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?

even if i go out with boring people i am with my dh and he is not boring

Christ Anna
Paris life sound appalling

You have to go to endless dinners and talk about train timetables, spend a fortune on flowers and chocs, and sit looking at geriactrics with fake tits wearing lycra

I am feeling very sorry for you

Anyway, glad you got out of tonight
Were I your dh I would feign a heart attack

are yaou serious cd?

stop moaning anna fgs

ok
am plantastic today

You could constantly critcise all things French. Preface everything with "Oh dahlink in England" and infer that all things English are superior.

That will soon get you uninvited.

You could play dinner party bingo with your DH - every time somebody mentions: the weather, public transport, erm... erm, something else netural and dull.. you must drink. I'm sure that would make it more interesting. Unless the reason for the no alcohol rule is a presence of alcoholics. In which case that would be very very bad

Anna come back to Basingstoke quick smart.

Parisian life sounds horrible (French pronunciation if you don't mind).

sorry but LOLOLLOL @ comma

'I can see the headlines now

"English woman under French man's thumb"

"her story of how she tried to break free"

" read about her FORCED dinner party hell"'

i think it sounds brilliant

cd, you are really putting lots of effort into Anna's dilemma today - not hiding from those VAT systems by any chance, are you?

Just making me think about Catherine Tate when she is doing her character 'I can do that!' She agrees to do some translation at a board meeting. Do you remember the french delagate? 'Haw-he-haw he-haw'

don't socialise with people you don't like

et voila! problem solved

shit
I have been busted

actually I do have a meeting but I am looking forward to getting back and seeing what other plans have been proposed.

suggest a spot of wife-swapping

That won't excite any one much - they are all busy with extra-curricular sex...

ah but didn't you say you or your dp is related to them?
surely that adds an extra frisson?

c'mon now-incestuous wife-swapping...surely that takes extracurricular sex to another level?

Do you really think it sounds nice nailpolish? I struggle to think of a worse kind of social event. Especially now they all apparently dress like 60 year old prostitutes...

Anna, this thread is all a bit me me me. I am surprised you get many invites at all tbh.

It has livened up my lunchtime immeasurably however.

Start talking about British military victories . That'll learn 'em.

Or the Rainbow Warrior. But you might have to look that one up to get the story. It was really veeery embarrassing for the french secret police though...

Lol at haw he haw.

My mother in loi does the "I can do that".
But puts her own slant on it, so it becomes " I was good at that".

Dp and i play a bingo based on it.

You and your dp could just start humming very quietly.

hhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm likethat hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

It will drive them insensé

comma

the winter evenings must fly by

you should invite anna over

I don't think there is aucun raison to be rude.