My uncle brought up Trump winning helping his 401k a few weeks ago at my nieces birthday party. I basically baited him into calling him an idiot because the S&P 500 was up over 30% over the past year when he said his stocks were doing shitty before the election. I think he was completely dumbfounded when he realized I was right. He didn’t bring it up yesterday.
I’m on his side. It’s the fact that they live basically across the street and come over and blow up his bathroom. It’s hilarious because it isn’t me, but it would drive me crazy.
Unless there is a prearranged agreement… If you’re hosting then the responsibility is on you to provide everything for an enjoyable event. It’s polite for guests to bring things to enhance the function (a bottle of wine, a dessert, etc), but it’s not necessary. I would have never thought this was something to think about.
I just went and did everyone's dishes when they started talking about how tulsi and rfk were just normal regular dems pushed too far and that trump is dedicated to bipartisanship by appointing them
I have one that is a little in the same spirit. We had a diner one night at a friends house, maybe a group of 10-14 can’t remember and the host paid for everything. They had this huge spread of stuff to make a raclette and did not ask anything from anybody but i hate showing up empty handed like pretty much all of our group so I brought a few bottle of wines. long story short, my friend is friends with this guy who is a little socially awkward and he brings his new gf to the diner and they bring a bottle of wine. At the end of the night they leave but the gf realizes that her bottle of wine was not used so she comes back and ask the hosts for her bottle back since we did not use it….they drank wine all night long and took their bottle back home after since it was not opened. We still laugh at this from time to time. What a ballsy move
the leader of the political discourse yesterday at my wife’s TG was a freshman poli sci major/sae pledge. it reminded me of lurking in the Obama thread on here circa 2011
that wasn’t even the intent I think, I honestly believe that they are just not socially aware that you usually bring a gift for the host. It wasn’t like a trophy wine or anything like that, she just thought that it was her wine and since she/we did not drink it it’s ok for her to bring it back home. Edit, wait a minute. That is incredible I thought a marble rye was some kind of good rye whisky lol
You mean you don't keep a spreadsheet with your relatives' restroom usage even they visit? Ive gotta know how much to venmo request from them after they visit for water and toiletry usage
I wait outside the bathroom and immediately perform a sniff test after any guest uses my bathroom. If they fail, I spit in their dessert.
Yeah this tangent has been pretty funny for me. If I'm hosting a relatively small gathering I don't expect anyone to bring anything and I'll say as much if I'm asked. If it's a bigger gathering I'll simply ask people to bring something.
Ok this is going to be my last comment on the topic. We love hosting Thanksgiving and will continue to do so for hopefully many years. We don't expect people to bring anything but will gladly accept any dishes or desserts people volunteer to bring. Everybody in my family who came brought something. Nobody on my wife's side offered nor brought anything. At the end of the day that's fine but I think I'm justified in being annoyed by it since it continues a pattern by them of not doing what is expected of them for holidays or other family events. It didn't ruin our day and we had a great time with our families. Venting on an anonymous message board about it seems like fair game to me.
BIL was trying to make small talk with my cousin. asked her about how her bf’s dad was doing since he had been sick. she says “he actually died a month ago”. oops!
he probably expects them to provide the food when they invite him to dinner at their house. Weird I know
I think it's common courtesy to ask, "Is there anything I can bring?" to any sort of function not sure if or how pissed off it would get me if someone never did, depends on who it is I guess.
with all the taxes, I would say a 12 us bottle is around 25 cad. Exchange rate plus we pay more taxes on booze. Which is something I completely agree with
we pay for services that we all need, my problem with our gov is the inefficiency but It is probably not that bad for a big operation like it is. Just frustrating sometimes.
Bringing wine is annoying if your guests aren't big drinkers. My parents have always been big party hosts and basically created a wine cellar to store all the gifts
I keep throwing jokes and you keep giving me serious answers. I know Canadians are funny. You produced SCTV and Kids in the Hall. Plus Don Cherry!