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Daily Mail January 19-20
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'Five-year-old misses his friend's birthday bash and is INVOICED £15.95'
'Alex Nash missed the ski slope party in Plymouth, Devon, because he went to see his grandparents instead - and weeks later his shocked father Derek found the bill...'
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'Mr Nash, 45, from Torpoint, Cornwall, said: 'I thought it was a joke''
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'He refused to pay - and 'has been threatened with small claims court''
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'Two mothers became embroiled in a bitter Facebook battle over an invoice handed to one of their sons for missing the other's birthday party.
Tanya Walsh and her partner Derek Nash were appalled when their son Alex, five, arrived home from school with a £15.95 bill for missing his classmate Charlie Lawrence’s big day at a local ski centre.
After refusing to pay, Alex's parents were threatened that they would be taken to court. Since then Miss Walsh and Charlie's mother Julie Lawrence have become entangled in a war of words.'
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'No show: The parents received this invoice from the mother of the birthday boy - and the ski slope involved said it was nothing to do with them. 'We don't have any such things as no-show fees', said the manager'
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''The next thing I heard she was taking us to small claims court. My partner went to see her and it ended in an argument.
She shouted down the street: "Don't mess with me".'
''Every time I spoke to her previously she was always very polite,' Miss Walsh added.'
''All of this is very shocking.''
''Julie could have tried to contact us before issuing the bill. If she had spoken to us we would have considered paying it.'
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Another example philosophically of the lack of civility at times experienced in Western society, in the 21st century.
A vast overreaction by the host to a missed invitation to a child's birthday party leads to dispute and public satire and media ridicule, including on Facebook where my post received reasonable amount of response.
There would of course be other versions on Facebook.
From a Biblical perspective, when considering God's commandments, Exodus 20, Matthew 22, Mark 12, and reviewing Romans and Galatians where human beings are noted as in need of justification from God and the righteousness of Jesus Christ through his atoning and resurrection work, human righteousness not sufficing; these would be much larger issues that would involve sin, morality and ethics.
Issues of everlasting human consequence in regard to the eternal God.
This incident is a small slight against the host and her family at best, and yet in the mind of the host it is worthy of this kind of reaction.
I ponder on and question the worldview and life priorities of the host...
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