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Originally posted by taxwonk
This one is easy. Tell the wife that if she wimps out on you, you're spending the night out on the town drinking and whoring around.
Then tell the freeloaders -- uh, friends -- that you would love to accomodate them, but you have a pre-existing engagement that will have you out with friends/relatives/clients that night and you won't be home until very late.
And since when did McDonald's start paying its crew chiefs a salary?
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I'm sure that MR's wife will love that answer, as it keeps her from even being able to see her friends while they are in town. She'll go for it.
Tell them it's not a good time (make up some reason -- you have had people over a lot lately, blah blah blah) but that you would love to take them out to dinner or whatever. Then they are happy they get a free dinner. Unless you really hate them.
I think coming at it from the standpoint of "how do we tell them off" instead of "what's a good excuse" might be impeding your creativity, though. It kind of limits your responses to things that are going to be too negative for your wife to go for.
