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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if dinner parties died.

They are dead for Gen Xers in the lower reaches of the Upper Middle Class.  Everyone meets at restaurants.

When I was a kid, my parents socialized like the old sitcoms - inviting the boss over, having work people and kids over for parties.  My generation doesn't do any of that.

I tried once and gave up.  I was hosting 3 couples.  One cancelled same day.  Another, the wife was pregnant and didn't tell me so she couldn't eat most of the expensive food. They left early.  The third left because the 2nd couple left early.

After that, I only did restaurant meals.

I haven't been invited to a boss or manager's house for an event/evening since around 1995.  The hosts were Silent Generation and Boomers.  To the manner born.[/quote]

Dinners parties for this gen-Xer died in the 1990s.  Work life was so much nicer than...company softball games, company Christmas parties, company summer BBQs where you had relay races, like potato sack...sigh.  I just retired and feel sorry for my kids who will never know this.[/quote]

This and the post about "dinner at the boss's house" make me sadly nostalgic. Boomer here and bosses were Boomer or Silent when we came to DC mid 80s. Sherry parties at Alice Rivlin's and such. Holiday parties on and offsite. Picnics.

Nowadays (to be old fashioned) there are threads bitterly complaining about having to go to company things like family-included BBQs "on your own time." What a bunch of ungrateful whiners who just don't get it.[/quote]

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