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?

Ah, Nigel.

I definitely think it is a class problem rather than a French one.

I live in France and when we go to people's for dinner we (and they) bring plenty of wine in order to make sure that we don't run out. We sit around getting pissed and shouting over each other about what a cochon Sarkozy is. There isn't a fake tit to be seen anywhere.

Where are you Beachcomber?

Never heard of him

I mean Ste Cathérine. I always get these mixed up.

DHs friend was maqué with a Cécile then a Céline and then a Cathérine in the space of 3 years and I just couldn't keep up!

Why cruel?

Nigel St Honore de Bof.

Oh him!

Because it points the finger at célibataires and I think encourages girls to want to get married too soon.

Fair enough for older girls.

But DD was very pleased with her cards recently. It compensates the lack of birthday cards.

I went to a wedding in Paris a few years ago and we sat down to pudding at 4.00 am.

Am going to go downstairs and get DD to figure out who N _ is!

beachcomber, is it therefore a class problem or just a wanker problem?

Only 4 more letters alors

Nonce?

Nitty?

Well DH's pretentious wanker cousin does come from a side of the family who are posh like.

However don't know about you but I know some wankers who are not posh.

Does that make it a wanker problem then?

oh god
nigel made me spit tea all over my laptop

Voila!

Mr N has a daughter whose name begins with R and is in maternelle......

Is he just famous in France?

Oh and as it is him - I would just go up to him. He is hardly Paris born and bred!

yes hAB - and hello!

Who? Who?

Monsieur NobCheese

Hello alors!

If I've got the right person, he's not well known in the UK but could be well known in another EU country.