To not want to go out to dinner on a week night?

[Anna8888]

We get endless invitations to dinner parties on a week night. While we manage to fend many of them off, some people are so persistent that we end up having to accept. I don't want to go out at 8.15 pm, eat dinner between 9.30 and 11 pm and not get to bed until half past midnight on a week night when we have to get up for work/school at 7 am. It KILLS me, and the dinners are unbelievably tedious.

AIBU?

oh I can't watch j. binoche
all i see is jeremy irons smashing her head against the wall while shagging her

themildmanneredjanitor hilarious!
ROFL

well if you aren't auld, then of course the french hating and the git doesn't apply to you.

SOH anyone?

I'd take them a tea cosy I'd crocheted myself and a jar of homemade chutney and tell them to try it on their cheese.

LOL at that Ferrero advert. I do love a man in a poloneck.

I bought a black polo neck the other day. I felt very suave wearing it.

I look like Gladstone Small in a polo neck

ooh i love gladstone small, he's alike a teddy

anna, why can't he say "we'd love to, on a saturday - there's too much on during the week"?

Am ROFL at this cette thread.....

am ROFLing too
I suspect my life is a leetle different to Anna's

this is why I love MN though

vive le MN!

Surely you mean vive CatisSleepy?

Everyone's life is a leetle different to Anna's. It's why we need her here. I'm still amused by the whole slice of ham vs fois gras thread - will have to try to find it.

It is not her MIL who is very ill, but some other relative of her DP.

This site would be immeasurably poorer without Anna. I wish she would write a book about her life. I would probably buy it...

dunno fio, I find that most of our relations (both sides) are not really that interested in us without the children. I cannot remember the last time I spent any time with any family member (DH excepted) without the presence of the DC. Parents or ILs come for meal, which is eaten with children, then as soon as it is bedtime, the visitors are out of the door.

I would absolutely buy in
Anna I really think you should do a blog
please

(I am not being sarcastic btw)

I don't know why you all think it's so funny. I have exactly the same problem as Anna, I even had to say no to Liz and Phil for Weds the other day as Charles and Camilla had baggsied Tues and frankly even one night during the week is pushing the bateau out.

I'd buy it too. Especially if she adds some of MN helpful suggests as to why she should not attend...

I kind of agree with sophable and eniddo - that the nationality differences aren't relevant, it's a not wanting to go to dinner with boring relatives problem.

I think this thread is borderline racist. Or is that anna888 irritates you all?

Doh OBVIOUSLY it is really Anna

do keep up

I dunno, I think it's a social responsibility problem.

I also don't think that other than the odd comment anything on this thread has gone too far - it's a taking the piss of our misconceptions about French socialites thread not an actually taking the piss of specifically French socialites thread. (after all, nobody has mentioned stripy t-shirts, garlic, cheese, poncy intellectuals, or being smelly)

I think it's a problem of a clash of lifestyle priorities: my priority is to get up in the morning, get the children off to school peacefully and me and DP rested and ready for the working day; much of DP's social/family circle's priority is to go out and be seen as much as possible.