Dear Elementary School Event Planners

[flea]

When you advertise an event as including dinner and send out a form to RSVP asking how many people will be eating dinner, it is disconcerting to the attendees to show up and find NO DINNER. Many small children, as well as this 37 year old woman, are completely incapable of lasting until 7pm with NO DINNER. Potluck baked desserts, while charming, are not the same as DINNER.

So we left early and I made spaghetti carbonara and ate about a pound of it.

Comments

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

Budget cuts?

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

That would be my guess, or a donation from a local merchant fell through (often there's pizza and a frat team to hand it out). Which is fine, if only we'd had notice so we could have gotten fed before it started!

[vwbug.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's awful!

I will say, that at our welcome dinner at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get the grill working. It was quite and ordeal. One of our part-time teachers lives two blocks away, so she ran home, and her husband pulled their grill over for us to use. So, yeah, things happen. But, no, desserts are NOT dinner and should not be passed off as such. EVER. But especially not at a school.