To think friend googling the cost was uncool?

[Arseholery]

I'm going to view a new car soon and was mentioned it last week to a group of friends within a conversation about someone else new car.

Saw that same group of friends last night and one of the group, Alice, mentioned the appt and said she'd had a look up and did a kind of a plumber's teeth suck about the cost.

And I said something shruggy about it is what it is.

AIBU to think she was being unreasonable?

OP - you don't by any chance have a canteen of Arthur Price silver cutlery do you?
This is a very tenuous joke that
relies on you having read a thread from yesterday in which a complete CF went to a new friends for lunch and was utterly flabbergasted to discover she had real silver knives and forks, made a note of the name, went home and googled the price!
Could it be your same friend???

Isn’t it strange how more and more people do things like this? I know lots of people who jump onto google to check prices of things like gifts they are given. My uber competitive sister in law went on holiday to the same tropical island as us and stayed in a nicer resort. Fair enough. However, she then took an afternoon out to visit our resort and made sure she asked to see the suite we stayed in and have lunch and dinner in the restaurants just to see how much we had spent and then to tell us her resort was better. Just weird.

I would so Google the price. Shameless me!

Would never mention it though.

Good job I'm not your friend I'd have probably asked you how much it was to save myself a google! I always thought cars were one of those things you did talk about the cost of. Certainly 'How much did that set you back then?' Seems to be the first question when men 'admire' each others new cars. (How else could they discuss how it wasn't worth the money and their own choice was superior?) The teeth thing was a bit off though.

I do this stuff all the time. I wouldn’t mention it though

I google prices, mostly at the market. I saw a brand new John Lewis weighted blanket for £15, the owner caught me googling the price and commented on it

Well I would definitely do that. I also do it if someone's buying a house. Thought that was normal 😂😂

I did this when friend of a friend was showing off their new car but it was a 100k Tesla and they live in a three bed semi worth about £250k so I was baffled.

I never think of doing this

May start now, as a new hobby

So are you excited about your new Tesla OP?

You'd hate me op.

I've been known to check the 'last sold for' price of houses on Rightmove because I'm curious as to how much someone I know paid for their house 😂

BUT I'd never tell them!

Oh I always google prices like this. My friend just took a trip and I went online to see the ticket price. I wouldn't tell her though

Think it through

Touché!

Some hard of thinking people on this thread.

WHAT IS THE CAR?????

Don't most people have an occasional Google to be nosy, even if they never mention that they do it.

@Stoic123

I would so Google the price. Shameless me!

Would never mention it though.

now THIS is normal 🤣😂

My mate was buying a new car. Of course I bloody looked it up! Not for the price mind you but to just have a peek at the car because I didn't know of it. But fuck me it was 44k.

...and yes I mentioned the price in a 'oi moneybags' kind of way.

She's my mate, it's what we do.

Alice, mentioned the appt and said she'd had a look up and did a kind of a plumber's teeth suck about the cost.

What's a plumber's teeth suck?! Does that mean it's cheap or pricey? Does it mean she was impressed?

I thought everyone googles stuff like this, more so house prices

I own a car that's knocking on the door of ten years old so I'm probably not your target audience but I might google if I was intrigued enough.

Wild horses wouldn't drag that out of me though. Cat's arse mouth Alice appears to have no filters and YANBU.

I wouldnt have commented in the way your friend did but everyone I know is nosy in this way and checks sold prices on rightmove etc. I think you are kind of naive if you don't realise this.

Googling I guess is normal but mentioning it is not cool.

This is something my mother would totally do though just because she's really nosy.

The plumbers teeth sucking would be more of a flinch I think, than an expression of being impressed, as sort of, oh mate, this'll cost ya. See also builders.

@BeenAsFarAsMercyAndGrand

"You know what I don't talk about when chatting with friends? Boring stuff like buying cars.

If you tell your friend that you are going to view a new car and tell them the make and model - why are you doing it? Status? Are you looking to impress them? It's not a normal conversation topic (unless your old car has died a spectacular death recently, and you were talking about that).

If you don't want people to notice or comment on the money you're spending, why mention your expensive purchases?"

It really was just an organic conversation: Bernadette was mentioning a quirk in respect of her new car, so I said, oh yes that's good to know thanks because in a couple of months I'm getting a NotBlahBlah, actually going to check it out next week.

Alice didn't mention on either occasion the value of Bernadette's car. Which had puzzled me a bit.

@girlmom21

It was more a "ohh that starts from £efg, gosh"

You said you weren't bragging or comparing but actually this suggests to me that you were.

If she'd have been more like "I can't believe you're paying x amount for that kind of car" I'd kind of see your point but if she's saying "oh that's an expensive car" it seems like your friend has said "I've bought a 19 plate jag" and you've gone "I'm getting a brand new Range Rover sport soon".

I don't really understand this, but if I get the gist, you're saying I responded to someone saying I've bought something worth £X, by saying well I'm getting something worth £X +50%? Definitely wasn't like that at all.

@Wishingwell75 what's the canteen reference please? Sounds worth a look.