I’d take a big dump on the bill and leave it on the bitch’s front step.
5-year-old boy given invoice and parents threatened with court for missing kid’s BIRTHDAY PARTY
Derek Nash and his partner discovered the £15.95 ‘no show fee’ invoice after it was slipped into their son’s school bag
A five-year-old has been handed an invoice and his parents threatened with court action – for missing his friend’s BIRTHDAY PARTY.
Derek Nash and Tanya Walsh were stunned when they found an invoice for £15.95 in their son’s school bag.
Alex Nash, aged five, decided to go on an outing with his grandparents instead of taking up an invite to attend the friend’s birthday bash at a snow centre.
Children at the party were treated to three toboggan runs, a snow-tube ride and a hot birthday meal with ice cream or jelly during the Christmas holidays.
But delivery driver Derek was horrified when Alex came home with a bill in a brown envelope from party host Julie Lawrence in his school bag last Thursday.
The £15.95 invoice covered the cost of one child attending the party at the Ski Slope and Snowboard Centre in Plymouth. Derek confronted Ms Lawrence about the bill at her home.
He said: “When she answered the door I told her I had found the invoice in my son’s school bag and that I wasn’t happy about it.
“I told her I would not be paying her the money. It was a proper invoice with full official details and even her bank details on it.
“I can understand that she’s upset about losing money. The money isn’t the issue, it’s the way she went about trying to get the money from me.
“She didn’t treat me like a human being, she treated me like a child and that I should do what she says.
“I told her she should have spoken to me first and not put the invoice in my son’s school bag.
“I would have sympathised with her about the cost of Alex not showing up, but I just can’t believe the way she has gone around it.”
Derek and Tanya, from Torpoint, Cornwall, fear they could be taken to a small claims court if they don’t pay up.
The couple claim they did not have contact details for Ms Lawrence to let her know in advance that Alex would not be at the party.
His mum Tanya said: “Julie Lawrence and I weren’t friends, we didn’t talk to each other at school but I felt bad about Alex not going to the party.
“I searched for the party invite afterwards and I’m not sure we even had one.
“But to be invoiced like this is so over the top – I’ve never heard of anything like it. It’s a terrible way of handling it – it’s very condescending.”
But Ms Lawrence said: “All details were on the party invite. They had every detail needed to contact me.”
Alex’s parents say the two children no longer play together at Torpoint Nursery and Infant School.
Ski centre manager Louisa Duggan said: “This is nothing to do with us. It is a dispute between two parents.
But I really need to clarify that we don’t send invoices to private individuals – ever.
“We don’t know the names of the children coming so we would never even be able to.
“We are upset that we have been dragged into this. We ask families who book with us to pay a small deposit and then 48 hours before we ask them to confirm the numbers. This gives them plenty of time to get responses in.”
They are all D-Bags. I don’t know which side is the bigger one.
However that Julie Lawrence – looks like a bimbo.
I do not think sending a bill was especially smart. It was never going to be of benefit.
But accepting and then no show is worthy of a good horsewhipping.
Too many people have no manners.
The brits are SO DONE as a people…
Julie Lawrence doesn’t look like a “bimbo”.
What she looks like, exactly, is a male-to-female transexual who can’t quite pass for female. That woman has one extremely masculine-looking face.
Billing the kid’s parents for him ditching some party?
That’s not douchebag territory… you’ve gone off the douchebag map, and are now in Colossal Buttplug Territory….
Plus, if your kids learn by your example, they’re gonna turn out to be assholes…
I heard about this story on the radio. I can see both points. It was not necessary to go to that extent to make a point. But I can also see how it’s very annoying when someone tells you they’ll attend some event and then not show. Perhaps the woman had just finished reading some post about the recovery on TBP and was pissed as hell and could not let it go… who knows.
Don’t give 24 hour notice for a doctor’s appointment … and you get charged or an office visit.
Kind of the same thing. Doesn’t change the fact that Invoice Lady is a massive douche-bag.
Douchebag dad holding the kid and the invoice is fucked up. Why involve a five year old in this?. These families define asshole.
I’d have just tossed it in the circular file and go get another beer..
MA
I agree with MA.
Stucky, a social situation like this is not exactly the same as a doctor’s appointment.
I don’t think this little boy’s parents were aware that they were entering a business deal, and I can’t help but note that the party-givers are a lot more affluent than the parents they are billing.
Over the years, I have had a number of friends fail to show, or call at the very last moment to say they could not make it to dinner, or whatever, leaving me vaguely pissed off, because if I’d known earlier they weren’t coming, I’d have made other plans. But never once did it ever occur to me to bill them for the extra food or my time. Nor will I ever- when people are that inconsiderate of me, I simply drop them.
However graceless and tacky the boy’s mom was for failing to show, Lawrence and her husband are far worse, and if I were this boy’s mother, I’d just stamp BULLSHIT across that invoice and send it back to the woman.
“I’d have just tossed it in the circular file and go get another beer..”
I knew there was a reason I always read the posts prefaced by the cute little piglet with the red boots.
MuckAbout is an effective problem-solver.
I’m with Muck also.
Why get sucked into such a childish pissing contest?