SIL invited us over for Christmas but changed the plan

[Noresto]

SIL invited us over for Christmas.

She initially said she had a surprise for us, so I'm unsure whether it is actually a change of plan or if it was the surprise all along.

She just told us that instead of hosting the Christmas Dinner at hers and bil's, we would go out to Karen's dinner to have dinner there (it is apparently open tomorrow afternoon!)

She also asked us not to explain the concept of Karen's diner to my parents and PILs.
So she essentially wants this to be a huge prank and thinks it would be hilarious. She likes trends and I guess wants to follow this one but I think it's taking it too far. She's got a few thousand followers on her Tiktok account, so I'm assuming she wants to film the experience for views (it wouldn't be the first time).

AIBU to be miffed as it essentially means no one has done any Christmas food shopping (besides sides and drinks that we were planning on bringing) and gutted we would be eating fast food burgers and to think this is not funny at all?

I'd be pranking her right back by not going.

I'm really really tempted

Sorry, I meant to say Karen's Diner* to have dinner there

Not funny at all, and risking upsetting both sets of parents at Christmas for a few likes?

I wouldn't be going and I'd tell her exactly why.

So do it. The problem with these people, is they go to more extremes as they get away with it. Let the family know what's she's planning and tell her no thanks.

One random day it could kind of be fun, maybe, depending on the personality of the people going

not on Christmas Fay. Just NO.

I don't even like going out for Christmas dinner, but to Karen's I'd say ansolutely not not & that I wold be explaining the concept to my parents, she can do what she likes with her poor parents,

@Noresto @gamerchick

gamer is right

I would not go

My idea of hell. Id rather stay home and not have any dinner

Eeeesh that's too far. It's Christmas dinner.. not a birthday meal or similar. It's rotten of her to take away you being able to have a proper Christmas dinner imo. She should have told you first. I wouldn't be happy.

Please tell both your parents and inlaws what she is planning and don't go. What she is planning is mean and not funny, please don't let your family be the butt of her joke and be ridiculed by all her followers

I think you need to forewarn your parents. Not nice to be taken the piss out of for likes/views.

I hate “pranks” like this.

Pranks used to be something that shocked the other person for a minute, but then it was something they’d find funny as well.

I sincerely doubt that your own parents and PILs will enjoy:

• suddenly not having a Christmas dinner
• having mediocre greasy burgers instead
• doing it at a themed restaurant where the theme is the wait staff being as rude as possible to the customers (as one PP said, it would be her idea of hell)
• and especially when they have no idea of the theme, so they’ll just think it’s the worst dining experience they’ve had for no reason

And your SIL is ruining everyone’s Christmas for… TikTok. Tell her to grow the fuck up, definitely do not let her “surprise” parents or PILs with this awfulness lest you receive some blame because you knew about the “surprise” prank from hell, and if you can, try to scrape together a Christmas dinner for yourself and parents and PILs. Let SIL and BIL go to Karen’s with all her TikTok followers instead of her family, since that’s apparently who she values at Christmas.

Prank her right back by not telling her you have no intention of turning up. I'd warn my own parents though.

This is a horrible horrible thing for her to do. You should definitely speak up, warn the others, and not go. She's being so selfish and inconsiderate.

Why are you allowing her to piss off your parents and ILs??

I'd tell them exactly what they're going to get and I'd bloody refuse to go.

She can shove a video of her cats-bum face when she finds out she's the only one there on TikTok.

I wouldn’t go! And I wouldn’t keep anything quiet either - what a selfish thing to do!

I’ve never heard of it so had a Google. I would not want to spend Christmas Day there! It sounds like a really weird concept.

I absolutely wouldn't be going.

She's mad.
I don't like the concept and wouldn't want to go but my parents would be positively offended. She's running the risk of absolutely destroying Xmas. I'd rather stay home with a takeaway.

Being mean to her family (by fast food not Christmas dinner) and then compounding it by going to that place AND all to exploit your parents and her parents discomfort for likes on TikTok. ON CHRISTMAS?

No. Just no.

Tell everybody invited - send them videos of it to anybody who doesn't know. They can decide for themselves if they want to spend Christmas dinner eating fast food and being insulted. For her social media followers to ridicule.

What an absolutely shit thing she wants to do to people on Christmas.

Prank you say? 0/10

tell her you and your parents will meet her at Karen’s diner.

instead have your parents at yours with the best meal you can do with what you have

I can't imagine anything less appropriate for Christmas day. And that she's doing it for tiktok views just makes it 100 times worse. I'd wouldn't go, and would be straight on the phone to my parents.