The audience survey distributed to each guest at our dinner party-themed comedy Hunter Gatherers  features the question "describe the weirdest thing that's ever happened to you at a dinner party." Below are some real answers from some of the surveys we've collected...  

-A dying oppossum crawled into the backyard and we had a 2 hour debate about what to do with it.

-A friend told a conversation-stopping story about how his girlfriend channeled all these ghosts one night and her face changed multiple times from an old Chinese man to a baby to a sailor and back. The room got very quiet after that.

-Silence and Shawn Colvin playing on the stereo.

-We had to eat each item separately as they all cooked at different times.

-We had a wine tasting--and the spit bucket became wine #8. Those of us who drank from #8 became sick--turns out one of the tasters had a cold.

-There was no dinner!

-The hostess demanded we each name the weirdest thing that's ever happened to us at a dinner party--and then she proceeded to act out the answers.

-Our guests arrived a week early.

-I stabbed a guy's finger at a fondue party--I thought it was a shrimp.

-Saw a woman's water break.

-Spilled coffee all over my white slacks!

-My date fell asleep.

-The host took me into a back room and asked me to dress up in pink ski pants, wig, and glasses. Weirdness ensued.

-Breakfast.

-A whole rack of wine bottles on display fell off the wall and bounced off my head--pretty much one at a time. Some broke. Others didn't. Does that mean I am thick-headed?

-A woman wasn't sure about her son's sexuality so she invited me--a gay man--and a non-gay woman to see which one of us he clicked with. Fortunately for us it was neither.

-The host left the house unlocked and showed up 1.5 hours late--while we and another couple met and started the dinner.

-The host took off my pants and pushed me onto the kitchen table with her husband watching.

-My bosses and coworkers ended up drinking too much and I ended up taking care of boss; coworkers ended up in the sauna naked.

-I was held down by two guests and the host spanked me. Then again--for me--that
ain't weird. : )

-My friend tried to jump out the window--which turned out to be a painting.

-A guy was bad-mouthing the host's ex-wife who happened to be my cousin--he called her a bitch and then I told him he was talking about my cousin--pretty awkward.

-I forgot I was hosting--and I had to order the food through kozmo.com (a long time ago!)

-Someone died.

-Gaspacho (sp?)

-I asked about the Big Bang Theory and was received with blank stares.

-I cater historical recreation fairs--so weird is relative. Victorian Crusades, etc. produce their own oddities.

-I was asked to sing the blessing and I had never done it before. So I made it up.

-I was part of a group photo mooning!

-Gary Danko was in my friend's kitchen making us fois gras.

-Having four women scream/moan "Oh, Andrew!" at me for no apparent reason.

-Being there.