Deranged dinner party

[Anonymous]

This is a thread where we describe in detail the worst dinner parties we've ever attended. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

You first, OP.

[Anonymous]

My boss tricked me and my fiance into a dinner party at his house. His whacko girlfriend showed us around his condo- she had taken over the whole place with her weird smelly candles that she tries to sell. Food wasn't ready for hours and we had to have awkward small talk with the boss, his GF and another couple from work who are total dorks. I was STARVING the until dinner was served at like 9pm. My fiance even tried to bail on me and the party with a lame excuse about a flood in his apartment. Our boss tried to get us to invest in his GFs candle business!! RUDE!

Then the GF started getting drunk and they started arguing about a neon beer sign being in the living room. And I think the GF once had sex with her assistant who is an aspiring musician. She put on his demo and kept swaying around the condo.

It was epically horrible and cringey and I couldn't wait to leave. The cops ended up getting called because the drunk GF broke our boss's TV. I was still hungry so we had to get takeout afterwards!

[Anonymous]

I hosted dinner with a friend and her new boyfriend of a few months whom she had just told she was now pregnant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My boss tricked me and my fiance into a dinner party at his house. His whacko girlfriend showed us around his condo- she had taken over the whole place with her weird smelly candles that she tries to sell. Food wasn't ready for hours and we had to have awkward small talk with the boss, his GF and another couple from work who are total dorks. I was STARVING the until dinner was served at like 9pm. My fiance even tried to bail on me and the party with a lame excuse about a flood in his apartment. Our boss tried to get us to invest in his GFs candle business!! RUDE!

Then the GF started getting drunk and they started arguing about a neon beer sign being in the living room. And I think the GF once had sex with her assistant who is an aspiring musician. She put on his demo and kept swaying around the condo.

It was epically horrible and cringey and I couldn't wait to leave. The cops ended up getting called because the drunk GF broke our boss's TV. I was still hungry so we had to get takeout afterwards!

One of my favorite episodes! I laugh even after a zillion viewings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My boss tricked me and my fiance into a dinner party at his house. His whacko girlfriend showed us around his condo- she had taken over the whole place with her weird smelly candles that she tries to sell. Food wasn't ready for hours and we had to have awkward small talk with the boss, his GF and another couple from work who are total dorks. I was STARVING the until dinner was served at like 9pm. My fiance even tried to bail on me and the party with a lame excuse about a flood in his apartment. Our boss tried to get us to invest in his GFs candle business!! RUDE!

Then the GF started getting drunk and they started arguing about a neon beer sign being in the living room. And I think the GF once had sex with her assistant who is an aspiring musician. She put on his demo and kept swaying around the condo.

It was epically horrible and cringey and I couldn't wait to leave. The cops ended up getting called because the drunk GF broke our boss's TV. I was still hungry so we had to get takeout afterwards!

Not until the flood part did I recognize your story. 👍

[Anonymous]

This thread reminds me of The Dinner Party episode of The Office. I have two. In grad school, two guys invited me and my housemate to dinner. Everything came out of a box, bag, or can and still was not cooked properly or remotely edible. We were served rice that had not been cooked in water. Chicken that came out of a can and burned under a broiler. Even as poor grad students, we couldn’t eat this stuff. And we couldn’t leave. After dinner there was “music time” where one guy played bad guitar and the other sang in a croaking off key voice. It was horrible. Second one, my very dear friend would often invite large numbers of friends over for dinner with very little planning. She would invite us to come over at 7 pm and still be chopping and cooking at 11 pm.

[Anonymous]

First time I met my BIL was at a dinner party he hosted that my now DH and I attended where we sat on the floor, ate raw meat (kibbeh)—I’m a vegetarian now and wasn’t then but even then I very rarely ate meat and definitely wasn’t comfortable eating raw lamb!, and got grilled about my whole life story, while listening to some really strange music.

After the dinner party I was very uncomfortable and didn’t know what to think and my DH kept apologizing. Haha. This was 20 years ago. We’re all now pretty close and this is a funny (though still strange) memory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread reminds me of The Dinner Party episode of The Office. I have two. In grad school, two guys invited me and my housemate to dinner. Everything came out of a box, bag, or can and still was not cooked properly or remotely edible. We were served rice that had not been cooked in water. Chicken that came out of a can and burned under a broiler. Even as poor grad students, we couldn’t eat this stuff. And we couldn’t leave. After dinner there was “music time” where one guy played bad guitar and the other sang in a croaking off key voice. It was horrible. Second one, my very dear friend would often invite large numbers of friends over for dinner with very little planning. She would invite us to come over at 7 pm and still be chopping and cooking at 11 pm.

What was the rice cooked in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My boss tricked me and my fiance into a dinner party at his house. His whacko girlfriend showed us around his condo- she had taken over the whole place with her weird smelly candles that she tries to sell. Food wasn't ready for hours and we had to have awkward small talk with the boss, his GF and another couple from work who are total dorks. I was STARVING the until dinner was served at like 9pm. My fiance even tried to bail on me and the party with a lame excuse about a flood in his apartment. Our boss tried to get us to invest in his GFs candle business!! RUDE!

Then the GF started getting drunk and they started arguing about a neon beer sign being in the living room. And I think the GF once had sex with her assistant who is an aspiring musician. She put on his demo and kept swaying around the condo.

It was epically horrible and cringey and I couldn't wait to leave. The cops ended up getting called because the drunk GF broke our boss's TV. I was still hungry so we had to get takeout afterwards!

Yes, we all saw that episode, too, PP.

[Anonymous]

I attended a dinner party where the hosting couple had decided to separate maybe 30 min before guests started arriving. They were not married, but had been domestic partners for 15 years. Both had been previously married. The woman was slightly older than the man and was supporting him through grad school. I think the break up was mutual, but they had different ideas about a timeline. By the time I arrived, they were on their 4th drinks and sniping at each other. Other guests quickly filled me in. The woman encouraged everyone to drink as much wine since it was from the man’s collection. The man was openly hitting on all of the female guests. The food burned and none of us were allowed to escape until the woman started weeping when the man tried to hack edible morsels off the blackened roast and kept drunkly slicing his own fingers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My boss tricked me and my fiance into a dinner party at his house. His whacko girlfriend showed us around his condo- she had taken over the whole place with her weird smelly candles that she tries to sell. Food wasn't ready for hours and we had to have awkward small talk with the boss, his GF and another couple from work who are total dorks. I was STARVING the until dinner was served at like 9pm. My fiance even tried to bail on me and the party with a lame excuse about a flood in his apartment. Our boss tried to get us to invest in his GFs candle business!! RUDE!

Then the GF started getting drunk and they started arguing about a neon beer sign being in the living room. And I think the GF once had sex with her assistant who is an aspiring musician. She put on his demo and kept swaying around the condo.

It was epically horrible and cringey and I couldn't wait to leave. The cops ended up getting called because the drunk GF broke our boss's TV. I was still hungry so we had to get takeout afterwards!

Yes, we all saw that episode, too, PP.

Take the stick out, Angela

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread reminds me of The Dinner Party episode of The Office. I have two. In grad school, two guys invited me and my housemate to dinner. Everything came out of a box, bag, or can and still was not cooked properly or remotely edible. We were served rice that had not been cooked in water. Chicken that came out of a can and burned under a broiler. Even as poor grad students, we couldn’t eat this stuff. And we couldn’t leave. After dinner there was “music time” where one guy played bad guitar and the other sang in a croaking off key voice. It was horrible. Second one, my very dear friend would often invite large numbers of friends over for dinner with very little planning. She would invite us to come over at 7 pm and still be chopping and cooking at 11 pm.

What was the rice cooked in?

I don’t think the rice was cooked in anything. They seemed to sauté it in butter then serve it. Hard.

[Anonymous]

I once was invited over with two other couples at 7pm. We got there and it was only a dessert party. Except we had no idea so we brought an app. So then we all had cookies and spinach dip for dinner. Then we listened to the host carry on about others peoples money for a while.

[Anonymous]

My friend invited me to a "dinner party" that turned out to be a Christian gathering (I am not Christian) - I walked in and everyone was sitting in a circle while they read from the Bible and went one by one to say what they are praying about...this went on for quite some time, as there were about 30 people there. It would have been ok, but some people started putting down other religions (remember, I'm not Christian). Super awkward, and my friend never even said anything to me about it or acknowledged that it might be uncomfortable. The food also sucked when we finally did eat.