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To think this is so wrong but also quite funny at the same time

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littleredbumblebee · 09/09/2024 10:05

We went to DHs aunt and uncles for DHs uncles birthday last night for a meal. His uncle is known for being very uptight and anti kids so we did not take DS (he is also a bit poorly after having chicken pox) so my mum came to look after him.

Any way we got there and there were two tables set out. One for adults and one for kids. Turns out the kids table for us and DHs other cousins some of whom are married some of whom are not but we are all over the age of 30!!!

We were told to not make a fuss by DHs mum as we know how the uncle is so we all sat on this kids table trying not to laugh. While the “real growns ups” sat together. We all got smaller potions as well. We did takeaway on the way home.

So wrong yet I keep laughing when I think about it and DH and I laughed all the way home. God knows where he would have put DS if we had brought him. Maybe in the garage

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jetbot · 09/09/2024 10:10

but there were no kids there?

so it was two tables of adults

offyoujollywelltrot · 09/09/2024 10:10

Hahahahaha

That's hilarious. The kids table is always the best anyways!

jetbot · 09/09/2024 10:10

and they’d pre ordered meals for everyone?

AtYourOwnRisk · 09/09/2024 10:11

jetbot · 09/09/2024 10:10

but there were no kids there?

so it was two tables of adults

Yes, unless it was a plastic knee-high Ninja Turtles table set with plastic plates with clowns on them, or something.

jetbot · 09/09/2024 10:13

AtYourOwnRisk · 09/09/2024 10:11

Yes, unless it was a plastic knee-high Ninja Turtles table set with plastic plates with clowns on them, or something.

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and why did they have kids portions? surely they were ordering their own food?!

Mintypig · 09/09/2024 10:15

Brilliant. These are the stories you’ll tell each other for years, long after people are gone. Treasure these! They are hilarious reminders of days gone by.

HeyPrestoAlakazam · 09/09/2024 10:16

I am the youngest in the family (siblings AND cousins).

I never graduated from the "children's table" and I became very frustrated about it, as did my parents. Being 25 and forced to sit on a table with 1-12 year olds was ridiculous. Most of my sibs and cousins are 10-20 years older.

I was the person who cared for my grandparents until their deaths and I arranged most of the funerals when I was 28/30. At their wakes and the family meals around this time, I was still being excluded from the "grown ups" conversations and I was very hurt. Whenever I'd try to contribute a comment, cousins and siblings would give me a sort of bemused look, like they were just humouring me then would get back to the "proper adult conversation". When others were drinking I was frequently offered a soft drink..."We have some Pepsi Max or Sprite in the fridge if you'd like Presto?"

I was used as a free babysitter at most family events for years, looking after the next generations while my siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles caught up and never involved me. I realised they didn't know me as an adult and had no interest in getting to know me as an adult. I was always going to be the "baby". I stopped making an effort with most of them ones my grandparents were gone. It was so rude and hurtful and I have to say I'm better off without them.

NagathaCrispy · 09/09/2024 10:18

I hope you all sat round throwing food about, talking like the bloke in the haribo advert, giggling over stupid stuff and crayoning on the table cloth!

OrangeJeans · 09/09/2024 10:24

I hope you got a colouring book!

herecomesautumn · 09/09/2024 10:30

Was it a lower table and smaller
Chairs ?

tuvamoodyson · 09/09/2024 10:30

But you were with other adults? How did you end up with smaller portions?

jetbot · 09/09/2024 10:33

tuvamoodyson · 09/09/2024 10:30

But you were with other adults? How did you end up with smaller portions?

i’ve asked but op hasn’t been back

this “hilarious” story is a bit…. odd

TheGrimSqueakersFlea · 09/09/2024 10:46

@jetbot The meal was at the uncle's house, they ordered takeaway on the way home. The op didn't say the meals were pre ordered, only that they were given smaller portions of what I presume was a home cooked meal

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 09/09/2024 10:46

tuvamoodyson · 09/09/2024 10:30

But you were with other adults? How did you end up with smaller portions?

It was at the aunt and uncle's house - presumably they were served up for them .

jetbot · 09/09/2024 10:50

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 09/09/2024 10:46

It was at the aunt and uncle's house - presumably they were served up for them .

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but there were no children there

so the op and her dh was seated at a table with all over thirties

and if they were all served to too small portions, then it baffling that not one of the adults didn’t ask for a little more if they wanted more

jetbot · 09/09/2024 10:51

i’d have been relieved not to have sat in the same table as this uncle

Just4thisthreadtoday · 09/09/2024 10:51

@littleredbumblebee

yep 😂🤣😂🤣is all you can do. Weird shit like this makes for good/funny memories when they're not around anymore!

sweeneytoddsrazor · 09/09/2024 10:52

Is it really so difficult to understand
Adult table - the aunt/uncle and their siblings
Kids table - children (albeit adult children) of the aunt/uncle and their siblings.

Natwestbit · 09/09/2024 10:54

sweeneytoddsrazor · 09/09/2024 10:52

Is it really so difficult to understand
Adult table - the aunt/uncle and their siblings
Kids table - children (albeit adult children) of the aunt/uncle and their siblings.

With different food served in smaller portions?? That's a bit difficult to understand isn't it?

MonsteraMama · 09/09/2024 10:55

That is an absolutely ludicrous level of pandering but I think I'd have found it hilarious too. Though I'd have been very tempted to ask MIL to help me cut my food into bite sized pieces 🙃

jetbot · 09/09/2024 10:55

yep

so two tables…. older adults on one for younger adults

hilarious? more like relief that not sat with unpleasant people

CleftChin · 09/09/2024 11:03

The kids table always has to be the kids table, even when you're adults.

I know there would have been MURDER if any of the (many married, with children of their own) 'children' had been allowed to sit at the 'adult' table at Christmas at my grandparents - so we all crammed in to the same spaces (extended into another room for the great-grand-children) just as we'd done since we were toddlers :)

sweeneytoddsrazor · 09/09/2024 11:11

It didn't say different food it said smaller portions Which yes us a bit strange but then some people never quite get that their children are now fully fledged adults on a par with them. And on the flip side many adult children revert to the child/parent dynamic when the go to their parents house.

Caroparo52 · 09/09/2024 11:13

Yup laughter the best medicine🤣

EveryKneeShallBow · 09/09/2024 11:18

Weird. And not in a funny way.