Money left in safe!!

[glindathegoodbitch]

Dear all,

My elderly parents recently holidayed in Montenegro.
Upon completing their 4 hour journey to the airport to catch their flight home, my mother realised she had left her purse containing £600 in English cash in the safe.

The hotel have been brilliant and have the purse, but we cannot work out how to get it home to England.

DHL won't carry it as they do not ship money. The standard post is liable to get stopped at customs/ stolen.

Can the hotel put the money I an English bank?

I don't know much about Montenegro, but my father says it's about 20 years behind the rest of Europe??

Any advice would be gratefully received

X

(I have also posted in Travel, my father is desperate and rings me every three hours to see if I've got the purse back yet!!)

I love the touch of the monogrammed silk hankie! Definitely makes it all more believable

Could you pump that stuff they pump into the hives to calm them down into his suit

I'm a natural for this

You have a writing style that reminds me of Bill Bryson and Stephen Frys books. The ability to put words together is the funniest way with ease. You could write about paint drying and it would sound witty.
You've missed your calling in law!

I actually think your Dad sounds hilarious.

Although he's clearly bonkers he did something right. You reap what you sow and your still there, loving him, making each other laugh and seemingly very happy. He must have got an awful lot right to balance out his bad bits.

You sound great op-and I applaud your way of dealing with your errant parent. I take much the same approach to dealing with my own Mothers breath taking negativity and rudeness. No amount of therapy for me would stop her behaving that way so I just choose to find it amusing now rather than insulting (with the odd little cry for the Mother-daughter relationship we could have had were she different).
You have a great way with words as pp have said. Absolutely do write your book!

As an aside, following my enjoyment of this thread and having googled Montenegro off the back of it, I've just booked a weeks holiday there in August. Obviously if it's not any good I'll be expecting you to fully recompense me the costs of it.

I've just re-read this thread because I needed a good laugh. Please do consider writing a book OP!

I second the book.
And I’m not shamelessly place marking for the further adventures of you bastarding father.

Please write more. You’re hilarious!

Your father sounds like a real arsehole but it seems you see him for exactly what he is.

I have no idea why I'm so involved in this!!!

Nor me

Three strikes and he's on his own ( I'd allow three rude comments and then I'm gone)

I think you need to confiscate your dad’s passport OP! 😄

I think you sound lovely OP and you write beautifully.

I had difficult parents. Maybe I enabled them. I think I probably did. But I loved them and hated them in equal measure and my life is less rich now they're no longer here.

Ignore all the naysayers. You sound like you have things well under control and you sound full of joy. Keep smiling and drinking the gin 😀

Oh lovely people...

You really are a sight for incredibly tired, hayfever filled eyes. Like drinking mulled cider, I feel all warm after reading these comments.

My father is still being diabolical, but now that we are in the business of making beehives he's decided that he needs me (he can't work ebay to buy all of the bits) and is being nice even though it clearly pains him to be so.

I don't know how I got roped into making beehives, I also don't know how i got roped into changing his gas supplier, sorting him out a suit for a wedding or renewing his car tax either... it's been a busy week!

I've been suffering from horrendous insomnia of late. The heat does my head in and I just cannot sleep, so.... following years of being nagged I've started writing a book....

Kidding! I have no time to scratch my arse let alone dedicate the hours of love, care and attention it needs to write a book, but I have started 'blogging'! I have no idea how to do it, but weirdly my doctor suggested it when I went to see him about not sleeping. I've been doing it for 5 days and am sleeping better already!

Anyway. I just wanted to thank you all. I got the money back, and have been inspired to go into therapy....

my own kind of therapy though- smashing out my thoughts on a keyboard at 4am in the morning and posting it for absolutely no one to read... I love it xx

Please send me the link to the blog!

@glindathegoodbitch your Father and Step Father would get on like a purse house on fire.

Last weekend he scornfully read in the papers that some royal prince was marrying his "boyfriend". After I'd said how nice that sounded and how great it was that the world had come to its senses he had a massive rant. Mostly around his bigoted opinion that it was unnatural and that we should go back to throwing "them" in prison.

My best friend is gay and I've known him for 37years. He's nothing but gracious to my SF.

He's a twat and I'm refusing to invite him anywhere where my BF is. Which is nigh on everywhere and I'm sick of tolerating him because he's "old"