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!
That’s fucked up I’m sorry, I’d have eaten an entire plate of cheese hors d’vors myself and taken half that chicken with me afterwards. I’m not even into wrestling and I’d have come for that food.
You’re a good friend for providing that for a watch party (on top of paying for ppv) and I’m sorry your friends don’t appreciate how well you maintain your half of the bridge. The least the 2 could have done is tried the cheese and chicken.
Edit holy shit are those pre stuffed pretzel bites. Bro wtf is wrong with these people I’d have asked if anyone wanted any and eaten the entire plate. (I may or may not have portion control issues but seriously, they didnt touch any of that delicious looking food)
Yep, and they were locally sourced from a bakery. I think they cost about $25, and I put them in the convection oven at a low tempature. Not enough to cook them, but enough for them to be always warm, with melty cheese inside.
Edit: oh, and that stack of 2 plates? It was 3 plates. I used a plate for the chicken, and cheeses. I also had a few beers, and some jack n cokes.
The other 2 plates, their plates, you can see were unused. Everybody just ate chips off the orange serving platter.
hors d’oeuvre
You can keep your horse devorse
I’ll see you in horse court
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.
chicken looks bomb lemme get that
Some people simply don’t know how to be good friends. You really shouldn’t take it personal
I’ve just had to learn my closest friends simply aren’t capable of providing emotional connection like I’d like. I’m working on becoming a better friend to them, meeting them where they are , trying to figure out how to provide for and validate my own emotional needs, so I can eventually work up the courage, or whatever it is I need, to meet friends that are more emotionally mature enough to have the real connections I’m looking for
I once delayed a party where I had tons of family over because my friends hadn’t arrived. They didn’t get there until like 10 or something, after I’d already told them to just fuck off. The thing is, they are my friends and they legit care about me in their own (weird to me) ways. I’ve just come to realize they’ve got legit issues, as I do (part of why we’re drawn to being friends), that they’re working on to varying degrees, and I simply can’t expect more from them than they’re capable of giving
Good luck finding a chill healthy tribe of folks that shares similar values to your own!
When planning a party, I assume about 1/3 of the people I invite will RSVP and only 3/4 of them will show. I plan with that in mind. I also explicitly state the plans around food, drink, etc., and if they should come hungry or just expect snacks. And I make sure that I understand what other events or competing parties might be going on to help adjust expectations. Also, planning an annual/regular thing so that people get used to it being something they do every year helps, but it takes a couple of times to get it kickstarted.
Since I started doing that, I’ve had a lot fewer disappointing events. Event planning is a lot of work.
General rule of thumb, plan on less than half the people you invite actually showing up for any gathering.
Also… Wrestling…
I’m not a wrestling fan, in fact I’ve never gone out of my way to even pay attention to it, but it does seem to be growing in popularity. There is a local wrestling event that happens every month in my town that’s getting quite popular, and I hear and see about wrestling events passing through town quite enough. Not my bag, but it seems like it’s having more than just a passing moment
I feel your pain, several years ago I made Thanksgiving dinner for about 15 friends, everything prepped the day before, and we had a hard ice that night, everything frozen over and no one showed
Ah, that sucks too. At least you can take solace in the knowledge that it was unsafe to drive. Still sucks, but it’s a bit less insulting. My thing was on a sunny August day.
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did you miss the part where the streets were frozen? they probably didn’t want to risk their lives for food
That’s what it was, they were frozen solid. It sucked but I wouldn’t have gone out there either. At least I had plenty to eat until it thawed outside
What? That’s like humanity’s whole shtick. I live my ancestors by always being willing to risk my life for food!
I will crawl into an active volcano for a crunchwrap. I have literally walked through a jungle and got ringworm for a good Thai curry.
Some of y’all ain’t living.
I did yeah. That’s why I deleted my comment
Ah, the deletion doesn’t seem to have federated to my instance, sorry for any confusion
No worries- I probably should’ve just left the comment and added a note explaining the misunderstanding on my end.
What you did for your friends was great. I would have absolutely appreciated you doing this if you were my friend and invited me. That said, one of the things I’ve noticed after covid is that a lot of people are already going to go home after gatherings. Getting baked/drinking might be an issue with that. Were your friends driving by chance?
Damn, sorry it happened, 2 of them could’ve told you they no show, it’s not even hard.
Would’ve totally take some of those back home if its me.
Gotta invite more than 4 people
I didn’t know more than 4 adults that like pro-wrestling.
I would say 8, if you want 4 to show up.
I generally plan on 50% turn out for informal events
Ugh sorry bro.
But this reminds me of that reddit post from forever ago about the same thing. Cups, drinks, food. Nobody showed
It happens my dude. I have hosted a lot of parties and we used to do a 3-4 day campout with about 20-50 people depending on the year. Some years we would go though almost all the food other years I came back with 40 lbs of pulled pork that I smoked out of the 60 lbs I made. Next year ran out of it 2 days into the 4 day camp out
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I didn’t realize adults of drinking age were interested in fake wrestling.
People need to bond over something and modern life stripped normal shot away filled with this engagement slop.
Yeah it retarded but I also don’t judge normies for trying to have friends
My significant other is into it and I have decided to just enjoy it with them by picking the silliest person I can see on the stage and rooting for them and playing drinking games with the sillier aspects.
It can be a lot of fun especially with how excited the people I am watching with get excited about the whole thing.
Plus the last guy I picked ( I miss you Boogs!) Was a large muscle man that looked like steroided Freddie Mercury and absolutely shredded on the guitar.
That sounds really great. Sorry, I’m an asshole.
Hey, it’s never to late to change from the asshole you are, to the asshole you want to be.
Plenty are interested in fake stories like scifi and fantasy movies, so why shouldn’t they?
The E in WWE is for Entertainment.
Some people enjoy belittling other’s choices on the internet. Some enjoy watching the drama of fake wrestling.
I’m very much into a variety of entertainment. And fake wrestling was fun to watch when I was a kid. Not trying to belittle anyone, more just surprised that grown adults still watch it.
I haven’t watched since WWF Attitude Era, but there really is nothing like wrestling. It’s such crazy performance art, with sick flips and insane feats of strength. I also called it fake like the person you responded to when I was 11, but now that I’m an adult, I recognize how fantastic it really is.
Also RIP Big Cat Scott Henson.
I don’t get it either. I also don’t get why people would want to watch a bunch of guys scramble around a field after an oblong ball and give each other TBIs, but, hey, people can enjoy whatever they want. I don’t need to criticize them for it. So, why do you feel that need?
Keep trying my friend! I would have been moved out of there with a wheelbarrow.
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 ❤️
