Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
(from a Comment by Friend of the Doctrine, Kristi)
One week it was the mental image of the co-hosts as school children, now you have us at a dinner party. Here’s the homework assignment: write a post describing the event. (Of course, you will use the Wakefield Doctrine to explain the clarks, scotts, and rogers among us.) :-)
ok
Allow me.
the scotts are ‘the Life of the (Dinner) Party’. the rogers are the reason that there was, in fact, a successful Dinner Party*. the clarks keep the children and drunks amused and/or distracted.
too brief?
(I will try to ‘write on the run today’, but I am, requesting that Readers provide one scenario of: how they would experience a formal Dinner Party for any 1 minute section of time. )
clark: “no! you get out there and attend to your guests, I am quite capable of taking the roast out of the oven when the buzzer goes off… now get out there!”
scott: “No! I would not have missed this party for the world! If that..? excuse me, I need to go say hello”
roger: “Why thank you, I couldn’t! you get out there and join the guests… be sure to say hello to everyone and, no, the children are quite happy in their rooms.”
clark at end of the party, leaving:
scott at highpoint of the party: “Hey, are there enough of these spoons to play a game?” (Dyanne)
rogers at any point of the party, saying goodnight to guests: “I’m so glad we were able to get together. We’ll have to do this again sometime!” (Kristi)
Hey! less-than-totally-old Readers!! here’s a little chrono-cultural markers for our Dinner party, from my own experience (and discussed with friend of the Doctrine Lise): the dinner parties, at a certain time in history (say, 1950s to early 70’s) warranted bringing out ‘the good ashtrays’ this were usually some form of cut-crystal and was a favorite for the child trying to buy a Christmas present for parents. a good set ( of ashtrays) usually came with a (special) lighter (Ronson Lighter fluid only, of course!)
Of course, there were special occasion coasters! All of things seem special (from my child perspective) as I look back… Maraschino Cherries for one… never saw those even Planters Cocktail Peanuts (excellently salty!)OK…better stop now.
* meaning that, there was more to the party than… pizza and beer/potluck-but-not-enough-plates-or-spoons unless, of course, the theme of the Dinner Party was pizza and beer or … potluck
Roger: “I’m so glad we were able to get together. We’ll have to do this again sometime!”
I think it goes without saying that everyone in my family is very much a Roger. We had a dinner party at our house every month. Everyone knew which utensil was for what course (the kids stayed in the basement with limitless amounts of candy) – Perfect.
Scott: Hey, are there enough of these spoons to play a game?
clark: “no! you get out there and attend to your guests, I am quite capable of taking the roast out of the oven when the buzzer goes off… now get out there!”
(what do you think the game of spoons (that Dyanne is suggesting) involves?
Doesn’t matter as I won’t be playing. …just taking pictures.
That and standing around knowing I could definitely win if I was playing.
…But im not.
…”as through a glass, clarkly” no? lol
exactomundo….
so childhood dinner parties? (well not child parties… (that’s a Post in and of itself!)… but the dinner parties witnessed as a child (as a reflection of the world of the adults)
totally mom trying to control everything and embarassing father with insults and bad behaviors etc ( it was that scott with the raging rogerian second on his clark )… kids in the rooms… away and never seen….
not even a chance at the Planters Peanuts Cocktail mix?!?! that’s just plain wrong!
No, not “brief”. More like “succinct”. You nailed it.
Being of a certain age, I so can relate to the ashtray thing!
I like this. Dinner parties here go like this:
Me – I’ll just be out here in my safe zone, the kitchen, while you go do things like drinks and take coats.
Husband – why do I have to do the drinks and coats? I am not good with talking to people.
lol