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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:05 am
by Great Plum
I think it's a minority but there was a small group of us down the Bax at lunch time on the last day of the summer term and there was a group of 'Hooray Henrys' or 'sloanes' who were celebrating their children leaving CH by quaffing champagne and generally being rude and obnoxious...
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:11 am
by Richard Ruck
Great Plum wrote:I think it's a minority but there was a small group of us down the Bax at lunch time on the last day of the summer term and there was a group of 'Hooray Henrys' or 'sloanes' who were celebrating their children leaving CH by quaffing champagne and generally being rude and obnoxious...
They were quite noticeable - I certainly don't remember parents doing that sort of thing when I was at C.H.
A few sandwiches in the back of the Cortina, if we were lucky!
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:30 pm
by J.R.
Great Plum wrote:I think it's a minority but there was a small group of us down the Bax at lunch time on the last day of the summer term and there was a group of 'Hooray Henrys' or 'sloanes' who were celebrating their children leaving CH by quaffing champagne and generally being rude and obnoxious...
I don't know what the hell the last bottle of Champers was, but the girl went to the cellar, came back up and enquired of the management about price.
The credit card bill on the till was just over
£70.................
I was tempted to ask if I could have a bottle of Magners on the bill, seeing as they were pushing the boat out.
The food and overall drinks bill was over half a grand !
So CH must be rapidly becoming a two tier school.
What really p1ssed me off when was El Plumo and his lovely new wife were told by this group that they couldn't sit where they had sat down.
Would it have happened in my local ??
WOULD IT, BOLLOX !!
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:31 pm
by Jude
How rude - Why couldn't they sit where they wanted to?
We didn't even get a sarnie - just left CH by train I think I don't think my parents even came to pick me up - sad or what?
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:49 pm
by Great Plum
Well I would have been embarresed if they were my parents!
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:59 pm
by Richard Ruck
Great Plum wrote:embarresed
Oh dear.....!
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:02 pm
by Jude
Actually it was very sad - everyone else's parent came, but as was teh norm I was owt .
Looking back I think life would have been a great deal better had I been allowed to stay on to the 6th form. However, I didn't. Went back for a CHOGA and was heavily pregnant with Chris - Miss Morrison was convinced I was going to drop it there and then! It would have been a 1st for the informary!!!
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:09 pm
by Great Plum
Richard Ruck wrote:Great Plum wrote:embarresed
Oh dear.....!
As would my English teaching father if he saw that!
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:19 pm
by Richard Ruck
Great Plum wrote:Richard Ruck wrote:Great Plum wrote:embarresed
Oh dear.....!
As would my English teaching father if he saw that!
As would my English teaching father
be if he saw that!
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:24 pm
by Jude
I would have liked Chris to have arrived then! He might not have been so hard to deliver!
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:42 pm
by Great Plum
Richard Ruck wrote:Great Plum wrote:Richard Ruck wrote:
Oh dear.....!
As would my English teaching father if he saw that!
As would my English teaching father
be if he saw that!
I AM trying to work at the same time you know!
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:35 pm
by sejintenej
J.R. wrote:What really p1ssed me off when was El Plumo and his lovely new wife were told by this group that they couldn't sit where they had sat down.
Would it have happened in my local ??
WOULD IT, BOLLOX !!
The scene; a sunlit square containing 5 pavement cafes, none of which over 33 percent full.
Two fellas and girl wearing engagement ring sit down at table in the sun. No sign of waiter for 15 minutes when owner arrives. They start order - "one white coffee, one ....."
interrupt; "you must have food if you sit in the sun. For drinks you must go in the shade." Owner leaves
Group get up, look round and go to another cafe.
Do you blame them? The owner is the only Brit to have a shop in the square; we sit in the square at least 4 times a week, wherever we want outside French owned places and spend between 60 and 90 minutes over a coffee with no hassle.
The owner also decided to rudely tell us a load of rubbish about what a "Croque Monsieur" is; claimed we would get what we want and what I got was not a croque monsieur (slice of ham on bread, covered with cheese concoction and put under the grill). The bill was 3 times over the odds and he was a lousy waiter in any case.
That was the first and last time there. The French know how to look after customers better
"Angry" from France
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:23 pm
by Jude
Dear "Angry" from France
c'est la vie monsiuer!!
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:03 am
by Rory
The owner also decided to rudely tell us a load of rubbish about what a "Croque Monsieur" is; claimed we would get what we want and what I got was not a croque monsieur (slice of ham on bread, covered with cheese concoction and put under the grill). The bill was 3 times over the odds and he was a lousy waiter in any case.
Maybe he was Steve Irwin's long lost French cousin???
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:16 pm
by J.R.
Rory wrote:The owner also decided to rudely tell us a load of rubbish about what a "Croque Monsieur" is; claimed we would get what we want and what I got was not a croque monsieur (slice of ham on bread, covered with cheese concoction and put under the grill). The bill was 3 times over the odds and he was a lousy waiter in any case.
Maybe he was Steve Irwin's long lost French cousin???
No longer will we here him saying to the waiter..........
"Fetch me a crocodile sandwich, and make it snappy !!!"