[Magdalen] Throwing a Cr*ppy Dinner Party

[Roger Stokes]

On 21/09/2016 21:53, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> How often have we seen people agonizing over their preparations for their
> entertainment.

The supreme example of that is probably arranging a wedding.  I 
sometimes ask someone I know is planning a wedding if they have ordered 
the weather. The problem with trying to arrange "the perfect do" is that 
something beyond their control will go wrong. The trick then is not to 
break down but make something of it.  Perhaps the best example I have 
seen of that is when the groom's car, and the other one sent to fetch 
him, broke down on the way to the wedding. He arrived at the church in a 
police car which had responded to the emergency. That surely led to some 
memorable pictures, and probably some comments at the reception.

Roger