My shy 18 year old asked me to be his plus one to his internship gala and I'm still not over it

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Today was one of the happiest days of my life, and honestly I'm just a proud mom right now.

My son is 18, he worked as intern to a charitable NGO throughout this summer, and they are hosting charity gala next week and he has been invited and can take one plus.

For context he is so shy one and soft, my other two daughters are completely opposite him.

So today I was doing my work and he was standing there like 5 minutes. Then he asked, he was invited to gala and can I come with as his one plus, he wanted to talk me because I'm good at social events. And he said dress code is I have to wear gowns, not like something normal I wear for other events.

I simply told him yes, and only if he wants be good gentleman and do something small for me, and told him send me invitation so I can look. He went.

I didn't show him how much I was proud and flattered when he asked me. I was so happy inside, my son who was just little, and he recognised I'm good at social events, it's made me happy.

Honestly, I never thought he'd want to take his mom, who's in her mid 40s, to the gala.

I'm going to wear my best and do my best, I will make him bit embarrassed 😂 but yeah I'm happy.

I'm glad your pleased but I think it would be kinder to suggest he asks a friend

I simply told him yes, and only if he wants be good gentleman and do something small for me

what do you mean by this?

I agree with PP. Really not a good idea (although it is sweet he asked you!)

Honestly, I'd suggest he takes his sister at his age rather than his mum.

Assuming he doesn't have any friends free on the day.

The OP isn’t in England; this is a lovely gesture from your son!

How do you know?

I'm not sure who this reply is for?

No-one's mentioned England?

That’s very sweet. I took my dad to a work award ceremony once and we had a great time.

How old were you?

OP I've just noticed you've started exactly the same thread in Chat?

It's going to be a bit difficult to flit between the two even though they're an hour apart?

Aww think that’s lovely

In my 20s. My colleagues ranged from 20s to 60s so it wasn’t all 20 somethings. Imagine a charity gala will have a broad range of ages?

Why not? I thought it was nice.

Kindly, at his age I think more appropriate to encourage him to invite his sister or a friend

Taking your Mum is cute for Oscars ceremonies etc but weird for an 18 year old

What ?
It’s either yes please or no thank you.
what small thing do you want him to do ?
To echo another poster encourage him to take a friend , taking your mum is weird .

Oh dear .

Eh?

It's bizarre that anyone would start two identical threads and return to neither of them 😳

Sorry I think a sister if no friend available is much more appropriate.

“The divorce came out of nowhere!” / the DIL will be on MN in a few years.

She said she wanted him to send the invitation on to her so she could see the details - very reasonable request

Reasonable is “Ok son, can you grab the invitation so I can have a quick look?”

”I simply told him yes, and only if he wants be good gentleman and do something small for me, and told him send me invitation so I can look.”

Is just strange ^^

I agree with other posters. Maybe suggest he takes 1 of his sisters or a friend.
When I was in my early twenties, I took a similar aged sibling to a fancy work event. We had a great time, the sibling fitted in really well with the people I worked with.
Taking my mum ( who i love dearly) would have been strange. Like as though, I needed her to mind me.