To think my wife is being unreasonable

[SomeGuy]

We are going to Mexico next week (flights not yet booked, but about to be).

Flights on Monday cost £735 total for our family of 4

On Wednesday the cost is £895 for our family of 4.

DW is organiser of a monthly lunch meetup with her friends. There are usually about six women, with their children, and each brings food. The next meet-up is not at our place, but at the house of one of the other people involved, and is scheduled for next Tuesday.

She says we can't go on Monday, saving £160, because she has given her word that the lunch meet would take place on Tuesday, and she says they would probably cancel it if she doesn't come (even though it's at one of her friend's house, who quite frequently has a lunch with just one other person).

I think she is being unreasonable, because there is frequently one of the 6 that cannot make it, and there's not really a significant difference between 5 cooking for 5 and 6 cooking for 6.

It's not that we can't afford the extra £160, it just seems wrong to 'waste' it.

lol rhubs...or maybe scrounging undesirable Golddiggers

YANBU

your dw is mad to waste £160 just so she can have lunch with her friends that she sees every month

and how vain is she to thinks if SHE doesnt turn up, the other 4 wont go

agree mexico is prob a good place to go now,and def cheap

we went to egypt a week after the bombings a few years ago - booked months ago and was given the choice to go elsewhere, but we didnt want to

we were in the next resort, if anything the secruity was even more tight than normal - all lorrys/bus's were stopped at hotels gates and checked the underneath with mirrors etc

hope the doctors appoitnment isnt too serious, and why didnt she mention that instead of the lunch

happy holidays

Hey, if he's self-employed and it's not a complete disaster if DW spends £50 on meat then I think he must be working just about hard enough

Well you don't have to work to have money, do you? You could be a lotto winner, living off royalties, inheritance. Bla bla bla.

Unemployed means people who do not work.

And don't call me dear.

Yes dear.

OK then, deary.

Sweetie pie.

hfc...might be wrong here...but unemployed usually means a person that otherwise should be employed/seeking employment...someone not needing to work for a living is not really classed as unemployed...are they...might got it wrong of course....

Anyway I can judge if I want to, he seems to be fannying around a lot on here whilst his dw does the cooking and packing.

He doesn't have a fanny.

I think lunch was first and foremost in her mind, the dr's appointment was only remembered later as ammo.

Agree on security. Was in Bali after bombings, South Thailand when it was recommended not to go, Sri Lanka just before mortar attacks on airport.

And Egypt last Christmas, when security was very good indeed.

And oh yes, on the tube when the train in front was blown up.

We get very high and mighty about problems in other countries, 'don't travel', etc., but when it happens here, it's business as usual.

The Mexicans must have lost billions with their reaction to the swine flu, international travel warnings, etc., we OTOH are going to have 100,000 H1N1 cases/day soon, and nobody's batting an eyelid.

The understanding of the word if someone out of work, but able to work.

The dictionary definition is someone or something not put to use.

Do you actually know he doesn't have a fanny? Have you seen him naked?

hf: DW is cooking for her friends who are coming at 4pm.

I did some fried noodles for lunch for us. Am busy watching tennis and have just sent an email. A hard day's work.

I do most of the cooking actually.

I do have a fanny. I am sitting on it. Or is that a banned Americanism?

Will you join them to eat?

Why hf dear, do the men around you have fannys generally?

Farting fanny: www.funideas.com/Product.aspx?pid=34&catid=25

Do you know he is a man?

Why are you using the word "unemployed" as an insult? I think a lot of women on here are unemployed,oh hold on, wait a minute we are not unemployed we are SAHP just like SomeGuy could be, and even if he's not unless you are his boss I would really take your pissy hat off.

No more than I know you are a dear!

"Agree on security. Was in Bali after bombings, South Thailand when it was recommended not to go, Sri Lanka just before mortar attacks on airport....

And oh yes, on the tube when the train in front was blown up."

Good grief, SomeGuy, you're a travelling liability. No wonder your 'wife' doesn't want to sit on a plane with you...

(Actually, I thought SomeGuy was Abetadad?)

Eh, I did not use the word unemployed as an insult. That must be your interpretation.

Well then why use it at all? You are obviously using it to judge him.