We all have aging parents, but this was supposed to be just us and then the friend just brings them. Hubs works for a senior facility on top of the obligations we have to mollycoddle his parents who live nearby already.
We wanted a break, that’s all.
Sometimes we have to roll with the punches and show good grace.
I love other people's old people, so I would have had fun with them.
Props, I guess for me, in that upon realizing this situation I wasn’t going full bore with the charm offensive like I’ve had to do for so many corporate dinners.
Can’t believe they did that .
If you want to keep seeing them, you need some ‘rules’!
Which is what I thought this was gonna be, not a forced “family” gathering where this friend is toasting all of us for being “his best friends in the world.” No honey. We ain’t your family, and this was literally the first time we went out.
It's not hard to pick up a phone and tell the people you're supposed to go out with that you either can't make it, or will have to being the parents along.
They could have given PeggySue and her man the basic courtesy of calling them and explaining their situation.
Well 2 choices.
Suck it up and have your meal. (quickly, ask for "to go boxes" when they bring the meal..have a few bites then pack up and go)
Say...gee I see you brought company Mr. PeggySue and I will sit at another table, we can get together another time.
And either decline further invitations or make it clear that reservations were made for a party of 4.
You and your husband should have told the other couple that their behavior in showing up with the elderly parents was completely unacceptable.
This is the same kind of nonsense many pet owners and parents pull when they're invited to something at a person's home. Do not assume when you receive an invitation that it also extends to your kids, pets, or elderly relatives that have to be babysat 24/7. It does not.
I sure hope you and your husband insisted on separate checks if part of the date night was dinner out.
SMH... Some people have no class.