing! spider: ;D
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So the punishment would be good or bad? eeek:
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Good of course. She deserves punishment! evil:
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Ahhhh.
What if she found out though? scared2: And lets face it, she probably would. scared2:
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I need a new suit.............. rubschin:
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Response on query 2 - Yes and no - Don't tell her because it's finders keepers rules in our house...
eeek:
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Didn't you know that one then BM?
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I say keep it but tell her.
Paying a workman to me implies a household cost rather than an individual expense so I don't really see it as either her money or your money. You should have joint account for such expenses that you both pay in a set amount each month.
rubschin: maybe you should return half to her?
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Didn't you know that one then BM?
noooo:
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I say keep it but tell her.
Paying a workman to me implies a household cost rather than an individual expense so I don't really see it as either her money or your money. You should have joint account for such expenses that you both pay in a set amount each month.
rubschin: maybe you should return half to her?
No way. And we don't have a joint account........
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In line with government stats, tell her that the £500 was 37.5% under cost and she now owes you another £187.50 ;D
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Not telling her would be a protracted punishment of a kind I rarely get the chance of doing! spider: ;D
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Where's the fun in punishing her if she doesn't know that she's being punished.
You paid a bill for her because the cash was lost. that cash is now your in settlement.
If you want to punish her, then charge interest on the loan and inflation compensation.
But first, you'll have to tell her.
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I know Mrs Nick. If I say I have found it she will demand it back. If I say nothing she will rummage eternally.
I enjoy her discomfiture..........
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Mrs Nick's twin obviously lives here then. ::)
Hid her 'valuable jewelry' in a 'safe place' 7 years ago whilst we were on holiday. Never been seen since. ::)
'Our kid' sent her a c/q for the GROWLERS jnrs crimbo prezzies last december. She swore blind that she'd never received it.
She found it in one of her many coats pockets last sunday, now unpresentable. ::)
'kin wimmin. Banghead
I 'hid' the garage key in the fridge 6 months ago, in a packet of sausages....as you do like. ::)
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My Dad once hid a stash of cash behind a decorative shield in the fireplace. All great until Christmas Eve when he lit a fire. point:
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Tej MIL "lost" her valuable jewellery. Blamed the cleaner and called the police. Huge kerfuffle.
We found them in a plastic bag in the water tank about 3 years later. it runs in the family. noooo:
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My Dad once hid a stash of cash behind a decorative shield in the fireplace. All great until Christmas Eve when he lit a fire. point:
Is your surname Biggs by any chance?
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NO!
OK!
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It is then!
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It is then!
Have you chosen your teat yet?
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I am awaiting Landlady's expert advice
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teat
redface: redface: redface:
Sorry
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Didn't you know that one then BM?
noooo:
Ha then serves you right for ALWAYS leaving things in your trouser pockets when they are 'generally' dumped on the floor for hanging up by your invisible maid evil: Finding the occasional bit of legal tender folding stuff tucked deep in the pocket, underneath used hankerchiefs generally, is a small reward for the hours of tidying up. Same goes for coins left loose in pockets (which sometimes don't always get found and then make an almighty noise in the washing machine) - which as you know is not insubstantial netting me a recent CYP90.00 when takeninto the bank ;D
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Didn't you know that one then BM?
noooo:
Ha then serves you right for ALWAYS leaving things in your trouser pockets when they are 'generally' dumped on the floor for hanging up by your invisible maid evil: Finding the occasional bit of legal tender folding stuff tucked deep in the pocket, underneath used hankerchiefs generally, is a small reward for the hours of tidying up. Same goes for coins left loose in pockets (which sometimes don't always get found and then make an almighty noise in the washing machine) - which as you know is not insubstantial netting me a recent CYP90.00 when takeninto the bank ;D
Morning LL....Friday is it then????? scared2: scared2: scared2:
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So Mrs Nick is working from home Banghead Banghead Banghead
I enquired earlier about hte whereabouts of a fairly vital letter that came the other day. "I have no idea where it might be," she said. I commenced a house wide hunt and located it on top of a wardrobe noooo:
I reported my find and she said "I know, I put it there for safekeeping. I had just forgotten where it was for the moment" cussing: cussing: cussing:
I may have to get her certified.