Friday OT #2 - What Have I Done?

[Angie]

Thanks so much to @Bipolarcy for this topic! I'm going to paste the idea as he sent it, because it's the best description! Here goes:

I have a class reunion coming up (I won't tell you which one) which put me in mind of past reunions and making a fool of yourself at one of them. So the question would be have you ever embarrassed yourself or others at a class or family reunion. It doesn't have to be just a reunion. It could be an office party too.

I have purposely avoided all class reunions, but got hypnotized at an office Christmas party once. In hindsight, I could have skipped that experience...

 

[throwittoblythe]

This was not me personally, but happened at a company event:

We hired a new guy to lead our Canada operations. His very first day of work was our company annual meeting. So, EVERYONE is there: field workers all the way up to top brass. During the awards ceremony, there's a lull in the presentations. This dude walks up on stage, grabs the mic, and starts drunkenly slurring his way through a speech making fun of all the "stupid americans" at our company. It was profanity laced and may have been meant in jest, but was not received that way.

He was ushered off stage and put on a flight back to Canada the next day. His tenure at our company lasted all of one day.

 

[NWICY]

This was not me personally, but happened at a company event:

We hired a new guy to lead our Canada operations. His very first day of work was our company annual meeting. So, EVERYONE is there: field workers all the way up to top brass. During the awards ceremony, there's a lull in the presentations. This dude walks up on stage, grabs the mic, and starts drunkenly slurring his way through a speech making fun of all the "stupid americans" at our company. It was profanity laced and may have been meant in jest, but was not received that way.

He was ushered off stage and put on a flight back to Canada the next day. His tenure at our company lasted all of one day.

Close the thread, this one won't be topped.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

My company held our Christmas party at a nice steakhouse with a reserved room. Our owner was friends with the owner of the steakhouse. After a number of co-workers got blotto and made asses of themselves, our owner got PISSED and cancelled any future Christmas parties.

Feeling a bit rebellious, I decided to throw a "**** the Company" Christmas party at my house the next year. The day before the party, our owner was chatting with myself and a co-worker, and my co-worker totally throws me under the bus and says "Hey are you going to Cooler's party?"

The owner responds, "Well, no. I don't know anything about it."

I quickly try to save face by saying "Yeah, you should come over. We just kinda threw this together last minute." yadda yadda yadda

I've never actually killed anyone with a look, but my co-worker would have died that day if I had that power.

In terms of the party, I don't think I've seen that much alcohol consumed by so few people in my life. People passed out in our front and back yard, some crap got broken, one lady showed up with what looked like a drug dealer that was 20 years her younger, and some guy got his eyebrows shaved off.

 

[Gonzo]

This was not me personally, but happened at a company event:

We hired a new guy to lead our Canada operations. His very first day of work was our company annual meeting. So, EVERYONE is there: field workers all the way up to top brass. During the awards ceremony, there's a lull in the presentations. This dude walks up on stage, grabs the mic, and starts drunkenly slurring his way through a speech making fun of all the "stupid americans" at our company. It was profanity laced and may have been meant in jest, but was not received that way.

He was ushered off stage and put on a flight back to Canada the next day. His tenure at our company lasted all of one day.

That was me. And you all deserved it.

 

[madguy30]

I always like to think I've been very well behaved.

Not reunion/party specific, but a few years ago I went to a weeknight show at a local music venue that I at one time practically lived at. My memory of the place was all sorts of fun nights with people out, having a great time, drinking, etc.

Well I was stone sober for this show, and I noticed the crowd seemed very subdued, and I wondered if during that 'golden era' if I was the only one having so much fun while everyone else was thinking 'oh that guy's here again'.

 

[Gunnerclone]

My company held our Christmas party at a nice steakhouse with a reserved room. Our owner was friends with the owner of the steakhouse. After a number of co-workers got blotto and made asses of themselves, our owner got PISSED and cancelled any future Christmas parties.

Feeling a bit rebellious, I decided to throw a "**** the Company" Christmas party at my house the next year. The day before the party, our owner was chatting with myself and a co-worker, and my co-worker totally throws me under the bus and says "Hey are you going to Cooler's party?"

The owner responds, "Well, no. I don't know anything about it."

I quickly try to save face by saying "Yeah, you should come over. We just kinda threw this together last minute." yadda yadda yadda

I've never actually killed anyone with a look, but my co-worker would have died that day if I had that power.

In terms of the party, I don't think I've seen that much alcohol consumed by so few people in my life. People passed out in our front and back yard, some crap got broken, one lady showed up with what looked like a drug dealer that was 20 years her younger, and some guy got his eyebrows shaved off.

Hit me up in a few months with the 2021 details.

 

[throwittoblythe]

Boy, have I got a nuclear bomb of a story that I WISH I could tell here. However, it involves a very, very politically divisive topic that I'm afraid will drive us to the cave.

 

[Sigmapolis]

I skipped my 5th, 10th, and 15th (not that the 15th could really happen with COVID).

 

[GMackey32]

I went to my 10th. I got really drunk but didn't make a fool of myself there. I made a fool of myself when I got back to my mom's place and was trying to eat a Pablo's burrito on her couch. Woke up the next morning to burrito remnants everywhere.

 

[madguy30]

And yeah likely won't do another high school or college reunions.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Boy, have I got a nuclear bomb of a story that I WISH I could tell here. However, it involves a very, very politically divisive topic that I'm afraid will drive us to the cave.

My DMs are open, friend.

 

[Sousaclone]

Not a class reunion story (I've never been to one), but a couple of good corporate managers meetings:

1. Not my company (it was a JV partner). Company is having their 100th anniversary managers meeting and they flew in basically everyone from their sites around the country (smaller company maybe 100 salaried staff). 2-3 yr employee goes out with everyone on the first night and has a fine old time (trying to outdrink some of the old school superintendents). They are on the bus the next morning driving to visit a local project, everyone hears a barfing sound and then a panicked 'I am so sorry". Said engineer not only puked, but managed to puke onto the OWNER of the company in the row in front of him.

2. Same meeting, one of the superintendents got a little inebriated in the bar before the flight and during the layover, got mouthy with a flight attendant while boarding the last flight, and promptly got removed/escorted OFF the plane in full view of about 12 coworkers who were all flying back to the same city.

 

[TXCyclones]

I got invited to the CEO's Christmas Party... I was working in our Richmond, VA facility at the time and the corporate headquarters was near Atlanta. The Christmas Party was at Sugarloaf Country Club. We're all in suits/ties and the ladies were all in very nice dresses/gowns. My wife (now ex) cannot stand to NOT be the center of attention, ever. One coworker is on crutches, but my wife grabs one of the crutches and at the "V" at the center of the crutch shoves her face there and sticks out her tongue and starts wagging it (lalalala). About :20 later I look up and she'd dragged one of the division presidents, who was a former owner of one of the companies we'd acquired, onto the dance floor and had somehow taken off his belt and was swinging it around like a lasso. As the evening wrapped up and we made our way outside in the pouring rain to the valet line I went to pull the car up as I see my wife riding on the back of another division president. Through the windshield wipers whipping back and forth, I can see that his wife is livid. As I pull up she piles into the car in front of me rather than our car. Everybody thought she was just a "hoot" and added life to the party. I thought she was just an idiot yet again, and sadly it wasn't the last time.

It's now 20 years later, and my 22 year old daughter is having to deal with her now because she hasn't changed at all. Alcoholism is a hell of a thing.

 

[Farnsworth]

Not reunion, but first meeting in-person with international colleagues.

I was overseeing 8 different call centers around the globe, and we had the leaders of all of those centers come into town for training so this was the first time I was meeting any of them. The firs thing we did was take them out to eat for dinner the night before we got started. We dined at an outside table, and not 3 minutes after sitting down a bird straight ***** on forehead/hair.

 

[CyState85]

I went to my wife’s class reunion and as a joke, they introduced me as Wolfgang—-the German foreign exchange student from their junior year of high school. Her friends made up an elaborate backstory about things only her classmates would know and it was hilarious. My accent was terrible and everybody insisted on buying Jager shots for me (which I hate). When I was dry heaving later that night, I’m guessing it sounded like a legit German accent!

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Sure I posted on cf about this when it happened but a couple of years ago our class had our 20th. We do a family potluck for lunch and then adults only at a local bar. After most of our group left the bar at midnight - sad that we are at that stage, a girl in our class ordered 40 shots of fireball.

We don't even have 40 people left among group so a few of us do more than 1. I ended up doing 10 of them. As I was doing my 10 several people gave me the don't do it look. After number 10 I said look at me 10 shots and I'm still standing. Well in 2 minutes I was quickly sitting.

A fellow classmate dropped me at my mom's and I made enough of a commotion that she woke up and good thing because not long after getting there I tossed my cookies and if not for her watching over me I very could of met my demise by choking on my own puke.

If I go to the next one I'm not having a drop of alcohol and I'm never touching fireball again. Even now the smell of cinnamon makes me quesy.

 

[2ndCyCE]

Several years ago, it is my first year out of college, and I have a female co-worker who is very attractive but married to a med-school student. Like me, she is in also in her early 20s. She married the guy because he got her pregnant, and the baby is now like a year old or so. Her husband finishes school and will have to move away for his residency.

The office Christmas party is a few weeks before she will be moving away with her husband, who is not at the party (home with the baby). She asks me to give her a ride when the party is over since she is a little tipsy. During the drive, she spills her heart out to me and tells me that she hates her husband and has a huge crush on me, but knows she has to go with him for the sake of the baby.

We talked for awhile for the rest of the drive and over the course of the next weeks at work and basically agreed that "in another life" we could have been great together, but that is not how things work. We haven't seen each other or spoken since.

 

[MeanDean]

Several years ago, it is my first year out of college, and I have a female co-worker who is very attractive but married to a med-school student. Like me, she is in also in her early 20s. She married the guy because he got her pregnant, and the baby is now like a year old or so. Her husband finishes school and will have to move away for his residency.

The office Christmas party is a few weeks before she will be moving away with her husband, who is not at the party (home with the baby). She asks me to give her a ride when the party is over since she is a little tipsy. During the drive, she spills her heart out to me and tells me that she hates her husband and has a huge crush on me, but knows she has to go with him for the sake of the baby.

We talked for awhile for the rest of the drive and over the course of the next weeks at work and basically agreed that "in another life" we could have been great together, but that is not how things work. We haven't seen each other or spoken since.

You'll need a few edits if you expect to make it into Penthouse Forums.

 

[moores2]

My mom always tells the story about one of her classmates from high school showing up to a reunion in a rental car and telling everyone to use it as a bathroom/trash it. The person then reported the car stolen. So, safe to say my mom doesn't enjoy going to her reunions anymore.