Made me LOL too.

Dr. Seuss wrote the book: "Oh, the Places You'll Go!", perhaps you FW, should write: "Oh, the Stories I Could Tell You!" a/k/a "Catering for Crazies."

I'm a peace loving woman, but I think if someone had treated my food that way, I might have kicked them. Make that any food at all. I wonder what it looks like inside their heads...

Maren, I'm guessing it's a lonely, cold wind tunnel inside their heads.

The nerve of those people!

MAN OH MAN! It never seizes to amaze me at how many people turn into crazed lunatics...like a bunch of starving people from a concentration camp....whenever there is food around!

Oh....I forgot....if they don't hurry up and get to the banquet table before everybody else, they might not get anything to eat!

No wonder our entire country is rampant with obese people!

makes you wonder why you spend so much time in preparation and presentation, doesn't it?

And you'd think that the better dressed they were, the better their manners would be--societal parameters, not mine.
I had one muckety-muck wanting to throw down about the prime rib carving station and her well-heeled cronies refusing to move so the hotel pan could be replaced all the while bitching that there wasn't any more potatoes Lyonnaise.
I'm so glad I'm out of that business.

I hear what you are saying. but. good food is very hard to resist. maybe this is a tribute to the yumminess. Just saying. some folks can't quite savor but they do enjoy it. can't resist it? must devour? the food whore rocks.

Free food = PIGS.

OINK, OINK!

I think people have a tendancy to act like this when they are in a group.
Alone, people are generally a little less forthcoming, not wanting to stand out. In a group, however, there is not this fear, and instead it reverses into this kind of reaction.
Or maybe your food was just irresistable!

It's amazing when the word "free" gets attached to things. The average Joe gets so self-absorbed and wants more, more, more! But you must love it...to put up with it. I am such a fan of cooking and of a good cook...I can imagine how frusterating and utterly amusing it must be!

Congratulations on keeping your good mood in the face of snittiness. One question occurs to me: although it was certainly unfortunate that people swarmed to get the food, since ten minutes later there was absolutely none left, was there enough in the first place? Were you the only one to go hungry? Perhaps they really did feel that if they didn't act fast, they wouldn't get fed (that doesn't excuse their bad manners, though).

Hire me. I hate people too.
I have to confess though, I have an inner pig.

A recap, part 1 With Digital ID World in the books as a success, I always like to take a look back at "what I learned." As an organizer of the conference, Digital ID World is always a whirlwind experience for me, but I find that as I look back

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