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I love it when the Daily Mail do articles like this

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Voidka · 27/09/2011 14:20

here

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TanteRose · 27/09/2011 14:29

ha ha! they still have a cleaner, cinema EVERY week for 4 people, tennis and horse riding lessons paid for by grandparents.....my heart WEEPS!

Wimminsinit · 27/09/2011 14:32

Oh, the shame of having to apply for a bursary for your child's cricket trip abroad.

Their lives sound positively ghastly

giyadas · 27/09/2011 14:32

this bit made me laugh..
"Some friends of ours were terrified of traumatising their children if they admitted that Daddy didn?t have a job any more. So each morning he?d dress in a suit and head for the station, take a train to London and spend the day in a library."
For six months Shock
That's not normal behaviour surely?

SpringHeeledJack · 27/09/2011 14:33

love it

when dp got made redundant, the first thing DS said was "ooh, can I get free school dinners instead of a packed lunch?"

Grin
AMumInScotland · 27/09/2011 14:35

My heart bleeds for them Hmm

I love the one who spent money on a return train trip to London every day, just to spare the children the trauma.... er, how much did that cost then?

NormanTebbit · 27/09/2011 14:35

"Emily announces that she has an idea. ?It?s about a new job for Daddy,? she says, ?I saw it on the back of a bus. Daddy, you could train as a bus driver and earn £125 a day.?

My husband, Andy, winces. My eyes fill with tears. He?s got a History degree from Cambridge, a Masters degree in Business, and years of senior experience in strategic management. Bus driving wasn?t exactly the future he?d planned."

It's just too easy to take the piss isn't it. Grin

AMumInScotland · 27/09/2011 14:36

We can't afford a cleaner or a trip to the cinema every week, and we're both working fulltime/ Where am I going wrong? Should I try to lose my job so that I can match their standard of living?

DooinMeCleanin · 27/09/2011 14:36

I feel sad for her. Poor woman.

Hmm
Wimminsinit · 27/09/2011 14:39

She has made a few bob selling that absolute drivel on to the DM, though, so good on her!

Pagwatch · 27/09/2011 14:45

She won't be happy with the photo.

allhailtheaubergine · 27/09/2011 14:50

I can't muster the energy. The DM is now a parody of itself.

merryberry · 27/09/2011 14:51

how many years not changing tack? and he could have had all sorts of OU extra courses done already by now. blimey.

HattiFattner · 27/09/2011 15:01

I saw this thismorning and had a wry old smile - glad it made it to MN.

Like everyone else, Im being very judgy - they are spending all the redundancy and savings on maintaining this cleaner and pony lifestyle because they cant go onto benefits because they have too much saved.

Boo hoo.

I do wish they could live a day in the life of someone who is actually struggling to make ends meet.

I know of a hungarian woman who works as an aupair, then "moonlights" 4 jobs as a cleaner, all so she can pay her mortgage in Hungary. SHe has a PHd in something, but cannot yet speak good enough ENglish to get a job in her chosen subject. SO in the meantime she works her butt off cleaning for the "eel sorry for me and my cinema once a week pony riding" gang. Unbelievable.

talkingnonsense · 27/09/2011 15:04

Ffs why doesn't he drive the bus? Spoilt I reckon.

DooinMeCleanin · 27/09/2011 15:07

We'd be freakin' rich if one us was earning £125 a day. I don't even get that in a week.

WinduhPAYNE · 27/09/2011 15:09

A long (and not particularly interesting) list of self pitying drivel.

TribbleWithoutACause · 27/09/2011 15:27

That was the most pointless five minutes of my life.

MIFLAW · 27/09/2011 15:35

"Bus driving wasn?t exactly the future he?d planned."

I can't imagine MANY people, including most bus drivers, can honestly say that bus driving was "the future they'd planned."

RoyalWelsh · 27/09/2011 15:39

£125 a day you say??

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Voidka · 27/09/2011 15:39

DS wants to be a bus driver - he has done for the last 5 years!

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Voidka · 27/09/2011 15:39

£125 isnt a bad daily wage!

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NambaJam · 27/09/2011 15:39

Fucking hell! Is that realy what they call hardship?

And if it is can I swap with them?

That was a sickening loads of self entitled drivel. The irony is that she thinks people should feel sorry for her.

Is it acceptable to want to beat some sense into her?

WinduhPAYNE · 27/09/2011 15:41

NambaJam Grin

MIFLAW · 27/09/2011 15:43

Voidka

Of course some people want to be a bus driver. But the assumption in the article seems to be, "oh, I can't drive a bus. You see, it's awfully embarrassing, but I don't really WANT to be a bus driver."

Lots of people do things they don't really want to do or that they never imagined themselves doing. They certainly don't get an article in the Mail patting them on the back for being brave when they do so.

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Voidka · 27/09/2011 15:45

I know, I was only joking with you :o

I do think DS will have to change his mind about his career choices though - as he wants a house with a pool and a BMW apparently. I dont think Bus Drivers get paid that well!

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