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[quote=Anonymous]Your friend's parents are in town for a minor holiday and she invites you and your family to come over for dinner.  Your friend's mom is friendly, gracious, attractive, funny, and a great cook.  All is going swimmingly when out of the blue, the friend's dad does something minor to displease the friend's mom.  All of a sudden the friend's mom goes off on him for about a minute, pretty viciously.  Then she stops, turns back to the conversation, smiles, and acts as if it never happened.

This is what my mom does.  The "victim" is not always my dad, it could be any other close family member who happens to do the wrong thing when she's feeling the pressure of entertaining.  At major holidays it's usually a total meltdown, but at smaller gatherings it's not as big of a deal.  The irony is that she absolutely loves to entertain and always suggests doing it, and she loves inviting my friends.  I find it pretty embarassing, and I'm at the point where I don't even want to introduce her to new people in this type of setting.  (And forget talking to her about it, I've tried, and it's a complete non-starter.)

My friends of course never say anything because what would they say.  But I can't tell how freaked out they are or are not.  I'm so used to it by this point that I barely notice--it's not my favorite thing about my mom, but it is what it is.  So tell me honestly, what are my friends thinking?  Should I avoid inviting them from now on?

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