I made a pie for a friend, cheese,potato and onion. She was having a family party and requested I make her a pie. Very happy to oblige.
Pie was eaten and enjoyed by her family, I had a lovely text from friend who said she would give me the plate back soon, no hurry I said, we have plenty.
Skip forward to last night when we were having a girls night out. I met friend and four others in a out in town. The friend had the plate with her. She gave it me so I asked what I was supposed to do with it all night? She said well if it's that much of a problem she would carry it. We went to for a meal and then to another pub, I felt guilty about her carrying it so I suggested we just leave it in the pub. It's only a plate.
She said she would feel too guilty and carried on carrying it around looking all martyred so I took the plate off her and left it in the pub.
She then, after a few more drinks, started crying ......about the plate!!
So was ibu about making a fuss about her bringing the plate on a night out? Was friend bu in bringing the plate and insisting on carrying it around for most of the night, even after I suggested we leave it?
My husband two girls think it's hilarious, oldest daughter is getting ready to go out and came to ask me which plate goes best with her outfit. So at least some good has come out of plate-gate 
AIBU?
AIBU Re : Plate returned from friend while on night out!!
DurhamDurham · 02/01/2015 18:07
I took a sizeable Yucca plant clubbing once. It was my birthday night out and dozy but lovely friend had presented me with said plant as a birthday present, and like plate-gate, had not considered what on earth we were going to do with it. We ended up dancing round it on the dance floor and it came home with me in a taxi!
Giggling like a loon here til I remembered DH and I taking a full dinner set to the theatre with us! I seem to remember it included serving platters and dishes too 
. We lived a fair bit away from the city at the time and didn't really think it through. They had been ordered and we picked them up before joining the dots. Maybe it is a southern thing after all 
You fancy southerners with your complete dinner sets at the theatre, I couldn't possibly compete with that
What I should have done was of course to use them for a civilised meal during the interval, or at least for the ice-cream
I have to laugh at whoever said 'She sounds like she's got a lot on her plate' upthread
Seriously, this has to be made into a thing. You must take a plate out with you next time you go. Or all turn up at a restaurant with plates and say you thought you had to bring your own. Or, always buy her plate-related stuff for birthdays etc. Buy her a handbag shaped like a plate for her birthday okay I'm getting carried away now, just like the plate
Isn't there a phrase, 'bring a plate'?There IS! It means to bring food to a dinner gathering/buffet/ nibbles evening. Perhaps your friend got confused!
Well one never knows when it might come in useful .
Don't know what she was thinking, if you see one another weekly, anyway. Plus, I think most people doing a plate/ dish/ bowl of food to bring to a party, probably don't use the family heirloom to do so.
In your plate place, I would probably have conveniently forgotten the plate somewhere along the way, and let the bemused staff try to figure it out when it turned up under a chair, in a restaurant or pub.
Mawbroon, its alive and well in my parent's house, mum still has a complete set
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