Party invitation from a right-winger. Typical.

[trof]

A friend of ours is getting married.
Third time for her, #1 divorced, #2 died.
She a sweet lady in her early 60s.
Number two for hubby to be.
Seems like a nice guy.

A couple in the neighborhood are giving an 'engagement party' for them.
He's a really asshole tea-partier and she's nice enough (bit of an airhead) but goes along with whatever he does/says in politics.

The last line in their invitation reads:
"BYO DRINKS AND APPETIZER"
Maybe we should take up a collection to pay for the lights and A/C?


This is a waterfront home in a fairly affluent (present company excluded ) neighborhood.
Talk about CHEAP!


Uh, no. I won't be attending.
I wouldn't darken that jerk's door for anything.
We'll have the happy couple over for dinner with a few of her close friends.
Drinks included.

[onethatcares]

1. doesn't say anything about having to share

so, take a bottle or whatever, a couple of glasses, an appetizer and go for it. Just don't let them have any.

[trof]

7. I have a very deep dislike for this guy.

A couple of years ago he used our neighborhood email list to send a bunch of tea party crap.
Several came down on him for that and he eventually stopped.
The list is for local news and events, NOT POLITICS.

He's sent me a couple of very offensive emails.
Personally offensive.
He likes to hide behind what he can send on the internet.
Of course I replied to them.
And I was relatively kind.
Just pointed out how and where he was wrong.

I later saw him at a community get together.
Asked him if he would say to me face-to-face what he'd said in the emails.
He walked away.
He's not only and asshole, he's a chickenshit asshole.
No, I won't be attending.

[onethatcares]

9. that would be the best move.

no sense in stressing out over assholes.

Buy a nice bottle of wine for yourself and your significant other, a pasta meal and enjoy

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I've heard of BYOB, but bring your own appetizers?

Wow, that's cheap. Couldn't this a-hole pop for a few bags of potato chips?

[trof]

8. He's a real piece of work.

[Initech]

3. Having people over and it's bring your own appetizers?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Bring a can of beer and an olive on a toothpick.

Give them to the host when you enter the house. Offer your regards to the guest of honor, then take yourself out for dinner.

[madamesilverspurs]

5. Welllll...

My annual holiday party has been going for 25 years. It started out with all the fancy cookies and candies and nog, along with chips and dips of a fairly wide assortment. Nowadays, many of my friends have aquired some new restrictions, far more than my kitchen can accomodate. So, I still have the basics but in much smaller quantities; I just ask people to bring something if they know they can't consume the usual fare. Everyone is fine with this, they all still show up, they bring stuff to share, we still have a grand old time. And I'm not stuck with huge piles of leftovers. We gather to gather, so to speak.

That said, your neighbor might well have a whole 'nother agenda, who knows...


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[msanthrope]

6. How vulgar. One is obligated to entertain one's wedding guests

to the reasonable limit of their budget--no more, no less.

If they truly could only afford cake and punch, they could and should do so, proudly.

But this is like running a not-so-nice tavern....

[Coexist]

10. I concur.