Are We Really Becoming This Type Of Society

[Noe-schitt]

This just beggars belief

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-30876360

[BlackadderV]

Tey again

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=marx+brothers+sanity+clause

[FrogNog]

I'm on his side (waits for it), but only a little more than the middle ground.
I think he should have told her but I think her reaction is way overboard.
Either you sort it out face to face or you drop it. An invoice is ridiculous.
It bothers me how competitive parents are becoming. If a party costs so much for an infant that you have to claim every lost penny back, you have to ask yourself why you are really throwing it.

[Ellipsis]

> An invoice is ridiculous.

Depends how you take it. I think I would have taken it as a jokey reprimand, given them a call, apologised for not having let them know in advance, and seen if they still insisted on some kind of compensation or whether they were just making a point.

I certainly would not have gone to the school or the media. But then I wouldn't have not bothered turning up without informing them in the first place ...

[B00]

"B00, but as I understand it, the invitation was initially accepted, therefore she would have booked and paid for his place anyway. "

Yes, but I was trying to say was that if she's known beforehand he wasn't going to come, she wouldn't have booked his place (obviously-lol) thus saving the money.

Yes I do believe she's making a bit of an burk of herself over it, too OTT in her outrage and reaction, however I myself would be peed off if it was my child's party and I'd paid for an absentee.

[ABAuntie]

one point that noone seems to have raised (apologies if i have missed it) is that the venue asked for the money in advance.

In my experience that never happens, pay a deposit - yes, then pay the remainder on the day then you know how many you have had.

Any inconsiderate parents who don't bother to tell you their angel isn't coming are completely pilloried in the playground at pick up time, but you aren't out of pocket :-)

auntie xxx

[Noe-schitt]

Alex's parents should have informed them he was not attending they were inconsiderate but to send a bill with threat of legal action that is rather shabby.
Where next with this obsessive claim culture.
Thanks for all the responses I had a quite a chuckle at a few FrogNog summed it up for me.