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The Trivial Pursuit party that wasn't
Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:20:02 -0800 alt.fiftyplus
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As I have probably mentioned before, I host a group that gets together once
a month to play team Trivial Pursuit. Yesterday evening was the date of the get-together. We start with a potluck, and I provide beverages and try to have enough of the important things so that no matter what people bring, we'll have enough to eat. This time I had lasagna (Marie Calendar's frozen) and brownies (from Smart & Final) as well as my frozen cranberry salad. Last night I was expecting five people. Actually, I wasn't sure about two of them, since the wife had been sick a couple of days earlier, but I hoped they might come. I straightened up the place, fixed the table and got the food ready. Then I got two phone calls. One woman had a sinus infection and wouldn't be coming. Another didn't want to drive the 10 miles or so in the heavy rain. That left two who had said they would come and the two I wasn't sure of. One of the ones who had said he'd come had 15 or 20 miles to come, so he called to make sure it was still on. I told him I wasn't sure but was hoping. I tried to call the others, but didn't get an answer from either. He decided to wait and see if anybody else came. Finally one other person came, so I called the man who had called me, and he came. It turned out to be just the three of us, but we had a good time. One of them brought a lovely fruit salad, and the other brought sushi. There weren't enough of us to play in teams, so instead of Trivial Pursuit, we decided to play a word game called Palabra. They both enjoyed the game, and one plans to buy it. Chakolate...
I'm doing an extra one on New Years Eve. It will be interesting to see how many people, if any, show up. I would have been pretty bummed if I'd gone to all that work and nobody came, but I was happy with the way it turned out, especially since they helped me with part of the cleanup, and the leftover fruit salad was left david...
for me. mmj1...
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