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?

I think we will have to bow to anna's superior wisdom on this matter then.

Now, are you going to write us a book?

And have we offended you? (to clear that little matter up...)

Anna8888 Have you read "How to Help a French Man Give Up His Midweek Dinner Parties, Slip-On Shoes and Poloneck Sweaters Without So Much As A Zut Alors"?

Oh my God no book or blog or anything. Yuck.

A blog would be GREAT Anna

You would do a great blog

I would be bored out of my mind writing a blog. I hate blogs - they are all as dull as ditchwater.

You are reading the wrong blogs Anna.

What about a reality TV series, Anna, a tasteful one?

Oh pur-lease .

I have another lifestyle dilemma oh gurus...

Go on them, Anna. I shall muse in my bath and come back with a solution. What's the problem?

Oh, me too.

One of the little girl's in DD's English class (ie the bilingual class) at school has a seriously famous TV personality father / less famous actress mother.

Father isn't generally around much at pick up time but mother has been around recently a lot as she is not working as about to give birth. Have chatted to mother on several occasions, as have other mothers, in a low key sort of way.

For the last week, father has been coming up to school at pick-up time. I can only presume that mother has given birth. But I/every other parent doesn't want to appear totally starstruck and uncool by actually being the first person to talk to Famous Father.

With any other family, we would all have asked after the mother and baby by now. It seems seriously rude not to have and seriously starstruck to open conversation.

So - what do we do????

girls

If he is seriously famous, can't you google them, find out if she has given birth, and if so, simply pass him a card and offer congratulations?

I think we're waiting for an exclusive on the cover of Paris-Match or Gala...

But isn't it more star-struck not to ask? As you say, you're essentially singling him out. Just ask! Is he famous here? Is it Johnny Depp?

Bath was too hot. Am not loving this one like the 60-year-old Parisian tart dinner parties.
That actor who was the swimmer in Muriel's Wedding was at DS2's nursery school and was so handsome I just slavered slightly when he made conversation.
Hmmm, no, it is impossible to start talking to a famous person. They get accustomed to being snubbed.

He was not himself at the nursery school...

I would. I'd do it. If I'd chatted to his wife I'd just march on in there.

Just be all myopic & absent-minded & English & have no idea who he is - "Oh! You're Aurore's dad, I don't think I've seen you before - do you mind me asking how your wife is?"

(Dh had a lovely chat once a few years back, eating by himself in a restaurant, with the bloke (also by himself) at the next table. He came back and said, "He said he was an actor. Euan Mc-something Scottish, something like that? He was very nice")

VersdeSociete he's married to her off Cold Feet I think. Toothy woman.

Anna - you disappoint me.

This thread (and comma) quite made my day. I am too too sad..

Pillow, I quite agree. Comma was hilarious on this thread. I think we need her view on the famous dad situation.

can't believe no-one else is frantically speculating about who it could be...