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OK, OH earns 125k, his secretary probably earns 35ish, how much should he spend on her Christmas present?

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DontWantToLookTight · 20/12/2007 21:46

Just that really.
Hev namechanged cos don't want you to all think I'm minted!

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DontWantToLookTight · 22/12/2007 23:45

nice body wash and cream, and since secretary had a day off work on Friday which oh didn't know about, I have time to go and get a £50 selfridges voucher for her as well. no scented candle what do you reckon?

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WendyWeber · 22/12/2007 23:45

Wot, no wine?

Quattrocento · 22/12/2007 23:47

Talking about income was the cardinal sin in quattro's infancy. Talking about expenditure was NOT GOOD but sometimes allowed (as in lamenting the price of fish). Talking about possessions was BAD FORM. But talking about income - my oh my - that was pretty well on a par with murder. Or shoplifting. Whatever but it was CLEARLY CRIMINAL.

DontWantToLookTight · 22/12/2007 23:47

I know, but I have no idea what she's in to, she might be a bacardi breezer kind of girl, I have no idea, and she could buy wine with her selfridges voucher. don't use the face, it looks so so , how about ?

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WendyWeber · 22/12/2007 23:49

Oh all right then, as long as you didn't buy her a sodding poinsettia I will

(And that's my first C'mas smiley, I hope you feel honoured )

handlemecarefully · 22/12/2007 23:49

lol Quattro

DWTLT - I think the two things in combination (the present and the voucher) sound just fine

DontWantToLookTight · 22/12/2007 23:50

same here quattro, would NEVER do it in rl, wouldn't even do it on here if I could be identified. I don't get off on it, it feels silly and funny and sort of wrong. I'm not keeping this name to use in the future, it is only for this thread.

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HunkerGotLeprosyFromAFact · 22/12/2007 23:50

DWTLT, email me. Gwan, you know you want to.

House prices are still going up round here. Amazing, really! Better move here quick!

I do think you've had an unnecessarily rough time on this thread from some MNers and you've taken it in v good humour. Glad you've got a present sorted!

DontWantToLookTight · 22/12/2007 23:51

WW
Thanks HMC

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HunkerGotLeprosyFromAFact · 22/12/2007 23:51

Do a festive grin for me, Jan, peeeeeeeeeeez?

DontWantToLookTight · 22/12/2007 23:53

lol hunker, I so do, I want to be your neighbour! But I do not want you to know me as dwtlt, so I shall move in next door to you and never divulge my husbands income and we shall eat home made biscuits together and make home brew!

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Quattrocento · 22/12/2007 23:54

Yes, sorry if I gave you a rough time

Didn't mean to be too hard.

It's a combination of natural belligerence, training, and some funny conditioning in childhood/

Glad you got the present sorted - it sounds just fine.

All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.

Quattrocento · 22/12/2007 23:56

DWLT you have a fairly distinctive prose style and I think we have met before but I will respect your privacy

WendyWeber · 22/12/2007 23:56

There you are, hunker darling - 3 huge festive grins!

WendyWeber · 22/12/2007 23:57
DontWantToLookTight · 22/12/2007 23:59

lol , don't feel like I've had too much of a hard time really, good being anon, everyone can say what they think, and I agree with most of you in principle. funny world.

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HunkerGotLeprosyFromAFact · 22/12/2007 23:59

That's lovely, thank you Jan

DWTLT, email me at some random point in the future then and I won't know it's you from this thread. Just say you like the blog or something. Or you want to start a msn affair. I often get emails like that, so I won't know it's you

DontWantToLookTight · 22/12/2007 23:59

Quattro, I don't believe we've met.........???

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DontWantToLookTight · 23/12/2007 00:02

Bugger re distinctive prose style, I tried to post on something important anonymously a bit ago and am pretty sure was rumbled. what's so distincitve? bad grammar no doubt!
Will do hunker

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Twinklemegan · 23/12/2007 00:05

I'm sorry too for deviating off the point and giving you and others a rough time. I am just and very at your DH's secretary's salary. And I suppose I'm very out of touch with how things are in London these days.

SantaBabyBeenAnAwfulGoodGirl · 23/12/2007 00:08

so the answer was win wa iut

SantaBabyBeenAnAwfulGoodGirl · 23/12/2007 00:09

andal though dhe soesnt smoke a fag and a line

HunkerGotLeprosyFromAFact · 23/12/2007 00:10

Very expensive in London [wild understatement]

And DH assures me about to get more so, because of the emission zone or something that's going to make it massively expensive for anybody to drive a lorry (you know, those things that contain food) into the M25.

Twinklemegan · 23/12/2007 00:10

SantaBaby - are you Cod? I can't decipher those posts this time.

SantaBabyBeenAnAwfulGoodGirl · 23/12/2007 00:10

of nappies clean and sparkling white

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