Staying with my parents for a few days, they wanted the family around for lunch today as we weren’t all together for Christmas. DM did a buffet as my sisters DSC are fussy eaters instead of the traditional roast. Despite asking my sister what time to do lunch for my sister didn’t give a time, so we had things mostly ready for 12.30 just to pop pizzas and bits in the oven when they arrived. They get here at 13.45, last bits of food cooking, kids play, then food ready and everyone dives in.
Half an hour later my sis DP is rounding up the kids and saying goodbye, he says he’s taking them back to their mums then he’s going home to sit on the sofa in peace, he asks me to take Dsis and Dnephew home later. Everyone else is still eating.
As I’m tiding up I see him and the kids have put their plates in the kitchen still with loads of food on, one and a half slices of quiche, untouched slices of ham etc,
I just think it was all incredibly rude, why not just decline the invite or say you had to leave by a certain time?