Girlfriends - I Have To Rant Here

Sorry, I just need to rant. This is ridiculous.

I have a work friend who is recently divorced with three kids. She married young and never got a lot of time to have fun before she started having kids. Her husband was unstable, so she was never able to leave the kids with him and just get out of the house. She has a family member in town for the week, so she has a baby sitter for the first time in ten years this weekend. She asked me if I would take her out dancing, and I said I'd love to.
Fast forward to yesterday, when she tells me she also wants to go see an art museum, go out for lunch, etc.. She asks if I'll drive her around for the day, taking her to do all this stuff, and then if she can sleep at my house so she doesn't have to drive 45 minutes out to the boondocks tired and/or drunk. Of course, I said I'd love to have her.
Last night, a coworker/very good friend/guy I will probably date as soon as one of us finds a new job sends me a message saying this woman told him she was spending the night at my house and asked if he wanted to meet for brunch on Sunday. He said he'd love to meet us, and she said "No, it's only me." He was worried that having brunch with her would send 'the wrong message' to her, and he was regretting saying yes.
So, this morning, she finds me at work and says "You sleep in late on Sundays right?"
I told her I usually get up early on Sundays to run, and she told me I would be tired and deserved to sleep late. She would just let herself out early in the morning.
I told her I had planned to fix her breakfast, and she pretended to consider it for a long time, then said "No, it's your Sunday, you should just rest."
I told her I would love to fix her breakfast, and she told me she needed to get home to make breakfast for her kids.

Seriously!? This girl *knows* she's moving in on my territory. I'm not the least bit concerned about her having brunch with my guy, but damn if I'm not pissed that she's going to stay at my house, then ditch me for brunch with my friend, and then lie to me about it!

I haven't told the guy yet that she lied to me about her breakfast plans, because I don't want him to be upset with her too. But I was looking forward to this girl's day out, and now I'm just resentful.

Ladies, what would ya'll do!?

Puh-lease! You don't have to stamp something "mine" on the forehead to realize that you're moving in on her territory. Otherwise why lie about the brunch date at all?

Itching Powder in her sheets... Or something that will surely make her break out in an unseemly rash. Perhaps she's allergic to peanuts.

Like I said, I have no problem at all with them meeting for brunch. I do have a problem with her thinking she needs to lie to me about where she's going, after staying at my house!

Did she outright lie or just omit a detail? Did you ask her where she is going on Sunday morning? If she outright lied about her Sunday morning plans, that is a big deal.

Id punch her in the *kitten*.

HAHA. Call her out on it and say "While you're having brunch with X on Sunday, maybe he can take you out all day Saturday too"

I actually LOVE this idea, because she wants me to take her to art museums and to hear classical music, both of which bore me to tears, but HE would love that crap.
Maybe he can take her out, and drop her off with me when it's time to get her drunk and dancing on a bar.

So, I can't actually believe the number of people who are even interested in what happened. I planned to post an update yesterday, but I was completely exhausted and slept almost all day. I'll try to keep this short, although being concise is not really in my nature.

Friday evening, the guy came to me and told me the whole story in person. She had contacted him saying she was spending the night at my house, and did he want to meet up? He said sure, maybe we could all go to brunch, and she said "Actually it's just me. I want to see your paintings." He said "Oh, they aren't in a gallery or anything, they are all in my house." to which she replied "I know, I want to come to your house."

He was stressing out, saying he didn't want her to come to his house and he was really uncomfortable with this, and would I intervene? I told him I wasn't his mother, if he didn't want her to come over, he needed to tell her so. I did also mention that she had lied to me about her plans, which upsed him. He really wanted me to put a stop to this, or keep her out so late she would oversleep and miss their brunch. I told him he needed to man up one way or another.

Saturday, I woke up determined to have fun regardless of whether this girl was sneaking behind my back. Shortly after she showed up to my house, she blurted out "I'm going to David's house tomorrow to look at his paintings." I told her that was nice, and I was sure he'd enjoy showing them off.

Funny, she didn't seem that interested in art when we were at the freaking art museum. She barely looked at the exhibits.

She said she only had like an hour to see them, because she had to go home and take her kid to a birthday party for another coworker's kid.

She also told me that she never really noticed David until I had told her he was a really great guy and that I really liked him. Then she took a second look at him and decided she liked him too. (Ummm... no **** princess).

Mid-afternoon, she started texting another coworker and decided she wanted to meet up with him, which was fine with me. I was getting a little bit tired of hosting all by myself. We met up with him, went out to eat, and went to a comedy club. At that point, I texted David asking if he wanted to join us at the comedy club and he was welcome to join us. He declined but said he'd like to meet up with us afterward.

After the comedy club, this girl announced "I want to get drunk. I want Long Island Iced Tea."

Oh, HELL yes. Homegirl hasn't really drank in ten years, and she's on a mission.

David met up with us, there was much drinking, particularly on this girl's part. We went dancing, then walked around the city until we all sobered up some. When the girl and I got home, it was 5:00 in the freaking morning, and my alarm clock was going off for my run. Which I obviously didn't go on.

I woke up around nine, and heard her getting into the shower. I got up and showered too, then found her in my guest bathroom doing her hair. She said that she didn't get to go see David's paintings because he was still asleep, but she had to leave because the birthday party was in an hour and a half (this was actually accurate, I was invited to the party as well) and she had to go get her kid ready for it.

As soon as she left, I went back to sleep in the couch. I'm too damn old to party like a 22 year old. A couple of hours later, I got a text from David saying "I just got back from brunch with Mimi, she said she didn't get to see enough art with you, so she wanted me to take her to the galleries too. I hope she had fun."

I told him that was nice and then went back to sleep.

Clearly, I'm done with her because she's a lying *kitten* snake. I'm done with him because he lacks either the desire or the testicular fortitude to decline an invitation from another woman, even when he knows she's lying to me about their plans.

I'm too disinterested in the both of them to even be pissed about it anymore, but it was a valuable reminder to me to trust my instincts when I think someone is being shady. I obviously needed that reminder.

No twats were punched in the making of this story, which is kind of a shame. On the plus side, nobody had to bail me out of jail for assault!

You dumped a guy because he had brunch with her?
High drama!

No you are not his mother but you stated you were his friend. You knew he didn't care for her going over there and you tell her that he would enjoy showing them off?? When did you ever "man up" in any of this? It doesn't appear from what you wrote that you acted as a friend to him at all.

It is now my responsibility to decline dates for him, because he is not assertive enough to decline them himself? I disagree.