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AIBU?

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Not to buy replacement Angel Delight?

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wordgirl · 04/05/2008 18:14

DS2 was making some sort of dessert in food tech on Friday and had to take in Angel Delight (yes I know) among other things. I duly went to the supermarket, bought said Angel Delight and packed DS off with it.
Apparently when he came to retrieve his ingredients for the food tech lesson it wasn't there. Teacher let DS use another Angel Delight and told him that I would have to replace it.
AIBU not to want to replace it? I know it doesn't cost a lot but it's the principle isn't it? I bought Angel Delight, DS took it into school and that's where my responsibility ends as far as I'm concerned.
Have told DS I will write him a note explaining but he thinks I am being mean. Am I?

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SmugColditz · 04/05/2008 18:16

Yes.

NotABanana · 04/05/2008 18:17

You are going to make things awkward for your son for the sake of a few pence so yes, YABU.

If it wasn't there, where had DS put it, or had someone helped themselves? Did he drop it on the way to school? Any number of things could have happened.

twinsetandpearls · 04/05/2008 18:19

Think it is not really worth making a fuss over tbh and it could make things awkward as NAB said.

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wordgirl · 04/05/2008 18:19

I'm guessing someone else used it so really they should replace it but I suppose I will just have to buy another one. But I don't think IABU to object to having to do so!

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FreddysTeddy · 04/05/2008 18:20

No, but why should the school provide it, presuming it wasn't them that took it?

cornsilk · 04/05/2008 18:21

Just get some more angel delight poor lad!

Pavlovthecat · 04/05/2008 18:22

Just buy it, its not expensive is it?

Blandmum · 04/05/2008 18:27

Did the school take the angel delight?

If not, you should pay up. they gave your ds a replacement, but they shouldn't have to front the cost.

If you think he lost it by being careless, dock the money from his pocket money (if he has some)

If he knows who took it, you could try getting the cash from their parents.

Unless the teacher is in some way neglegent, you are being unreasonable.

and if everyone did the same the school would eventually stop providing spares

blinkingthreetimes · 04/05/2008 18:30

Yabu ... I hope this is always the biggest of your worries in life

mumeeee · 04/05/2008 18:30

Yes.

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wordgirl · 04/05/2008 18:31

I will replace it - I'm not that mean but surely I'm entitled to feel a little aggrieved...
DS left it in the fridge with his other ingredients but it wasn't there when he came to make his dessert so I can only assume that someone else used it although obviously have no idea who it was.
This isn't the first time this has happened so maybe this has coloured my judgement somewhat. A week ago DS was chosen to go on the 'cooking bus' and made some lovely things but when he came to retrieve them from the fridge they weren't there.

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LyraSilvertongue · 04/05/2008 18:32

Just do it and spare your son some embarrassment.

Hecate · 04/05/2008 18:33

best advice I can give is - pick your battles wisely. tbh, this is not worth fighting over. It's actually likely to just leave the staff laughing at you, imo. Just buy the angel delight (or store's own variety) and let it go.

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wordgirl · 04/05/2008 18:35

Oh blimey, that's me told. Apparently IAB completely U. I will now go and buy enough Angel Delight for every child in the class

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Hecate · 04/05/2008 18:36

x-post with you. If it's a regular thing, that's worth raising, because that's a pattern of carelessness.

Probably a child who forgot theirs, pinched his. Whose angel delight did he use instead btw? Teacher let him borrow someone elses? If it's not replaced, what does that child do?

Hecate · 04/05/2008 18:37

bless you! Yep, you are but hats off to you because you're taking it in just the right way. SO nice to see a poster disagreed with and taking it on the chin and not getting the arse on.

Blandmum · 04/05/2008 18:37

just to start you off!

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wordgirl · 04/05/2008 18:39

I presume teacher had some spares for those who hadn't brought any in. Anyway I'm honestly not really that bothered and I WILL replace it but just thought I wasn't being too unreasonable to feel a bit irked.

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wordgirl · 04/05/2008 18:39

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NotABanana · 04/05/2008 18:40

You are entitiled to be annoyed that you have to buy more but you need to know who to be annoyed at (even if you don't approach them.) Would you feel differently if your son had lost it?

Blandmum · 04/05/2008 18:41

Trouble is the budgets are so limited for this sort of thing.

I regularly buy pens, pencils, rubbers rulers, pritt sticks etc, because the kids don't bring them and the department can't afford them. I bought 50 pencils and 25 biros at the start of the easter term.

They have all been nicked.

annoying

milfAKAmonkeymonkeymoomoo · 04/05/2008 18:42

oooh can I ask what they made with said Angel Delight ???

(must admit I have a shameful like for the butterscotch flavoured one... am a lentil weaver in many other ways!)

Hecate · 04/05/2008 18:43

I love angel delight. I know that's the sort of admission that gets you a lifelong MN ban , but I could just eat buckets of the stuff.

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wordgirl · 04/05/2008 18:45

Said dessert was a layer of crushed digestive biscuits topped with chocolate Angel Delight and a layer of strawberries. It was actually quite nice (well the strawberries were anyway) although DS wouldn't touch it.

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milfAKAmonkeymonkeymoomoo · 04/05/2008 18:45

Hehe Hecate, shall we form a MN forbidden treats list ? Fruit shoot lovers step this way....>

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