You know when you go through a conversation in your head a few hours later, and think of how it could have progressed, well I'm doing that now.
At some good friends today, afternoon cup of tea with assorted DCs, the DW made a comment about how 'Half the kids in my school have parents from the Czech Republic and absolutely none of them work, all of them are here on benefits.' 'They also breed like rabbits' was also mentioned. She also mentioned how a mutual friend of ours had 'bristled' when she said this 'fact, not opinion' a few weeks back. I was rather taken aback by this statement, and it also wasn't the right time or place to have a lively discussion on the matter, so I instead said that I was 'with R (the mutual friend) on this' and then followed an awkward silence... DW is lovely but, erm, often says things that make me realise we can be worlds apart. We have incredibly different outlooks and backgrounds (I realise this Is incredibly snobby, but she's never moved far from the postcode she was born in, very conventional etc) but generally get on well (it's her DH who I have known the longest) and I didn't want it to mushroom into an argument about lots of other things including her apparent ignorance on all the terrible benefit scrounging immigrants.
What would you have done? (Am on MN fighting the urge to send her lots of links!) Am now having conversations in my head!