When did a surprise party result in disaster? In high school, I was responsible for keeping a friend

busy while her parents set everything up at their house for the party. We get back to her house,

all lights are off, she walks in the door and announces, oh, I have to take a huge dump. The lights turn on,

surprise! Embarrassment ensues. The person we were throwing the

63rd birthday party for was coming back from a trip with his wife, and we, 50 or more people,

were in the backyard with all of the decorations set up and food. His wife texted us when they

were five minutes away, and we all gathered to the fence

gate where they'd enter. The fence was about seven feet tall so you couldn't see anything over it.

When they entered we all yelled surprise and his face looked like he was about to sneeze,

but instead he was having a stroke and ended up in hospital for the evening.

The food was good though. A girl I was

dating in high school set up a surprise birthday party for me, but chose not to invite most of my

good friends because she didn't like them. Well, they caught wind of this party and took me out

for some drinks instead as their own birthday surprise. This was before cell phones, so she didn't really have a way to get in touch with me to make up a reason to get me back to her house.

Halfway through the night, one of them spills the whole story, and I decide it's wise to make a rather late appearance.

It was very awkward walking into a room full of her drunken friends with her crying in the bathroom, needless to say.

My friend's birthday, thrown by his wife, he was recovering from a horrible car accident,

and was on crutches and horse-sized doses of Vicodin.

He walks in and everyone yells, surprise!

And he slowly turns, looks at everyone in a doped out state, and walks right back out

without saying a word. One time, my mum told me that we were running low on funds, so we couldn't

have a birthday party, and that the best we could do was take me to McDonald's with my friend.

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