Haggle for love?
So - I finally got my salary offer for relocating - let's call it 15% on existing salary. Thanks, I said, but no thanks. Manager instantly said okay, 25% up on existing salary. WTH?So - my car insurance quote came through the door, £400. 16 years with the same company, 9 years no-claim bonus, that seemed high. Same post, another insurer offering good prices, I got a quote on line. Like-for-like, plus plus, £258. I rang my insurers to say I was cancelling and they instantly reduced the £400 quote to just over £300. WTH?
How far does this haggling thing go? Let's say I'm talking to someone and he suggests meeting for a casual pub lunch. Should I be haggling? Should I counter-offer "tell you what, send a taxi to collect me and by the way you're picking up the tab" just to open the negotiations, see what his counter-offer is?
Life is all about bargaining, we know that, but it seems to have gone into a new era where perhaps we have to haggle about everything. So should we be haggling about meeting up? Maybe you already do?
By the way, the World Health Organisation recently declared that anyone who can't find a partner (mainly for procreation, but I don't think they specified) within a year of starting to look, should be classified as disabled. WTH?
NOW who wants to open negotiations?
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Anyway, anyone rushing off to follow up on the title, link, etc, will instantly spot it is a book for women thinking of JOINING a website so since all the, you know, millions of members who did rush off to look are already on a website, no sale. So I didn't bother to add the title or link, to save myself having to fend off complaints that I was once again, as I do every single time I blog or comment, trying to advertise.
Blindfold, please. And can I have one last cigarette before I am executed?
Cork biltong, eh? How does it compare?
I don't know. I don't like Biltong
I suppose I could until a week before the deadline, then grab Tru and hold him up as a human
sacrificeshield, that's what I'll do.Sorry Tru but - meat, poison - all just a matter of perception, you know.
How can anyone not like chewing endlessly with aching jaws on dried meat?
Or do I have to read back all the posts?
Or Or ????
Tell me, are your fantasies always blurred?
be in an Alpha state.
I was never really into the whole pulling pigtails in the playground thing (probably because my pigtails were never pulled
Tru, if you could make droewors or biltong you would go as much as 30 points up on my personal scale of extreme attractiveness.
need clipping.
But then I'm an hour behind the times because of
The million-dollar question is, did you use spek
A little bit of decorum please
I'll stick to the wine
Just in case.
He's a tru boy scout
However making sure spek was used in the droewors is haggling for a man who pays tru attention to detail
Ulterior motives are good