Glastonbury 2008
Ah, what cool memories Glasto must have for many people!

Just not for me, I've never been. The ex-wife has though.

I was struggling to manage the finances of 2 mortgages, a 2 yr old child and a wife who didn't work but had decided to spend a year at college doing teacher training. I had sold a lot of my stuff and worked hard to save up the 500GBP to pay off her credit card. So you can imagine my surprise to come home from work on the Tuesday to find that in fact she hadn't closed the credit card a month or two earlier as I'd thought, and had in fact decided to go to Glastonbury in 2 days time necessitating new clothes, tickets etc which cost pretty much the whole 500GBP.

There was no discussion, no hint, no compassion, just me coming home taking over childcare for the evening and being told that I, yep me not her, needed to sort out some childcare for Thursday, Friday & Monday (when I would be at work) as she was going to Glastonbury.
So at the last minute I had to beg time off work from the boss to stay at home for 5 days while she was off her face in a field somewhere.
When she got back, not even a thanks or asking how it had been etc, instead she just moaned about being back at home again.
Don't get me wrong, I loved having 5 days with my daughter, just pissed at how selfishly the ex went about getting her way, not to mention squandering money on herself that I worked so hard for to do something to help us both in hard times.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Thu 21 Oct 2010, 14:15, 3 replies)

I can almost
hear the sound of Golddusts foot coming down. To be honest i'd be alright with the Mrs going away in hard times because breaks away from each other are healthy but to spend £500 to do it is unforgivable.....Not to mention that jobs are hard to come by these days.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:45, closed)