A child has been asked for almost £16, for not turning up to his classmate’s birthday bash.



Alex Nash was asked to pay up after he failed to show up to the party at a ski slope and snowboard centre in Plymouth, Cornwall.





We hazard a guess that Alex won't be attending the unamed birthday boy's next party [SWNS] More





Apparently Alex’s dad, Derek, had RSVP’d to the party invite, saying his son would be able to make it – before realising that he’d double booked his son.



“She saw me and asked if Alex was coming to the party,” says Mr Nash. “At this time I agreed and said that Alex was looking forward to it.”



However, Mr Nash realised he had no way of letting the birthday boy’s parents know that Alex wouldn’t be able to attend after all. “By this time we did not have a contact number, email or an address to let [the boy’s mother] know.”



Instead of giving Alex’s parents a call or writing a friendly note, the parents of the birthday child passed an invoice on to Alex’s teacher – who slipped it into his school bag.



“My partner looked out for [the friend’s mother] to apologise for Alex not showing up to the party, but didn’t see her,” says Mr Nash.





















“But on January 15 [nine days after Alex returned to Torpoint Nursery and Infant School] she looked in Alex’s school bag and found a brown envelope. It was an invoice for £15.95 for a child’s party no show fee.”

The dreaded invoice [SWNS] More





Mr Nash’s first thought was that the invoice “was a joke”, but quickly discovered that this is no laughing matter. He visited the mother, as the address was on the invoice, and explained why he wouldn’t be paying the bill.



“I told her she should have spoken to me first and not put the invoice in my son’s school bag,” says Mr Nash. “I would have sympathised with her about the cost of Alex not showing up, but I just can’t believe the way she has gone around it.”



The birthday boy’s mum, Julie Lawrence, has even threatened to take the Nash’s to a small claims court if the sum isn’t paid.













An argument, over Facebook, between Julie and Alex's mum, Tanya Walsh, has been released since, including Julie's explanation of what the invoice was for.

"You are paying for 1 x child's party at the ski slope including snow tubing and tobogganing and lunch, to which you said Alex was attending on the Thursday," wrote Julie.

But Tanya isn't prepared to pay for "something we didn't use" and writes, "I don't know why you are out for our blood and slandering us..."

We hazard a guess that Alex and Julie's son won't be attending each other's parties anymore.



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