"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.

I could not believe that anyone would say something like that, OP!! Well, I believe you but how awful! She probably thought she was laughing it off but . Depends how she said it, too. Certainly someone to avoid in future.

Just read your other posts, the apple doesent fall far from the tree does it. It's not tge boys fault hugs mother is a rude, stuck up Madame with no class. Money can buy a lot of things but not class.

I'm taking ds this evening. Dh is staying here with the baby, it's rare that ds and I do anything alone without the baby in tow, it's a bit of a shock to him after 11 years of being an only child, so he's really looking forward to it.

Good on you, Edie, for telling her, even if she was oblivious.

KingJoffreysBlood I once had a visiting child ask "where's your man?" but it was a genuine question and not intended to be rude. I explained to him I had no man, whereupon I got "why don't you have a man?". I explained that I don't want a man, lots of women don't want a man, and it's fine for women to have a man or not, exactly as they please - and, amazingly, he was satisfied with this explanation.

What a horrible woman. I would be keeping my son well away from hers in future. Has she got reason to think she is better than you?

I think you and your son are better off keeping away from them! Talk about hide like a rhino...

I feel sorry for the pta as well.

Send him to Sainsburys and shw him the ingredients for a Sloppy Guiseppe. There's some right posh preservatives, bulking agents and flavourings in one of them.

Ah poor kid, he's got boorish, snooty, brash parents with superiority complexes and he's acquired their horrible prejudices

What a woman.

I frickin love Pizza Hut

I like Pizza Hut Deep Pan Super Supreme but without chicken. Chicken on pizza is an abomination.

I particularly like the way that, unlike Pizza Express, Pizza Hut don't lecture me on their website about eating healthily or piously panhandle for donations to save the fabulously rich city of Venice.

Venice can save itself. I've seen the men in fox-fur parkas driving £250,000 motorboats charging £100+ for a 15-minute hop from the airport to the city.

Pizza Hut just expect me to order. I also like the fact that their pizzas are bigger than shirt buttons.

I have no comment on that dreadful child and his silly cunt of a mother.

Yes, she has. In her eyes.

We only moved here three years ago and we have to rent a teeny flat as my ex husband totally fleeced me out of everything I'd ever worked for.

When we first moved, I went back to uni as a mature student and dh was finishing his masters...so we were both technically not working (although both doing placement work for our courses). As a consequence, ds was entitled to free school meals when he first started - gossip that got around fast in the very middle class school.

And dh and I weren't married as yet then, so I was just a single, unemployed mum shacked up with my boyfriend in a tiny flat to them.

So obviously, without knowing me, ds or our background we were the 'benefits family' .

Until they saw that ds was lovely, bright and very well spoken and the finally asked me about myself and got a shock when I told them about my life, dhs job (he graduated and got a good job a few months after we moved here). One of them even said she assumed dh was an out of work alcoholic as she'd seen him in sainsburys one afternoon buying wine (for Pil visiting later on!!).

Honestly, I have never known anything like it. If they had have known me 5 years ago when I had a lot more, they would have been licking my arse.

It's made me learn a lot about people.

Crikey. Well done for being truthful Edie - have a lovely evening with ds tonight

What vile people. Have a lovely evening tonight.

So obviously, without knowing me, ds or our background we were the 'benefits family' hmm.

So what if you were. They should not have judged you for that in the first place.

I know, but sadly, there are a lot of people who do judge. I didn't mean that in a nasty way btw. But it's how they saw me and they judged me. It's a very sad way to live.

I don't care if someone has money, works is on benefits, is bloody royalty. If they are nice and kind, I like them.

It makes me angry that they cared so much about my life!

It sounds like the neighborhood you live in is full of terrible snobs with only just enough money to keep up appearances and not enough money to have any discretion or class.

Is it worth staying there for the good school? I don't think I could stomach being around such narrow-minded snobbery. Hope your DS has some nice, normal friends too!

Get them to make this and then leave it on her doorstep.

Oh dear. Well at least you don't need to bother trying to be nice to her anymore - very plain what side her bread's buttered.

You sound like you live in my village as I have had very similar encounters (as saintlyjimjams will know :o) I once had a child round who thought it was appropriate to mock my severely disabled daughter and call her a spaz. My son (who was 3 at the time, it was not his friend but his older brothers) hit him in the face and knocked his glasses off, so I had to explain to ghastly woman why and what had happened. I then met her in waitrose a few weeks later and she said it wasn't her son, he said what wonderful handwriting my daughter had -she can't write- and that it was actually my son making fun....of his own sister and what a nice time he had had in our little rented house hahaha
I avoid her like the plague
She once described one of her friends to me as 'that really big lady' ...She was a sz 14 tops

Wow what an ungracious family. I find it quite funny the pizza snobbery thing. it's pizza fgs - would you rather pay a fiver for it in Pizza Hut using a voucher and having a salad bar, or minimum a tenner at Pizza Express because Quentin loves the dough balls and babycinnos.

I tool DS's friends to the new all you can eat buffet last week - even asked for their passports so i didn't get charged adult prices, about as unKlassy as you can get. Nothing but beaming children and big thank yous.

I look forward to your next thread where she tries to laugh it all off as a merry jape op

We're from up north too :o