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Partner told me I couldn’t order de

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Wonkydonkey2 · 11/11/2023 20:49

Went out for dinner with a group of friends I see all together once or twice a year. This time we did dinner and invited our partners. The partners don’t all have much in common but they can manage to find common ground for an evening. All day I had mentioned pudding at this pub and when we arrived I said how I wasn’t sure on a starter as I wanted pudding. No one wanted pudding but someone wanted another drink. My partner said you don’t want pudding but I still asked for the menu. As the menu was handed to me he said get the menu and say no to pudding. He said we would get pudding at some dessert place. I mentioned this to the table saying husband wants to get pudding from this place you are all more than welcome to come. He then went for a wee and asked for the bill. As we left I said I didn’t like being told that I shouldn’t order dessert. He then said in the car he was so glad to leave the boys as they had nothing in common. That everyone else was ready to go home and just me ordering dessert would have been weird. I said that my friends were happy still talking and someone wanted another drink. I said he seemed rude by not wanting to be there and as it was 1 dinner he could suck it but that I wouldn’t bring him next time. He thinks no one noticed and that they where all wanting to leave. He kept suggesting we could go get pudding from this place but it’s completely different types or dessert.

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Gymnopedie · 12/11/2023 02:32

I'm on the fence as if NO ONE else is getting dessert, it means they all wanna go.

Or it means they're full.

Aprilx · 12/11/2023 02:39

I think you sound extremely childish to want a dessert that badly! Your husband seems to be better at social cues than you are, if nobody else wants a dessert then you need to skip it yourself so they don’t have to all sit there and watch you eat it. And you didn’t even order it so add another five or ten minutes whilst you peruse a menu that you don’t even need.

TheBeesKnee · 12/11/2023 03:15

This is why we don't invite men out. What an absolute spoilsport.

Also reading some of the responses on this thread makes me wonder who the hell people are dining out with?! I go out for dinner with people I like and no one is desperate to leave as soon as the meal is done. Yes some people leave if they have work or plans early the next day. More often than not we'll move on to a pub for drinks!

Absolute misers.

booksandbrooks · 12/11/2023 08:29

I would t begrudge my friend ordering a dessert, especially if I wanted another drink.
I'd probably only not have one to dodge the calories but more than happy to keep the evening going.

THisbackwithavengeance · 12/11/2023 08:34

He was rude.

And I would think very little of my DH if he couldn't have a chat and be sociable with people even if he thought they had nothing in common.

SiousieSoo · 12/11/2023 09:07

TimeForTeaAndG · 12/11/2023 00:38

Yes. All of this!

Totally agree. Every time I think I have heard something so bizarre on mumsnet sure enough something else comes along to top it. Dessert as a starter is on the list of crazy crazy! Not least becuase the OP would not have known at the start of dinner that she would be denied said dessert at the end, let alone the very notion of having your sweet before your main.... Ridiculous.

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SiousieSoo · 12/11/2023 11:10

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Whatever you say... Perhaps you should inform the thousands of restaurants in the UK that print their menus in sequential fashion, always listing the dessert at the end of the meal, that they are in a cage, prejudiced and narrow minded... Who knew? 😂😂

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