Welcome back, y'all! Last time we chatted, we debated over whether this dad was wrong for telling his son's teacher to "F– off" after they tried to force him into inviting the son's whole class to his birthday party. Now, Reddit has dropped me into another messy situation about a practically uninvited wedding guest filling 10 Tupperware containers with food.
Here's the story, as told by the bride, aka u/numanuma_: "My husband and I had a very small wedding ceremony and reception; probably about 25 people were invited. Only close family and a handful of friends," the bride said. "I invited my dad's BFF so he'd have someone to socialize with other than my mom, since they literally spend 24/7 with each other — plus, his friend has always been good to me."
"Anyway, a few days before the wedding, my dad's friend asked him if it's okay if his daughter and her husband came, and I didn't have a problem with it. So, she shows up without her husband, but with 10 Tupperware containers. TO TAKE FOOD," she continued.
"We had a buffet-style wedding, and we had a cookie table. She loaded up seven Tupperware containers with food to take home, took about three containers of homemade cookies, a couple of bottles of beer, and most of the centerpieces.
"I didn't notice any of this because I was too busy the whole wedding, but my dad told me about it the next day. And when we opened up our 'gift' from her, she gave us a $5 bill. Not even kidding.
"Before anyone asks, she's not poor by any stretch of the imagination. She's probably better off than I am, and I'm assuming it's because she just freeloads from anyone and everyone she can! But seriously? Who tf does this?"
This now-viral story was dropped in Reddit's r/trashy forum, where users swap tales about others who could use a crash course in decorum. So, as expected, once this bride's tale started making its way across the internet, others couldn't help but join in with similarly distasteful experiences. Here's some of the top-voted responses:
1. "This reminds me of a story: My now-wife and I had an engagement party at her father's house. For some reason, his new girlfriend invited a bunch of people from her family that we didn't know. One couple showed up with a cooler.
"We hadn't thought much of it. We figured they brought their own booze. But later, we found out they filled the cooler with booze. Oh and no gift, not even a card. They made off with an unopened bottle of Crown Royal, vodka, and a bunch of beer."
2. "Not a wedding, but I have an aunt that showed up to her dad's funeral with a U-Haul.
"While we were all at the luncheon after the gravesite service, she and her daughter were cleaning out his house, taking everything they wanted before anyone else had any say in it.
"She still had some extra room, so she took all the funeral flower arrangements and plants with her, too."
3. "My wife and I got married in 2012, and we had two large sheet cakes to serve at the reception in addition to the three-layer cake that we cut as part of the show.
"We ended up with an entire untouched sheet cake that I was looking forward to digging into when we returned from the honeymoon. Fast-forward a week, and we return from Orlando only to find that an elderly couple we invited literally stole the entire sheet cake without asking. They just took the entire thing. Fuck you, Dean and Denise. That cake was delicious, and I will NEVER forgive you."
4. "This reminds me of my aunt and uncle's neighbor. Let's call her S.
"My cousin passed away, and we had a memorial BBQ gathering at their home the following year. There was food, a water slide, beer, liquor, etc.
"No one in the neighborhood particularly liked S; several downright hated her. To be cordial though, she was invited. She ended up filling three grocery bags full of stuff. She took a whole watermelon, a whole bottle of Hennessy, about half a dozen beers, she prepared several plates, took a dozen Jell-O shots. She even went inside to take shampoo, toilet paper, and paper towels."
—Anonymous
5. "My uncle's wife did this at our wedding. We had late-night mac n' cheese put out, and she came flying in with to-go containers.
"She was scooping out as much as she could, until my maid of honor caught on. MOH stopped her; all was fine, but what the hell? She left us maybe a quarter of the platter, knowing that the whole group of us was going to be having a fire later, and that we were planning to bring the mac n' cheese with us."
6. "At my wedding, my parents fixed to-go plates of food for my husband and me to eat once we got back home that night. They wrote our names on them and put them away in the kitchen of the venue.
"They knew everything would be cleaned out and wanted to make sure we had food, since we were too busy to eat at the reception. Well, we get home that night starving and get out our to-go plates and find out it was all just boxes of cake. Someone went into the kitchen and took our plates with our names written on them. We went to bed hungry on our wedding night. Still never found out who it was."
—Anonymous
7. "My cousin did this at my parents' house on Thanksgiving this year. My mom offered her some apple cider from the fridge, and she loaded up four bottles in a to-go bag along with a bunch of the leftovers."
8. "I was at my aunt's wedding, and all the groomsmen got drunk and passed out. One of them lost his tux coat, and they had to return it that next day. Well, he decided to steal someone else's coat who was still drunk and asleep so he didn’t have to pay.
"The store owner had tags on the tux, and he knew it wasn’t his jacket, so the owner made him pay for it. He never talked to our family again after that."
9. "I had a lady like this at the place I used to work at. Once in a while, my company would hold receptions where they invited local wine and beer producers to our building. They would work in conjunction with the restaurant in our building, and have food that paired well with their product. At the end, we'd vote on the wine and beer that the restaurant would feature for that period. Needless to say, these were events staff looked forward to.
"One receptionist would always show up with Tupperware and pack food away — and not just her lunch dish, I mean several bowls. She'd pack cookies, vegetables, fruit, sliders, shrimp skewers, etc., then take it to her office, and come back to enjoy the party. She was not poor. She was just a strange person."
10. "We had a big wedding, and at the end, we gave our guests a crystal wine glass monogramed with our names and the date of our wedding. We had around 300 glasses for a wedding of 270 people. At the end of the night, there was a table with an attendant who was supposed to give you one on your way out of the wedding reception. Me and my wife had our big send-off, and the party continued for around half an hour.
"Apparently, during that time, people were trying to take as many as they could. Some just walked up and took whole, unopened boxes of 12. By the end of the night, they were all gone, and we did not even get a couple glasses for us."
11. And finally: "This is what my dad does. He’s not poor — he's actually quite wealthy. Every week, there’s a potluck at the church, and my dad shows up 30 minutes before the session ends. Heck, he sometimes sleeps during the songs.
"When the potluck rolls around, he’ll fill five Tupperware containers with food. One time, there was turkey soup, and he stood there for minutes trying to fish out as much turkey as possible before someone got pissed off."