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!
This is why I always eat all the food I can at a party. Everyone else is being too polite and someone’s gotta eat all that food.
It’s a tough job
You’re a good host, sorry to hear this
I am sorry this was your experience, it’s an awesome and tasty spread, I would have loved to have been invited and would have eaten a lot of it haha
That said, I think some times disappointments like this happen because there’s some mismatch in people’s expectations of an event
I find that sometimes it also helps to let people know in advance that there will be food so they don’t eat beforehand. Sorry if you already mentioned this in the thread somewhere. I hope you make some more friends, but no need to officially break things off with anyone from this event. Just cool it with them for awhile I guess
Keep trying my friend! I would have been moved out of there with a wheelbarrow.
Damn them wangs look good…
They wouldna survived intact
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?
That feel when your homies are all on ozempic.
(Sorry brother, I would have consumed a healthy amount had I been there. I am on ozempic now so depending on when my shot was my performance is no longer guaranteed)
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.
This reminds me that expectation is the enemy of happiness. I didn’t plan anything last year for my 34th, just hung out with my dog like a regular day and went on a hike. No disappointment, just another day!
Doesn’t so much make me feel better, it just makes me want to hug you.
It’s ok, not every social event is going to go well and most of the time it’s nothing personal, we’re all just kind of bumbling along through the confusing and absurd reality that is life.
May I join this group hug?
I dont even have parties because I know no one will show up so that’s pretty good.
It always sucks when this sort of thing happens. Sorry man.
The foods looks delicious. I would have been glad even if wrestling is not my cup of tea.
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’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
…I DO live in Ohio…and not that good at video games. All the women I know have different names. I feel like I’m missing a reference with that, unless you ARE referencing the Oblongs, in which case bravo. There was one white dude with a beard, no glasses, but he didn’t show. No mean people.
I’d love some pro friends. Got any that live near Cleveland?
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 ❤️
I got you bro.
I operate a hiking Meetup and a climbing Meetup.
The climbing Meetup I’m watching as a single member is slowly hijacking it
The hiking Meetup I put in so much work and its so intermittent.
The people who do join love it, I have great reviews and basically perfect scores, but just seems like everyone has better things to do
Screw 'en
