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!
I really think you’ve just detailed why you potentially could be a bad friend to have. To go as far as to hurt them if they simply don’t show up to saying that if they can’t or don’t want to go is such a 180. Sometimes, people can’t explain why they can’t, so should they be the ones you hurt? I wouldn’t think so.
Today, I was at my lowest emotionally and me and a friend were supposed to watch a movie together through Discord. She forgot, by an hour. I knew this. Did I threaten her or make her missed moment hell over it? No, we just acknowledged it, shrugged and re-planned because that’s what normal people do.
If all you can think of is hurting others over otherwise trivial manners - it’s no wonder…