Been seeing someone for around 3 months. He invited me around for dinner at the weekend. I knew he had two kids (a daughter aged 7 and a son aged 9) but I assumed they wouldn't be there as he'd come to pick me up alone.
So we're walking down the garden path and he says "I hope they have put the heating on, its freezing".
I said "who?" and he said "the kids". I said "Are they going to be there then? didn't realise I'd be meeting them today ... " (what I really meant by this was, presumably there is another adult here then? thought it was just us). He said "Yes, the kids are home"
So to cut a long story short, he told me no other adults would be there, just the kids. I asked "you let them stay home alone? " and he looked a bit embarrassed but said "yeah, they're fine".
So we walking into the hallway and he shouted "I'm home!" and this little girl's voice shouted "Take your shoes off please" so he started taking off his shoes. I did the same .
He leads me into the living room where a little girl is sat on the sofa watching TV and a boy is sat on another chair reading the newspaper. Both looked up and smiled as we walked in. Something seemed really odd to me but I put it down to nerves.
Then bloke says to me "Do you want to play upstairs?" I whisper "bit forward?!" as the kids were right there. He looked embarrassed again and apologised. He then led me into the kitchen and asked if I wanted a drink. I said "yes please" and he went in the fridge and got out a carton of Ribena . I said "oh ... I thought you mean a cup of tea type drink" so he looked worried and went into the living room and asked his daughter if it was ok to make a cup of tea! she replied with "yes, but clean up any mess"
So at this point I say to him "what's going on? what are you playing at??"
He ignored me and shouted at his DD that the dinner smelt like it was burning. She came rushing in and saw to the casserole dish in the oven I said "Is she..at 7...making the dinner?? is that not dangerous??"
So then, the boy comes in grinning. Looks over his glasses and says "I think we better tell her, love" to the little girl.
Bloke starts waving his hands around as if to say "no, no" etc and the girl puts the casserole dish on the side and says ...
"Ok, here's the thing. A long time ago, Paul (DP) was involved in a huge argument with me and his father. It ended with him saying "I wish we could all swap places, then you'd see how hard my life is!".
Then the boy says "and that is kind of what happened. Paul is our son. He's a 9 year old boy in a 40 year old's body. It is quite funny, when you think about it".
So I'm like "ok, whatever ... wierd family, goodbye". I left and DP has left tons of texts on my phone apologising saying he'd set the whole thing up as a joke.
AIBU to tell him to get lost?