So as you can see in the picture, I threw a party last year. AEW is a pro wrestling company, much like WWE. They had this big outdoor show at Wembley Stadium in London. Sold something like 80,000 tickets. We watched live on PPV.
It’s the first time I ever threw a wrestling watch party. I invited 4 people. I bought cheese, soft pretzels, bought chips/queso. I had vodka, whiskey, beer, and 3 different THC vape pens along with edible gummies. I also had coke (the soda), barqs root beer, and one of the special novelty mountain dew flavors.
I cooked chicken, and cut the cheese into cubes with individual toothpicks. I got out my good plates. And used the projector to make the screen 90 inches.
Only 2 people showed up. Nobody ate hardly anything. Nobody drank anything. Hardly anything was said. This picture was taken AFTER the party. We went through 1 bag of chips, and 1 1/2 jars of queso.
I literally could have just bought 1 bag of chips, 2 jars of queso, and saved $100 and 2 days of prep work.
I even had 2 different styles of BBQ sauce for the chicken.
Yes, it’s a year later, and I’m still mildly infuriated over it!
I don’t know if that makes you feel better, but for my 40th birthday I invited 20 people, prepared accordingly, and 3 showed up.
Not even my wife was there, cause she ate too much of the dough for the weed brownies she had made for the occasion.
She crashed half an hour before the guests showed up.We sat around the table, emptied a couple bags of chips, I was the only one who drank beer. My friends left after 2 hours.
I dont even have parties because I know no one will show up so that’s pretty good.
I’m sorry this happened but if it makes you feel better, I’d totally love to come over there and chow down on all of that stuff.
spread + AEW sounds like a great time OP I think its possible that your friends are not pro-level friends but maybe something else is amiss?
- live in ohio
- not good at video games
- only know 4 girls, all have same name
- the guys were all white dudes with beard + glasses, couldn’t tell each other apart
- invited mean guy
if not one of those try getting pro friends
My fucking guy, you had free trees and booze and they still didn’t show up?
Are you sure they’re your friends?
Hell, offer me free booze, trees, food, and Wrestling… I’ll be there and promise to be better company than those guys
I never understand posts like this. Someone could ask me to split a six piece nugget and I’m there. Sorry that you went through that, but it looks wonderful, and very thoughtful. They don’t deserve you ❤️
Is that a tip jar on the table? Even if not, just the association is enough for people to feel like they have to contribute financially for the food. While that isn’t an outrageous thought, for people who are tight on their finances, it might be an uncomfortable situation where they’d rather skip on the food than take it and not pay a share.
No, thats actually a coin counting jar. I keep loose change in it, but the top counts your coins as you put them in. I also have some lapel pins in there, and some eyeglasses screwdrivers.
I never would have thought to assosiate that with a tip jar.
Well - I thought I’d mention that it could look like that - but of course it really depends on the personality / financial situation of your friends whether that might have influenced them
I don’t really like wrestling but I like parties and that food that you made. Invite me next time. I’ll make sure your food gets eaten.
this is actually sad :(
That’s still way too much food even if everyone came. And everyone never comes.
Ehh, not really. 5 people total, sporting event taking place around dinner time, 5 adults could easily destroy that amount of food.
Well never hurts to be over prepared unless you hate wasting food.
Communication is key, and you seem to be struggling in that department.
Two things:
- Did your friends know you were going to have a bunch of food and they were expected to eat it?
- Was your party at a time that people normally eat?
I find that if it’s too early/late or if you didn’t tell them what was expected, your results are suboptimal. Could just be your friends, though.
Started at noon, ended about 7pm.
That’s a long-ass party. I would have eaten all of your cheese in that timeframe. All of it. Do you have anymore?
Shit. Can you invite me next time?
Same. Me too.
Drop the alcool and I might join you. You could be in charge of some sort of Lemmy meeting.
I’ll bring the memes
invite me and I’ll bring my own alcohol. spread looks delicious!
Why would you bring any on your own when he can get what he prepared eaten? You’ll better off bringing people. The cheese won’t be eating itself.
Bro I’m not into wrestling, but definitely invite me to your D&D sessions.
You need better friends. No, seriously, you do.
Sign me up too pls
Well I’m no longer friends with the two that didn’t show, and no longer friends with one of the two that did show.
Unrelated to this specifically, but I don’t keep people in my life that make life harder.
