So I'm at a bachelorette party...

HisGirlFriday13

...and it's kind of a cluster.

-- I asked for a red wine list and the bartender suggested chardonnay. Uhm...not quite.

-- The hostess decided to split up our 15-person party at a table of 9, a table of 4, and a table of 2. That got sorted very quickly when assertive bitchy HisGirl said, 'Yeah, no, we're going to push these three tables together and all sit as a group.'

-- There's a 'band,' which is really a random assortment of instruments, none of which are playing the same song or tune or even in the same key.

I am having a lot of wine.

KGold80

I would be upset at the offer of Chardonnay when asking for red! What kind of bartender is that!?

phira

At least it sounds like the clusterfuck of stupidity is the fault of the restaurant/bar/whatever, as opposed to the people who organized the bachelorette party.

Although I might have walked out at the wine stupidity.

SmileDamnit

Oh, girl…you're in for a loooong night! 

I was at a random dive bar once and asked for an old fashioned (yes, I know now that was my first mistake) and bar tendered replied, "I'm sorry. We don't carry that beer.". I ended up with a bud light

wandajune6

I had a similar issue during an open bar tonight - I asked about wines and was offered a blue wine cooler. I appreciate the open bar but decided that hard liquor was the better choice!

mrsmorales2be

Just......wow.  Not sure there are words here....

emcme22

I don't drink wine and even I know a few basic reds and whites and which is which.

climbingsingle

Yikes.

I once went to a restaurant and asked the bartender what kind of red wine they had. She said, "Um. Cabaret."

pinkcow13

SmileDamnit said:

Oh, girl…you're in for a loooong night! 

I was at a random dive bar once and asked for an old fashioned (yes, I know now that was my first mistake) and bar tendered replied, "I'm sorry. We don't carry that beer.". I ended up with a bud light

Lmfao. Hisgirl, how did the party end up?

HisGirlFriday13

Uhm...after we left the restaurant, it actually went even further downhill, as hard as that is to believe.

While still AT the restaurant, our food came out in waves, most of it wrong. My steak was med-well, not med-rare and I got no steak knife.

A random guy bought us drinks, but apparently only meant to buy them 'for the pretty girls, married or not, but not the ugly ones.' That went over about as well as you'd expect.

At the bar afterwards, one of the girls devised a list of 'things Bride should do.' My contribution was, 'Sing with the band.' The end other suggestions were along the lines of, 'let two guys do body shots off her.'

Y'all, this bride is early 30s, second marriage, mother of two. I'm probably being judgemental, but I was expecting something a little tamer. Also, the invite was for dinner, not dinner and bar-hopping, which had I known, I would have planned for.

And the other girls kept getting random dudes to buy the whole group (14 of us) shots, and since I had to drive, I didn't do them, which got me dirty looks from some of the girls. Oh, well.

I was texting DH while at the party, because he was with the groom, and THEIR party got kicked out of two bars, banned from one for good, and asked not to come back for six months.

My DH was fine and met me at home, but every guy other than DH and his best friend had their keys taken away, so then all the girls had to go collect their FIs/DHs, and based on FB, there was a lot of driving around retrieving cars this morning.

So it was a cluster.

KGold80

Ugh!!! As an early 30s mom heading into her second marriage, I'm judging right along with you. I constantly think "I am someone's mom. Therefore, I don't act trashy."

Sorry it was such a cluster!!

ElcaB

HisGirlFriday13 said:

...and it's kind of a cluster. -- I asked for a red wine list and the bartender suggested chardonnay. Uhm...not quite. -- The hostess decided to split up our 15-person party at a table of 9, a table of 4, and a table of 2. That got sorted very quickly when assertive bitchy HisGirl said, 'Yeah, no, we're going to push these three tables together and all sit as a group.' -- There's a 'band,' which is really a random assortment of instruments, none of which are playing the same song or tune or even in the same key. I am having a lot of wine.

This reminds me of the time I was at an out-of-state dinner. My friend asked the server if X beer was local and the server replied, "It's an IPA."

Um, that's great...but that wasn't the question.