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would you believe ds (5) or the childminder? childminer took ds and the children elsewhere

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user1469643462 · 27/07/2016 19:31

It is the summer holidays so ds has to be with a childminer, for 3 days a week. I pay her for the actual care she provides, then i pay for any visits to places on top of that, they were supposed to be going to the zoo today and i had paid £21 for ds's zoo ticket and i know that isnt loads but tbh with the cost i had already paid for her to look after him it was almost today's wages! ds goes there with 2 boys and a little girl aswell all around the same age give or take. Ds got home and was telling me all about his trip to the local museum (which was free) i did not have a problem with that he seemed to have had a great time. I phoned up the childminder and asked if she could just paypal the money back over and she said that she had no idea what i was going on about and that she took them to the zoo Hmm I know children do love to use their imagination, so i was a bit undecided, ds kept going on about the objects he had seen and told me a story about a man showing them the kids bit. ds has never been to this museum and it was just odd how well he was explaining it. I would love to phone the other parents but tbh i dont actually know them! it's all very odd...

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MoonfaceAndSilky · 01/08/2016 18:15

Oh come on OP, I've just read through the whole thread and now NEED to see the fake ticket Grin

purplefox · 01/08/2016 18:16

I've never been so interested in seeing a zoo ticket as I am right now.

BlameItOnTheBogies · 01/08/2016 18:17

Nooo! You just get a receipt that's scanned at the entrance. Why would she think she can get away with that?? Anyone could pick up a postcard and hand it in for a free day out

(maybe I'll try it)

EeksyPeeksy · 01/08/2016 18:19

Come on OP!

Blondeshavemorefun · 01/08/2016 18:21

Cm has given hit a fake ticket? So will have the date on it? Does it look fake

Post it !!!!!!

SheHasAWildHeart · 01/08/2016 18:24

Place marking :p

nilbyname · 01/08/2016 18:25

Shameless place marking, this thread is pretty epic.

op let's have a gander at her zoo tickets?!

Is it wrong that I am imagining a sugar paper drawing with a crayon elephant on it?

user1469643462 · 01/08/2016 18:29

Oh goodness me, I didn't realise how many people were interested. I am actually just cooking dinner! Give me 5 mins.

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MrsHathaway · 01/08/2016 18:30

If you buy online you create a ticket with a bar code. You either print it off (on your own shitty paper, which might not render logos well) or present your phone at the gates. Either way it doesn't look like much.

TwatbadgingCuntfuckery · 01/08/2016 18:31

For tax and charitable status reasons any zoo ticket would need to provide those details on the ticket. You can look them up online.

chester zoo its - Registered Charity No. 306077

and VAT number is 595728679.

If neither of those are on the ticket OP you can assume it is a fake imo.

NoahVale · 01/08/2016 18:33

what is the point of this?
you Need a child minder.
fake ticket or not.

Germgirl · 01/08/2016 18:34

Aww, where's the ticket?!

Ellie891 · 01/08/2016 18:37

ShockShock the suspense !

Champagneformyrealfriends · 01/08/2016 18:38

Totally hooked!

KoalaDownUnder · 01/08/2016 18:38

It's 1:30 a.m. here, so must go to bed.

If this ticket is a) not posted by the time I awake, or b) deleted before then...I am coming after you, OP.

LoreleiGilmoreIsMyBFF · 01/08/2016 18:39

Come on OP; you are the most popular woman on MN right now!

millimat · 01/08/2016 18:41

We've been recently. I'd recognise the ticket, but it is only a little paper thing. Have no recollection of any coins, but there's no way you'd enter the zoo and not go in the monkey house - that's a good indicator as to if he remembers it.
Sounds v dodgy- I'd be asking other parents to ask their children again. At the end of the day sounds like they're being ripped off as well.

Blondeshavemorefun · 01/08/2016 18:41

If booked online then printed it off - then would have an email confirmation ....

TheDailyMailareabunchofcunts · 01/08/2016 18:42

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BastardGoDarkly · 01/08/2016 18:44

Oh please stick around then milli then you can tell the op definitively if it's the same!!!

I've managed to feed my family, and wash up though, so I wouldn't sit on the refresh button!

strongswans · 01/08/2016 18:45

I've lost count of how many times I've come back to this thread! Come on OP!!!

Coconutty · 01/08/2016 18:47

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LoreleiGilmoreIsMyBFF · 01/08/2016 18:48

What are you having for dinner/tea/ 'supper' (ugh)?! Why is taking so loooooonnnnng?!

Lenska999 · 01/08/2016 18:49

OP I need to see the 'ticket' I'm totally over invested in this.

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