People who turn up BANG on the start of a party

[HellothisisJoanie]

please dont.

Dp and I got invited to a party full of youths a few years ago, when the host said it was starting (at the ridiculously late time of about 9pm I think). We were the only people there for about 2 hours. As we were leaving, at around 12am, hordes of people had started to arrive... .

Serves them right for inviting crumblies like us...

I hate unwritten rules.

i am a bit how literal you are to timings.

its NOT cool to be on time to a party

I'm too busy enjoying my friends company to worry about being cool. You sound not fun.

lol at usual

If you put 7.00pm on a party invitation, why are you not ready to receive them? I always am

I never have work still to do in preparation and I'm always dressed and ready watching television with wine until the first arrives.

If people arrive at the time they are invited, you are BU to send them away or think that they are rude. You specify a time so that's the time they should arrive or a bit later.

Lower/middle!

Punctuality is the Courtesy of kings.

I dunno - depends what kind of do and how close friends you are with hosts. My best mate throws fab dinners but is never anywhere near ready and greets me with a list of things she needs help with. So I turn up on time. We crack into the prosecco, crack on, and it gets done. If it was champers and canapes at Joanie's I'd be fashionably late because she'd have it all under control I'll wager. Chin chin.

i love comments like that about friends.. you always get stuff like that on mn

• if you care about clothes you are vain
• if you ever dare criticise any mate then "some friend YOu are" is levelled at you
• if you want to not look like John and Norma Major in ankle flappers then you spend too long "trying to be cool"

all cardinal sins

but you still love it here Joanie

fecking do! ;)

Ummm... ok.

People are queued up outside my do's on time as I am SO cool

Surely it's more annoying if people turn up late, though. Then you're waiting around. I actually put the time I want people to arrive on an invite.

is there a rule on how many bottles of wine one should take to dinner parties? I notice in my Sussex Set it has risen to 3 as we are all raging piss-heads. My mother things this terribly non u and says just one very good bottle is proper.

lol at nod.
do you have a velvet rope fitted into your front door?

agree - one and beer

thinks even

No just a little man to check what people are wearing

I think it is rude to be late and expect every one else to create the atmosphere so you can waltz in when you fancy and make a grand entrance. It feels to me like you want someone else to do the more uncomfortable sober small talk at the start so you can rock up and enjoy the more frivolous "we've had a few drinks now and will party all night" vibe.

Being late smacks of "my time is more important than yours". I am meeting friends in the pub tonight, at 8pm. I will be there at 8pm and will invariably be sitting there on my own for half an hour. I won't go later though, in case someone else does happen to turn up at 8 and is then left on their own....

I'm not sure there's anything wrong with being lower middle class either. My parents worked damn hard so I could be lower middle class!