To think this was a weird thing to do?

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Some good friends (a couple) invited me and dp out to the cinema. We havn't been out for ages as we have young dc. Had a babysitter booked but cancelled at the last minute!

Dp said he'd look after the children so I could go and have some adult conversation and I rang my friends to say I would be there in 15 mins. Our friends had turned up half an hour before the film was due to start so I asked them if they could get me a ticket so we could guarantee we'd all be together (the cinema allocates everyone a seat). I said I would pay them back when I got there.

They refused to briefly shell out the extra money for a ticket and went in to sit and wait for the film. When I arrived the film had sold out so I had to come home (feeling like an unwanted puppy).

AIBU to think they could have got a ticket? We have known them for a long time so it's not as if they can't trust me. They are far from hard up so it wasn't a money problem.

Maybe they didn't have enough money,but were too embarrassed to say

No but I would do one or another, trip with husband, trip with friend, parties etc couples and singles welcome :)

"I might be if they didn't say OH can't make it now would you be okay with me still coming? They might feel like they have to babysit the other person a little bit? I don't think that's strange.

I would go to the cinema with a girl friend or with my husband but I wouldn't go with my husband and invite a girlfriend along...."

strange logic. do you have very young friends or friends that are incapable of drinking their coke without spilling it? why on earth would an adult woman need to be babysat?

It's true. I would not burden married couples with my sad, single self. Where would it end, after all?

That is just very bloody weird! What strange people.

And am quite shocked that some people think its cos you DH could no longer come. I wouldn't think twice about going to the cinema with my DH and one of my female friends. And I regularly go to the cinema with my DH and one of his male friends. Don't see that as an issue at all, we are all friends.

If they couldn't afford to get you a ticket even though you were paying it back straight away they should have texted you to inform you. Not necessarily having to disclose that it was due to financial reasons, but so you knew you wouldn't be sitting with them. I would have been very annoyed at a wasted journey. Very bizarre behaviour if you ask me.

sue i think you know the answer to that question, after all it is because you are too beautiful....

That's true. Maybe that's why no couples ever pay for my sodding cinema tickets

OP did you text them to let them know the film was sold out when you got there so you wouldn't be joining them? did they respond? and was the film Titanic 3D?

are people not friends with their friends partners? i am surprised at this line of thinking tbh. now unless a couple were those mwah smoochy i love you no i love you cant keep their hands off eachother couples i wouldnt like to be on my own with them watching them all night not knowing where one starts and the other ends. thankfully i dont know couples like that and get on with all partners.

pmsl @ marthas

Very rude 'friends'. I can't imagine just giving a friend a straight 'no' in that situation, I'd feel awful. I hope they momentarily choke on their popcorn.. nothing too serious, just an eye watering splutter.. you know the kind. Gits.

That is very strange, and must have been hurtful for you. It's weird that they just said 'no' without an explanation. I hope you get to the bottom of it, otherwise something like that could change a friendship, which would be a shame.

if it was Titanic i'd text them and tell them the ship sinks and ruin the film for them!! that'll teach them!

OP are you in fact a well known journalist who has been raising ones profile this week? that can be the only explanation, other than the fact that your friends are frankly weird and a little bit selfish. I have a young DS and would be spitting feathers if a rare night out was scuppered like that YANBU

"AIBU to not pay for friend's ticket"

I think it's weird not to offer an explanation for saying no - like no, we haven't got any extra cash, no we are already sat down but just no is weird.

Did you get into a late showing after all? cooooome baaaaaack

Pair of arses. Why, though, would you invite another couple along to the cinema? It's not as though you can sit and chat? I think it's odd.

How weird!

UndercoverPrincess - how old are you?

OP, is your DH by any chance a 'broodingly macho' French man with a ponytail and very precise facial hair? Have you ever spent £25,000 on clairvoyants, or given a Z-list celebrity their entree to the world of product endorsements and humiliating 'documentary' TV? If so then it's simple: the reason your friends didn't pay for your ticket is because they hate you for being beautiful.

HTH

OTHM you missed a bit

'Have you ever had a gimlet eye appraise you under the covers?'

OP Where are yoooooo?

Thanks, Martha. I'd forgotten about the probing, ardent gimlet eye. Now I've remembered again

Oy, MN. That was a raised eyebrow smiley I posted, not a

But you've made them both come out as You've emoticonned me all wrong!

OTHM they came out as raised eyebrow smileys. are you on iphone?

SORRY! I've been dealing with a sick child so havn't had a chance to pop back.

Alas, I am not the Brick. If I was then surely every man in the cinema would have been lining up to buy me a ticket, non?

Had a phonecall last night explaining that they wouldn't get me a ticket because they didn't want to leave thr film just as it was starting to bring me my ticket. I would have been there about 10 mins after they called- before the adverts were even going to start! I was later than I would have been because they made it so bloody awkward I was deciding whether to go or not!

Weird.