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To be annoyed that one friend always has to tweak arrangements to suit her?

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schpock · 14/09/2015 22:12

I regularly meet up with 3 friends. Each time I meet them there is one friend who always claims to be incredibly busy and who always has to tweak everything to suit her, and then is generally late or tweaks it again to suit her once we've changed plans. The other two are happy to accommodate her so I have to go along with it too or risk looking like a bitch.

This Saturday the three of us were meant to be going shopping at a city an hour away from where we live. I was looking forward to going here as it's a lovely place and I've not been there for ages, and I wanted to go in a particular couple of shops there.

The date was originally changed from last weekend to this weekend, as it didn't suit this friend to go last weekend.

Now this evening one of the other friends has sent me a text saying that this friend doesn't want to go shopping now and would prefer to just meet for lunch instead and that we are meeting at 1pm at X pub.

I have not replied yet as I am so fuming about it and don't want to reply in anger. But I know that even if I reply that I am disappointed and would still like to go shopping it will be a case of "sorry but we are doing lunch now".

To make matters worse, the friend who wants to change plans will probably be late anyway and we'll all be sat there for half an hour waiting with the other two cracking jovial jokes about how busy she must be.

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BerylStreep · 17/09/2015 09:02

With the relative I mentioned down thread who always does this, I have started saying when an arrangement is made 'Can we please stick to this arrangement because I don't like changing plans once they are made.'

It hasn't completely stopped the messing around (it does mean the drama llama excuses are more outlandish) but it has reduced it.

laffymeal · 17/09/2015 15:38

DD had a "friend" like this. They met in nursery aged 3 and over the years her scheming and messing about got worse and worse until now aged 18 they no longer speak. Trouble is the other girl caused DD a lot of heartache, always trying to appease her and "fit in" with her ridiculous attention seeking behaviour.

If people didn't accommodate these arseholes in the first place, they would stop doing it, we all need to stand up to them.

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