To expect to buy...

[Rhubarb]

Guinness in the pub at a reasonable price i.e change from £3 and to be able to leave my kids in the car outside with the engine running (to keep 'em warm) and coke and crisps for tea without someone having a go at me?

YABU. Change from £3???

YABU. You should switch the engine off and save yourself petrol. Some people are so wasteful!!

It's alright, we're using that red diesel - apparently dh gets it for nowt!

Stella is cheaper, surely.

Stella? Stella? Do I look like a lager drinking Southern jessie?

Humph!

Isn't red diesel illegal?

YABU. Coke is too expensive for kids. Theres nowt wrong with a bottle of Panda Pop!!!

Oh I don't think so Charlee, dh just says it's free because no-one likes the colour red!

You are so right cheshire kitty! In fact, I might just fill up bottles with tap water and save money that way.

But honestly, you wouldn't believe the amount of people who give me grief over that - as if I'm not worrying enough about the price of my Guinness!

You shouldn't be giving them crisps
They need a proper meal. Get them a bag of chips to share.

crisps isn;t enough for them, you mean mare.

go get 'em a greggs sausagr roll to go with those crips!

Yep - 'tis illegal to use red diesel for running ordinary cars from on the road. Also illegal to use cooking oil, unless you pay the fuel duty on that too.

Really sexydad? And to think he told me that it was red because they made it out of roses!

I'm off to get bladdered now. Might leave the kids here, they've got knives to play with, I'm sure they won't come to any harm. I'll turn the heating off too, no point in having that on eh?

You make me quite nostalgic Rubarb.
My sister and I spent many a saturday and sunday afternoon in the 1970s in the car with a bag of crisps and bottle of lemonade (not allowed coke, cos of the caffine - oh the irony!)
Then dad drove home!
Those were the days! Sigh...

The Panda Pop factory is where I live, mmm the lovely smell that comes from it.

'Stella is cheaper, surely.'

Can you use Stella in a car engine??

You can do better than that, Rhubs.

awww they don't make the Panda Pops there any more, Shoshe!

crisps? They need warm food like chips or sausage rolls. And fruitshoots cos it has the word fruit in.
Shocking the price of guinness nowadys.
Wouldn't leave the car running. Its not eco-friendly and anyway, kids today are sissies and need some bracing cold to toughen them up.

Leave the engine running? No, put an extra jumper on them - you are creating a rod for yourself, raising namby pamby kids!

If you like short drinks, you could always buy the mixer and surreptitiously pour in the contents of a hip flask. Means you aren't confined to "small doubles then"

And you could always ask a chippy for a bag of "scraps". Many places give them away for free!

I would be more owrried about the fact the kids are alone in the car outside while you are in the pub more than the fact the engine is on?

Bringing back memories unavailable, are you my sister???

Rhubarb, you fule.
If you leave the engine running and the heating on the battery will die.

Have them run the car around the car park a bit.

HTH