My MIL suggested we go to dinner at...

[pugz]

are you going to Furrs Cafeteria?

[bunch]

Can you even go to a restaurant at that hour?

[rex]

Don't eat lunch.

It will be you and the 80 year olds at dinner. So weird.

[womet]

You're going to need a second dinner if you eat at 4:30pm.

[h]

Bizarre. Do the normally eat that early? I wouldn't even consider any food consumed that early to be dinner.

[Deleted]

Um, we walked into a restaurant at 5Pm tonight, only to be told they don't open until 5:30pm. We like eating with the old people; no wait for a table, no need to go all the way home and the come all the way back downtown, early in, early out and home where the drinks are cheaper.

[gt7301b]

I had a friend suggest I schedule dinners for 5:00 so she could bring her kid. Um.... 1) The earliest I eat is 6 2) While I don't hate kids, it is more fun when you leave the kid at home.

[Roc A Bee]

I admit it. I've gone to a restaurant at 5pm before.

[h]

May 18, 2012 21:07:41 GMT -5 @idaholakelady said:

Um, we walked into a restaurant at 5Pm tonight, only to be told they don't open until 5:30pm. We like eating with the old people; no wait for a table, no need to go all the way home and the come all the way back downtown, early in, early out and home where the drinks are cheaper.

But aren't you starving again by the time you go to bed? If I ate at five, I would need another meal at 9 or 10.

[h]

We have kids, and we still don't eat at 4:30. We ate at 8 or 9 pre-kids, and we eat around 6:30 post kids. That is as early as we are willing to go.

And 3:00! That is crazy! That definitely requires either a 7pm bedtime or a second dinner.

[steph96]

Sometimes I eat lunch at 4:30. Eating dinner that early is just odd unless you have a legit reason.

[Deleted]

I eat at 5:30 pretty much every night. No interest in eating late.

[gt7301b]

Is there at least an early bird special?

[ssmjlm]

The only time we eat at 430 is bc it's lunch/dinner and we haven't eaten since breakfast.

[CloudBee]

huh??

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May 18, 2012 21:50:41 GMT -5 @kcpokergal said:

I eat at 5:30 pretty much every night. No interest in eating late.

Ideally, we would eat somewhere between 4:30 and 5:30 everyday. I'm right there with you. On weeknights we sometimes don't eat until 7 and that feels late to us. I'm an insomniac and I've never felt the need to eat another meal due to eating an early dinner.

[statlerwaldorf]

We always eat dinner early. And DH loves the comfort food type restaurants the old people love.

[The Impossible Girl]

I don't even start thinking about dinner until 6pm and don't end up eating until around 7pm.

Though I do have a more nighttime schedule

[hannamarin]

Maybe they plan to ditch you and have other plans later?

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May 18, 2012 20:54:35 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

4:30pm?!?!

They're not even that old.



I guess I shouldn't eat lunch?

I feel for you, whenever we eat out with my parents it's almost always around 4:30. We just skip lunch, since we normally don't eat dinner until 7-7:30. Then again they go to bed around 6:30-7 so I guess 4:30 is really dinner time for them.

[chessie]

We always eat dinner by 6 everyday, I can understand that. Maybe they are earl risers? Lunch we eat at 11/12. Get to dinner early, beat the crowds, especially on a weekend, seems good to me. 8 I be in my PJ's for sure, waiting for Suze Orman to be on.

[karinothing]

Ha, that sucks. I am depressed that I made our anniversary reservations for 5pm so that we could be home to put the baby to bed. I HATE eating that early (unless it is outside, somehow eating outside makes everything better).

[Deleted]

Dang it I don't know how to quote on these boards...

But no, I didn't need a we second dinner last night. By the time we had an appetizer and got our meal it was like 6:15pm. We got out of there at like 7, home for dessert at 7:15 and I was in bed by 8:30.

I'm also pregnant, and seem to get my worst nausea in the evening. I'm just not interested in food after 7 pm.

[shell403b]

I ate at 5pm every single day of my life growing up in my parents house. On the dot. No kidding. They still do. If we were going to a restaurant, we'd get there at 4:30. No kidding.

[pierogigirl]

My ILs do Sunday dinner every week at 4:30 (we only go once in a while). We eat at 5:30 or 6 every night because the baby goes to bed at 7 and we start the toddler's bedtime routine around 7:45.