wibu to think I had been invited to the party?

[andpeakaboo]

I often babysit for a lovely family. On Tuesday I was asked if I was busy Saturday because they were having a 60's themed party for the dads 50th birthday starting at 6PM. I said I was free and the mum said 'great see you then'

Saturday comes, I spend ages doing my hair and make up in 60s style and had trawlled charity shops for suitable clothed.

I turned up at the house at 6.20PM as I didn't think they'd want everyone turning up bang on 6PM.

I was greeted at the door by a very flustered mum and she said 'thank God we thought you weren't coming' and both parents flew out the door and got in their car.

It suddenly dawned on me that I'd not been invited and was actually babysitting!! I was mortified. When the parents rolled in at 1am the dad clocked I was in 60's gear and said 'you knew you were babysitting, right?' I was so embarrassed I said 'yeah of course, I thought it'd be fun to do 60s things with the kid's

Wibu to presume I was invited?

Poor you. I hope they realised and gave you some extra money

I'm cringing so much reading this

I can only suggest a full storm trooper outfit next time you are babysitting.

So they can't see how red your face is.

They definitely knew you thought you'd been invited to a party. I bet they turned to each other in horror as soon as the front door was closed when they left.

You know you can never babysit for them again unless you're in full fancy dress?

We made some new friends and they invited us for a fireworks party on 5th November. They live in a city but the house has a garden, we live very rurally.

We turned up in jeans, big sweaters, wellies and woolly hats.
The other guests were in party frocks & suits, it was a very formal dinner party. Everyone was very polite but I know they were thinking 'country bumpkins'.
BTW the fireworks were a formal display watching from the orangery my sparklers were kept firmly in my bag

Omg this is the funniest thing I've heard all day

This is so the sort of mistake I'd make, I'm glad it's not just me (but I feel your pain OP!).

I would have made the same mistake too- quite reasonable assumption in fact.
This does not come anywhere close but when Dd was 5 we were invited by another mum to "come round for tea" after school but to arrive about 4.30.
I took some gift of food and was greeted with a cup of tea and lemon drizzle cake. I did not twig until an hour had gone by & I kind of felt we had outstayed our welcome with hints about the DH returning from work & having to think about "supper". DD kept asking me when we were getting "proper tea"( doesn't like lemon so was getting really hungry).I had been puzzled that the mum seemed fairly relaxed about getting a meal ready & serving cake before the meal.
Later found out another friend had been caught out exactly the same way & she had kept kicking her son because he was asking why they only had cake & my friend was telling him " Well this is a cake tea - isn't it lovely! (We are both Northern & our idea of supper would be cheese & crackers!
Anyway thanks for your post OP - I needed cheering up today💐

I think , since you do socialize with then, you made a reareasonable assumption. But they should've been a bit clearer..ie "can you babysit? "

I bet they felt dreadful

Made us mimsnetters laugh tho !!!!

Ooops. what on earth are mimsnetters !?

Oh OP....hilarious and awful in equal measure.

No...you weren't being unreasonable. They should have been clear. I think they also should have arrived home an apologised for the obvious misunderstanding rather than put you on the spot like that.

Hilarious & thank god it's not just me.

Many years ago I lived in Japan & was invited skiing. I said I didn't have any ski clothes & the person inviting me said not to worry they had some I could borrow. So. Few days later they turned up at work wirh them, I climbed into them and colleagues were admiring them then the person who lent me the clothes asked me who I was skiing with. 'er you' I said. Apparently not. God I was mortified although it turned out I'd been invited to a hot spring resort with an entirely different group of people.

I know my japanese was a bit ropey but I stull can't work out what happened in that conversation

Hmm flares & knee high boots - wouldn't one cover the other? Sounds a little off to me.

Yes, as per many pp'ers I need to know about the flare/knee boot combo situation - if you went to the trouble to make flares why are you covering them with knee boots??

I don't think we will ever get an answer to the flares/boots thing and it will plague me forever!

I'm choosing to believe there was one tucked in to show the boot, and the other left out to show the flare....