Let me dig deeper into my thoughts. After that dinner, on our drive home, I kept thinking: 1.) if the host couple were aware of the sales demonstration and forgot to tell us about it. 2.) whether they were made aware at the last minute and 3.) were they completely surprised about it as my friend and I were.
Well, today, I told the hostess of how I felt with what happened, and I made her aware of the existing blog post. She apologized. Hours later, I got another message from the host explaining what actually happened. He was very apologetic as well.
As I mentioned in the previous post that "I did not know if they knew that one of their visitors was bringing another person for one sole reason—business."
Apparently, that's exactly the truth. They were caught off guard as well and thought that their invited guest and family were there to show off her goods, jewelries of which she was known for selling. The host couple weren't aware of another person coming in for sales presentation and product demonstration and thus, steal the time that was meant for fun.
Spell S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E and A-W-K-W-A-R-D combined!
I can not just imagine the dismay, surprise, and the feeling of being trapped in a very awkward situation that the host couple were in. I felt bad because the occasion they planned became partly wasted in terms of time and because it was mixed with business that neither couple were aware of.
Was it the lack of business etiquette or the lack of common sense about what to do at dinner parties, not for the host couple but for the invited guest who had business in mind? If it is the latter, then I guess the saying "common sense is not common" applies here. Yes, it did apply to professional intelligent people unfortunately.
Overall, what the invited guest did was uncalled for.
It's water under the bridge now. As I said "I can't take away the fact that we like the host couple." Gladly, they still remain that way in our book.
I think I should change the title in both blog posts as "We Were All Duped."
UPDATE:: The host and hostess, are now formerly our friends. They blocked us on Facebook shortly after this post was published. Oh well!
4 comments:
The guest has no party etiquette .
Gosh, really awkward. Even the host were caught by the "element of surprise".
True. It was indeed awkward to the highest degree.
Great blog, and... ugh. That is awful. I'm actually quite sick of the "sales" mentality that's now infiltrated otherwise normal friendships and acquaintances. I know we're all struggling, we're all trying to get by, but I'm so over the whole multilevel-marketing-sales-demo-promotional element of our society. If another person I know socially tries to "sell" me on something without being asked, I will probably grab the nearest beverage (if I don't already have one in my hand) and toss it in his or her face. Cheers! xoxo
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