I said to SWMBO I would take her out, which I thought would be a nice thing to do seeing as we’ve been married 30 years next month, I said we would have a run down to Blyton on the Sunday and join in the record attempt and she could see all the other MX5s and what some of the owners have done to them and how they are turned out, seems okay so far to me but apparently,
If I think that is how we are going to celebrate 30years I’ve got to be joking and if she has to leave the house at 07:30hrs on a Sunday morning to keep me company all the way down there then I’d better have something a special lined up for the date of our anniversary (24th).
Honestly don’t understand women I mean I wasn’t going to charge her anything for the petrol, I’ve feeling she’s not just talking about a romantic dinner for two, oh no I think shes got it into her head that we should be going away for a weekend somewhere nice.
If any old git (even female varieties) has any ideas how I could save money and face I’d like to hear them but I’ve got the impression she was serious
As one old git to another I fully sympathise with you, I don’t think there is a cheap way out of this predicament. I think you will have to bite the bullet and pay up. with a smile
The only thing I can suggest is to surf around on the internet or even the news papers for special deals. We have had some good Deals at The Old English Inns. But saying that it might be the wrong time of year to get and really good cheap deals.
My commiserations, but all us old gits have to suffer these impositions at one time or another.
Methinks this is going to be very expensive for you as you have blown it already in my experience…our 30th last year was the cost of a med cruise aboard MV Queen Victoria AND it wont stop at that cos every which way she will be reminding you of the nearly mistake for the next 30…in my experience
I fear I’ll have to go alone on this one, I thought on this thread there would be someone to help me get out of this pickle, I’ve told SWMBO that we can’t go anywhere in case the son has parties all the time we are away and wrecks the house! She said we’ll not tell him and keep letting him think that we are coming back day by day to fool him. She seems to have her heart set on going away somewhere. This is getting difficult but there will be a solution I’ve just got to think about it, panic is setting in.
Maybe if I say I’m feeling poorly but I’ve used that one before at 25 years. Got it, I’ll say I can’t get the time off work and we’ll do something for 35 years,
Bllcks just thought she’s celerbrating her 50th in July also, I can see my hard earned dissappearing and the shiney bits I was thinking of buying just becoming a dream, a lesser man would give in at this point, come on think shoestring lad!
Have been through this myself many times. Been away, and come home to find the house trashed and all my malt whiskey gone and nobody knows anything about it.
How about sending him to boot camp or have you a friendly Mr Plod who would board him for a few days
Now you’ve got the sort of idea of where I am, the Daughter is no bother 22 and sensible, the son is 20, 6’3" 16 stone rugby player/bodybuilder and likes to party, everytime he has been left it always ends in disaster (and thats just going out for an evening if he knows the house is empty). Don’t think a boot camp could hold him, and Mr Plod would have to lock him up and then I’d end up getting the blame off the Mrs for that. It would seem I’m starting to build myself an excuse but it needs to be developed.
This ends up a no win situation. Us old gits think we know what should/could be done, but er indoors who wants the perks and no hassle can’t come up with a reasonable solution and will lay the blame firmly on your back if it all goes pear shaped.
Well Mr Shoestring… I had a think whilst multi tasking… read your further posts on this topic & have to say …I’m still with Mrs S on this one.
She’s obviously thought of how to stop said offspring trashing the house (female ingenuity) & obviously spends a lot of time looking after you & seeing to your every need …so… a trip away is small payment for her attention to detail…
…of course letting her know you appreciate all she does for you & saying you think it only fair she says where she’d like you both to spend the time together you’ll have to fretno more (female saves the day again)…
Yes it will cost your earnings… but… small price to pay for her devotion…then on return (until you have earned enough to treat her for her 50th) you’ll be able to polish all the bits on your 5 so you’ll have plenty of shiny bits & not had to spend on them (thrifty female ingenuity strikes again)
I’ll leave you to mull this over, I’m off to class again
Daughter of 22 and sensible, fine, leave her in charge of the house.
Son of 20 - party animal, no respect for YOUR home? evict him and cut off ALL financial assistance! if one of my three kids trashed our house that’s what would have happened…and they knew I was serious.
Mrs Shoestring? find somewhere near to Blyton with a nice cosy restaurant, decent four poster bed and spoil her on the Saturday - you know flowers, champers, chocs, body lotion and handcuffs and a little something expensive on the pillow. She obviously deserves it after putting up with your blatant stingey-ness! and then suggest doing the Mx5 event on the Sunday after a nice full English-everybody wins.
This is just an Old Git’s Clan…not a Grumpy Tight-fisted OG Clan and you sure as eggs is eggs don’t want the Mrs to end being as bad as yourself…do you?
I’m with jukeboxman there! and if its underwear your looking at, make sure its what SHE wants albeit big knickers and a vest you’ll get a better reaction than that red G string that you were gonna buy lol ! (of course you being an OG maybes you fancy the big knickers )
as fer kids I have two daughters 19 and 21 thankfully the youngest is very house proud so whenever her friends or boyfriend is due the whole house gets a clean he he! the eldest just wouldn’t party in her own house so we have escaped, in fact eldest has just got back from IOW festival so will probably sleep as her and her girlfriends took 6 ltrs of spirits with them! Yes I worry but she works very hard so is entitled to party hard as well bless (still worry mind but apparently I am just moaning old git !)
Perhaps we should have a OG dating agency that’ll be a laugh…nah to much trouble all that messing about with emotions and soppy stuff !
Right I’m back and about £5k poorer. Another thing why is it that men have to spend a fortune on their wives at anniveraries and birthdays but never get much spent on them!! (I could have had a supercharger for half of that)
Anyway time for a bit rant, I fancied some sweets the other day, just to put in my pocket after watching George Gentley had made me feel like having a ciggie (I don’t really want to return to that). Now the sweet that sprung to mind was a Victory “V”, Now for those of you that may be too young to know about these or too old to remember about them,
They were flat about 1 inch long x half an inch wide and about quarter of an inch thick. they had Victory V embossed on them, the were as hard as the hobs of hell virtually unchrunchable until they had been sucked that long that they were almost paper thin!!
Now Mrs Shoestring (hence forth known as Wendy) went looking for my sweet of choice as I was at work, alas she could not find them at Tescos or the local sweet shop, since they are a lozenge she tried boots and still no joy. She went to the internet where she found out that the Victory Vs had been made for 200 years but also to my horror that these sweets are now only sold by specialist chemists or over the internet where the price of postage can be more than the price of the sweet
I remember every shop that sold sweets would have the Victory Vs amoung their stock, recent generations and generations to come are being denied the peice of granite which is a victiory v lozenge. I would start a save the victory v compaign on the internet but I don’t know how to do it. So sad something that you think will always be their and it’s fading away
Think they had to take the Chloroform and Ether out of the recipe a long time before the like of you and I came along (probably about the same time they took the dope out of Coke). Victory Vs were about value for money, yes opal fruits & opal mints (remmber them) and black jacks were good but a single Victory V would outlast a packet of all other sweets even the mighty black bullet! there can be no bigger testomony than that to give a sweet!
But Brian do you know where you can get the noble “Victory Vs”, Fishermans friends don’t quite cut it, I feel alas a part of our heritage is slipping into the abiss, the world is changing my friends but is it for the better !!
I mean I wasn’t going to charge her anything for the petrol, I’ve feeling she’s not just talking about a romantic dinner for two, oh no I think shes got it into her head that we should be going away for a weekend somewhere nice.
have to say…I’m on Mrs S side for this.
with a smile 
AND it wont stop at that cos every which way she will be reminding you of the nearly mistake for the next 30…in my experience 
you’ll get a better reaction than that red G string that you were gonna buy lol ! (of course you being an OG maybes you fancy the big knickers 
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