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Guess she wasn’t a true friend

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Rustymoo · 25/08/2025 14:32

A friend had arranged a girlie day out with lunch at a local restaurant. As it was at a restaurant I hadn’t been to I checked the food hygiene rating (as I always do) it wasn’t good. I messaged the group to say I wasn’t coming and why. I then got a very aggressive message from the friend who’d organised it basically saying I was out of order for checking and how dare I put this on the group chat. Now if it was me I’d have been glad that the rating had been highlighted and I’d have arranged somewhere else. I found out today that she’s removed me from the group. Am I being unreasonable in thinking that you should be able to be honest with a friend and she really wasn’t such a good friend as I thought she was.

OP posts:
Raven85 · 31/08/2025 21:34

SquirrelMadness · 27/08/2025 09:04

She didn't actually say "the choice of venue isn't good enough" though, she said it had a low hygiene rating. I can see now that some people would see that as a criticism or challenge but I wouldn't personally. If I were the organiser I would think "oh wow, thank goodness someone noticed as I'd hate the entire group to have the shits over the bank holiday".

But we all have different communication styles, I find it easier when people are direct. I guess I understand that doesn't work for everyone. But I would have no problem with what the OP did myself, I would actually prefer her to put it in the group chat as I see it as useful information for everyone to know.

We can't be friends with everyone, sometimes people are incompatible. I think I would be incompatible with the organiser of the restaurant outing and more compatible with OP, but we are all different.

Did she have to say "im not coming though?" And why in the group and not privately to the friend?

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