Its my daughters birthday. I offered to take her for something to eat as she isn't celebrating until the weekend with her friends. She chose nando's. Not my personal preference but its her birthday. So I asked her if she would like to take her nana too. She says yes, asks her nana who complains about where she has chosen and wants to go the local chinese. my daughter says don't worry you don't have to come if you wont enjoy it, I wont be offended. I just thought I would give you the option.
We arrive at nando's and the moaning starts straight away. "Oh I,m sick of chicken is that all they do". No mum you can have a steak. But no she doesn't want that. She doesn't like spicy food so in the end chooses a Caesar salad with chicken.
We sit down I order and pay and get her a drink. she can barely smile and the atmosphere is horrible. When the food arrives she is picking up handfuls of the salad and dropping them back on her plate moaning that it would have been better with some onion..... its a caesar salad ffs. then she moans about the chicken and eats hardly anything and barely says a word. I am trying to be chatty and light hearted and she can barely even respond with more than a grunt. She also makes pointed comments about what my daughter was eating and how eating that much wont do her weight any favours ( she is a little chunky).
We barely finished the meal and she is jumping up and putting her coat on.
Honestly it felt like taking a petulant teen somewhere where they didn't want to go, yet she chose to come when offered.
aaaarrrrgggghhh!!!!!!