Yesterday my husband's cousin's baby shower was at my house. I have been dreading the shower for 2 1/2 months. Partly because I am working more then full time hours, my house is a disgusting mess, and for the way I was drafted into hosting the shower. And I do not want to forget to mention that the other cousin Ellyn, the co-hostess, told me our shower was the 6th or 7th, which I thought was selfish and gluttony on the part of the mom to be. Plus I was told originally 25-30 women would be attending the shower, but that number was parred down to 22-25 at last count.
For the last 2 months I have been complaining to Mark, my mom, my sister in law and a few friends about how I really did not want to do the shower, and I bitched about the cousins and all their faults. Please understand I really like the cousins and we always have a good time together, but I was extremely annoyed about this shower. My annoyance was coming out in nasty comments so much that my husband pointed it out to me. This type of bitching is very uncommon for me. Most of the time I look forward to hosting parties, but this one really bothered me.
I dreaded a certain cousin making the punch because she always, always, always, double dips. It's disgusting. For those of you who may not know what double dipping is I will explain. Double dipping is when someone takes a bite of food and then uses the same utensil or piece of food that has been in their mouth and puts it back in the dip or food. Double dipping occurs when someone licks their finger(s) and picks up food from the shared platter and then puts the piece of food back because they change their mind. To me it's really gross when double dipping happens. More on this later.
As last week progressed I got into the spirit of the shower more. My husband hired a cleaning service to clean the house which was a huge load off my shoulders, and I decided to do the food my way, not cousin Ellyn's. I bought the dad to be a gift instead of the mom,(I love the dad to be). The dad generally gets nothing because most women think the mom does all the hard work and deserve the shower and gifts for the baby. Not so in my head. (maybe another post in the making). I worked on the food and presentation Friday and Saturday, when Sunday rolled around everything was set and looked beautiful.
The double dipping cousin arrived with the makings for punch and the punch bowl and proceeded to set up and make her famous punch. I quietly observed her removing the bowl from the box pick a piece of dirt out of the bowl flick it the floor, lick her finger to remove a smudge of something inside the bowl and pour in the soda. UUgghhh! She added the ice cubes she brought from her freezer in a plastic shopping bag, added the sherbert using a huge serving spoon, LICKED the front and back of the spoon, then stirred the punch with the same spoon. I wanted to vomit!!!!!!! The licking wasn't one lick either, it was a full on assault. Licking, licking, licking and licking more after she saw more sherbert that she missed with the first lick. (my stomach is turning as I write this). She is also the person that will eat over the buffet table, try something using her fingers and pick up food off of the platters etc., and not use the serving utensil. Yuck.
After the party I ranted to Mark about the punch and other intolerable transgressions of etiquette by this cousin. He just said "I told you so. Now do you understand why no one wants to eat at her house?" and let me continue my tirade until I could not say anything more on the subject.
One more thing. The number of party attendees was 15, which makes a big difference in the amount of food. Plus 3 of those party revelers were geriatric women that could not and did not eat.
Please do not think that I was able to get any of the leftovers. Oh no, that did not happen. The double dipping cousin that did not host the party made sure she took home plenty of left overs. I threw out what was left because the double dipper used her fucking hands to paw through the left overs and when she leaned over the table to grab something else she managed to drag her jacket through the icing on the cake and ruin the left over cake.
I thought writing about this would quell the intense irritation but it hasn't. Am I just being petty?
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5 comments:
Showers suck and I have declared a moratorium, personally. I don't blame you for being cranky.
I think it sucks getting rail-roaded into hosting a party you don't really want. As far as double dipping, hey, I can eat anything that anybody has touched. That's one of those things that just doesn't bother me, what can I say? I'm a heathen!
Yeah, showers suck.
Because we are pretty big double dippers WITHIN OUR IMMEDIATE FAMILY (the kids and me) I always worry that I will 'slip' outside the family. I know it is a huge gross out for people and I try to be very sensitive to it. It almost makes me nervous to share food unless the person is my family. My kids know not to do that out in the real world,too.
OTOH, Mr. Ex used to stick his dirty hands (from working outside) into shared food, or even someone's plate, when he came in for a break. It really made me sick. I told him it bothered me.... but I'm a bitch, you know.
You are lucky that the cousin took the buffet food... after all, she had already contaminated most of it!
Glad the party's over! I don't blame you for being cranky, either!
you have to say something to her!
I don't attend showers, unless they are coed, no presents, and lots of alcohol.
Next time, sneeze in your cousin's punch "by accident" and see how she deals.
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