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Leftovers.

128 replies

barnbougle · 06/06/2021 14:30

I recently attended an outdoor wedding with around 40 guests (it was allowed,everything was in order!).Everyone brought food which made a fantastic buffet.Everyone except a family of two adults and three teenage children.When the last person in line for food sat down,there was still loads left-people had brought four or five items each and everyone had just taken a small portion to start with.intending to go back for more.The desserts hadn't even been touched.As one,this family,whose plates were already overflowing,advanced on the buffet with three or four empty Tupperware containers each and just about cleared it.They just hoovered everything up in a couple of minutes.even taking some of the bowls and plates people had brought their contributions in.They took the three full bottles of wine from their table and grabbed a couple of prosecco bottles from the buffet too.Carrying their own huge plates,they then left!People were dumbfounded and the poor bride was in tears.The family were the groom's uncle-when approached the next day,uncle said he thought they were leftovers which he didn't want to go to waste.He was furloughed and short of cash so that would feed the family for a few days.That was also the reason why he hadn't brought a present.People had bent over backwards to hep them.Someone (who didn't even know them) had driven 200 miles to collect them, from their home,put them up overnight then driven them to the venue.The three women in the family had borrowed clothes and makeup from the host family (which still haven't been returned),had moaned about the quality of the mattress in the adult's bed and lack of cooked breakfast then tried to persuade the hairdresser booked by the host family to do their hair as well for free (fortunately that didn't work.)All in all they were a nightmare.Now there's another outdoor wedding coming up and they haven't been invited,despite it being the niece of the uncle from Hell.He's creating trouble already,firing off emails to the bride every day about how badly he's been treated,how he only took a few scraps which would have been thrown out in order to feed his starving family (none of them looked as if they were starving!).He's blackmailing the poor girl emotionally,saying she's responsible for dividing the family if they don't invite his tribe when non family guests will be attending..Yes,he's family but surely the poor girl has the right to choose her guests,especially when numbers are so limited?

OP posts:
kitkatsky · 06/06/2021 22:11

Cool story bro

BrownEyedGirl80 · 06/06/2021 22:36

You could at least try to make it slightly believable.Getting every last bit of food together as soon as everyone sits down? They'd have been drop kicked out of the wedding room for that in real life 🤣

Sweetpea1532 · 07/06/2021 02:22

@AlCalavicci
@AnneKipanki
@iklboo
You lot did not disappoint!
Poetry, even!
@MrsMackesy...where are you, Dear? Practicing for your upcoming performance are you?

PinkSkyBlue · 07/06/2021 02:45

I'm hungry now ffs

noodlezoodle · 07/06/2021 02:46

@ProudPolyGradSingleMum

But I would walk a hundred miles And I would walk a hundred more Just to be the man who walked two hundred miles To nick all your food
Grin Grin Grin
Catflapkitkat · 07/06/2021 04:51

I love a wedding thread. I am a Little disappointed this isn't real. I was hoping for a bit of OP drip feeding. Would love to see some of Uncle Gut's emails to the neice.

YesIveChangedMyName · 07/06/2021 06:11

I’m just here for the deletion message

Ditto. Though if there are any leftovers I'll take those too

abeanbaked · 07/06/2021 06:25

Is the uncle Alan Partridge?

Leftovers.
WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo · 07/06/2021 06:27

It's threads like this that make insomnia almost bearable!

Pebbledashery · 07/06/2021 07:43

Op has gone to her Uncles for a buffet style breakfast this morning hence no response.

abeanbaked · 07/06/2021 09:16

Please don't delete this thread Mumsnet, it made me unbelievably happy at stupid o'clock this morning when I couldn't sleep Grin

Whitchurch · 07/06/2021 09:24

You get about 3 sentences in and it's "nice try op..." Hmm

Bumzoo · 07/06/2021 09:27

Come back OP. We need to know how they got home.

HollowTalk · 07/06/2021 09:36

0/10

VeryLongBeeeeep · 07/06/2021 09:49

A family 200 miles under the bridge
Had very little food in their fridge
But they had Tupperware
Magicked out of thin air
"Take the lot!" Uncle encourage[d]

Pedalpushers · 07/06/2021 10:07

I lost it at 'greedy, tight naked octopuses at a wedding' and my husband has had to silence his microphone in a meeting because of my background guffaws.

RonSwansonsChair · 07/06/2021 12:14

@HollowTalk

0/10
And 10/10 to all the poets Grin
HollowTalk · 07/06/2021 13:00

Oh I always love the responses! I just can't stand OPs who think we're stupid.

AlCalavicci · 07/06/2021 14:23

@iklboo , @AnneKipanki Hi , I would welcome you to the party and offer you a snack and drink but well . . . . .

I think the most important point is not how much food , drink , cloths , transport etc was taken but how the hell did they find 15 Tupperware boxes with matching lids ? I am lucky if i can fine 2 .

Great poetry from everyone Grin

AlCalavicci · 07/06/2021 14:30

Maybe the had a bag a la Mary Poppins to carry it all??
And chitty chitty bang bang gave them a lift home

AnneKipanki · 07/06/2021 15:17

Thanks @AlCalavicci !

It's the carrying of them too.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang . Was that the Uncle's advice to the newly married couple?

AlCalavicci · 07/06/2021 15:26

@AnneKipanki, Given the uncles track record for manners I dont think he would be that polite ! Grin

AnneKipanki · 07/06/2021 16:02

😂

Alonelonelylonersbadidea · 07/06/2021 19:34

Damn. I've RTFT and no one has talked about the size of Justin Theroux's penis in The Leftovers. ''Twas a thing of beauty, as penises rarely are.
I only came in for the Willy chat. Nevertheless I'm staying for the intrigue.

CandyLeBonBon · 07/06/2021 22:22

I cannot believe this is still up!

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