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It turns out that the 'rents changing dinner times are simply because it depends when Dad gets hungry.
So he is almost completely emasculated in every other way but he gets to choose when dinner is. Yeah, right.

This explains how Mum can tear a strip off me for not starting dinner on time, on the afternoon I fell asleep (SHE was hungry), eat at 18.00 (yesterday) and 19.00 on other days.

I'm starving, but she's cooking tonight.
It's going to be 18.45 earliest.

I had honestly forgotten, because when I am eating alone I eat at 17.00, to make sure I am not eating when Mum is cooking.
When we eat together I cook for 18.30 as a compromise.
Tonight, Dad's not even having the same meal as us - he's having something shop-bought. But Mum says "He doesn't like to eat alone." Fair enough. I'm pretty sure he hates the way you shout at him when he hasn't heard what you've asid as well, can't see you changing that.

ETA - I usually cook for the two of us, or three if Dad fancies it.
I like cooking.

I'm just moaning about the bizarre rules set, which change every day.
I'm just moaning.