Present opening ceremony

[Skinnyboneylittlepony]

I bumped into someone I went to school with the other day. Not close friends but got on well enough so it was a nice surprise. We were on the high street and she lives a 2 min walk away, so she invited me for a cup of tea.

Her DD had been Christened that weekend and now it was the Tuesday. On the coffee table were unopened gifts.

While I was there she decided to start opening them and I had to join in at coping over dresses and admiring silver spoons. She also counted out the money from cards.

As an aside, she has done well for herself financially but I’ve ‘fallen on hard times’. I’m sure she knows ‘from the grapevine’ as we have mutual friends. Also I was not invited to the christening and would not expect to have been.

AIBU to have found the present opening really bizarre?

'violent urge'?

No need to bring drama to the thread. OP asked for opinions and is getting them in a calm and polite manner.

I was being sarcastic about the contrarian nature of so many people on this site.

Hmm, I wonder if it was a hint for you to buy a gift even though you weren’t invited? Or just showing off...

Really odd behaviour IMO!

Maybe it was a hint to give her cash or a
gift, but she has never bought my dc anything. Why should I ?

Again, going over it in my mind, maybe she was showing me the gifts so I could coo and exclaim. In a gift bag it’s hard to tell. Maybe her plan was to show all guests for the next week or so?

God that's weird!
'Ooohhh look at all these things I have, random acquaintance, from the christening you weren't invited to, watch me count out all this cash'
Awkward.

That’s exactly it Blanche.

It’s a bit weird maybe she ran out of things to say, felt awkward and thought it was something to focus on and chat about for a bit?