(ooh my first AIBU thread)
in brief(ish):
twas my wedding anniv yesterday and dh and i were thinking of going out for dinner. db rang and asked if he could stay, as he was working in london yday and then nearby today (he lives 200 miles away). of course i said yes - we don't see him that often.
so - he pitches up yday afternoon briefly before getting a train into london. plan was that he would head home at the same time ish as dh so dh could give him a lift back from the station.
texts arrived during the evening along the lines of "you'd better order the curry w/out me, not sure if i'll make the next train" etc etc. he gave us his curry order though which we kept warm.
by 10:15 (our usual bedtime ) i was fed up so called him. he was still in a pub in marble arch. at this point, the very earliest he could have got here would have been 11:45 even if he'd have left straight away. i told him dh was going to have to wait up as we weren't happy going to bed leaving the front door unlocked. he eventually texted to say he would stay in a colleague's hotel room and would get a train in the morning.
so - wedding anniv spent at home. curry wasted. more to the point, a feeling tjhat db would rather spend his evening with colleagues than his sister and bil.
taking the piss ne c'est pas? (this is par for the course behaviour with db - who is 34 not 17 btw - unfortunately)
(he finally pitched up at 9:15 this am and left again at 9:25)
(well done to anyone who made it through the thread)