Boasting Rights

Pssssst!
She's writing that from inside the freezer.....

It's a long story Grammaretto, and a while ago 😁

Let's just say he wasn't very customer-friendly. All sorted now.

Your freezer man? Callistemon
Have I missed something?
The ice man cometh.

Maybe I'm superstitious but I daren't brag too much about my DC or DGC.
Pride comes before a fall and all that.

I want them to be happy, ofcourse, but I also want them to be resilient.

Im sure he'll be lovely, unlike my freezer man.

Well, I really don't think we need worry about grandson becoming an unpleasant millionaire.

He'll be an unpleasant tradesman instead, hopefully.

"A £million is nothing these days"

As someone said to me years ago!!

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Calendargirl 🤣😂

Not personally but the ones I read about....

Grammaretto

Would you really want him to be a millionnaire MissAdventure?
They are not usually very nice people.

How many millionaires do you know?

Nah, as long as he's contented and settled, I'm not bothered.
If he can do some of my plumbing jobs, so much the better.

It's a terrible waste of his academic abilities, but he's his own man now, with his own views and choices.

Would you really want him to be a millionnaire MissAdventure?
They are not usually very nice people.

Ah!
Needs some training then.

But not from the man who came to try to fix my freezer!

P.S He went to get a pizza out of the freezer tonight and the door fell off

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Yes, I'm quite convinced he will be.
This time next year, he'll be a millionaire!!

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He'll be ok!!

That's what I tell myself, and he has just made a pretty good job of some diy projects for me.
Reorientated the freezer door, fixed a rail in my wardrobe, serviced emptied the vacuum, and fixed my vape.

MissAdventure

I think I could brag that my boy is likely to have the most abysmal exam results ever seen in my family.

Although some may believe so, academic achievements are not the only route to success.

I think I could brag that my boy is likely to have the most abysmal exam results ever seen in my family.

It depends how I'm feeling at the time fancythat. Sometimes I say we don't have any, because I suppose we don't really. Sometimes I say 'two but we're not allowed to see them' which tends to be a conversation stopper.

It isn't easy is it .

That's true, Calendargirl, but in part that's probably because there is guaranteed to be someone who will chime in with 'Oh, Bobby had to get reading books from three classes above, Milly got A*s in 75 GCSEs and Tim passed his test within seconds of leaving the centre'. People like that put others off mentioning anything other than high achievements, and it all self-perpetuates.

(I don't have grandchildren yet, so this is from observation, not experience.)

Yes, you don’t hear so much about the failures, do you?

“Billy was the last one in his class to get a reading book”.

“Mary didn’t get any of her GCSE’s”.

“Tom passed his driving test on the fifth time”.

Urmstongran

Agree DiamondLily! Bit like pretending to be interested when someone wants to tell you about the dream they had last night.
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Or men people telling you which roads they used in their four hour drive to get to where they are going

People ask me how many gc I have. I find it a bit embarassing. I move on the conversation unless they ask more questions about it. Then I will tell them.

Also before bragging about your GC read the room!!! And have some empathy for those not in your position We're fortunate that this is what family and friends do Tenko, as we've never known our GC due to estrangement.

Of course they do mention their GC but having done so, the conversations move on relatively quickly. They rarely show photo's and when they do, always ask us if we would like to see them which we always do.

They're proud of their families as they should be, and their sensitivity to our situation is always appreciated.