To be annoyed about friend's daughter coming along

[Misscromwellrocks]

I have a weekend in Paris booked in March with a few old uni friends. It's the first time in years that we've all gone away together.

One friend has now announced that her 18 year old daughter will be coming along. Most of us haven't seen this girl since she was about 12 and in any event this is meant to be a meet up of old friends.

I've only spoken to one other member of the group since we heard about this, and she's annoyed too.

WWBU to contact friend and try to tactfully dissuade her? I don't want to cause a row or hurt anyone's feelings.

What if the extra adult foisted on the group was someone's dh, or their new friend from Pilates, or their mother who needed a break ? Are they all welcome, in spite of the weekend being billed as catching up with old friends ?

Exactly this! What the fuck is this bonkers MN obsession about any event having to include absolutely everyone in case they feel excluded. It's absolutely ridiculous.

If you are having a university re-union then surely the title is pretty much self-explantory, but for the hard of thinking who seem to be out in force, this is basically a re-union (definition in case it isn't clear: a social gathering attended by members of a group of people who have not seen each other for some time) of people who went to university together

Why the absolute fuck is it OK for some other random people who didn't go to the same university to tag along?

Why is it mean? Maybe the OP would like to bring her MIL or niece or her mate who has been going through a bad time because heaven forbid they should be excluded from a re-union of old university friends

Fuck's sake.

She absolutely should have asked. I wouldn't have asked and wouldn't bring her, but she should have seen what you all think first.