Gift of leftovers

caroln said:
We lived on a houseboat at a marina. In the next slip were a couple that used their houseboat during the summers and we became friends, not close but neighborly. They had a fish fry every summer with their friends and one year, the day before the fish fry, they realized they were a little short of fish. I offered them quite a large amount of fish from our freezer to help out.

We never got invited over to their fish fry and watched them from our houseboat eating the fish I supplied them. After the party was over, the guy came over with a plate of fried fish for us. He said it would be a shame to waste them and thought we would like them.

I was a bit stunned and just said thank you and accepted the fish. It was well after our dinner time and we had already ate, plus I don't like cold fried fish. So guess where it went? To this day I can't believe he took our fish for his fish fry, didn't invite us, and then brought us the leftovers. What is the word for something like that?
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Forgiveness is the word. Let it go. It's taking too much space in your negative memory bank. Believe me, you may need the space someday.
 
I wouldn’t be happy if it was stale sandwiches, curling at the edges but, if it was cake, who cares ?? 😋
 

My neighbour hosts their family on Christmas and often a summer BBQ. I feel blessed to live next to great neighbours.

They use to invite me to join their Christmas/Summer dinners but I refuse. They bring me dinner ( turkey with all the trimmings and shortbread cookies.)
 
debodun said:
How would you feel if a friend or relative brought you food that was obvious leftover from a party to which you weren't invited?
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Sounds like somebody that missed your presence at the gathering and thought of you

Quite nice

It they were the host?
Shame on them
But
pay it forward if you don't want to eat it

Plenty of hungry folks everywhere that have not been invited to anything
 
debodun said:
How would you feel if a friend or relative brought you food that was obvious leftover from a party to which you weren't invited?
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Never had that happen, but obviously they thought of me and know my situation. I'd accept with thanks.

I have gotten leftovers from family for dinners I was invited to, but turned down as I'd have been bored.
 
I gave away pumpkin pie (12" Kroger) to floor neighbor. Had 2 slices missing, wife and I had slices.
I almost immediately started to flush up from the sugar. Now I remember why I can not eat store prepared p.pies. Neighbor graciously accepted.
Odd, I can eat a couple of slices of FruitCake without any problems.
 
I'd be OK with it.
As long as there was nothing alive on the food & it didn't have anything green & fuzzy growing on it.
 
debodun said:
How would you feel if a friend or relative brought you food that was obvious leftover from a party to which you weren't invited?
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I once had the honour of being invited into American home for Thanksgiving dinner.

When we came to go home we found the back of the car was full of cardboard boxes containing everything for which we had expressed a liking.

This included the remains of the Turkey, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce the full American works.

We didn't object at all!
 

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