Help end medical misogyny. Sign our petition.

Help end medical misogyny.
Sign our petition.

Sign the petition

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Shall I go out on my own tonight

231 replies

Jammydodger70 · Today 05:52

I have a hotel room booked for tonight, so that me & a friend can go to a club night. Unfortunately she has cried off sick & the hotel is already paid for & non refundable.
I'm not worried about the money, but I've got itchy feet & still want to go out dancing! None of my other friends can go at this short notice. Some people do go on their own & just dance & chat. I have never done this & I'm worried about looking/feeling weird & lonely.
The other dilemma is this. I've been chatting/flirting with a man for a while who will be there tonight. Last month he walked me back to the hotel & we had a few kisses. It was lovely so I asked if he'd be there tonight. At which point he said he would be, but he's in a relationship. Just for the record I'm not!
If I go on my own how am I going to look in front of him & his mates? A desperately lonely woman? Or will I look like a stalker to them? When I imagine myself there tonight I keep thinking of the dental receptionist in Only Fools & Horses who kept popping up everywhere after Del Boy broke off their date & got back with Raquel.
This makes me feel that I should not go to the club tonight. I won't look & feel like a stalker then; but why should I be the one to not go because a man has been a complete dick head? Shall I stay in or go on my own & hold my head up high?

OP posts:
tilypu · Today 13:30

Tepidwater · Today 13:22

However, me & friend fancied another night out tonight, so why not go to our favourite genre of music place

Yeah - she says that they don't usually do this every month as it's too expensive, but they were out last month and fancied going out again this month.

AbsoluteHoot · Today 13:34

I couldn’t go out to a bar on my own, let alone a club. What do you do, go onto the dance floor and start dancing alone? It’s like some sort of bad dream to me.

MickyMoonshine · Today 14:20

Why has my post calling out a misogynistic comment been deleted? Yet the original comment telling a woman to modify her behaviour because men might not be able to control their actions still stands?

MickyMoonshine · Today 14:21

AbsoluteHoot · Today 13:34

I couldn’t go out to a bar on my own, let alone a club. What do you do, go onto the dance floor and start dancing alone? It’s like some sort of bad dream to me.

Yeah. Go to the bar and buy a drink. Chat to people and dance if you feel like it.
It’s very liberating!

Tepidwater · Today 14:38

Last month he walked me back to the hotel & we had a few kisses. It was lovely so I asked if he'd be there tonight.

Last month you asked him what his plans were for a month later?

ok so if you last had any contact with him a month ago… he’s probably forgotten about that fact that 4 weeks ago he had a song and confirmed his plan for tonight (a grotty cheater like this like probably be snogging part and parcel of every Saturday night). And 4 weeks later @Jammydodger70 … and zero contact? In your shoes I wouldn’t give a hoot what him and his mates thought of me.

However I still wouldn’t go to the club alone because personally that holds zero appeal to me and secondly there is the possibility of drama and… well, I take the approach that if silly drama like this can be avoided, then I’ll go with that option. Surely there’s other dancing venue in the area?

Iamacatslave · Today 14:49

Go and have fun.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page