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Help - found bank letter re challenging over 1k spend in gentlemans club

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Letstryagain · 16/01/2013 20:43

Looked in h pocket when moving jackets and found a bank letter re his challenge over 1k spend in 'gentlemans' club - looked at dates and it was a weekend I was away, he was out but never mentioned going there. I have no issues with these places but wonder why he didn't say he was there & also how could anyone spend over 1,000 at a place like that? What do I do - say I saw it? Am raging? He had told me he was disputing a spend in debenhams!! Help!!!

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Letstryagain · 17/01/2013 14:03

Greythorne - what bigger picture am I missing?

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allgoingtoshitnow · 17/01/2013 14:03

What part are you struggling with grey?

The bit where OP said her husband was intimidated into paying a bill he didn't run up, or the bit where she says she doesn't care that he visited the club?

Hes not a cheating DH being exploited by dancers after all. Just a DH going to a club with his mate (with OPs permission) and getting robbed.

HighBrows · 17/01/2013 14:05

Letstrysgain, there's a whole other bigger picture you're missing such as you dh paying to objectify women.

I could not be with a man like that, he's spent 1k in a lap dancing club and yet will be pissed off at you for checking his pockets.

[hmmm]

Miggsie · 17/01/2013 14:07

My friend's daughter was a waitress in one of these clubs - they are given courses on how to fleece the customers with the most expensive drinks - she got one bloke to pay £1000 for a bottle.

They act on the assumption that most men are too arrogant to admit they didn't want to pay that much (or can't really afford it) and don't want to admit they were diddled, so pay up. and they do.

bellamafia · 17/01/2013 14:10

Oh ffs! No it's NOT an effing issue of snooping! So bloody what of you did have a look in his jacket pockets. It's human bloody nature as I'm SURE he would do the same given the chance.

It's his lie about what he was claiming for ie, a Debenhams query. He should have just come out with the truth and even knowing that you are ok with these type of clubs ( you must be a strong woman), why did he feel the need to lie? Cos he didn't want you to know he went to one? No! Cos he spent a fortune on booze? No! Cos he spent a lot of money having private dances (and we all know what goes on in those!!). Yes!

I'm sorry to be so blunt but I'd start to think about telling him he is grounded from those places until you can fully forgive him.

Utter fukin child and a twat.

bellamafia · 17/01/2013 14:10

Oh ffs! No it's NOT an effing issue of snooping! So bloody what of you did have a look in his jacket pockets. It's human bloody nature as I'm SURE he would do the same given the chance.

It's his lie about what he was claiming for ie, a Debenhams query. He should have just come out with the truth and even knowing that you are ok with these type of clubs ( you must be a strong woman), why did he feel the need to lie? Cos he didn't want you to know he went to one? No! Cos he spent a fortune on booze? No! Cos he spent a lot of money having private dances (and we all know what goes on in those!!). Yes!

I'm sorry to be so blunt but I'd start to think about telling him he is grounded from those places until you can fully forgive him.

Utter fukin child and a twat.

allgoingtoshitnow · 17/01/2013 14:15

Of course its snooping. And anyone who pulls that kind of stunt is a snooper. Its as bad as reading someones mail or checking their facebook without permission.

However, I'd snoop if I suspected cheating. Did you suspect that OP?

In this case though OP - hes done no wrong so grounding him like a child is controlling and childish.

HighBrows · 17/01/2013 14:19

It's not snooping going through pockets before laundry.

And even if it is snooping his crimes are way worse. He went to a club to objectify women. He has lied and he has spent 1k. He sounds like a real keeper, not.

Nancy66 · 17/01/2013 14:19

OP if you're so cool about him going to strip club/ hostess bars then why would he wait until you're away to do it? And then not tell you?

SPBInDisguise · 17/01/2013 14:29

That's what I'm trying to understand Nancy. If the ops so cool about it, why did he cover it up?
And thanks for the description, I have cancelled my forthcoming planned night out to a lap dancing place and will now stay in with a fiver bottle of cava :o

sweetestB · 17/01/2013 14:40

I suppose the letter was folded so OP didn't need to open it and read it didn't she..?

Nancy66 · 17/01/2013 14:42

SPG - you'll save a fortune and you won't have a stranger's flaps in yer face either.

SPBInDisguise · 17/01/2013 14:46

Yes exactly. Why would I want a complete stranger to sit at my table anyway? You only have to read the m&s cafe threads to know that's a big no no.

AgathaF · 17/01/2013 15:06

What are the m&s cafe threads SPB? I think I might be missing out on something Hmm

KatyTheCleaningLady · 17/01/2013 15:07

It sounds like one of those places that will take a customer's card and then the girls will sit with the men and give them lap dances and conversation while sweet-talking him into buying bottles of "champagne." Some places require the client to buy drinks to keep the girls at the tables.

It sounds to me that he had a couple of girls settle in with him and sweet talk him, maybe tickle him under the table, and he had to keep buying rounds to keep the honey flowing.

Then he got the bill and felt ripped off.

You can't run up a huge bill like that just sitting there and watching girls twirl around a pole. This involved them getting close and personal and cajoling drinks or lap dances. I would expect the lap dances to be paid in cash to the girl, personally. This sounds like a bar tab.

HeyHoHereWeGo · 17/01/2013 15:13

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Greythorne · 17/01/2013 16:09

Well, OP, the bigger picture is that:

  1. your DH goes behind your back to strip joints when you are out of town
  2. your DH does not then come clean and tell you the truth, but lies to you and says he has not been to a strip club
  3. your DH spends almost 2 grand in a strip joint, probably having women put their near naked sex organs next to his face, having women rub their near naked sex organs against his clothes at a minimum
  4. your DH is either so naive or arrogant, he decides to dispute the bill after the event
  5. you discover all of this and your 'crime' of snooping is what might get hisback up

The bigger picture is that he is a lying, deceiving exploiter of vulnerable women and I am baffled by the idea that your take out of this scenario is that he might be pissed off at you for snooping.

Thisisaeuphemism · 17/01/2013 16:43

Hope you are ok, op.

If you are upset, and somehow, it is difficult to tell if you are, you could tell him to leave the house for a few days. That wouldn't be a bad idea, surely.

If my DH spunked £2000 in such a fashion, I would be looking at a separation.

PeppermintPasty · 17/01/2013 16:49

Greythorne has said it all really. And I am baffled as to how some posters are saying he hasn't done anything wrong.

HazeltheMcWitch · 17/01/2013 16:59

Very much agree with Nancy and Katy re the drinks thing.

Another version is (knowing 'champagne' is expensive), I'll just have a vodka, thanks. Chap gets told that they only do bottles, not measures, but reckons that's ok, a bottle is what - £20 max in supermarket. So checks, and it's def Smirnoff Red, nothing fancy. Except it's £800 a bottle...

Thisisaeuphemism · 17/01/2013 17:04

I don't think it was just drinks - It sounds like this guy has been to strip clubs before and you'd have to be a real novice/numpty to be stung in that way.

Chandon · 17/01/2013 17:06

Haha, I love it that these kind of guys, who want it both ways ( wifey at home, who is totally cool with strippers and hookers, and other women are for oggling, and f"cking....if it can be arranged) get fleeced by the same women they think they are exploiting. The exploiters exploited, kinda funny. No sympathy there.

Also, you both must be very rich to be able to afford this kind of cash ( even if he disputes the £1000, he probably spent a couple of hundred). I hope you spend the family money as freely on yourself as he does, but somehow I get the feeling the distribution of power is not that even in your relationship.

WilsonFrickett · 17/01/2013 17:11

He's probably cross because they forgot to take his Nectar points off the final bill.

He's colluding in the sexual exploitation of women. But you don't seem to be too fussed about that....

LadyBeagleEyes · 17/01/2013 17:13

Many years ago in my misspent youth I worked in a topless bar.
We used to have to ask for drinks, either champagne or cocktails, except the cocktails were green water and the champagne was cheap cava.
A bottle of champagne was about 75 quid and there was many a time some poor punter ended up spending thousands of guilders (this was Amsterdam) on their credit card so they could be surrounded by half a dozen half nekkid women.

SirBoobAlot · 17/01/2013 17:14

The man is a twat on so many levels.

Seriously woman, have some respect for yourself. Not only does he obviously view women only as sexual items, you are telling him this is okay. He lies to you, telling you he was buying you a present, and now it turns out it is nearly two grand.

You can do miles better than this kind of bullshit.