Worst dinner party stories.

[Smileandtheworldsmileswithyou]

I know there have been threads on this before, I just absolutely love them for some reason. These and the CF ones are the best! I'll start with mine. I had recently moved with my husband to a new country and my new boss invited me and a few other people from work to his house for dinner. When we arrived he was completely pissed, literally stumbling around drunk. He spent ages showing us a lizard on the wall which we all politely commented on, and waited and waited for the food...He then dropped a box of brownies all over the floor that another guest had brought as a gift and laughed about it for ages. Finally we were asked to sit down for dinner, but he said he couldn't carve the chicken so asked me to do it for him. He then came into the tiny kitchen to watch me try and carve it up and told me how I shouldn't worry, he would make sure I passed my probation at the end of the year. He then persuaded my husband to go in and finish off the job with the chicken before asking him if I was happy at work and if I liked him. We finally got to the table and he starts drinking my wine which I just ignore. He then tells everyone that he has made the bread rolls himself, even though I saw them in a packet in the kitchen. He told us a big elaborate tale about where he found the seeds for them. Dessert was finally served at around 1am, by which time everyone was desperate to get the hell out of there. He said we should take it in turns to host, funnily enough no one ever did take him up on that!

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One man was American, one man Australian and one man black

Did you actually write that? FFS.

A family meal so not exactly a diner party but ils were there and ds decided it was a fine time to announce the discovery of his first pubes...
Thought fil was going to have to do the Heimlich manoeuvre on mil.... Choked on her food!!

@Aprilwasverywet

A family meal so not exactly a diner party but ils were there and ds decided it was a fine time to announce the discovery of his first pubes... Thought fil was going to have to do the Heimlich manoeuvre on mil.... Choked on her food!!

Hilarious 🤣

At a work dinner it became apparent the new manager was very full of herself. Having mentioned a particular Caribbean island that I had visited a couple of times, she spent a few minutes telling us in great detail how she often holidayed there and had some lifelong friends there who let her use their home for her holidays. Not only that, but she took her family and had exclusive use of their yacht. It became apparent that ‘Hugh’ and ‘Laura’ were my sister and brother in law, yet I was surprised I had never heard of her. During the course of the evening following some texting backwards and forwards it turned out she had worked with ‘Hugh’ when he was in the U.K. on a short term project (it’s a small niche industry) and in fact she had never been invited out to their home, after all why should she? Clearly, she had been impressed with their life story and wrapped herself up in her own invention. I just nonchalantly dropped the bombshell that ‘Laura’ was my sister and have never seen anyone go so deathly silent and pale. I didn’t push it and never mentioned it again. Curiously, she never mentioned her holidays again either!

I went to my friend's house for dinner on my birthday. She knew I was veggie but was doing paella - not an issue. I offered to bring something if it was easier but she said it was fine she'd planned something for me.
When we sat down my meal was ...plain boiled rice. Literally nothing else. Happy birthday to me!

Years ago I started a new job and invited a senior manager who was up visiting for dinner,

He was likely drinking before he arrived, because he got completely and utterly wankered , really, really fast, talked the biggest amount of drunken bollocks, and he lifted his whole plate of pasta, lowered it under the table in the middle of dinner and attempted to feed the whole thing to our dog, in a manner that suggested he thought I couldn’t see him do it, then when he left, he fell backwards out the front door, and as he was a rather short ans very rotund chap, he literally bounced off the ground, righted himself and staggered off to his taxi.

My husband and I were really appalled and very sober, we literally had had no more than a glass of wine each. We were mid to late twenties at the time, and this dude was mid fifties, so we had expected better, both due to his job, our relationship and his age. Boy we were wrong.

Horrible man is a psychiatric

I’m not sure that’s a thing?

I was invited to a dinner party at the home of a woman I'd met about 6 months previously. I sent a friendly text while on route saying i was stopping at the supermarket for wine and could i bring anything. Yes... could i bring 4 pizza bases, pizza sauce, mozzarella, ham mushrooms, 2 garlic breads, crisps, nuts, ice-cream, Prosecco etc etc... this was abroad but the equivalent of about £50. Of course i didn't have the gumption to as her for the money and she never fucking offered!! I catered the whole party 🤬🤬

When I was 21 I decided to have a smart dinner party. Black Tie. I cooked. One of the guests arrived 3 hours late because "whilst I was dressing I put on a CD of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, so I could leave home until it had finished."

@toocoldforsno

One man was American, one man Australian and one man black

Did you actually write that? FFS.

Yeah right! I assumed that there was going to be some relevance but nope.. being ‘black’ was his defining characteristic. Not cool 😤

@AirFace you do know black is not a nationality? Or does that not matter to you? Maybe you didn’t bother to get to know where he was from.

bluntness100

Man in his mid 50's drinks! And should know better at his age.

How shocking

People over 30 really shouldn't drink should they?

@Gottalovesummer

bluntness100

Man in his mid 50's drinks! And should know better at his age.

How shocking

People over 30 really shouldn't drink should they?

Um I’m not sure why you’re all upset. I’m fifty two I drink. However I don’t go to colleagues houses for dinner, get off my tits, fall over and feed my dinner to the dog. Because, at this age I know better.,heck I knew better at 20.

In her defence I'm guessing that English might not be Airface's first language and that the importance of colour was due to the reference made to Obama...

@Gottalovesummer

bluntness100

Man in his mid 50's drinks! And should know better at his age.

How shocking

People over 30 really shouldn't drink should they?

There's always one

bluntness 100

Ah I'm not upset

Actually I think you're description of him falling/bouncing through your door is really funny. Shouldn't be funny really but it did make me laugh.

@katscamel

In her defence I'm guessing that English might not be Airface's first language and that the importance of colour was due to the reference made to Obama...

Yet the man never reappeared in the story. It’s still a micro aggression no matter what language the op speaks.

@MiddleClassProblem I think it was meant that the guest offended the American and the black person by insulting Americans and Obama...I'm not excusing the post, it's not much better with that context - but I think that's why she said he was black. Because only black people get offended by insulting obama...

Well it ended with a police car, riot van, first response car and an ambulance lined up outside.
The party was rather mundane up to that....

Several years ago we invited a couple over for dinner. Both of us went to a lot of trouble to accommodate their availability (week day evenings only) and of course, to provide lovely food and hospitality.

However, she of the couple had just started a new business and the day was the first day of trading. Her mobile phone was on the table which duly rang. She said I'm sorry I have to take that call, it's my business partner.

She disappeared into the lounge for about an hour. The remaining 3 of us sat around the dining table making desultory small talk, waiting patiently for her to finish. I then put dessert on the table and went into the lounge to hand signal to my guest that we were eating ... she came out of the lounge, mobile clamped firmly to her ear, and she ate her dessert whilst still talking to her business partner!

If that happened now we would tell her in no uncertain terms to piss off. Her husband just sat there like a limpet and clearly did not have the balls to tell her she was being rude and out of order. And so did we much to my shame.

She never apologised and we never invited them over again. I saw her once briefly for a meeting at a local coffee shop and I doubt I will see her / them ever again.

@Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep of course that’s part of it but it’s still racist. Especially given his response isn’t stated. Not all black people liked Obama as president. There’s no hive mentality in colour. We don’t even know where he was from so maybe he just didn’t have a huge opinion. The offensive man seemed more intent on attacking Americans, there is no mention of him saying racist comments. But slating Obama in front of a black man. That is all we know.

As a POC I totally know why people are racist and say racist things. You see the thinking behind it. You are it all the bloody time. That doesn’t make it ok.

I know. I know. There isn't an excuse for it. It's just as racist as if she had said he was black with no connection to the story at all.

@Bluntness100

Horrible man is a psychiatric

I’m not sure that’s a thing?

I’d love to know what the right answer to this was