Dear Marge: Was It Rude for My Friend to Bring an Unexpected Guest to Friendsgiving? (It Ruined My Dessert Plan!) — Ask Marge

November 19, 2018

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Dear Marge,

I’m planning my annual Friendsgiving, and I don’t want to repeat my hosting crisis from last year — but I’m not sure what I can do to prevent it.

I love to entertain, even in my small place. I plan my menu really carefully and try to make the table look beautiful. Last year, I invited as many friends as I could fit (12!), and scrounged to make the seating work around my regular table plus a borrowed folding table.

When one of my friends showed up at the door with her brand-new “boyfriend,” (I acknowledge the condescension implicit in the quotation marks but read on!) I sort of stammered hello as I scrambled to figure out how to squeeze another seat at the already-crowded table. Not only that, I didn’t have another whole place setting. So much for my carefully planned tablescape — I used an old chipped dinner plate and gave him a regular water glass for his wine. Also, I had made exactly 12 individual chocolate budinos, and spent half the meal trying to figure out how I would serve them to 13 people.

I think it was rude of my friend to just show up with her new guy. She has long since broken up with him (it turned out to be a three-week fling), but how do I prevent this from happening again? And if it does happen, what do I do? It seriously ruined a night that I was really looking forward to.

— Unexpected Anxiety

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