A funny episode

Last week I was invited to join my friend Melissa at her place for a BBQ. What was funny, was that this BBQ originally was going to be quite small--I was the 6th, and I was already an additional add-on to the party, originally set at 3 :) But then things quickly started to happen...

While we were preparing the food, there was a ring of the doorbell. Melissa was in the middle of something, and me thinking that it might be another guest, I went out to answer the door. It turned out to be a salesman for a security company. They were offering her a special deal, so I went and got Melissa. It turned out that she had already been thinking about getting an alarm, so she decided to go ahead and take advantage of the special. Which left the rest of us to get ready for the BBQ while she went through all the details with the salesman.

At some point we were just about ready to eat, and she was was STILL talking to the salesman, so someone went out to tell her we were ready, but that we didn't have butter for the corn on the cob. Here's where it gets funny: the salesman was going to be waiting around for the technician to come and install stuff anyway, so he volunteered if we gave him money to go get butter for us! Too funny! And that's what he did!

Of course, when he returned, we invited him to join us in our meal. There were 6 of us, now there were 7. At some point this salesman got a call from another salesman in the neighborhood, who was running into some sketchy situations, so we invited him to join as well--party grows to 8. Pretty soon the technician comes, and we invite him to eat as well. And so there were 9. It's a good thing we had so much food!

It was a great BBQ, and we were laughing the whole way through. The group that was there was kind of a hodgepodge of people that Melissa knew anyway, so we were all getting to know each other. All in all, it was a very fun night--and Melissa got an alarm system out of it too! You can check out Melissa's blog for more pictures and her description of the night if you want... just too too funny :)