21 Things That Happen At Every Twentysomething Dinner Party

    "Is that a Billy bookshelf?"

    Tabatha Leggett
    by Tabatha Leggett

    BuzzFeed Staff, UK

    1. You'll tell your guests to arrive at 7pm, but no one will know whether that means 7pm, 7:30pm, or 8pm.

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    Which means you'll have to provide lots of wine to drink in the first hour, while you wait for some of your guests to arrive.

    2. Everyone will show up with this exact bottle of wine, because it's always on two for £12 at Sainsbury's.

    3. As soon as everyone has arrived, you will discuss the routes you took to get to the host's house.

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    And then everyone will ask the host to detail their commute to work, and reply "Oooh that's not too bad."

    4. It won't be long until someone asks, "Ooooh is that a Billy bookshelf? I have one of those!"

    5. By this point, everyone will be at least a glass of wine in, and the host will crack open another bottle.

    6. But not before apologising to the guests who are drinking out of tumblers and explaining that they used to have enough wine glasses but one got smashed and they haven't got round to replacing it.

    7. Eventually, everyone will sit down and the host will serve dinner.

    8. Someone will Instagram the table before anyone has a chance to tuck in.

    9. Someone will inevitably comment on how grown up it feels to be having a dinner party.

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    And tbf, they're not wrong.

    10. This will be followed by a comment about how it's been soooo long since you last went clubbing, and how you actually prefer just sitting down for dinner nowadays.

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    Everyone will be like, "Omg, when did we get so oldddddd?"

    11. If there's a vegetarian at the dinner table, everyone will ask when and why they became vegetarian.

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    "But what about bacon? I could never give up bacon!"

    12. As everyone gets drunker, someone will bring up something cringe that someone at the table did at university.

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    Everyone will laugh and reminisce, and the person who the story is about will give their S.O. an apologetic look.

    13. If there are any single people at the table, they will talk about the fact that they are single.

    14. At some point, someone will point at a semi-unusual piece of equipment in the host's kitchen, like an egg-slicer, and the host will say, "Oh I picked it up at Ikea!"

    15. If anyone slags off Ikea, everyone else will jump to its defence.

    16. Everyone will be very complimentary about the food they are eating.

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    "THIS IS THE BEST PASTA I HAVE EVER EATEN, HOW DOES IT TASTE SO GOOD?"

    17. But if you're helping yourselves, no one will be brave enough to take the last bit of food.

    18. Unless the host is very fancy, they'll serve a shop-bought pudding from somewhere like Waitrose at the end.

    19. And then they'll offer everyone coffee, but everyone will just opt for more wine instead.

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    You may be mature enough to sit down for dinner, but you'll still want to drink heavily.

    20. And finally everyone will offer to help the host clear up, and the host will accidentally say "no" when they mean "yes".

    21. And you'll all vow to do it again soon because getting wasted while eating is way more fun than getting wasted in a nightclub.

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    And you don't care how old that makes you sound.