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To be really annoyed about my cooker being dumped?

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Typo · 17/06/2008 11:07

Basically, we sold our flat to some of DH's close friends.

We included some of the contents in the sale. We had a freestanding cooker in there, which was pretty new and we agreed to leave behind.

Anyway, long story short, the house we were going to buy with a built-in cooker fell through and so we ended up taking the cooker with us when we moved. BUT I left behind an older cooker in it's place, it used to belong to my grandmother who died a few years ago and had sentimental value to me.

I've just found out the "friends" who bought the house have dumped the cooker because apparently it broke! I can't believe it. How dare they junk my stuff, particularly when it means something to me, without asking?

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Amandella · 17/06/2008 11:20

Break your cover.....good try but I'm not buying this at all.....

TheHedgeWitch · 17/06/2008 11:21

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TheFallenMadonna · 17/06/2008 11:22

Odd thing to make up... Is it going to develop into something more interesting? Is granny's cooker just setting the scene?

fryalot · 17/06/2008 11:24

YANBU at allllll tis perfectly reasonable to expect people to use things that you gave them, out of the goodness of your heart, and to keep them forever, lavishing love and attention on them for the rest of their days, regardless of whether they in fact work.

I cannot believe the selfishness of these twats - and they have the nerve to call themselves friends of yours! what a pair of wankers!

And as for everyone on this thread shouting "troll" and saying the op is BU... have you never been in a similar situation where something only good for throwing out of immense sentimental value has been passed on to a "friend" only to have that tat heirloom dumped at the first available opportunity!

pah!

folk today

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Typo · 17/06/2008 11:24

I've already explained the situation to you - I wouldn't have left anything behind if they weren't friends. I don't see why they took it on themselves to dump it, if they were going to throw it away why couldn't they consult me first? It's just good manners.

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bergentulip · 17/06/2008 11:25

Very, very weird.

Please, tell, what else did they do that was so abhorrent? Use your biro to sign the contract, and then forget to give it back?

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Typo · 17/06/2008 11:26

Well, as you ask, another thing they do is fail to pass on our post to us in time for it to be of any use to us.

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SaintGeorge · 17/06/2008 11:26

FFS some people! They should be hung, drawn and quartered for their heinous crime!

They dumped it? Have they not heard of freecycle?

bran · 17/06/2008 11:27

Yes, I'm waiting for more instances of their nastyness. Did they perhaps forget to bring frankinsense, gold and myrrh to the birth of your first child?

fryalot · 17/06/2008 11:27

you mean to say that the nasty bastards haven't arranged with the post office to have your post forwarded to you?

It doesn't even cost that much!

I am at their self-centredness!

Dropdeadfred · 17/06/2008 11:28

So you promised them a 'new' cooker then decided to dump your family heirloom on them instead..God knows how old it was...then when it stopped working they were supposed to somehow store this whilst waiting to see if you wanted to remove the thing???

You are a sad ----

TheHedgeWitch · 17/06/2008 11:28

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Typo · 17/06/2008 11:29

They pass our house every single week, it would not be at all hard for them to bring our post round. They are suposed to be friends.

They don't bother though, ever.

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bran · 17/06/2008 11:29

They shouldn't be getting your post, you should complain to the post office that it hasn't been redirected properly. (You did redirect it didn't you? It would have been rude not to obviously.)

TheHedgeWitch · 17/06/2008 11:31

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fryalot · 17/06/2008 11:32

well, typo, all I can say is that they are obviously lazy as well as tight, mean and nasty. Why would you even want them as friends?

Perhaps you should get some more mates on this site:

www.heirloom.mates.com

hatrick · 17/06/2008 11:32

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wannaBe · 17/06/2008 11:35

am i the only one who is pmsl at the idea of a cooker having sentimental value? I mean if it was a ring or a clock or a lovely old dresser... but a cooker? .

StrictMachine · 17/06/2008 11:35

They should be pissed off that you took the new cooker and left them with one that broke.

O wait, that didn't need to be said and no doubt has been already.

What is the point of this thread again?

TheHedgeWitch · 17/06/2008 11:37

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nervousal · 17/06/2008 11:37

God knows how you'll cope when they redecorate.....

StrictMachine · 17/06/2008 11:38

Beans on toast

A nice bean salad

Bean bags

TheHedgeWitch · 17/06/2008 11:40

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Saymyname · 17/06/2008 11:41

Would it really have hurt for them to just run it by the OP though, before they got rid of it?

nametaken · 17/06/2008 11:42

Sorry but you are stark raving bonkers - it was their cooker not yours. You need to get a grip.