"Can we go to Pizza Express? Pizza Hut is a bit common and low quality"

[Edieandkoala]

Says Ds friend to me just now. Apparently, his family 'don't do' Pizza Hut.

Wibu not to take the ungrateful git anywhere for lunch now?

First time he's been to our house. So far, I've been told how small it is, asked how much dh earns, asked if this is a council house and asked why we didn't wait to have baby dd until we had a bigger house.

Ds is mortified.

Enjoy Pizza Hut. We always go there when we go to the cinema and I have to say I quite like it - the staff at the one we visit have always been very friendly.

ArcheryAnnie - Yes very similar idea. It just shows that sometimes the extremely wealthy live such a life a privilege that they become completely out of touch with the real world. Oik indeed!

I would respond with a barbed comment that you might be able to buy fancier pizza or a bigger house but you can't buy manners and you can't buy friends.

And hope that it sunk in.

And if not then sharper words would be in order. Your DS sounds like a good 'in though.

I like Pizza Hut, we went there yesterday. Does Pizza Express have an icecream factory?

He sounds awful. But you can comfort yourself in the knowledge that no amount of money compensates for bad manners. He'll have to change his behaviour pretty quick or he won't get very far in life.

Oh, if anyone hasnt tried the Hamburger pizza, DONT!!!!!

You will taste nothing else for the next 24 hours.

We have had similar. Also children in the car on play dates comparing how much they have in their bank accounts, how many houses their parents have bought for them and how much they have in their wedding funds.

Fortunately DDs don't give a hoot about any of the above, which is a good thing, as they don't have any of them.

These girls' parents are the kind who think of themselves as fab parents and their children as shining examples of upper middle class perfection. I don't think so.

Appalling manners OP, drop him back home.

My DD has friends who are extremely well off (we aren't) and none of them have ever mentioned the size of our house or been rude in any way.

IME it is often the ones who don't have much money but get themselves into debt for oneupmanship reasons who have the worst manners. Truly wealthy people often hide their wealth and act according so as to fit in.

I suggest that you take the little brat out to donate some pizzas to a homeless shelter after eating a Pizza Hut pizza.

So is he back home OP?

Pizza Express is okay; Pizza Hut is rank as fuck. That's clearly not the issue though. My parents were very strict about what we ate as children - all organic veg and no food colouring - but from the age of about 6, when I was with other people, I was able to appreciate that they did things differently. I was grateful for someone taking me out and said thanks, even if it wasn't somewhere my parents would take me.

I was not some type of genius or budding social success - I just had basic manners!

Hope the brat knows why he's been sent home.

Pizza Hut salads are good. The deep pan pizzas are cooked in their own personal vat of fat though. Yuck.

I feel sorry for him, in the long run, it will make his life quite unpleasant surely, to not know some very basic manners.
Hope you dropped him home. I'm not sure I'd bother inventing an excuse, just say to him, 'as you don't like Pizza Hut, I will drop you off home, on our way there'.

Think of today as your DS having a lucky escape. please update in 3 months about how school is panning out for the mother and son

I had a child ask why DP and I had DS even though we weren't married.

Straight from the parents mouths, that one!

King Be kinda ironic if that child had a child out of wedlock (sorry for the term) wouldnt it?

If you are taking / have taken him home early, then I'd certainly not make up stories about appointments - I'd say to the mother "I've brought him back early because our hose apparently isn't big enough for him, my dh doesn't earn enough, our family planning isn't good enough for him and our choice of venue for lunch isn't good enough for him. Good luck in finding friends who will accept such a rude boy into their house in the future"

Alternatively, don't take him home, but tell him very plainly just how rude he is being, and let him know that unless there are big apologies and big changes, he certainly won't be allowed back into your house and that you doubt he will be able to maintain any friendships going forward.

But don't take him back and lie.

Totally agree with BackforGood regarding telling the parents. However, if the vile child comes from a family where it's acceptable to judge others like this chances are the parents just won't "get it."

The family may have money but I think this is all proof that money does not buy class.

That's the next George Osborne having a play date!

Right, well FUCK THAT.

I did tell his mum, I had no choice.

I dropped him off, stayed in the car to see he got in ok, but no one came to the door, so I got out, knocked myself and she finally came to the door. She asked him "did you have fun" and the little bugger said "yeah, but then she said I was rude and X kept saying I was out of order and was giving me the cold shoulder".

So I said to her that he was rude, I was planning on taking them into town for lunch (which she knew, she just didn't know where) and he was quite rude about my choice of restaurant and he was also asking questions which were quite intrusive for anyone to ask.

So she said to him "is that true" and he told her what he'd said about Pizza Hut. Then she has the gall to say to me "oh god, those crappy vouchers that your ds won at the summer fair? I'd forgotten you were the poor sods who ended up with those".

She laughed as her ds skipped away indoors.......

Now I didn't say anything, I just said, anyway, must be off, have a good week and went.

Grrrrrrrr!

Good god - what a horrible family they sound!

What a rude boy! Poor you, a couple of hours more, poor you. No repeat invite again! Just get a couple of pizzas from the shop, some Macains chips or something and tell him as he doesent like Pizza Hut, this is tge alternative.

Well done for telling her the truth! Maybe if enough people do so, she will learn what a crappy job she is doing of raising her child!

Well, easy enough to see where her poor DS gets his appalling manners from then! What a total cow.

Take your lovely son out for his treat - my DSs would kill to be going to Pizza Hut, and as one who won three wizened courgettes at the summer fair, I'm more than a little envious.

I am gobsmacked. What an awful woman (you can see where the son gets it from I guess!)