The following question keeps asking itself inside my brain:
If I had a party and didn’t invite anyone, would everyone still know they weren’t invited?
The story so far
I'm from Adelaide, but I'm living in Abu Dhabi right now. One day, I saw a gold leaf four wheel drive. It made me cry.
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My first novel, Black Dust Dancing, was published by Wakefield Press in March. It looks like this:
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15 responses so far ↓
The Coffee Lady // June 1, 2009 at 2:13 pm |
No. They wouldn’t care either, because everyone secretly hates you.
Nothing personal.
ThirdCat // June 1, 2009 at 2:23 pm |
Why didn’t I think of that?
Pavlov's Cat // June 1, 2009 at 2:30 pm |
Or, if you didn’t invite anyone and a whole lot of people turned up regardless, could you still call it a party?
ThirdCat // June 1, 2009 at 2:33 pm |
hmmm…another good question…does the answer to that depend on whether or not the people who turn up secretly hate me?
Deborah // June 1, 2009 at 2:34 pm |
One of the best parties I ever went to was one I didn’t attend. It was at Mr Strange Land’s place, which he shared with several other people, before we were, you know…. Mr Strange Land and I retired to his room early on in the proceedings, and, well, that would be TMI, but you know…
ThirdCat // June 1, 2009 at 2:36 pm |
that does sound like an excellent party – in fact, your story has made me smile with happiness for some reason
Pavlov's Cat // June 1, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Me too.
peppermintpatcher // June 2, 2009 at 12:05 pm |
What if you were most certainly not having a party, but a whole lot of people came over?
Would that be a party?
And.. what if those people brought cake with them?
Kath Lockett // June 3, 2009 at 6:06 am |
Sure it would be a party and I’d be offended.
Mikhela // June 4, 2009 at 6:45 am |
We wouldn’t have sent RSVPs so you wouldn’t know we weren’t coming. (I’m using ‘we’ rather than ‘they’ as I am assuming I am among the ranks of those not invited)
fifi // June 4, 2009 at 3:33 pm |
well I hope I wasn’t invited like everybody else.
mikhela // June 6, 2009 at 5:56 pm |
Oh! And I realised today I don’t have a thing to not wear.
ThirdCat // June 9, 2009 at 9:46 am |
that’s no problem, the theme is ‘come as you weren’t’
Carolyn Cordon // June 8, 2009 at 9:26 am |
no-one ever invites me to parties. That’s the rain, not my weeping. Tracy, it’s pissing down in Redbanks South Australia. The drought is no more. Unless the rain stops for a few months, in which case we’re doomed, doomed I tells ya.
Stomper Girl // June 11, 2009 at 7:25 am |
I’m sick of people not inviting me to their theoretical parties, I tells ya.