Fader
Tour Winner
Sorry to post a rant but if I don't do it somewhere I’m likely to upset someone at work.
What is it with some people and families.
This weekend just gone I worked Saturday morning and sacrificed playing my first round since before Christmas as we were going out with my girlfriends mum for lunch as a birthday treat for her.
We did a 50 mile round trip in all, and paid for her mum, her mums fella, her brother and sister to have lunch, pudding and drinks. If you took what we eat and drank out of it the bill would have come to £60.
Now all well and good you'd think, after I’d just paid for everything her mum has a little dig about could have at least bought me a present, I bit my tongue said nothing and just walked away.
Now today my girlfriend has just been on the phone to me to tell me that her mum has not only text her but also wrote on Facebook that, she needs to change her priorities and should have bought her a gift as paying out a measly £60 on lunch for her whole family isn't her idea of a gift. Furthermore she wrote that she should understand what a mother does for her kids and rather than buying my kids the odd treat because there not hers and she'd be better served doing the decent thing and spending at least £40 on a birthday present for her and she feels let down by her......
So as well as the £60 we spent on her family she wants us to spend £40 on a pointless gift for a nothing birthday it wasn't a special number or anything and she has openly ridiculed her own daughter on a social media site for all to see and brought my kids into the equation to.
To make matters worse my girlfriend was round my parents when she saw it and broke down in tears, so my dad’s given her the £60 the meal cost as he wanted to cheer her up whilst being angry his grandkids are brought into it.
I've had to text her mum as well because the way she has treated her has wound me up, and now when I eventually finish and get home from work which tonight will be about 9pm she'll have been stewing on it and getting upset!
Contrast that though to Sunday my Brothers 40th Birthday meal at his golf club and we had a nice meal which he paid for all the family to go to as a milestone moment, and we put a small gift card into birthday card because we weren't paying for his meal so the cash was spare. He gave it back to us telling us to spend it on my kids as we have them down at half term and he was just happy we could be there with him.
Seriously sometimes you wonder how families can be so different.
Sorry if I bored anyone with that but getting it out has calmed me down.............................................................
Just a little!
What is it with some people and families.
This weekend just gone I worked Saturday morning and sacrificed playing my first round since before Christmas as we were going out with my girlfriends mum for lunch as a birthday treat for her.
We did a 50 mile round trip in all, and paid for her mum, her mums fella, her brother and sister to have lunch, pudding and drinks. If you took what we eat and drank out of it the bill would have come to £60.
Now all well and good you'd think, after I’d just paid for everything her mum has a little dig about could have at least bought me a present, I bit my tongue said nothing and just walked away.
Now today my girlfriend has just been on the phone to me to tell me that her mum has not only text her but also wrote on Facebook that, she needs to change her priorities and should have bought her a gift as paying out a measly £60 on lunch for her whole family isn't her idea of a gift. Furthermore she wrote that she should understand what a mother does for her kids and rather than buying my kids the odd treat because there not hers and she'd be better served doing the decent thing and spending at least £40 on a birthday present for her and she feels let down by her......
So as well as the £60 we spent on her family she wants us to spend £40 on a pointless gift for a nothing birthday it wasn't a special number or anything and she has openly ridiculed her own daughter on a social media site for all to see and brought my kids into the equation to.
To make matters worse my girlfriend was round my parents when she saw it and broke down in tears, so my dad’s given her the £60 the meal cost as he wanted to cheer her up whilst being angry his grandkids are brought into it.
I've had to text her mum as well because the way she has treated her has wound me up, and now when I eventually finish and get home from work which tonight will be about 9pm she'll have been stewing on it and getting upset!
Contrast that though to Sunday my Brothers 40th Birthday meal at his golf club and we had a nice meal which he paid for all the family to go to as a milestone moment, and we put a small gift card into birthday card because we weren't paying for his meal so the cash was spare. He gave it back to us telling us to spend it on my kids as we have them down at half term and he was just happy we could be there with him.
Seriously sometimes you wonder how families can be so different.
Sorry if I bored anyone with that but getting it out has calmed me down.............................................................
Just a little!