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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2018-03-17 3:41 PM, wrote:
> On Saturday, March 17, 2018 at 1:11:09 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> It is a pretty good scam for throwing a big, lavish party. Nothing but
>> the best ingredients, and all at the expense of your friends and
>> neighbours. FWIW, the birthday boy was a chef. If he is used to
>> partying like that he must be liberating the goodies from his restaurant
>> because most chefs don't make enough to entertain like that.
>>
>>
> If wifey wanted to throw him a lavish party then she should have opted
> for some fancy restaurant they had not visited before; her idea, her
> expense. But you know some people have more nerve than a bum tooth.

So true. I was stunned by the magnitude of the request. I don't know
what it costs for a beef tenderloin where you live, but around here at
the time you would be lucky to find on on sale for less than $60. Two of
those and another $60 for wine? .... and that was just one of the people
she was invited to cater her party.

> If I were the friend and asked to fork over that much money for items,
> I'd have to say this is just getting out of hand and I'm going to have
> to decline. Husband being a chef would have made me uncomfortable as
> I'd feel like he was critiquing everything on the table.

Funny thing is..... a person who would have the nerve to expect that
from a neighbour she hardly knows would probably feel entitled to be
upset that her invitation had been declined.