Just recovering from a trauma caused by a party over the weekend...
The party was a community event, so not much of cooking work is required, although I feel guilty that I have passed on substantial amount of my work to another nice couple that wanted to help. We humans are selfish beings and we want to survive, even if it involves putting other people in trouble.
This is what happened in this party. Family A was suppose to host the event, but passed it on to family B. Family B agreed initially, but internally terrified. Family B has to do 5 different items and on the top of that they have to arrange stuff for the baby shower as well!! Now this nice family C calls to know the updates and offers to help. Family B is fully aware that family C has some problem and should not be given hard job, but at the same time family B also does not want to take up all the work given to them. So B asks C if they can do a certain job and C agrees saying that they are ready to do it - if that is going to ease B's burden. B knows, this will significantly reduce their work, but it is unfair that C does so much work, but still asks C if they are sure they want to do it. C being very nice says yes, they are confident. So, finally B transfers that job to C although reluctantly and feeling guilty... Now you must have guessed who is family B - it is none other than we..
But hang on the story does not end here!! Hosting party for 60 people in a house is not easy, especially when there are 30 kids of different age groups and gender. I saw in the bedroom, there are 6-7, 8-10 year old boys jumping on the bed. My husband concerned asked why they are jumping on the bed and the reply came - Is there a problem? Now, not knowing what to say, Pramod said, yes, the bed is half broken and will break completely if they continue jumping. Probably then, they got down but continued to jump till the end of the party when no one was seeing.
There is this another group of little kids(2-4 years olds) - busy running from one end of the house to other and levelling anything that comes their way. Intermittently, they would look up inside the 5 gallon drinking water container, remove the lid and spit...:(
Now, there are another group of little girls 5-7 year olds, fighting for balloons and making zillion pieces out of it..
So, in the end, when everyone had left, the house looked like a war zone with scattered objects all over, cakes smeared on the carpet, food material all over, computers frozen, plants broken, drinks spilled on the carpet, left over food all over and a sticky floor...
Now, I feel good that I did not have to do the large part of job that was passed on to C(although this seems like selfish thinking). The fun began when we ended up cleaning all the four rooms and 2 halls. This is not all, the worse part is handling trash. We had about 10 bags of trash that we stashed in our garage. Now there were a lot of left over food there inside, and whole of sunday the food started decomposing and making horrible smell. We tried to cover those bags with another bag, but it did not help much. Finally at about 7 PM our time on Sunday we left them outside(as per rule) for monday morning trash pick up. We felt extremely guilty about the rotten smell and the discomfort it may have caused to our neighbor( My sincere apologies to them). Finally today morning the trash was taken, and again I feel sad for the guys who have to be in that trash truck. How much they must be enduring.. Sigh. Who will teach these people to take only the amount of food on their plate that they are confident of finishing and NOT WASTE FOOD.. If these simple things are taught children early on, it will make this world a very beautiful place to live.. Vowing not to have any community party ever at our place...
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