Lots of diets recommend people eat before going to a party.. so you fill up
on things like carrot and celery sticks, and not fattening food.
But, in your case, it doesn't sound the same. I mean, they knew you were
serving a meal, so that still doesn't make sense. Ok.. I'm rambling via the
keyboard, hoping I could figure out why.. and I still haven't. They were
just clueless.
lucy

"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun 23 Jan 2005 01:32:05p, Steve Calvin called across the abyss...
>
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>> Michel Boucher wrote:
>>>
>>>>Last night we had the party for my wife's 50th.
>>>
>>> Happy Birthday to your wife!
>>>
>>>
>>>>What we got were silly excuses like "We didn't want you to go to any
>>>>trouble" or "We didn't want to impose on you". Do people not
>>>>understand that when you're invited to come eat, that means bring an
>>>>appetite?
>>>>
>>>>Sheesh...
>>>
>>>
>>> Yep, that's a little nutty. If I'm invited for dinner I sure wouldn't
>>> eat before I arrived. I mean, come on! It's free food! The only
>>> thing I can think of is they are afraid of your cooking (and I have no
>>> idea why they would be).
>>>
>>> Jill
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Echoing the congrats to your wife. I hope that she's over the trama. ;-)
>> I hit 51 this year and even when I turned 50 it didn't bother me.
>>
>> I wondered the same thing Jill but I couldn't understand why that would
>> be either.
>>
>
> I'm turning 60 tomorrow, and I've been thinking for months that I would be
> upset, but surprisingly I'm not. My thoughts have kinda turned to, "wow,
> I'm gonna be 60, maybe that's a good thing". Turning 50 did bother me a
> little, though.
>
> Wayne