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Original poster

to think it's really cheeky to invite someone to a BBQ then expect them to bring...

533 replies

dotdashdashdash · 11/04/2021 16:35

...The BBQ!?

We were invited last week to a friends today for a BBQ. They called this morning asking to borrow our BBQ, we assumed there's had broken or the one they ordered hadn't arrived etc - but no. They don't have one. So we suggested they come to ours and bring some of the stuff they'd bought as our BBQ is very heavy and large (won't fit in the car without removing the child seats and lying all seats flat) but it turns out, that not only did they want us to bring our BBQ, they wanted us to leave it at theirs as they are having other friends this evening.

Was IBU to say no? That I didn't want to take our large BBQ and gas bottle to their house and leave it with them?

OP posts:
bootolou · 13/04/2021 15:53

Please put this on classics Grin

Original poster
dotdashdashdash · 13/04/2021 15:50

OMG 😂 thanks for giving me such a laugh on this thread.

OP posts:
MangosteenSoda · 13/04/2021 15:49

Oh Glenda Gin

DartmoorDoughnut · 13/04/2021 15:49

Everyone recycles Christmas presents you utter loon

GlendaPickle · 13/04/2021 15:47

Dot dot dash lies and recycles Christmas presents.

Original poster
dotdashdashdash · 13/04/2021 15:31

osbertthesyrianhamster yes thankfully. I was in the middle of serious PND when it all started, was just getting out of that fog and waking up to their true colours, and started pulling away. Then covid hit and I'd don't know, time, space, rose-tinted glasses etc but not anymore!

OP posts:
SunsetBeetch · 13/04/2021 15:24

"Buy your own BBQ, Glenda" (or a variation of) is surely going to go down in Mumsnet history Grin

Therealjudgejudy · 13/04/2021 15:11

@GlendaPickle, you sound quite unhinged...!

Turningthecorner · 13/04/2021 15:09

@GlendaPickle

look I am not Kerry Katona type of person or some character from the Royal Family. If I was going to put a bbq on I would get the best food and make a real effort.

If anyone comparisons from the Royal Family it is the OP. Remember the Christmas episode edition when Denise and Dave puts on a Christmas dinner that is the OP. An absolute rubbish spread with cheap and nasty.

Coming on a forum to Walter Mitty to grab attention over lending a bbq is absolutely pathetic. A complete keyboard warrior who wants to look important and have some attention.

Just say no you can’t lend something rather than trying to get your belly tickled and your ego massaged on mumsnet.

Also who arranged a bbq on a throw away number.

Talk about outing yourself!!!!! You are most DEFINITELY the CF, omg this is hilarious 🤣 🤣 Buy your own f***g BBQ 👋🏻
SunsetBeetch · 13/04/2021 15:04

@GlendaPickle

look I am not Kerry Katona type of person or some character from the Royal Family. If I was going to put a bbq on I would get the best food and make a real effort.

If anyone comparisons from the Royal Family it is the OP. Remember the Christmas episode edition when Denise and Dave puts on a Christmas dinner that is the OP. An absolute rubbish spread with cheap and nasty.

Coming on a forum to Walter Mitty to grab attention over lending a bbq is absolutely pathetic. A complete keyboard warrior who wants to look important and have some attention.

Just say no you can’t lend something rather than trying to get your belly tickled and your ego massaged on mumsnet.

Also who arranged a bbq on a throw away number.

Oh bless you, you think you're embarrassing the OP here, but you're only embarrassing yourself.
Turningthecorner · 13/04/2021 15:02

@DontbesuchanarseGlenda

*Turningthecorner Don’t be such an arse Glenda!!*

Thank you, you inspired a name change! (And were spot on too!)

You’re welcome 😉 It looks like my comment wasn’t though 🤷‍♀️
cerealgamechanger · 13/04/2021 14:57

@GlendaPickle

OP knows that the other person in question reads this forum and is recruiting support and is not being truthful with the facts.

Attention seeking.

Perhaps that person does not want her to host the bbq as she buys cheap farm foods meat and tries to pass it off as a M & S.

Erm, seems like you're projecting, love. Read the thread and you'll realise you've behaved like a twat. You've basically had your (non-BBQd- because you don't have a BBQ) arse handed to you on a plate!
osbertthesyrianhamster · 13/04/2021 14:53

@dotdashdashdash

Mysterian I know you're joking, but the wife of the couple has actually "jokingly" propositioned DH before when drunk, it's the thing that caused us to really question the friendship in the first place.
I really hope your radar is far better now because they have been using you for a while.
osbertthesyrianhamster · 13/04/2021 14:52

[quote DartmoorDoughnut]@GlendaPickle you’re really not coming across very well, you sound incredibly snobby and grabby, delightful combination...

@dotdashdashdash hope your DH has managed to retrieve all your stuff[/quote]
That's because the OP's CFer soon-to-be ex mate found her thread. 😂😂

CFers get all offended when called out.

The OP's mate and her h honestly believed they were so entitled to other peoples' property for free that they arranged to host an event centred around a piece of equipment they don't own with an expectation the OP is there to provide and deliver equipment to their specifications. For free.

cerealgamechanger · 13/04/2021 14:49

@Mydietstartstomorrow

Jeez I thought friends helped friends out! If one of my friends asked to borrow my bbq I’d happily loan, and vice versa. Just pleased I’m in my friendship group and not some on here!!
Are you the husband/sister/mum/one of the evening guests of the CF (most likely @GlendaPickle) OP has mentioned in her thread?
Original poster
dotdashdashdash · 13/04/2021 14:48

Mysterian I know you're joking, but the wife of the couple has actually "jokingly" propositioned DH before when drunk, it's the thing that caused us to really question the friendship in the first place.

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DartmoorDoughnut · 13/04/2021 14:47

@GlendaPickle you’re really not coming across very well, you sound incredibly snobby and grabby, delightful combination...

@dotdashdashdash hope your DH has managed to retrieve all your stuff

Mysterian · 13/04/2021 14:42

@MangosteenSoda
Nah. Kerry Katona is all burgers and sausages and nothing else.

And she refers to ketchup as "red sauce".

picklemewalnuts · 13/04/2021 14:41

You aren't the OP that was asked to lend hobby stuff to someone when it wasn't safe to use, are you? The kind of thing where if it was safe you'd be using it, when weather conditions weren't safe, they shouldn't be using it either.

MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig · 13/04/2021 14:40

We helped out at a village bbq once where they asked us to bring ours to help with the cooking. It was on a farm a couple of miles away so had to go in the car. In the end we had to take dh’s van as there was no way we’d get it in a car. By the time you’ve got the stand it sits in, the bbq bit and the hood and the serving plates and the gas canister it just wouldn’t all go in. Didn’t have the height in the boot to stand it up either.

Oneeyeopen · 13/04/2021 14:40

As for getting your other stuff back op. Take their lead and turn up unexpectedly early on a Sunday.
But be ready for the not sure where that is excuse

osbertthesyrianhamster · 13/04/2021 14:39

@frazzledasarock

Gas cylinder barbecues are generally bulky and very expensive.

I wouldn't have lent anyone mine, I don't have any friends rude enough to demand I give them my barbecue, which is what these 'friends' of OP were actually asking, given they have a history of 'borrowing' equipment and never returning it.

I hope you get your other stuff back.

I bet they're minted, what with never buying anything of their own.

IME, yeah, they are never hard up people. Having been hard up myself, I'd be mortified to ask what these people did.
NotAgain77 · 13/04/2021 14:37

Totally agree @Margerine78

KinderWild · 13/04/2021 14:35

@GlendaPickle
Who arranges a BBQ when they don't have a BBQ? Hmm

MangosteenSoda · 13/04/2021 14:35

I’ve heard that Kerry Katona hosts a lovely bbq 🤷🏻‍♀️

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