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DD wants to go to a festival in the middle of her GCSEs

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Get0rfMoiLand · 11/05/2012 14:54

She asked me a few weeks ago if she could go to the Download festival 'in the summer'. I agreed in principle as I assumed it was in July or something. She is planning to buy at ticket from a friend who has ordered them but can no longer go (probably because her parents have just worked out when it is).

I have just found out that it is 8-10th June and she has 2 maths exams and 2 history exams in the week after - one of them first thing Monday morning.

Apparently she will 'revise at the festival when the bands she doesn't like are playing'.

Of course I said she can't go (am amazed that 3 of her friends who are also 16 are allowed). She is weeping and wailing and saying I am unfair.

Bloody hell - I am right aren't I?

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fuckarama · 11/05/2012 14:55

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Of course you're right

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Get0rfMoiLand · 11/05/2012 14:55

Texts:

DD - I promise mum I will revise on the way there in the car and in the tent
Me - of ffs I remember what it is like to be a teenager
DD - please mum
Me - your GCSEs are more important than some crappy band
DD -

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maudpringle · 11/05/2012 14:56

Our dd wanted to go to Croyde for some festival thingy, but that is right in the middle of her GCSE's so we said not this year.

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Get0rfMoiLand · 11/05/2012 14:57

I am getting the OUTRAGE from dd.

I mean parents are going - one of dd's friend's mum and dad are going. I had no idea it was in bloody June ffs. They are perfectly sensible people as well.

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fuckarama · 11/05/2012 14:57

No.

No.

No.

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Get0rfMoiLand · 11/05/2012 14:59

She has just asked me why I am getting so exasperated and shouty in texts. Grin

She has also said 'you didn't ask specifically if it was during exams'

Oh I knew it would bloody be my fault.

She has gone mad! She is usually sensible.

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fuckarama · 11/05/2012 14:59
Grin

Just keep saying no.

HeathRobinson · 11/05/2012 15:00

I would have texted:

Ha ha ha. No.

Annunziata · 11/05/2012 15:01

You're definitely right!

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Get0rfMoiLand · 11/05/2012 15:01

She has just made me laugh.

In response to her saying that I d idn't ask specific details of the dates I said:

Me - don't be so obtuse
DD - i'm not being obtuse. That is an angle of more than 90 degrees. There - just done maths revision.

Sarcastic ratbag. Grin

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fuckarama · 11/05/2012 15:03

Tell her you expected her to have a titter of wit.

And the answer is still no.

Or ask her if she thinks you came up the Clyde in a Banana boat or if your head buttons up the back or if you came down in the last shower.

And there is no way on God's Green Earth she is going to a festival in the middle of her exams.

Grin
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Get0rfMoiLand · 11/05/2012 15:04

sorry for C&Ping texts but her sense of outrage is making me lauhg.

dd - can I still go?
Me - no of course not don't be so silly
dd- omfg

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Annunziata · 11/05/2012 15:06

You're not even getting an 'x' at the end?! That's how I know DD is pissed off Grin

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Get0rfMoiLand · 11/05/2012 15:09

Haha no I am not getting x's funnily enough.

Silly sod.

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PhyllisDoris · 11/05/2012 15:12

NO!!!

Maybe - if she didn't have an exam for a few days after (they need some down time) - but an exam on the Monday morning, after Sunday at the festival??? NO!!!

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Get0rfMoiLand · 11/05/2012 15:13

Maths as well, which is the one she is most worried about.

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igggi · 11/05/2012 15:17

It has taken me almost 20 years to recover from the one camping festival I attended.
You would be very unreasonable to let her go, not in her own best interests.

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 11/05/2012 15:19

Hmm, I'm going to rock the boat here... The festival is a month away, so lots of time to get any revision done. I'm not convinced that last-minute cramming is going to teach her anything she doesn't/wouldn't already know, so taking a break from study at that time might not actually be all that bad for her.

TheSecondComing · 11/05/2012 15:21

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Bletchley · 11/05/2012 15:21

Yeah, but turning up to the exam knackered isn't going to help, is it?!

slug · 11/05/2012 15:22

NO!!!

FaceForRadio · 11/05/2012 15:24

GetOrf. Cramming on the days before are no use to her.

Let her go on the provison that she revises her arse off beforehand.

Tell her to come back 1 day early (Ie the Saturday) so that she gets a decent sleep.

Meet her half way.

Annunziata · 11/05/2012 15:24

If she went she'd only have herself to blame if the exam went badly. If she stayed at home, studied and tried to relax and it went badly she can still say that she tried her hardest, it just wasn't to be etc.

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Get0rfMoiLand · 11/05/2012 15:24

TBH the revision bit is not what I am too worried about, it is the not sleeping for 2 nights and turning up to an exam at 9am on the Monday knackered. She is a sod in the mornings as it is.

Believe me I am pretty laid back - but I don't think this is a good plan.

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FaceForRadio · 11/05/2012 15:26

Come back one day early.

I feel I should have a placard or something, in protest here :)