[Closed] Bet with teenager, a quandry

Yep.

Yep

Man up, stump up.

You bet.
He won.

What was the question again?

Pay up and put it down to experience 🙂

Pay up - and be more specific next time, if there is one.

pwnd there LD.

It's not a quandary. If you don't pay up you're a welcher. Simple.

Why would you not pay up is more the question surely?

Pay up tight arse

Having seen him bottle it totally a couple of times, I told my youngest I'd buy him a Nintendo switch if he got to the top of the climbing wall. Stupid me. Took him about 12 seconds.

Pay up of course.
Next time make the bet that it’s a foot race to the snow and let him beat you that way too old man!

Why would you make an altitude-based bet with someone who has access to a chairlift?

At night so no chair running.

At night so no chair running.

Even more reason to stump up, you tight arse.

Double or quits for a clean run down the black?

Why are you so keen to avoid paying up, on a bet YOU suggested?

Id go down the rout of anyone under 18 can't legally gamble, but from your wording it looks like it was a competition between your two kids?

nope pay up and take it as a leason your son has taught you 🙂

Lie to son, say you meant this guy.
Save money, introduce kids to real hip hop.

Win-win.

Double or quits for a clean run down the black?

May I remind you of the damage C has done to bikes this last year while 'making progress'.... It could cost you more in repairs.

Lie to son, say you meant this guy.
Save money, introduce kids to real hip hop

Now that's the kind of reply I was looking for. Matt, true dat.

At night so no chair running.

Hang on, so what's the dilemma? He did it fair and square?

Either way, pay up, and let this be a valuable lesson to you 😉

Hahaha you got pwnd, deal with it.

Pay up with nice crisp notes. Imagine how younger you would feel in his place. Rule #1.

Give him a lecture on Alan Turing when you hand it over. Or watch the film.

You'd have taken £50 off a teenager if you'd won?

You've been outsmarted, cough up. And be proud of him for it.

Better give daughter some too as she was at a disadvantage being younger

Take photo of envelope of cash.
In the snow
Up the mountain
When the chair lift isnt running

The last two replies are exactly what I was thinking. I’d congratulate my son for being such a tenacious, crafty little sh**!! He totally owned you 😂😂. I’d be well proud!

Was he ACTUALLY touching the snow?
Standing on it in shoes means his shoes were touching it not him.

You might be able to get off on a technicality. That'll learn him for trying to get one over on the big dog.
😈

Yes, pay up you tight git.

Why do you think you shouldn't??

Sound like a perfect opportunity for a lesson in how life isn't fair. That's worth way more than £50 to him.

Don't pay and make up some half assed excuse.Better that the child finds out early that one parent is a tight arse and not to be trusted. Imagine how distraught they will be years from now when they want support from a reliable source;-) 🙂 🙂

Yep pay up but as he now holds all the cash he needs to buy the next round of ice cream / coffee / cake / lunch / whatever stuff you normally buy on days out.

Pay Up.

Pay them both and look awesome:)

You didn’t stipulate pounds Sterling so pay him with Monopoly money

If the OP suggested the bet as a flippant jokey comment, immediately laughed off, then £50 to the son (who decided to take you at your word and won) with the caveat that x amount goes to the daughter in some form (cash or gift).

All happy, apart from OP who gets a lesson in keeping their mouth shut 😂

Yeah no excuses really. It was said flippantly and daughter physically couldn't have done it so no real competition. He just went for a wander to check the bike track, saw snow in reach and kept going.

Might need to give the cash in the form of a training course on the dangers of climbing mountains unprepared.

Might need to give the cash in the form of a training course on the dangers of climbing mountains unprepared.

You tight bugger 🤣 Pay them both, in actual cash that can be used to buy stuff, and be awesome.

“first to touch snow gets £50”.

nowhere in this verbal contract Is it stated from where or whom this £50 comes from

”ok, you win. Now go and get £50”

Pay up and then take the money back immediately to pay for fuel/accomodation. That will learn him (learn him something about you anyway :P).

I think the general consensus is clear here. So have you been to the cashline, or do you have it in your wallet ? 🙂

I remember my dad doing the same to me 33 years ago, bet me £15 he could beat me to the top of ditching beacon. Didn't tell me it was starting 15 miles out. I was 11. Still beat him to the top by nearly 10 mins. He paid up.

I wouldn't challenge him myself cause he can now beat me at nearly everything I have taught him to do. Think it was 3 years ago on Cairngorm when he took off up the final bit and I plodded on thinking, he'll fade, he'll fade. He didn't and I knew life was over. Then it was bikes down, then bikes up, then table tennis, might be able to hold my own on snowboard still! Ah well has always been the way. I'll take the positives and get rid of some cash that I never use anyway as my phone seems to pay for everything quite effectively.

I knew the tables had turned with my dad when I lent him my jetwash and he complained it was rubbish, he had been filling up the soap dispenser tank with water 😳. He hadn't realized you connected a garden hose to it.

Minor dissenting position… Don’t pay up!

My dad and I had a long running joke argument about £50 he owed me on a bet he made with me when I was 10 and he didn’t pay up. Last time I teased him about it was just before he died and it was one of the last time I saw him laugh.

When I was a kid my stepdad made some bet for "fifty pounds", which I won.

He then gestured skywards, saying "There's fifty pounds of fresh air!".

I reckon pay up though 😂