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Can I have your thoughts?

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Hundemor · 13/02/2022 22:59

I feel embarrassed about posting this but please bear with me, I have my reasons.
If you found a receipt from a Wetherspoon pub with two transactions on it , one just over ten pounds and the other £10.65 what would you think they represented?

For context, the person paying the bill was in the pub in the middle of the day, and not drunk on arrival home nor home later than late afternoon. The person doesn’t have a super sized appetite so very unlikely to have eaten two meals. And in an area recently moved to so absolutely no friends or family present or likely to be and no, not at all likely to strike up a random aquaintance and pay for them.

I’m sorry, I realise this sounds cryptic and possibly foolish but I don’t want to risk causing bias; I’m very much doubting my own judgement and I’d like honest opinions.

Any thoughts please?

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PerditaPerdita · 13/02/2022 23:00

Sorry but it could only really be two meals. With tap water.

bongobingo43 · 13/02/2022 23:04

I doubt someone would pay for 2 meals separately unless they were bought at different times.

Could 2 drinks not be around the £10 mark. Someone could have 2 drinks over the course of an afternoon and no appear drunk when they got home.

Can you see the time on the receipt. Are they far apart?

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Hundemor · 13/02/2022 23:08

Thanks for the replies.
It’s pretty hard, I think, to spend a tenner on drinks for one in Wetherspoons; the preferred drink of real ale is around £2 -£3 a pint, or less.
No times visible but I also take the point that meals , if meals were indeed ordered, would have been done so at different times for the totals to be shown as two separate sums and not one grand total.

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PurpleThursdays · 13/02/2022 23:12

Are they taken from the same card?

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Hundemor · 13/02/2022 23:13

Yes, same credit card

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Linguini · 13/02/2022 23:19

Is the receipt definitely your husband's?
I have more than once found a receipt in my own bag because I accidentally picked up two at the till.

So, yes your husband has definitely been into Weatherspoons but maybe didn't make those exact transactions?

Is he an alcoholic?

PerditaPerdita · 13/02/2022 23:22

Two meals would be on the same receipt... one cost £10, other £10.65?

PerditaPerdita · 13/02/2022 23:23

Cigarettes and a meal???!?

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Hundemor · 13/02/2022 23:24

@linguine - thanks for your thoughts.
Actually it’s a credit card statement and the receipt will have been thoroughly scrutinised, so those transactions definitely happened.
Not an alcoholic and certainly wouldn’t manage around £20 quids worth of pints at Wetherspoon prices !

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Yousexybugger · 13/02/2022 23:25

Could it have been a meal and a drink, then a pudding and another drink? Not sure if that would come to 10 quid in spoons.

Could he have gone with colleague (s) if he doesn't know anyone else locally?

Ra12345 · 13/02/2022 23:27

One receipt but two transactions? Do you mean two items? Wouldn't each transaction have it's own receipt?

One could be a meal with a drink, one might be a dessert and coffee and pint...? Bought a colleague lunch? Where does he say he was at the time?

Ra12345 · 13/02/2022 23:29

Could be a bowl of chips and two pints twice.

NoNameNoGane · 13/02/2022 23:32

OP
I have no idea what these transactions could be, but I am very curious to know what you think they represent and why?

Yousexybugger · 13/02/2022 23:33

Ah ok sorry, I have misunderstood. It was one receipt with two items on, not two separate receipts. With spoons prices it sounds like two meals. Possibly a colleague though?

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Hundemor · 13/02/2022 23:37

Interesting suggestions, I’m baffled because the figures are hard to stack up. I’ve tried permutations using a Wetherspoons menu! Of course prices may have fluctuated since ..

As it’s a credit card statement simply showing the two Wetherspoon transactions on the same day I can’t see times or individual items but they are marked as ‘ drinks ‘ on the statement. So, two separate purchases of roughly similar costs , one transaction being about 50 p more than the other.
Im absolutely certain no friends, family, colleagues or strangers involved. It’s not possible, take my word for it. Nor would it be possible for one person to buy a round for one person at a cost of a tenner in Spoons. Not unless it’s a bottle of wine and I think their wine is cheaper than that?!

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Hundemor · 13/02/2022 23:38

No name - I think someone else was there.

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Linguini · 13/02/2022 23:39

Burger and a pint deal seems to be around £7-£8, so if he's added a dessert to that it'd be around a tenner.

Are the transactions both in one day?

It basically looks like he's got a meal, dessert and drink, or just cigarettes and a drink, or some combination. But it's odd for there to be two transactions in one day (if I'm reading correctly).
Maybe he couldn't pay one day because he forgot his bank card so went back the next day to pay, something like that.

Why are you asking Mumsnet and not your husband? (Not judging just curious) do you not trust him?

Spuriously17windows · 13/02/2022 23:40

Last time I was in a WS was to meet a friend. While waiting for her I downloaded an app to order the food (and pay through it also). Friend couldn’t be bothered downloading it so I separately ordered for her - could explain two orders? Not sure how far apart they were and if that would explain it

RobertSmithsLipstick · 13/02/2022 23:41

Lunch for two would be my thinking.

Boozeless · 13/02/2022 23:41

It's probably a meal deal with a main, starter or pudding & a few beers. He may have started a tab & paid it off at the end. DH & I used to do this often at our local.

Magda72 · 13/02/2022 23:44

Why don't you just ask him & see how he answers?

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Hundemor · 13/02/2022 23:48

I’m asking mumsnet, and trying not to write in such a way as to bias replies because my husband - you correctly guessed that - stonewalls and gaslights to a degree that , like many who post here, I doubt my own judgement and reasoning, which normally is quite considerable ( background in sciences ). Pathetic really.
Or, to put it succinctly, there is no point in asking him: because
He can’t remember.
Or the statement shows a mistake
Or if I tell him what answer I’d like, he’ll give it.

Actually at present he doesn’t know I’ve checked the statement

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NoNameNoGane · 13/02/2022 23:50

@Hundemor

No name - I think someone else was there.

On one hand you're saying someone else must have been there but you also say "absolutely certain no friends, family, colleagues or strangers involved"....so who do you think the second person is? I am not judging or trying to challenge you, I am just really curious as to exactly what you think has happened?

Linguini · 13/02/2022 23:50

23:48 Hundemor
So sorry you're going through this.
Trust your intuition.

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Hundemor · 13/02/2022 23:50

Sorry, posted too soon so the above may be unclear. There’s no point asking and I gave examples of the type of reply I’d get.

He doesn’t smoke and is very unlikely to eat starters, pudding or coffee

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