Bad Party
Yesterday, I had a small party for Tony's birthday. Its been very hot here, so I decided to do something different and order pizza, instead of cooking. Oh, and we usually entertain outside, but because of the heat and humitity, we brought it inside. So...we had cocktails (of course..the guests were all neighbors and everyone walked, so driving wasn't an issue)....munchies, pizzas, huge salad, birthday cake, and my son made fresh ice-cream...chocolate and banana. The two couples we had over were very different, one couple being in their sixties, the other in their thirties. And our twenty-something kids. But all very nice people. I thought it would work. But...it didn't. I feel really badly because it wasn't a fun party! It was a flop. I can't explain it, but the chemistry wasn't good. We were all very ackward. I'm so embarressed! Have any of you ever had a flop party? Remember the old Mary Tyler Moore show, where her parties never worked out? That's what I felt like! I guess you live in and learn  |
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| Deborah, before I finished reading your post I thought "it sounds like a party from the Mary Tyler Moore Show!" You thought the party was a dud but I bet the guests didn't. Plus you had pizza and got to spend time with your kids. |
| Reminded me of MY worst party EVER. I was in sixth grade, we had just moved to Miami Florida a few weeks before. I started a new school and my Mother gave a birthday party and sent invitations to EVERYONE in my class. We had a large pool and lovely back yard and I was all kinds of excited about getting to "know" my classmates.
Not a single child showed up 
Don't feel bad, you did all you could and your next party will be a smashing success!! |
Oh Ginny! That is soooooooooooooo sad! I'm sorry. If you had invited me, I would have been there.  |
Tasker's Mom wrote: Reminded me of MY worst party EVER. I was in sixth grade, we had just moved to Miami Florida a few weeks before. I started a new school and my Mother gave a birthday party and sent invitations to EVERYONE in my class. We had a large pool and lovely back yard and I was all kinds of excited about getting to "know" my classmates.
Not a single child showed up Don't feel bad, you did all you could and your next party will be a smashing success!! Ginny, that is the saddest thing I've ever heard. It makes me want to give you a hug. I would've came to your party! |
| Ginny, have a party now to make up for that horrible experience! I bet all your friends would come now. |
| I have totally had that happen, and it was the most awkward experience ever especially since the two parties that came over were close to us. Unlike your guests, they were the same age, but just had nothing to talk about. We sat in silence at dinner. Sooooooo embarrassing. They left immediately after dinner. |
Ginny that story ticks me off! Where the heck were the parents? Kids can be cruel and you being the new kid I am not surprised that they were mean. But their parents should know better! My mother would have made me and I would have made my kids go to that party! Shame on their parents.
 Sorry it is just a subject that having already been through the school years of parenting I am amazed how incredibly selfish and self- absorbed people can be. So I kind of got on my soapbox!
Deb, that is too bad about your party but having had a string of successes don't let it stand in the way of entertaining again! |
| Wow, bad party memories. Mine is my Sweet 16th birthday party... I invited around 40 kids... 3 showed up. My 2 best friends (one of them left after 30 minutes) and my boyfriend at the time. Talk about a blow to an already fragile teen ego.
Oh man! It happens to the best of us. |
I talked to my daughter at lunch. She said, she thought the party was nice....and that everyone was just being polite, and not crazy like my usual friends  .I hope she's right! Reading all of the tales of woo you've written, I think I need to throw another party for all of you! But then again, you'd probably not show up  |
debcram wrote: Reading all of the tales of woo you've written, I think I need to throw another party for all of you! But then again, you'd probably not show up
You obviously don't know us as well as you think you do.  |
LOL  |
| My door is always open to anyone visiting the Chicago/Milwaukee area. And, I promise not to order pizza!!!!!!!! |
| HMMMMmmmm....
I will be near Milwaukee/Waukesha in a bit over a week. Our basset rescue has it's annual Bassetfest in Muskego, WI the 25th and 26th. We will be there and camping the 23-26th. |
| We had a "Warm up to Winter" party at our first apartment... a few people from my work showed up. Everyone just sat around...
We had a "house warming" party of sorts the year after we moved in here, 72 out of the 200 people invited showed, but I still remember it as a dull party. Had 2 beer kegs 1/4 keg lite, 1/2 keg Sam Adams that went essentially untouched. Hired a professional chef to run the grill. Had steak and chicken and everything you could imagine, had indoor ping pong set up in our huge (and then-empty) garage... Music system blaring.. Everyone just sort of hung around. I guess we just don't have the knack. We don't run any parties anymore, and as a result we aren't invited to any anymore. Then again, maybe we're just boring or otherwise socially inept. I guess that's OK too. |
My worst party experience was when I was 16 (supposed to be my "Sweet Sixteen"). My grandparents had practically raised me my whole childhood, so they were really more like my mom and dad, but when I was 13, I went to live with my mother permanently, so I didn't see them as often as I wanted to. Several days before my 16th birthday, my grandmother passed away from brain cancer. She lived in Tulsa, OK with my grandfather, but they had already purchased burial plots in Kansas, so the family decided to have 2 funerals, the one in Tulsa, OK was the day before my 16th birthday, and the one in Pittsburg, Kansas was the day after my 16th birthday. My grandfather had made arrangements to have the extra day in between so he could have a "party" for me. Well, the whole family was there, but we were all so heartbroken and depressed. Everything seemed so inappropriate (cake, balloons, ice cream, etc...) But it was the sweetest gesture on his part, and I never felt so much love for him as I did that day. I had forgotten all about it until I read this thread. It still seems so surreal when I remember it... no one made it through the "Happy Birthday" song without bursting into tears... they got a few lines into it, and it just fizzled out... The worst part is that we were at a restaurant in the party room, and someone explained what happened to the confused waitresses who had come to sing Happy Birthday with everyone, and they started crying, too. 
On a different note, when we first moved to Indiana, I threw a big birthday party for my kids (their birthdays are close so I usually just throw one big party), I hired a "mad scientist" to do cool experiments, and invited about 30 kids... only 3 showed up My poor kids were so disappointed. The thing that really upset me though was that the parents of the kids I had invited never called to say they wouldn't be coming, so I had planned for (and paid for) enough supplies for a bunch of kids.  |
IheartStella wrote: On a different note, when we first moved to Indiana, I threw a big birthday party for my kids (their birthdays are close so I usually just throw one big party), I hired a "mad scientist" to do cool experiments, and invited about 30 kids... only 3 showed up
My poor kids were so disappointed. The thing that really upset me though was that the parents of the kids I had invited never called to say they wouldn't be coming, so I had planned for (and paid for) enough supplies for a bunch of kids. That kind of behavior burns me to no end, especially when kids are involved. Kids look so forward to that stuff and I can't believe that the kids that were invited didn't want to go. It makes me think the parents were just being lazy and definitely rude for not RSVPing. Plus the party sounds so cute and well thought out. People are jerks! |
| I don't understand these parents. I always think its an honor to have the kids invited to a party. They really should make a point of making sure their children attend. |
| *****SIGH****
You know WHY this happened????? 
Its ALL ROBERTS fault....see, he is starting his conquer and divide techniques already.... I dont want to say this, but "I TOLD YOU SO!" |
| Robert did it? HA HA!!! The doll is actually pretty cute, not creepy at all! When Tony opened the box, he almost laughed his butt off!!! |
debcram wrote: Robert did it? HA HA!!! The doll is actually pretty cute, not creepy at all!
When Tony opened the box, he almost laughed his butt off!!! you say that now....wait a while.....  |
I guess our invitation was lost in the mail.....  |
| Sorry the party wasn't as good as expected.
I've had a few of them myself. |
| I want you to know that I looked that stupid doll up out of curiosity last night, and I had NIGHTMARES about the creepy monkey-boy looking thing. Why on earth would Robert's (the human) parents let him keep that???
I ordered one for my ex-husband... |
IheartStella wrote: I ordered one for my ex-husband...
ROTFLMAO!! Maybe I should order one for my ex? |
| The people from Key West Ghost tours are going to wonder why there is such a run on Robert dolls! The boy's parents let him keep it because: 1. It was a gift from their housekeeper (they didn't know it was bad vodoo) 2. Because Eugene was a very spoiled only child. 3. Because no one ever came to his parties! (I made up number 3!) |
Some of your stories just broke my heart 
Quote: Reading all of the tales of woo you've written, I think I need to throw another party for all of you! But then again, you'd probably not show up
Um, I think the party would have been a blast if....WE WERE THERE! |
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