So me and DD were just sitting down to our tea tonight when the doorbell goes. DD answers the door to DH's friend who comes in, sort of grunts to me that he'll wait for DH and sits down at the table.
Ok, at this point I'm not sure why he is meeting DH or what but fine.
There are about 8 small sandwiches on a large dinner style plate which I pass to him and say 'would you like something to eat something'. This is the serving plate that all the sandwiches are on, which we have each helped ourselves to one sandwich from. DH's friend takes the plate, holds it in front of him as though it was his personal plate, and starts to eat all the sandwiches on it one by one.
This is DD's evening meal before going to bed and my snack before eating with DH.
DD is now looking at me like 'why is this man eating my dinner' so I give her a piece of cake and then hand the plate to 'friend' saying very clearly 'have a piece of cake'. But somehow the emphasis escapes him and he takes the whole plate, we are both watching him starting to eat every single cake one by one.
He is actually a lovely bloke, single and lives in a share house with some much younger student types, prehaps he doesn't feed himself or just doesn't know how normal people eat at a table? As soon as he had finished all DD's tea he looked round the kitchen to see what else he could find, ate all the supper that was cooking in the saucepans, all the food in the fridge, and all the packets and tins in the cupboard, and he drank all the milk and all the orange juice and all DH's beer and all the water in the tap. Then he leaves before DH gets here saying he will see him in the pub?
So I am left literally planning to get takeaway and wondering if DD, 7 stays up til her dad gets home and has some takeaway or goes to bed hungry? Should I have said something, grabbed the plate back off him or sent him to sit in the front room without any food available?