She Lied To Her Mom About Her Birthday Lunch’s Start Time Because Her Mom Is Always Late, But The Truth Came Out, And Her Mom Was Furious
This 22-year-old woman claims that her mother is just one of those people who are always late to every single event.
It doesn’t matter if it is a wedding, graduation, birthday party, or plain old family get-together– her mom will definitely be late.
And while growing up, she always thought her mom was just really bad with time management. As she has aged, though, she now honestly believes that her mom just enjoys “making an entrance.”
But quite frankly, she just finds the habit rude and embarrassing– especially because her mom isn’t just late every once in a blue moon.
“It literally happens at every single function she is invited to that has a set time,” she said.
So, many of her family members have complained about her mom’s bad habits. But her mom never makes any changes.
Instead, the lateness has actually gotten so bad that now, whenever her grandma hosts a family lunch or dinner, her mom is told that the start time is an hour earlier than it really is.
Now, her mom has no clue that her grandma does that. It’s just an inside joke between herself and her grandma. Nonetheless, it is the only way to get her mom to actually show up on time.
And since her birthday was this past weekend, they decided to use the same tactic.
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Her grandma planned to host a birthday lunch for her and her immediate family at 2:00 p.m. But, when inviting her mother, they claimed the start time was actually 1:00 p.m.
She had other plans for later that evening, too– going out to dinner with her boyfriend. So, she planned to leave her grandma’s house by 5:00 p.m. latest since she needed enough time to travel home and get ready.
Well, lo and behold, her mom was still late. They first reached out at 2:30 p.m. to see what the hold-up was. And at that point, she learned that her mother had only just left home at 2:30 p.m.
Plus, her mom still had to pick up her boyfriend on the way to lunch– which was between 30 and 35 minutes away. Due to this, no one really expected her mom to show up until about 3:30 p.m.
Anyway, her mom eventually arrived two and a half hours late and “made her little entrance.” Afterward, she and her family started to question her mom about her tardiness.
It was then that her mom admitted to thinking that the lunch started at 2:00 p.m. So, she ultimately realized that an aunt had revealed the real start time to her mom– because her aunt just felt bad about lying to her mom.
After figuring that out, everyone was kind of annoyed. But they all moved on and enjoyed the rest of the lunch for another hour or so.
Then, at 4:30 p.m., it was time for her to get ready to leave. Once her mom realized that, though, her mom started getting all annoyed.
She got accused of “leaving so soon,” and her mom told her that they barely got to see each other for her birthday.
Obviously, though, that was not her fault. And she pointed that out to her mom.
“I told her that my life doesn’t revolve around her and that she should’ve been there sooner,” she recalled.
But her mom didn’t take that criticism well and just started listing off all of the reasons why she was late with a big attitude.
She just could not be bothered to deal with that at the time, though. So, she wound up leaving as planned.
Still, the drama did not end there. Later that night, she got a text from her mom accusing her of acting like a jerk. Her mom also claimed it was rude to lie about the lunch’s start time.
While her aunt agrees with her mom, though, her grandma is completely on her side and thinks they are just overreacting.
Nonetheless, with her family torn over the situation, she has now been left wondering whether telling her mom the wrong start time for her birthday lunch was really a jerky thing to do.
Do you think she should have to lie to her mom in order to get her to show up on time? Is it her fault her mom didn’t get to spend a lot of time with her on her birthday? Should she feel bad about lying or not? What would you have done?
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