Blueberry
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I wanted to share this with you and run this situation by you all, I am sure you all have some similar stories to share.
Saturday was a very warm day here, warm enough to have a barbecue outside in our area. We were invited to the first cook out of the year at some old friends house whom we had not seen in awhile. We were each asked to bring a dish along and they would provide the meat, as the lady of the house is not much of a cook and that is how they have parties.
They have large barbecues generally and seem to invite everyone they have ever known, but we used to enjoy them as it was a good way to see people you did not see much.
We arrived saturday and I stashed my pasta salad in the refridge and helped them set up outside as they had so many they preferred everyone eat outside so they said...
I watched them barbecue hamburgers, hot dogs and steak for everyone. When it came time to bring out the food she only wanted her daughters to bring it out to avoid congeston in the kitchen she said as it is not large, so we sat back as they brought out some potato salad, a big pan of just pork and beans and hot dogs and hamburgers.....no steak and my pasta salad did not get brought out at all. I asked one of the girls about it and she said on we will get it next trip in, but no one was bringing it out and people were eating. I could not believe out of all these people only this much food had arrived, but I figured they had brought maybe soda or chips...
The girls were eating outside but neither of our hosts were or a few of their close friends, which I found odd..I figured that they were still in the kitchen working on something, so I went in to get my own pasta salad as many were asking for it (it is a speciality of mine). When I got in the kitchen I got a major shock, here is the host couple and two other couples sitting and eating in the dining room, eating steak, my pasta salad and some of the other better looking food people had brought in to share. I got nothing but a rude glare from them as I came inside. The woman said to me, guests are eating outside please..I said to her, I came to get my pasta salad to put out, she snapped at me, the food is out this food is for us.
I was so shocked, never saw people invite you to a barbecue, keep the best food for themselves and just put out the cheapest things they have. Quietly I told my DH what happned, and being him he went inside to see this himself. They just muttered something like just use the bathroom and go on back outside please, we have too many to be inside the house. MY DH said that it looked like they had a huge feast there at our expense...
When he got back outside, we just quietly picked up our lawn chairs, put our sodas back in the cooler and left without a word. We had not served ourselves any food as we were waiting till they got everything out before we ate.
Wondered if anyone else relalized what was going on there. We vowed never to return to these folks house again of couse..
Has anyone else ever been treated rudely by a host or hostess or have anything this stupid happen to them...I was fuming mad and was glad I had put the salad in a disposable bowl so I do not have to get it back from them.
Saturday was a very warm day here, warm enough to have a barbecue outside in our area. We were invited to the first cook out of the year at some old friends house whom we had not seen in awhile. We were each asked to bring a dish along and they would provide the meat, as the lady of the house is not much of a cook and that is how they have parties.
They have large barbecues generally and seem to invite everyone they have ever known, but we used to enjoy them as it was a good way to see people you did not see much.
We arrived saturday and I stashed my pasta salad in the refridge and helped them set up outside as they had so many they preferred everyone eat outside so they said...
I watched them barbecue hamburgers, hot dogs and steak for everyone. When it came time to bring out the food she only wanted her daughters to bring it out to avoid congeston in the kitchen she said as it is not large, so we sat back as they brought out some potato salad, a big pan of just pork and beans and hot dogs and hamburgers.....no steak and my pasta salad did not get brought out at all. I asked one of the girls about it and she said on we will get it next trip in, but no one was bringing it out and people were eating. I could not believe out of all these people only this much food had arrived, but I figured they had brought maybe soda or chips...
The girls were eating outside but neither of our hosts were or a few of their close friends, which I found odd..I figured that they were still in the kitchen working on something, so I went in to get my own pasta salad as many were asking for it (it is a speciality of mine). When I got in the kitchen I got a major shock, here is the host couple and two other couples sitting and eating in the dining room, eating steak, my pasta salad and some of the other better looking food people had brought in to share. I got nothing but a rude glare from them as I came inside. The woman said to me, guests are eating outside please..I said to her, I came to get my pasta salad to put out, she snapped at me, the food is out this food is for us.
I was so shocked, never saw people invite you to a barbecue, keep the best food for themselves and just put out the cheapest things they have. Quietly I told my DH what happned, and being him he went inside to see this himself. They just muttered something like just use the bathroom and go on back outside please, we have too many to be inside the house. MY DH said that it looked like they had a huge feast there at our expense...
When he got back outside, we just quietly picked up our lawn chairs, put our sodas back in the cooler and left without a word. We had not served ourselves any food as we were waiting till they got everything out before we ate.
Wondered if anyone else relalized what was going on there. We vowed never to return to these folks house again of couse..
Has anyone else ever been treated rudely by a host or hostess or have anything this stupid happen to them...I was fuming mad and was glad I had put the salad in a disposable bowl so I do not have to get it back from them.
I give you credit for that.
