To ask what is the rudest thing a friend or relative has ever done at a meal out?

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When out at a meal with a bunch of friends, my ex-friend (never popular -known for rudeness!) once asked if she could taste my chilli con carne, I said 'of course' and she proceeded to take a huge forkful and then pronounce loudly 'UGGHHH!! That is SHIT'.

I was left to 'enjoy' the rest of my chilli after that!

Anyone got/had a friend/relative with worse manners?

Not a meal out, but we were at one of DH's close friend and fiancée's house for dinner. DH had given them a nice bottle of wine for their engagement. DH's close friend said 'shall we open that bottle you gave us?'. Fiancée then said 'No, we're saving that for when we have friends round'. Well, that put us in our place!

Can't rival some of these, must have fairly normal friends and family, but oh my god am I at what some of you have witnessed.

I do have a couple of older ladies that I go out with sometimes for dinner. At the end of every meal they get little calculators out or a pen and paper and work out to the penny what they've had. I always think christ, I don't begrudge you a couple of quid, just work it out in your head. They do leave a tip though.

And I have no idea what teenage girls might want.

But we do, MN is your friend there!

Well not a meal out as such..a Christmas meal at mine a few years ago. My mum was the culprit. Id bought a new dinner set and other bits, was serving up the meal and my DDs said the dinner set looked really nice..at which point my DM screwed up her face (usual, for her) didn't comment on dinner set at all, then insisted we watch the EastEnders christmas special during meall ( I had small tv in kitchen at that time). I said no, as I don't have tv on during meals anyway, just when Im doing housework in kitchen; I hate housework, TV takes my mind off it! & Im not an EastEnders fan at anyway.

At which point she began to moan and complain, huff & puff. Completely spoiled the atmosphere. She ate the meal silently..my DDs felt awkward..after the meal she went off into another room and sat in front of TV. The plan was that she'd stay for Boxing Day too but I went off into another room and rang my DB, begged him to come over pick her up and take her home. He obliged, thankfully.

Ooh, where shall I start??

1. Invited V picky in laws round for Christmas dinner once (emphasis on the once, we've been together for over 15 years). They turned up 3 hours early, I answered the door on my way upstairs to get a clean tea towel from the airing cupboard. By the time I got back down, MiL had barged her way into the kitchen and started taking over, because her way "is far better", and totally bamboozled me. I hadn't know her long and end up totally dejected amd unsure what to do. I had never cooked for her before (or since) so she had no previous bad experience or anything.

2. I have an aunt who came up to me several times at my wedding asking me to tell the hotel manager that she didn't like food, and who, at another family wedding took a portion of vegetables meant to serve 6 piled the whole lot on to her plate, smothered them with salt, then refused to eat them because they weren't soft and soggy.

Not in the same league as many above. Elderly PILs are both probably in early stages of dementia. MIL, always a stickler for politeness, is starting to forget her manners. Six of us out for a meal. MIL is served first, and starts tucking in. DH, PIL and our DD all say to her separately, 'aren't you going to wait until the rest of us get served?' MIL replies 'No. I'm not going to wait' to each of them, and carries on. DD looked shocked, she's never seen her DGM behave like this before. MIL did this with all 3 courses. MIL & PIL grumble throughout the meal, at the 'slow' service (it wasn't slow) and the 'leathery' steak 'from the shoemakers' (DH had steak, it was perfectly tender; why order steak when your dentures are loose and you won't go to the dentist?!) Then they gathered up all the empty glasses, muttering 'we're doing their job for them'. FIL then grumbled 'have they gone to Kenya for the coffee beans?' - nobody had ordered coffee, we were just chatting at the end of the meal! Of course, as they are both deaf, their grumbling is perfectly audible to all. Cringe.

Mostly I'm at a 2 year old being called a little bitch her mother is beyond awful for leaving her to cry till she vomited and you are unbelievably disgusting to refer to a toddler as a bitch!

I used to work in a restaurant in a department store. It was canteen style with a sandwich store and a coffee shop separate. I saw some sights there. Lots of people allowing their kids to make a huge mess on the tables and just leaving it. Several dirty nappies just left on the tables , people buying a drink and settling down to eat McDonald's that kind of thing.

But the worst was right before closing time when I was doing a final sweep of the tables in my section and I caught a girl giving her fella a handjob.

Meant to post this a while ago! But Anywho here it is.

Not a dinner out but at a friends wedding, she put me on a table with most of my friends but also one of the bm parents as she was sitting on the top table and they only knew me.

We were one of the last tables to be served food so the father decided he was bored of waiting so picked up his knife and fork banging them on the table and loudly started singing "why are we waiting?"

Then the microphone didn't work for the speeches so thet shouted "we can't hear you?" "Say that again?" And other statements!

It was horrible

my parents live in a far away place, and never bother to tell us they are in the country - we occasionally get a short notice duty visit the day before they fly home.

On one occasion, my DF phoned at 9am to ask if we were in later. I suggested (and he agreed) to come for lunch. DS had been playing rugby, and so was STARVING. Went to effort making a nice meal, which was all ready for 1pm. Dad rocks up at 2:35 (by which time kids were fractious and eating crisps.) - he had no mobile phone and we didnt know where they were staying. I said lets eat, we're starving. DF said he wouldn't have any thank you as he had eaten a couple of pasties at the market an hour ago. We made him sit and watch us eat. Bastard.

we went to pub followed by lunch with some friends. One of them was knocking back G&Ts at a rapid rate. We went for a chinese at a very nice riverside restaurant. AT the end, by now totally blotto friend unwrapped one of those hot flannel packets and tried to eat it. How we chortled.

My now in laws suggested we go out for a meal for my now DHs birthday. His uncle and Aunt came as well.

I'd come straight from work and changed in about 10 minutes but they wouldn't wait for me (travelled over 1 1/2h from work) so I had to drive me and DH so he could drink on his birthday.

When meal came to and end they said we will all treat DH and divided it 3 ways so my DH's parents (well off) and his uncle and aunt plus me paid for the birthday treat meal DH had been invited on! How is that fair

This is a great thread! Cant tell any stories as its probably me thats the rude one LOL

I have two:

One is not mine but DM. She offered to take her goddaughter out for lunch and a 'treat' day in London. Goddaughter's mother said 'ooh lovely - me and other 3 DC will come too.' All fine, except Goddaughter's mother then paid for nothing all day, including lunch where she let her young DC choose meals off the adult menu which they hardly ate any of 'as we're here for a treat.'

In my other story DM is the culprit- she wanted to meet MIL before DS was born, and badgered and badgered us about it. As we had kitchen issues at the time we didn't want to invite them over so asked them out for a meal at a place we quite liked and, crucially, could afford, as we felt we should pay. DM then objected to it and insisted instead on going to a very very nice but very very expensive restaurant near her instead. When I said we really couldn't afford it, she said she was happy to pay. She then proceeded to order three courses, encouraged us and MIL to have wine etc, then looked expectantly at us when the bill came. I was and but she denied all knowledge of having offered to pay so we just did to avoid a scene.

Years ago, before the smoking ban, a large group of us arranged to go out for a meal. As only two people in the group smoked a table was booked in the non smoking area. When the two smokers realised they berated the person who had made the booking, telling her she was very 'selfish'. Then one of them said 'well I'm going to smoke anyway' and both of them lit up and smoked several cigarettes during the meal, ignoring the dirty looks from other tables.

My father's 70th birthday meal was at a local French Restaurant (v posh - good reputation). After the waiter had finished taking the orders, my sister called him over, produced a tin of baked beans from her handbag, and asked if he'd mind heating these up for her two kids and adding them to their plates. The waiter looked as if he'd been goosed, but obliged. The cheeky cow then asked my two if they'd like some beans, and of course they said they would. Of course her kids were always said by her to be not fussy at all with their food. Presumably because she only fed them shit.

I worked a number of places as a waiter. Only once snapped and got my own back. Woman snapped her fingers at me and complained that her starter wasn't hot enough. It came on a plate with salad so I just whanged the whole thing in the microwave, salad and all, and nuked it until the lettuce was welded to the plate and then gave it back.

I don't know what came over me. I could have been sacked. But the customer didn't say a thing.

My auntie (who I no longer have anything to do with) sat telling me about how my son (4 at the time) is going to end up in 'juvenile detention' by the time he is 17, because I let him play the x box with my dad

My mother's family are really loud and generally mannerless (we don't get on- can you tell?!). They are also legendary for their greed when it comes to food. (I have inherited that bit sadly.) But once we had dinner at an Indian restaurant, and when the waitress came with the food, before she had put the foon on the table (so was still holding the plates somewhere above our heads) one aunt actually reached up and grabbed a samosa from the plate. She could not even wait until it was put down ffs.

Not a friend/relative, but a colleague (who was also married to our boss, making this even more awkward).

We went for a team Christmas meal to a local Chinese restaurant. He showed up absolutely steaming drunk, his wife (our boss) wasn't much better either. Throughout the meal, he kept shouting stuff like, 'Oi! Where's my food you slanty eyed bastards', spilled food and drink everywhere, made lewd remarks and suggestions to female team members and other diners. When I pointed out what a disgusting racist pig he was being to the staff, he just laughed and said, 'Oh, it's alright, they all know me. I went to school with half of them!'. That's alright then .

I've no idea why the staff didn't chuck him/us out, or ring the police, frankly. Our boss seemed to think he was absolutely hilarious, and just cackled at whatever he did all night (before this I'd always thought quite highly of her and she was very professional and sensible at work!).

I refused to go on any team nights out again after that, and told them exactly why. They just shrugged and made out like it was normal to do that when pissed.

One of my sisters always leaps in on the bill calculations and starts bamboozling everyone with numbers even though everyones happy with what's already been worked out.

She gets her phone out to check calculations and points at each person around the table so they reel off what they had.

So overbearing and totally fucks the atmosphere every time we go out.

Years ago I met up with a friend for dinner and she had invited a friend of hers I barely knew. Her friend proceeded to going into graphic details regarding an anal sex encounter she recently experienced. I was quite put off my chicken smothered in bbq sauce.....such a delightful girl!

Sounds like the OP's ex-friend has been taking dining etiquette lessons from Gordon Ramsay.

I had a friend who would fight you for the crispy duck at a Chinese restaurant.

She then decided to go veggie as its 'cruel' to eat meat. Fair enough her choice.

But every meal we went out for she'd make bleurgh noises and pretend to be sick if we were eating meat! Rude cow!

MIL. At my oldest sons christening dinner, she decided she did not like the main she had chosen (from the printed celebrations menu for our party), and ordered a second dinner, and persuaded her sister that it was fine to do it, so I had to pay for two extra, very expensive roast beef dinners. We were in a very upmarket fish restaurant (but they did have some meat dinners), and the extra mains were £50 each.

My exfriend who drank too much baileys before waiting for the food, and then was sick in the white wine bucket. She handed the bucket to the waiter saying "Please hurry up and bring another bucket".

My friend who decided to have a starter costing three times as much as the other starters, the same with the main, and then suggested we go dutch like we usually do. There is a reason I never dine out with this group again, the restaurants are always so pricey, even without wine, our bills were never below £80 each.

Oh, and MIL, who confessed that once after dinner (that I had cooked) she had to go out and be sick in the bushes by the green in front of our house.