Boob Jobs and Christmas Village.

[MrsBananaGrabber]

Hola, long time lurker here, mainly on the pregnancy boards (am currently 35 weeks with DC3 and not in the UK)

Anyway I need opinions, i'm not sure if my hormones are distorting my views but I am so pissed off with a friend that i'm ready to just cut her off completly.

As I said I am not in the UK, I am in Toronto for my husbands job and have been for the past 4 years, my friend is also an ex pat having been here for 14 years, we only met earlier this year and got along great, we have similar aged children and are from the same place in the UK. It all started when she told me that her and another friend had been to the hospital to see a specialist about her heart murmur (first I had heard) and that she had to go back in two weeks, I offered to help in any way I could, picking the kids up from school or whatever......so never heard anything else about said heart murmur, cut to September and she is ill with the flu, husband is off work looking after her so my help isn't needed, fair enough. So last Saturday night we had them over for some fireworks and my crap attempt at treacle toffee........we settle down for a chat after, the kids are off playing and I was saying how sad it is that i'm mega excited about my new front loading washer/dryer being delivered next week........she said ohhhh I would love that too but I have spent all my money..........remmeber when I said I was ill, I wasn't I had a boob job, OK, fine but was there any need to lie to me, sure she didn't have to tell me but to lie, arggggggg.

Another thing that came out right after the boob job shocker was that we had all arranged to go to this Chritmas village thing, I am relativly new here and had never heard of it, anyway it's not been mentioned for a few weeks, turns out she has booked to go with another friend and she told me this like we had never talked about it, now the event is booked up and I have to tell my boys we can't go, but I will make my own fucking Christmas village if I have to.

FYI, she also got her new tits out for me and my husband, i'm no prude but I just wanted to slap her. AIBU for being really pissed off........also she hasn't called and we usually speak every few days.

BananaGrabber you have a most excellent name and probably one of the best thread titles I have seen in a long long time.

Your friend is a carayzee laydee. You should keep her for pure comedy value. Trumping your washer excitement (and I know exactly what you mean btw, after 2 years in Aus with top loaders my first wash back in Blighty with a front leader WAS an exciting event) with her 'I wasn't ill I was getting new boobs' news was poorly done.

You'll need to fill us in on the big reveal. How does one even go about getting them out when in polite company?

And did you get to feel?

Not that I'd ever consider a boob job myself - oh no, not at all.

And just for the sake of argument, if I ever did, I most assuredly would not get them out in front of anyone else's husband.

And what a pain that you're pregnant so couldn't even neck back the vodka to get over the shock.

Ooooh do you think they're swingers and this was one of their opening gambits?

Not really a pain you're pregnant of course - congratulations

Ex pats are, in the main, arseholes. The synthetic aspect of lives in another country makes for superficial friendships, but you're lucky if you find real friends within the group. You'd be better relying on locals for decent and real friendships.

Thanks Slubberdegullian, can't take credit for the name as I nicked it from Arrested Development. As for the big reveal well she did offer us a feel but our faces must have spoke for us because she said 'oh i'll just show you' she lifted her top, the nipples were rock hard and they just looked like huge knockers, very porn star like. They were going on about it like they had bought a new toy, her DH was telling us about having to get in the shower with her because she was so sore and how he was gutted that he couldn't 'use them' urgggg..........also if I wasn't pregnant and would have had a few glasses of wine in me I may have said something........I was sat there with huge sore veiny boobs with massive nipples and the biggest bump known to man, struggling to breath like a bloody beached whale and she is flaunting her new tits in my living room......just piss off woman.

And I agree, Ex Pats are knobs, the ones round here are all of the opinion that the UK has 'gone to the dogs' because they swapped their little houses for big fuck off ones, but lets not mention the lack of culture the fact that the whole country is built on immigrants, of which you are one, but that's a whole other thread.

oh boy.
So many things racing through my mind now. The last time a woman got her tits out for me, was when she offered herself and her boyfriend up for a threesome. ah well. I declined politely. never mind. How DID she disrobe herself?

Frankly, I would be very pissed off about the whole song and dance about the heart murmur. She LIED about a possibly serious health problem, getting you all worried. Then it turned out she just stuffed some silicone into her chest.

tut tut tut.

Not really worth keeping, other than to keep your mind of washing machine induced excitements.

But I can beat you in that department, as I was so pleased with a new bin from B&Q that our Au pair exclaimed "I have never before met anybody so happy for the simple pleasures in life".

Banana - I think you've had a lucky escape - seriously it would have been car keys in the middle of the table next.

What did your DH say?

And lol at QS and her bin

She lied about having a heart complaint and then got her boobs done

She told her DCs that about breastfeeding

WTF?

She sounds like a basket case!

Oh, and give her a from me.

When they left he shut the door and I said just wait until their car has gone......then we both said 'Oh My God'......he said he didn't know where to put his face and that she should have spent the money on a face lift and a decent haircut (thats my DH, so pleasant)........and that's another point, she isn't the glamouous type at all, not one for high heels or fake tan, has a penchant for 'mom jeans' and trainers and she gets her hair cut at super cuts for $10, my hair costs me a bloody fortune over here.......not that there is anything wrong with that and i'm trying not to judge about the boob job, it's more the lying thats pissed me off.

Yes the lying is most odd but honestly you'll be able to dine-out on her madness for years

In fact its reminded me of this book which is very funny and quite apt for you.