Not Sure Where This Is Going

[Niall11]

nials, I agree you shouldn't have changed plans. But the implication here was that even if you didn't have post-movie plans that you would have stayed out just so she couldn't go back out.

I didn't mean to imply that at all. I had plans to see the movie but my friend hadn't gotten the tickets. We had wanted to go around 7 and I probably would have wanted to stay out afterwards because I don't get out nearly enough, let alone in the city on a pleasant Saturday night. Not to spite her or control her.

As it turned out, W didn't come back from her "1 to 4 PM" party until 7:40. And then only because I texted her to remind her that I was going to the movie. By then the 8:15 and 9:15 movies were sold out, and we went to the 10 PM showing, which didn't let out until nearly 1 AM.

Had she come home at anything approaching the time she wrote on the calendar, I could have gone to an earlier showing and maybe -- not that I was going to come home to enable that if my friend and i wanted to stay out -- I would have been home earlier.

OTOH, had I not reminded her about the movie, instead of going to the party with D2 from "1 to 4 PM" as announced, she went without D2 and would have stayed at this woman's house, gone out with her late, and rolled in around 3 AM.