i feel so unappreciated
my friends and i planned a week-long camping trip in california. i love to cook, especially for others, and offered to grocery shop and cook and prep if they literally just split the cost with me. i’m paying for my part of the food completely.
i worked 4 ten-hour shifts this week and got off at 7 pm every night. last night i didn’t even stop home before immediately driving with my boyfriend to the grocery store to shop for our week of meals. got home in time to cram all of the groceries into our fridge and head to bed so i could wake up for work this morning. i worked until 4 pm, got home all sweaty and gross and yearning for a shower (i work with autistic kids,) but just went to work meal prepping. i meal prepped from 4–7:30 pm. a full 3.5 hours. then after that i had time to pack. i packed all of our essentials, from the toilet paper to the plastic bags to the soap to the wet wipes. i thought of everything and made sure we didn’t go without anything.
when i got to our friends car, he was extremely upset with me specifically. he wanted us to leave at 7 pm, which i was informed of mid-meal-prep, and was upset that i was ready at 8:30. i got a few minutes of silent treatment and then he verbally berated me in front of the entire car about how im chronically late to everything. when i told him about how much work i’ve put into prepping all of our food, he simply responded that i have no excuse still for how late we were because i should’ve been preparing all week. i told him i worked full time this week and still got no mercy. just more confrontation. no thank you or acknowledgment for how much time i have spent cooking for these people. i’m tempted just to send them the money back and tell them to figure their own food out. no one stepped in to defend me either or to thank me. i’m really pissed and feel like the rest of the vacation is ruined for me and i’ll likely resent my friend until he apologizes. (which, knowing him, he won’t.)