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I need advice: Today in the afternoon when I came home (at 3PM) there was a message on my answering machine. One of my coworkers called to ask if I wanted to join them at the street fair (ending at 6PM) a block away from our office. I called her back and told her that I could not join them due to the fact my family was taking my mom out to dinner (at 6:30PM) to celebrate her birthday. My coworker told me that at the street fair jewelry was being sold (the jewelry I buy the 99 cent that look expensive). About a half hour after my coworker and I finished our telephone conversation I started to talk to my mom about the street fair. My mom said; Just to go to the street for a half hour to get a necklace is a waste, I am not going to wait for you - I am not missing my birthday celebration, you would go there for an hour and then come back and you would get back around the time we have to leave to go to dinner, when you can get this jewelry on Monday it is different if you went there for the day and went to enjoy but not just to go there and back to buy this jewelry on Monday; I asked her: would you feel this way if we were not going out to dinner; and she said; no that is different: SO MY QUESTION: AM I OVERREACTING AND HOW WOULD YOUR INTERPRET WHAT SHE SAID:
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I think your mom was looking forward to going to dinner for her birthday with the family. When you said you wanted to go to this fair, just to get jewelery that you can buy any other day of the week,
you kind of hurt her feelings. It may have appeared
(though not intentional) that going for jewelery was more important than her.
I understand that you may have been back before they left for dinner, but sometimes unforeseen things happen. Traffic may have been heavy, there may have been long lines to wait in to pay for jewelery, any number of things could have made you late.
So yes, I do think you overreacted just a bit. :)
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