Carmel

I never have a phone bill any less than £350 as my 14 year old daughter must phone the whole country.and as for talking for England you never met my daughter yet.Whats more annoying is she rings friends that she is going to see in an hour or so.

Live each day to the full because one day it will be your last.

Dame Starry

My son would never have dared to do that when he was that age - he knew that I would not have been able to afford to pay the bill.

Have a payphone put in and make her pay for her own calls - that'll soon stop her.

DS x.

The Christmas countdown has begun - don't leave it all until the last minute!

Carmel

It wouldn't really she would ask me for the money to pay for it.She is always saying when i start shouting about the bill Oh mum live life on the edge and then she starts laughing which starts me laughing so i never win.

Live each day to the full because one day it will be your last.

batman

I presume that sentence should continue with ... of bankruptcy!

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Dame Starry

Carmel - she will never learn the value of money or stand on her own two feet while you do that. My mother has a friend who is still bailing her kids out even though they left home years ago and one is married with a teenage daughter! Now that she has retired and her health is declining, they are STILL begging for handouts.
I was so hard up that my son had to get a part-time job to help out at 14/15 years old; because he wouldn't eat the food that I cooked and wanted to eat all sorts of junk food that I just couldn't afford to buy, I made him buy his own! Same with designer trainers etc.

He left home years ago and is excellent with money now - but he still eats rubbish!

DS x.

The Christmas countdown has begun - don't leave it all until the last minute!

samkydd

We didn't have a 'phone when I were a lad. It was something the middle and upper classes only could afford, and I think it wasn't until the late 1970s that my folks ventured into the brave new world of personal instant communication technology. We were never allowed to use it of course, and had we dared it would have been a swift kick up the arse and a run round the kitchen table!

Peer pressure at school was present even in the low tech 70s, and rich kids would often brag about their parents' new Trim 'Phones, and others would be ridiculed for still having heavy Bakelite 'Whitehall 1212' type models instead of the contemporary cream, red, green or glossy black plastic dial ones. Kids like us with no 'phone at all were always picked on, and whilst others gave each other their 'phone numbers for out of school contact and conversation we were treated like lepers.

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

Jackdaw

Little gits, aren't they?
Suggest you try 18185.com, so you only pay 5p for the connection and nothing for the duration of the call.

John Llewellyn Moxey

DS x. Way to go!!

Steve Crook

Steve

Jackdaw

I'm here to complain about the price of beer.
When I first started my career in underage drinking in The White Hart in Northolt c.1962, a pint of mild was 11d (5p) and a pint of bitter was 1/2d, (6p).
Tonight I visited my local and drank seven pints of Carling, plus a half for the landlord, and my tab, paid by plastic, was £22.50.
£22.50!
And I walked home compos mentis.
£22.50! I could have bought a car for that money in the old days!
And the guvnor had a pop at me for paying by debit card!
I cannot come to terms with the modern world.
Take me down.

PS. MarkyB - How much for a pint of 4.1% lager in your club.
Go on, depress me!

Steve Crook

The price of beer hasn't changed. But the price of money has gone down a lot

Steve

Dame Starry

That's not as daft as it sounds either.

DS x.

The Christmas countdown has begun - don't leave it all until the last minute!

MB

I was exactly like that as a teenager. My best mate was worse and her mum found a way of putting a lock on the phone and she in turn found a way of getting past it by tapping the reciever!! Genius!

I'm very lucky in that I have a son who uses msn all the time and boys, generally, are monosyllabic at this age, I've found. I have a daughter coming up to this age, though

There is a new book out I heard about on the radio - it is about how to handle teenagers and has a spot on title:

'Get out of my life, but first can you give me and Alex a lift in to town?'

Harleybloke

call bt and get your phone locked now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:d

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

Marky B

Fosters £1.80
Carling £1.90

In a club down the road,Carling is £1.35 for a pint.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I am special. The heavens always open for me.