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am I just being a grumpy friend?

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grumpyfriend · 07/04/2014 19:17

I'm not sure if this is a big deal or not, would appreciate opinions.

Went to a big daytime event with a group of friends at the end of last week. Have been looking forward to it for a while, good excuse to get dressed up, have a few drinks and a girly gossip, you get the idea.

So, I meet up with friends on the day. I am done up to the nines in something from Karen Millen; 3 of the others have made no effort, 2 are wearing clothes you might wear to go shopping at Asda, another has no makeup on because she didn't have time to put any on. Last friend looks similarly attired to me (thankfully), however had a big puffa type coat on which obviously didn't 'go' with the rest of her outfit because she was cold . The others all have smarter clothes (there's no issue of money/not being able to buy anything - they do have dresses etc which they've worn when we've been out previously), but just didn't bother wearing them.

I felt uncomfortable being so dressed up with them, everyone else there was very much smarter and I felt we just looked a bit wrong.

Anyway, decided to get over myself and enjoy the day. One of the less smartly dressed friends gets completely hammered, to the extent we have to carry her out, and phone her DH to pick her up. She then gets hysterical, crying, being sick etc, because he has things to do and can't come and fetch her (he does) so we have to spend ages trying to calm her down.

Other friend asks to borrow £30 for drinks as there are no free cash machines at the venue. On the way home later, I suggest we go via cash machine. She said she can't, as she doesn't have any money in her account, but will pay me back when she next sees me (I'd not seen her prior to this since before Xmas, so I won't hold my breath).

Other friend earlier kept making what I can only call digs at me - I was trying to get puffa-coated. (Tiny, size 6) friend to part with it. Other friend says 'ah she feels the cold, not like us bigger girls' (she is a size 18, I'm a size 12...) And then later on said (about getting older as we are all turning 40) well, when you look like us, we don't need to worry about wrinkles and losing our looks Shock. It was all topped off by bumping into some directors from work, who invited me to join them for champagne (they had several bottles) when I returned friend referred to them as 'flash' and 'not our kind of people'! I was speechless by this point.

All in all it wasn't a great day, just a bad combination of things I can put down to coincidence, or anything more

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MaidOfStars · 07/04/2014 20:58

It's because the 'clothes thing' doesn't particularly flatter you, and so it is being used to judge the other behaviours.

Lagos · 07/04/2014 21:00

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grumpyfriend · 07/04/2014 21:00

I don't feel superior, just let down.

We all have similar jobs and incomes, like I said they all have KM or Coast or Monsoon dresses, they could have dressed up for what I thought was a special day out for us.

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OldBagWantsNewBag · 07/04/2014 21:02

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grumpyfriend · 07/04/2014 21:04

Only on MN. could being disappointed someone has turned up dressed very casually to what is a smart event be considered to be worse than borrowing money under false pretences, getting drunk to the point of falling all over the floor/being unable to stand, or making snippy comments and calling me fat and old!

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VikingLady · 07/04/2014 22:17

Move on from them. I think you'll have to write the £30 off to experience (and I understand why that annoys you - she lied to get money out of you that she has no intention of returning). Your "friends" picked at you, criticised you, do not find the same things important as you do.

You need new friends. You just don't have enough in common any more!

BakerStreetSaxRift · 07/04/2014 22:22

You sound like Sally Webster.

HTH

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 07/04/2014 22:28

I've been drunk to the point of throwing up. I thought that was normal at some point in your life? That seemed like a very condescending comment to make, OP.

grumpyfriend · 07/04/2014 22:47

Being drunk is no big deal imo. Even being sick doesn't bother me. But being drunk to the point you can't stand, have to be carried, then get hysterical screaming, sobbing (to the point you then make yourself sick) I really don't think that's par for the course.

I've been tipsy drunk many times. Occasionally I've been sick (though not for many years). I have never been so drunk I couldn't stand. I'd hope most people haven't!

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sandgrown · 07/04/2014 23:02

I empathise OP. If it was ladies day I expect you were looking forward to dressing up and having a fun day. I hate it when I turn up to an event dressed completely differently to the rest of the group.I know I should just celebrate individuality! The friend who borrowed from you should have been honest and should pay you back. I had to escort a very drunk work colleague home last week and she was mortified the day after. Used to live with an alcoholic and really hated being shown up in public when he was behaving badly.

arethereanyleftatall · 07/04/2014 23:02

I have.
And I'm really nice.

OldBagWantsNewBag · 07/04/2014 23:04

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beitou · 07/04/2014 23:38

Sounds like you went to Aintree "Lady's" day, what do you expect?

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