Was I being overly sensitive here or friend being harsh?

[Medusa0987]

Went on holiday with a friend, my flight back was earlier than here, I had a morning one and she had an evening one.

We were visiting a friend there too, on the very last night friend I was holidaying with insisted on going to this restaurant which apparently had great reviews.
It was 1.5 hours from our hotel on public transport and we'd get there about midnight.
The problem was the hotel refused to give us more than one key! (Sharing a room)

I told her I wasn't very happy with this as I had to be up at 5am for my flight and that she hadn't checked whether I was ok to do this. She told me to chill out, that I was a stresshead and needed to 'make the most of life'.

We're in our 30s! I'm not some 18 year old, making the most of life doesn't mean having 4 bloody hours of sleep. So I went because I didn't really have a choice, the restaurant was unsurprisingly closing but agreed to make the 3 of us (with our other friend) a quick dish.

Got in about 1:40am. What would you have done here? It's the way she completely dismissed me and made me feel bad for daring to want more than 4 hours' sleep.

I'd have gone back to the room and leave her to knock me awake, when back, if I couldn't have functioned on four hours sleep. In my 30's, it wouldn't have been an issue. However I wouldn't have accepted one key. I'd have clarified if they'd be able to let one of us back into the room. So you don't live close by each other? Perhaps be more picky with your friendships and relationships, going forward.

Well if someone posts 6 or 7 comments trying to dig up old threads and keep talking nonsense then yes I will report them.

'Wanting to sleep instead of exploring' ...oh yes, I'm sorry, I forgot humans don't usually need any sleep 🤔🙄

So you turn up at a restaurant at midnight which was still open?
which then agreed to cook for you at midnight and then you ate this miraculous meal and travelled a 90 minute journey home and were home by 1.40 am
sounds like one heck of a restaurant

How very odd

You chose to book a flight where you needed to be up at 5am.

Oh yeah, my bad. Next time I'll book the later one for double the price.

You both sound very immature. That’s all

Hmmm maybe restaurant was in a different time zone 🤔
(Scraping the barrel here now!)

if you want complete control over your hotel book a room on your own. You shouldn’t have gone to the meal if you didn’t want to go, it’s a holiday so both of you shod do what you want to with minimal impact on the other

I voted YABU for allowing yourself to be pushed into something you didn't want to do. I'm terrible on little sleep, so I can understand you didn't want to be out late

I would have gone back to the hotel and told her to knock or ring me when she returned

Why didn’t you just go to the hotel and leave the key in an agreed safe place for her?

Yeah I’m another one really confused about the timings here. You only got to the restaurant at midnight? Were you not ravenous? But then, even though it was a one and a half hour journey back to the hotel, you still managed to be back for 1.40am? So you were in the restaurant 10minutes? If you hadn’t gone to the restaurant you’d have still not got home until 1.30am so not sure why going to this restaurant was such a big deal as it only added 10minutes onto your evening anyway? Unless I’ve horribly misunderstood your timings.

Maybe the restaurant was McDonalds

You could have still gone back to the hotel? I'm sure they'd have let you in to the room with a master key if you explained the situation to the reception and had your ID. You friend could have kept the key. Couldn't that have worked?

Edited to add: Or you could have gone back to the hotel, and left the key at the reception for her after letting yourself in and keeping the door open a crack till you could get back in. A little thought could have solved the situation.

Put it like this

your threads are quite memorable fruitcake

I would've just not gone and probably would not be giving it any thought once I got home.

Op

one question…. How long ago did this holiday happen?

I've never not had two keys for a room, unless for some reason we only wanted one.

I would have gone back to the hotel and told the receptionist my roommate would be coming in late and they would need to give her a key when she arrived because I would be sleeping.

Either that or left her with the key, gone back to the hotel and told them id become separated from my friend who had the only key to the room and so I would need them to let me in to my room since she would not be back until far much later.

I wouldn’t take that risk. Better for OP to have had the key.

Exactly
i suspect the op has been a little loose with the truth

I think there was 2 keys
and the op was just pissed off because on their last night, her friend wanted to go out, but the op didn’t because she had an early start. The op has made up the key nonsense so we side with her, but… well, it’s not going to well!

I also would wager this happened years ago

Doesn't it! What an unbelievable restaurant