Roommates Greer Jennings and Morgan McKee, both 26, confirmed early Sunday morning that the turnout for their Saturday night housewarming was, despite a carefully designed invite list, “so random.”
“You know how there are people you invite to parties knowing that they won’t be able to attend, but you still want to make the gesture?” Jennings asked, as she put away several unopened bottles of wine. “It’s like, only those people showed up. Every single one.”
A handful of college acquaintances were in attendance, as well as two members from Jennings’ book club, one friend from the restaurant at which McKee is employed, as well as the guy Jennings was hooking up with in August but hadn’t really talked to since then. Guests confirm that the vibe was very “WTF” across the board.
“I brought my sister,” guest Bryan Chester, McKee’s friend from a woodworking class four years ago, said in a statement, “because I was nervous that I wasn’t going to know anyone. But everyone seemed to be kind of talking to everyone. It wasn’t very fun.”
“The minute I walked in, I realized it was a huge mistake,” Caroline Siegel, Jennings’ ex-boyfriend’s sister, said, “I spent about half of the time I was there in the bathroom texting, begging a friend to come rescue me to no freaking avail.”
The invite was sent out six days prior to the event, but ended up conflicting with a more popular friend’s last-minute birthday party, which drew the majority of the invitees. Experts believe that this, compounded with the weather and the distance of Jennings’ and McKee’s new Bushwick apartment from major train lines was the cause of the weird-ass turnout.
Despite this, guests managed to stay until 2:15am, quietly sharing that they were “probably going to take off soon.”
