AIBU to get milk as my Waitrose free hot drink?

[ElleDubloo]

I normally don't want a tea or coffee when I go to Waitrose, but the toddler is partial to some cold milk in a takeaway cup that she can sip on the way home. AIBU to ask for a cup for a hot drink, but just pour some cold milk into it instead of actually getting a hot drink?

My logic is that, if I were to pay full price, a latte is much more expensive than a cup of cold milk. So surely the store won't be out of pocket?

But today I got a snarky comment from a fellow customer who saw me do it. Not sure anymore if what I'm doing is fine or not.

You could get a job refilling the milk jugs in Waitrose.

But really you could just check with the customer service desk who will probably say it's fine to carry on.

YANBU, unless you take half a pint or similar.

It's only a drop of milk for heaven's sake.

@SchadenfreudePersonified we need an episode of Vlad and Vanka to cheer ourselves up after this rather dispiriting saga. Do you think MNHQ would be up for creating a zone just for rather daft poems and very entertaining comedy sketches?

Alpaca

Funnily enough, I was just in touch with the boys yesterday. They feel that MN could really use good advice from people who are professional, caring, highly intelligent and experienced in the ways of the world, and whose compassionate wisdom would be a shining beacon of love and hope (and probably beetroot) in a dark and uncaring world.

They were talking about an "agony" page, and have decided that "Ask Auntie Vladka" could provide the answers for so many distressed people's broken hearts and lives.

But where to post it . . . I suggested AIBU - but they wondered if there would be a better place for advice that was so all-encompassing and dripping in the wisdom of the universe, industrial-strength Vwodka, and Marmite.

Have you any suggestions? The more they talk about it, the more they are raring to go!

Yanbu. They used to do hot choc as its the only hot drink i drink. They will give you hot milk if you ask and you can add drinking choc powder. I do this when with my mother in law in the cafe as she likes a cake too

Runaway what a preposterous comparison! Obviously, if you do that, you mess up their inventory, etc

Actually it’s a very good analogy. A free cup of milk isn’t in the offer, and neither is the double deckers and if everyone decided they’d have a free cup of milk they’d go through one hell of a lot more of it than they do now.

Bluntness - because people are just going to be falling over themselves in droves to drink milk instead of cappuccino.

Also, if the OP takes half a cup of milk, that is about what goes into a latte anyway, so she is just getting a milky coffee without the coffee.

Meanwhile . . .

A LUXURY HOTEL

SOEUL

Vanka is making Borscht in his paella pan (he LOVES that pan, and carries it everywhere - he has even had his granny knit a pan-cosy for it so he can cuddle it in in bed be confident that it won't get scratched or dented on their travels). The Boys have snuck a two ring electric hotplate up to their room, and Vlanka cooks for them under a torn and faded list pinned to the wall. Ironically, it is a list of rules, the first one of which says "FOR YOUR COMFORT AND PLEASURE NO COOKING IN THE ROOMS THANKYOUPLEASE" Sadly, they can't read Korean>

"Hey Vanka"

"What is?"

"I are sick of these two - they both twatters. I been on Mumsnet for light relief."

"Is that not what that lady was - "

"NO! Shutyoufacethisplacebugged"

"Anyway - they not manage well without me. Much cheeky fuckery and even milk-related public disdain. They need Flashbastard like me to keep things right Everybody wants piece of me!"

"WHAT?!"

"Is nothing . . . what we do?"

"That is question! Vwodka!

Glad I don't shop in Waitrose if customers are so bloody judgemental and miserable. It isn't at all like the chocolate bars as milk is part of the offer, because it is provided for the drinks, and the chocolate bars are totally different items.

I made that comparison because half price Mars Bars are a promotional offer, just like free hot drinks are a promotional offer. Waitrose offer you a free hot drink if you shop with them and swipe your myWaitrose card. You can either take part in that offer or not, but the T&Cs are very clear:

So if you let your coffee go cold, it no longer is in the offer?

Honestly, do get a grip! It’s a small child having a bit of milk in a paper cup! I don’t think Waitrose will worry! Please OP continue giving your DS this and if you get snarky remarks from customers tell them to mind their own business! If they don’t like it approach a staff member who will likely say we don’t mind!

Honestly,, stealing, theft, maybe call the police and have OP arrested!

Good idea Stress. That child is being put onto the slippery slope to drug-running and armed robbery by a mother who thinks the rules don't apply to her.

Baby Borstal - that's what we need here. And a damn good thrashing. And taken into care where real respect for society can be properly learned.

The child will thank us one day . . .

It's some bloody milk. Enjoy!

So if you let your coffee go cold, it no longer is in the offer?

Very good point!

I'm pretty much always one to follow the rules but this really would not bother me.

She could have a cup of coffee with milk in it.

In this scenario she simply doesn't take the coffee part of the drink and the child drinks the milk instead, it doesn't matter, someone's still drunk it.

Odd attitudes on here about something so minor.

If you can afford to shop in Waitrose I'm sure you can afford a small milk for their shop as well.

Waitrose shoppers can probably afford to pay for a coffee too. By your inverted snobbery token, I guess we should turn down the free drink offer and go across the road and buy one in Pret instead?

If you can afford to shop in Waitrose I'm sure you can afford a small milk for their shop as well.

Yeah I should imagine the majority of us can afford a small cup of milk.......but it’s not about that is it? It’s about the child liking the “ritual”. Goes shopping, picks up his paper cup, fills a bit with milk and keeps him amused whilst shopping! Not quite the same as a sippy cup pre filled!

Honestly, it’s a bloody small amount of milk!

if you can afford to shop in Waitrose I'm sure you can afford a small milk for their shop aswell

By that logic you could just say we'll scrap the free tea and coffees because the customers can afford one from the cafe anyway.