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Anonymous wrote:We had a toddler and got invited over at 6pm to a friend's house for dinner. We assumed we'd be eating shortly upon arrival -- they had elementary-aged kids.

Instead, we chatted, then around 7:30pm they _start_ making dinner. We're all starving. We had food for our toddler but now it's getting close to her bedtime. She cried half the way back on the 30-minute drive home, after dinner. I think we finally started driving back at 9pm, way past her bedtime.

That’s a completely reasonable time-frame for a dinner party. It’s strange that you expected something different. I get it that that’s hard with a toddler but then you shouldn’t have accepted the invite. Parents of toddlers are beyond annoying snd uptight and that’s why I wouldn’t invite any over for dinner. Signed - Mother of 2.

I don't have kids and I assume when you invite me over for dinner, we will be eating around the time we arrive. Not hours later. We have one friend who we now know will do this - has us over at 7, starts cooking 45 minutes later, dinner's not out till 9. Then wants to talk for hours after that. We like this friend a lot, and her food is good, but this time frame makes me crazy and I try to get her to meet us at restaurants instead. A nice tight 1.5 hours.

I would think that’s rude. I would invite someone at 6, have drinks and nibbles, eat around 7. If you have people over on a Sat evening one would assume it’s about a 3 hr event unless planned otherwise in advance. I get the toddler bedtime thing but if that’s your issue you need to specify in advance.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a toddler and got invited over at 6pm to a friend's house for dinner. We assumed we'd be eating shortly upon arrival -- they had elementary-aged kids.

Instead, we chatted, then around 7:30pm they _start_ making dinner. We're all starving. We had food for our toddler but now it's getting close to her bedtime. She cried half the way back on the 30-minute drive home, after dinner. I think we finally started driving back at 9pm, way past her bedtime.

That’s a completely reasonable time-frame for a dinner party. It’s strange that you expected something different. I get it that that’s hard with a toddler but then you shouldn’t have accepted the invite. Parents of toddlers are beyond annoying snd uptight and that’s why I wouldn’t invite any over for dinner. Signed - Mother of 2.

I don't have kids and I assume when you invite me over for dinner, we will be eating around the time we arrive. Not hours later. We have one friend who we now know will do this - has us over at 7, starts cooking 45 minutes later, dinner's not out till 9. Then wants to talk for hours after that. We like this friend a lot, and her food is good, but this time frame makes me crazy and I try to get her to meet us at restaurants instead. A nice tight 1.5 hours.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a work lunch with 20 other people and the manager in charge only ordered 5 large pizzas- he limited us to 2 slices each needless to say we were all starving and some people who came late didn’t even get any pizza slices.

How much of a fattie are you all? At two pieces of pizza I would be stuffed. How the hell many pieces do you normally eat in one sitting? My max is 1.5, regular is 1 (usually with a salad).

Ugh nothing worse than a limited pizza slice party. It reminds me of end of the year parties in elementary school. Never enough pizza.

I usually eat 2-3 slices (depends on the size) but I hate the feeling that there is not enough for everyone. Terrible.

We visit our in-laws for a few days. They prepare and serve meals with “exact” portions, which rarely was enough for our family of four. ILs would say “but you already had one egg” to my teen son or “you want a second cup of milk?” So we always decided a plan to go out before/after the meals and had non-perishable snacks. I forgot this also pertained to coffee- so we always had back up caffeine options. .

I love this thread! It reminded me of when my boyfriend at the time brought me along to a dinner party. I was pretty young, and in my early 20s. He said it was hosted by a friend. It turned out she was a single mom who clearly had a crush on him and we were the only people there, and it was extremely awkward. She served a casserole made from Campbell's soup with chicken and some rice, and with bad wine.

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Anonymous wrote:We had a toddler and got invited over at 6pm to a friend's house for dinner. We assumed we'd be eating shortly upon arrival -- they had elementary-aged kids.

Instead, we chatted, then around 7:30pm they _start_ making dinner. We're all starving. We had food for our toddler but now it's getting close to her bedtime. She cried half the way back on the 30-minute drive home, after dinner. I think we finally started driving back at 9pm, way past her bedtime.

That’s a completely reasonable time-frame for a dinner party. It’s strange that you expected something different. I get it that that’s hard with a toddler but then you shouldn’t have accepted the invite. Parents of toddlers are beyond annoying snd uptight and that’s why I wouldn’t invite any over for dinner. Signed - Mother of 2.

Eating a big heavy meal after 8 pm is reasonable to you?

Anonymous wrote:Years ago, I was part of a team working in a remote location. I invited a half dozen or so women over for dinner for a 'ladies night'. There was, literally, nothing to do in this location except socialize amongst ourselves so it's not like we were doing a pub crawl, it was just dinner and drinks in my home. A newish team member, who used to be licensed massage therapist, said she got a new massage video in and would be happy to bring it and show us some techniques. Great, I thought. Little did I know that it was a male on male sensual massage video showing techniques to help a man who had challenges maintaining an erection. Yep, it was two naked men, one of them lying on a table with a semi-erection and the other explaining/demonstrating how to use your hands on it. Wow.

Omg, that is horrible, but also made me laugh out loud. Soooo cringy .

Years ago my too-cool friend invited me to her apartment for a dinner party. The food tasted fine.

After dessert, she told us that she’d gone dumpster diving at Whole Foods for the entire meal.

Anonymous wrote:The coronavirus ballet party hosted in spring valley at the peak of wave 1?

Did you attend? Tell us the deets!

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a work lunch with 20 other people and the manager in charge only ordered 5 large pizzas- he limited us to 2 slices each needless to say we were all starving and some people who came late didn’t even get any pizza slices.

How much of a fattie are you all? At two pieces of pizza I would be stuffed. How the hell many pieces do you normally eat in one sitting? My max is 1.5, regular is 1 (usually with a salad).

I can eat 3 N.Y. slices.

DP. If Napoleon I can eat the whole thing if really hungry and no apps. Half if moderately hungry or apps. 2 large NY slices. 1.5 deep dish slices. Potomac pizza like 2-3. Salad in addition for all. I like food.

Anonymous wrote:We had a toddler and got invited over at 6pm to a friend's house for dinner. We assumed we'd be eating shortly upon arrival -- they had elementary-aged kids.

Instead, we chatted, then around 7:30pm they _start_ making dinner. We're all starving. We had food for our toddler but now it's getting close to her bedtime. She cried half the way back on the 30-minute drive home, after dinner. I think we finally started driving back at 9pm, way past her bedtime.

That’s a completely reasonable time-frame for a dinner party. It’s strange that you expected something different. I get it that that’s hard with a toddler but then you shouldn’t have accepted the invite. Parents of toddlers are beyond annoying snd uptight and that’s why I wouldn’t invite any over for dinner. Signed - Mother of 2.

Years ago, I was part of a team working in a remote location. I invited a half dozen or so women over for dinner for a 'ladies night'. There was, literally, nothing to do in this location except socialize amongst ourselves so it's not like we were doing a pub crawl, it was just dinner and drinks in my home. A newish team member, who used to be licensed massage therapist, said she got a new massage video in and would be happy to bring it and show us some techniques. Great, I thought. Little did I know that it was a male on male sensual massage video showing techniques to help a man who had challenges maintaining an erection. Yep, it was two naked men, one of them lying on a table with a semi-erection and the other explaining/demonstrating how to use your hands on it. Wow.

Wife was an associate at a big law firm. The team had a weeks long trial in Federal court out of state and won a huge victory for their corporate client.

Anyways, in big law firms, not uncommon to have couples form and end up marrying.

So everyone at the party was either at the trail, an attorney at the firm married to someone at the trail, or an associate that was single...at the trial. My wife was there, but I don't know much about the trial.

Anyways the partner and his wife host in their condo and there are maybe 20 people there. And everyone knows every intimate detail about the trial.... except me. Further, the hosts were foodies (I am not, though I like good food), and every small plate was choreographed with a video from a part of the trial. Think: "this witness admitted this about some highly technical software technology -- here's a random cheese that rhymes with his name". Meanwhile, I have no idea about any of this. I try to make small talk once or twice, but everything is about the trial.

This went on from 6:00-11:30 PM. The hosts found a random middling, stale beer in the back of the fridge and gave it to me because "that's more his speed". I'm an attorney too, mind you.

I think I had two bourbons and ordered a greasy steak and cheese when we got home around midnight. This was prekids and in my 20's.

The coronavirus ballet party hosted in spring valley at the peak of wave 1?

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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.

I didn't! What show is this from?

The Office.

I need to see this episode. link pls!

? If you Google “The office dinner party” it’s the first result.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

I didn't! What show is this from?

The Office.

I need to see this episode. link pls!