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?

Anna I fear that your Parisian sojourn is not so enchante a ce moment la

Perhaps start a Belle de Jour stylee blog using the appalling soirees as inspiration?

Practice muttering 'en coulais' under your breath?

That would lower your popularity, non?

No no I mostly have a lovely time (it wasn't always so) with very nice people.

It is these intrusions from DP's past that bother me. Grrrrrrrrr.

I think you mean enculé?

me rude? where was I rude?

and I don't know what raison thingy means - speak english.

Just because le Bingo isnt your game of choice.

Anna, mon erreur

pmsl at this thread.
Makes life in Germany seem sehr aufregend and great fun.

this thread makes me want to come back to mn

Maybe you need to enlarge your social circle, to include people from outside the Parisian set?

Rather than frequenting vile fake-boobed people, you could try meeting some other émigrés, those who live in the less genteel arrondissements (possibly even extra-muros), who can't afford the Thalys and therefore couldn't give a stuff about the timetable, who can't be naturalised because they don't fit the current racist criteria and who would probably be delighted to get a chance to talk about themselves and their lives. They might even forgive you for not bringing flowers, since such social niceties fall by the wayside when one is just trying to scrape by in the current climate.

They would probably be so knackered from juggling several underpaid, non-declared jobs that they'd instantly agree to a "no dinner parties on week nights" rule. In fact, they'd probably be busy most week nights, cleaning offices and doing other tasks which society, in its wisdom, deems too insignificant and useless to be well-paid.

Et voilà, problem solved.

comma and mp.

fank you, fank you ver much.

AA - my social circle is wide and varied and multi-everything and reflects all the lives I have had. It is my DP's circle that I find so trying...

Rofl at aufregend

'All the lives you[ve had'

Fk me Anna - are you a reincarnated?

No, but lots and lots of different lives in succession

Have you seen a psychiatrist about that?

Invite all the boring couples over at once and play M Priapism. That'd get off the Parisienne social circuit for once and for all.

Well, you'd still get invites to parties and dinners, but with a v different social slant - or should I say, swing?

Oh God AA, I still have your jeans. I forgot all about them. Will email you sharpish.

Why would I want to see a psychiatrist about that? Shrinks are generally for those people too scared to go out and live their own life, not for those who live life to the full

oh that reminds me ...new thread

No I am not scared to decline a dinner with MOL, I am not callous enough to (it being probably her last year on this earth etc).

anna, living life to the full doesnt include moaning about "endless dinner party invites"

you are so ungrateful and a show off