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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I are friendly with several parents at our private school but are not super close with anyone. Every year around the time of the school fundraising gala, we get asked to use our outside connections to secure a big item for the auction, which we gladly do to support our school. Our gala has a seated dinner format, so you have to organize a table with other parents, and that's the part I am not comfortable with. We are not part of the in crowd so no one asks us if we'd like to sit at their table (although these parents never forget about us when it come time to donate or secure an auction item). I also feel awkward to start a table and ask other parents if they'd like to join because those parents have much closer friends than us to sit with already. There is an option to just buy tickets and the gala organizers will choose the seating for you but we did it once and ended up on a table where we did not know anyone and we did not have a great experience. So we just take the path of least resistance and skip the whole event. At our kids' former school, the gala had more of a cocktail party format and it was not as socially stressful. Thoughts?[/quote]
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