Etiquette time
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Etiquette time
OK, well we're due to leave in three weeks.
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
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Re: Etiquette time
Originally Posted by iPom
OK, well we're due to leave in three weeks.
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
I'd say thank you for your interst but we are just too busy with family and close friends to have a general goodbye thingy with our aquaintances
very diplomatic but hits the spot
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Re: Etiquette time
Originally Posted by iPom
OK, well we're due to leave in three weeks.
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
#4
Re: Etiquette time
Originally Posted by iPom
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
#5
Re: Etiquette time
Originally Posted by iPom
OK, well we're due to leave in three weeks.
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
Unless she genuinely will miss you.
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Re: Etiquette time
Originally Posted by iPom
OK, well we're due to leave in three weeks.
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
Be the nice person that you are. Life is too short to fill it with crap, and you will want to leave with nice memories. My opinion is just fob her off in the nicest way with busy, busy, busy with this that and the other (that you will be anyway) but if you have spare moment you will be sure to give her a ring and thank her for caring.
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Re: Etiquette time
Originally Posted by iPom
OK, well we're due to leave in three weeks.
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
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Re: Etiquette time
Originally Posted by iPom
OK, well we're due to leave in three weeks.
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
Good luck
#9
Re: Etiquette time
Originally Posted by iPom
OK, well we're due to leave in three weeks.
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
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Re: Etiquette time
Originally Posted by iPom
OK, well we're due to leave in three weeks.
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
#11
Re: Etiquette time
Originally Posted by Margaret2
Tell her to **** off, she sounds like a wierdo, also sounds like she's looking for a holiday to aus
Bless your little cottons
Julie x
#12
Re: Etiquette time
Now recently there was someone on here who had had friends visit them, and really take the piss, dirty nappies on windowsills, not feeding their own kids etc etc.
They weren't very good friends with their visitors, and it was not a good experience.
Just think, would you like this woman to come and stay with you?, because as others have already said, I reckon she is angling for a cheap holiday.
Some friendships have a shelf life, andit sounds like this one is opast it's best before date!
Don't feel guilty, you don't need the extra hassle, or the grief that she gives you.
Just keep saying no, she will take the hint. Telling her you are too busy is not a lie, you have far more important things to do than catch up with someone who has not been a very good friend to you.
Shirley x
They weren't very good friends with their visitors, and it was not a good experience.
Just think, would you like this woman to come and stay with you?, because as others have already said, I reckon she is angling for a cheap holiday.
Some friendships have a shelf life, andit sounds like this one is opast it's best before date!
Don't feel guilty, you don't need the extra hassle, or the grief that she gives you.
Just keep saying no, she will take the hint. Telling her you are too busy is not a lie, you have far more important things to do than catch up with someone who has not been a very good friend to you.
Shirley x
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Re: Etiquette time
Originally Posted by ub40fan
Some friendships have a shelf life, andit sounds like this one is opast it's best before date!
Don't feel guilty, you don't need the extra hassle, or the grief that she gives you.
Just keep saying no, she will take the hint. Telling her you are too busy is not a lie, you have far more important things to do than catch up with someone who has not been a very good friend to you.
Shirley x
It wasn't a friendship really - It was the 'Gemma show' and if you could get your voice heard above hers you were in with a chance.
Friendships work both ways and I was doing all the giving.
I like your answer Kiwi ... and everyone's in fact. I will use a little mix of everything to work out how to deal with her, but yes, I'll go down the 'too busy with friends and paperwork' route if she pushes.
Thanks for all the advice. It's been really helpful.
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Re: Etiquette time
Originally Posted by iPom
OK, well we're due to leave in three weeks.
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
I know this woman and we used to be friends, but last year she got very stand offish, wouldn't let me have an opinion, would stick up for my husband if I told her we'd had an argument, and generally she won't stop talking long enough for me to have a conversation - although she's always been like that with the convo.
Anyway, my children haven't invited hers to their leaving bash because they are not 'special friends' ... so this woman asks husband yesterday whether she should be looking for invites or not. I thought this was very rude,.... I mean, if there's no invite, it should tell you something.
Anyway, today she rings me and suggests we get together for a drink and dinner before we go - her and her hub and me and mine. I have no interest in wasting my time with someone I don't like or vice versa. Should I tell her straight up or not?
It's not like I can keep saying we're busy, or not available as she knows we're leaving the country...
I don't like being hurtful to people but I need some way to get this woman straight that we have no relationship. She seems to think that by bombarding me with niceness I'm somehow going to want to spend time with her.
Help!
Then you have been polite but firm and it closes the door so to speak. Fobbing her off is unlikely to work!
#15
Re: Etiquette time
Originally Posted by iPom
What you say about shelf life is very true, UB40.
It wasn't a friendship really - It was the 'Gemma show' and if you could get your voice heard above hers you were in with a chance.
Friendships work both ways and I was doing all the giving.
It wasn't a friendship really - It was the 'Gemma show' and if you could get your voice heard above hers you were in with a chance.
Friendships work both ways and I was doing all the giving.
Last coffee we had everyone is trying to be really nice and give me good memories, she walked in with a list of what she wanted to discuss, every time someone said something about Aus, she changed the subject She then left without a good luck or anything.
Silly bitch.