That is some straight up bullshit.
Gabriel: Are you trying to destroy this family? Simon: I didn't realize it would be so easy.
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brenda m - Aug 11, 2013 7:55:50 am PDT #3007 of 30002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Connie Neil - Aug 11, 2013 8:18:49 am PDT #3008 of 30002
brillig
I never learned entertaining protocol, dinner parties and such were not part of my youth. Dining in company rather than just family was more than likely a church social, where the kids were segretated in someplace easy to clean until you were a teenager, when the girls became kitchen and wait staff and the boys did heavy lifting. Well, kitchen staff insofar as you were told "Stand there and stir that, then chop these." The ladies of the church did the cooking.
Aims - Aug 11, 2013 8:21:18 am PDT #3009 of 30002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Okay, but if you go out to dinner with friends and run late, you don't just eat their food and then not pay for it, right?
Connie Neil - Aug 11, 2013 8:25:07 am PDT #3010 of 30002
brillig
Right, that's standard. Stealing food off people's plates without permission is generally grounds for the back of a teaspoon across the knuckles.
Pix - Aug 11, 2013 8:39:52 am PDT #3011 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.
Maybe on the next evite you should add "no freegans."
Laura - Aug 11, 2013 8:49:18 am PDT #3012 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
These are not friends.
beekaytee - Aug 11, 2013 9:04:28 am PDT #3013 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant
Okay, but if you go out to dinner with friends and run late, you don't just eat their food and then not pay for it, right?
If you were raised right. Sadly, so many are not.
My biggest problem with stuff like this used to be suffering in silence, waiting for someone to realize their bad behavior and fix it. Never happened.
Also, as a non-drinker...and a self-employed person in a sea of highly paid professionals...I finally had to put my foot down with my usual supper group around having to subsidize the six margarita pitchers I never touched.
Somehow group behavior seems to just amplify individual's bad behavior.
These are not friends.
Sing it.
smonster - Aug 11, 2013 9:09:10 am PDT #3014 of 30002
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
You are not crazy, Aims. That is abhorrent behavior. No invitations, no Xmas cards, no nothing.
Laura, that is a great story. Well done young you.
Scrappy - Aug 11, 2013 9:10:05 am PDT #3015 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Shocking and rude, Aims.
le nubian - Aug 11, 2013 9:12:22 am PDT #3016 of 30002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Aims,
I'm with Tep. Especially after the passive aggressive bullshit you've had to endure anyway.
If I'm running late, I might not show up at all, or show up for dessert. I damn well would pay for it if it is someone's birthday! Damn.