satuday job

[Tortington]

how old do teenagers have to be to get a saturday job?

my 13 yr old has had his bike stolen and so he needs a job to get a new one.

should i phone up local garden centres and stores and ask them - or should he do it

any advice

thank you

Oh, custardo, it sounds like a nightmare! And bizarrely it's just reminded me of a time when my daughters bike was stolen and the kids in the area all seemed to have an idea who had taken it. I was a coward and didn't pursue it because of the possible repercussions. Crikey, life can be so very complicated can't it?

yeah! bluddy kids tut

as if to prove a point he just wanted money to go fishing - i told him to go fish for a bluddy job ha!

Out of interest, don't you think there will be repercussions after the kid was beaten up?? Surely the parents know why thir son was beaten up and who by...

Get the bike security marked so that you can identify it should it be stolen again.

the bike is security marked now and i should have done it sooner

ididnt send anyone out to beat up children - so it was not A decision. my son also did not beat anyone up.

i havent had any reprocussions as yet. the child admitted stealing the bike. the police havent been involved and where i live everyone seems happy all round.

obviously in an ideal world you do not fight fire with fire.

it is not something i advocate to my children as being a normal course of action.

i would not like any inferrence to the contrary.

Er... where did I say it was a/your decision to beat the kid up, that your son did it or infer that you encouraged it??

You said that if you'd gone and talked to the parents you would have been "punched or worse". If the parents wouldn't have been happy about you talking to them, I doubt they'll be happy about their son having been beaten up. I merely queried whether you thought there would be repercussions over their son having been beaten up - I doubt he'll keep quiet about who did it or why.

Keep your hair on!

yeah ok

I think they are probably the type of parents who know their kids get into trouble and are quite happy for their kids to take the repercussions of that too. So long as they themselves aren't involved, many parents don't really care what their kids get up to.

Hold on, Rhubarb and custard?!!are you the same person? :0

rhuby chose her name cos she is insane and i followed suit cos she is a bully and would have hit me with the sweaty socks she wears for weeks on end. I can smell them from here ad we live 300 miles apart

i do post with an alter ego sometimes but rhuby is quite different from me she is pregnant - and i am most certainly not as i dont even like children even though i have three ( i left them somewhere in hastings and havent spoken to them for a week its fantastic)

however she is a loverly person is rhubarb - she drinks guinness - i cant stand it and it makes your poo black.
rhuby had recently PASSED HER DRIVING TEST. have you driven the car on your own yet..have you... have you? or are you a big gggggiiiiirrrrrlyyyy all scarded of those ded big cars like fiats har hahhaaaeeeeeeharrrrrrr hohoooooo or a ciquacento hhaaaaaaa robin relient makes you shiver hhhhhaaaaahahahaa

Hmmmm.... and you call Rhubarb insane... More insane than yourself? Truly a scarey thought on the evidence of that last paragraph!!!!

now soupster i never once said rhuby was more insane than i.
this simply isnt so, i am better than rhuby at being insane

judging by your postings below, you get your insanity from your mother, so don't fight it Custy - let it all out!

all the women in my family go nuts at about 65 -I'm quite looking forward to it when it is my turn - I warned DH about it before we got married so he's prepared!!

That's something else me and Custy have in common, both our mothers are lunatics! I just happen to be more refined than Custy!

And yes I have been out in the car on my own, and on the motorway - so nah! And stop picking on me or you'll feel the wrath of my hormones even if you are 300 miles away!!!!!!!!

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