'My partner's six-word outburst at dinner gave me the ick – everyone stared at him'

A woman enjoying a romantic meal with her partner was left feeling 'weird' after he suddenly had a six-word outburst – and now she didn't know what to do about it

If you're out on a dinner date with your other half, you'll expect the night to have a certain vibe – romantic, fun, and like you're the only two people in the world.

But when one woman's partner had a six-word outburst when they were dining out together, she couldn't help but feel "embarrassed" at his "over-the-top response", which led people to "stop talking and stare at him".

Taking to Mumsnet, the woman said it was a wasp that made him kick off at the dinner table, and she hated the way he dealt with it.

She said it wasn't a "serious thread" on the social networking site, but she said that it was "a weird moment" that she wanted to discuss with people.

"So I was having dinner with my partner, a very nice outdoor meal. Very romantic and looking into each other's eyes etc," she began.

But "then a wasp came along and dropped into his wine," and he "responded by saying, 'Get out of there you moron' which caused the couple next to us of stop talking and stare at him," she said. The woman added she was mortified by the incident, but it didn't stop there.

She continued: "He then gave the wasp a small pep talk after rescuing it. I felt embarrassed as I felt it was a really over the top response! I wanted to say, 'Was it really necessary to verbally abuse that wasp,' but [it] seemed an odd thing to say...it just felt like a very angry response".

The woman clearly had the ick after the incident with her partner, however 97% of people on Mumsnet voted that she was being unreasonable for caring about the way he reacted to the wasp in his drink.

"Erm. Ok. Think maybe you made it weird?" someone asked, and the original poster replied: "No! My point was we were having a nice meal and him calling the wasp a moron caused other diners to look at him like he was mad. I was embarrassed."

"In a restaurant? I'd be p****d if something ruined my £8 glass of wine! But he's your boyfriend and if he's giving you a bad feeling..." another person penned, wondering whether she should break it off with him.

One woman defended her partner, saying: "I think he was very restrained! Surely the couple wasn’t offended at him calling the wasp a moron?"

Someone else said: "A wasp in my wine would be called a hell of a lot worse than that. And then crushed on the table in its drunken stupor. Moron was very mild. Unless he hollered it at the top of his voice, but some people really don’t like wasps. Other people’s opinions really don’t matter here."