When I were a lad
It was my eighteenth birthday and I had arranged to go for a curry to celebrate with some friends (even the under-18s can drink if it's bring your own booze...) so I invited a small group of about 10 people, booked a table for one Friday night, and thought little of it.

When I turned up at the restaurant that evening, there was another table, on the opposite side of the room, with 4 girls from school sat on it. Despite the ringleader of this little coterie having a face like thunder, I wandered over and said hi and asked them if they'd come for a night out.

'Well we've come to wish you a happy birthday. Not that you could be bothered to invite us. But never mind. Happy Birthday!'

Oh - I'm very sorry. Would you like to come and join us. Won't be a problem to arrange, etc.

'No. We know when we're not wanted' (Er. Are you sure?)

So I went and sat back down with my mates and had a nice curry and a few beers with these girls sitting opposite and glaring at us all the time.

Weirdest things about it were that: 1) I'd barely even spoken to them before, and 2) they apparently did this sort of thing regularly if they weren't invited to stuff.

I just don't for the life of me understand why you'd make a point of turning up at things you weren't invited to and then purposefully not enjoying yourself just so everyone knows you're having a miserable time. Teenagers...
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 4 Apr 2013, 14:31, 3 replies)

Is this some sort of allegory of how QotW works?

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 4 Apr 2013, 14:53, closed)

Ha!
Quite a good one, actually.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 4 Apr 2013, 14:55, closed)

Not just teenagers. Needy, slightly deranged 40-somethings do it too.
Mrs V and I had one a few years ago.

"Fancy coming to the pub?"

"Oh. You're going to the pub, are you?"

"Yeah - coming?"

"Who organised it?"

"They did."

"Well they didn't invite me."

"Well - we are. You coming?"

"No - I don't fancy it."
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 4 Apr 2013, 17:28, closed)