If that’s the case, i’d prefer to skip the underwear to avoid the tearing of my clothes. 
When I was in eighth grade, I tore my pants open from hem to well past the knee, on the inside, the school’s May Day celebration. Since then I have made a practice to always have spare clothes where I can get to them quickly. I would therefore have had a extra set of pants in the car.
So no, I’d not have cancelled.
and mostly puking up here (I’ve heard “hurling” used up here before, but rarely).
That’s my thought. If she was really upset about it, or having a bad day, maybe she knew dinner would be totally spoiled by her mood.
Or she knew the tear was going to get worse.
Perhaps she overreacted, but then I can’t really see how this was a big deal for the husband and kid. They could have picked something up for the way home. I doubt the four-year-old was that concerned about not eating out, unless their reservations were for Chuck E. Cheese. And she made dinner for them all after they got home? The poor things.
That really sounds like the sort of behavior I’d expect from someone with OCD. Does she demonstrate any other behavior that might confirm that?
Considering her demand to cancel dinner led to the incident being discussed in detail on a public messageboard – nope. It sounds like she might have been looking for an excuse, or otherwise angry about something, and this may have pushed it over the top.
Nothing in this thread bothers me more than the casual reference to “…one of the nicer restaurants in the mall…”
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Maybe she was just horrified to have dinner at the mall and found an excuse to bail! When you want to bail on something, any possible reason will do. “Oh, look, I can’t have dinner at the mall, I have a grain of sand in my shoe and that just ruins my appetite.”
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