A dinner party
Six friends-of-friends around a table. Some know each other, some are meeting for the first time. Wine poured, nobody drunk yet.
- When did you last run to catch something, and did you catch it?
- When did you last stand in the rain longer than you needed to?
- When did you last talk out loud to an animal in the street?
- When did you last get lost, and who did you ask for directions?
- When did you last write something by hand, and who was it for?
- When did you last apologise out loud to a piece of furniture?
- When did you last laugh at the wrong moment, and where were you?
- When did you last argue out loud with a machine?
- When did you last hold a door open far too long?
- When did you last take the long way home on purpose?
- When did you last stop walking to look up at a building?
- When did you last lie about having read something?
- When did you last hear your neighbours through a wall or floor?
- When did you last knock on a door in your own street?
- When did you last arrive far too early, and how did you kill time?
- When did you last smell something in the street that stopped you?
- When did you last eat a meal standing up, and what was it?
- When did you last speak first to someone in a lift?
- When did you last get up to check a noise at night?
- When did you last get caught staring, and at what?
- When did you last drop something in public, and who picked it up?
- When did you last take a shortcut that took longer?
- When did you last climb something you were not supposed to?
- When did you last fall asleep somewhere that was not a bed?
- When did you last feed an animal that was not yours?
- When did you last stay up past midnight finishing something?
- When did you last dance where somebody could see you?
- When did you last say something in a language you barely speak?
- When did you last cross the road to avoid something?
- What do you carry in your bag every day and never use?
- What food do you love that you would never order in front of strangers?
- What advice do you hand out that you have never once taken?
- What rule in your house would look ridiculous to a visitor?
- What are you good at that you would rather nobody found out?
- What do people thank you for doing that you hate doing?
- What are you superstitious about while insisting you are not?
- What do you always say yes to and always regret by Friday?
- What habit of a neighbour annoys you that you have started copying?
- What have you kept broken for months because you will fix it someday?
- What subject do you argue about loudly and know nothing about?
- What place on your street do you praise and never visit?
- What do you refuse to carry, even when the forecast says you need it?
- What did a teacher tell you off for that you still do?
- What do you know by heart that has never once been useful?
- What do you check twice at night although you know it is fine?
- What corner of your home stays spotless while the rest collapses?
- What do you hide before someone comes over?
- What do you refuse to eat that you have never tasted?
- What do you keep buying even though it dies within a month?
- What cannot you stand in others that you do every single day?
- What do you own that only works if you hit it?
- What noise do you make that you cannot stand hearing from anyone else?
- What do you volunteer to do at parties that you do not enjoy?
- What word do you keep using wrong and refuse to correct?
- What do you say you will do at the weekend and never do?
- What ugly thing in your street would you protest to protect?
- What could you teach me to do properly in the next ten minutes?
- What do you know how to fix that most people would throw away?
- What do you cook without measuring anything, and who taught you?
- How exactly do you make your coffee or tea in the morning?
- What's a shortcut you worked out yourself that nobody taught you?
- What can you identify by sound alone?
- What smell do you notice that nobody else in the room does?
- What word does your family use that nobody outside would understand?
- What game do you know the real rules to?
- What's the hardest thing you can do with your hands?
- What do you know about your street that nobody walking through would notice?
- What's the right way to end a phone call?
- What do you notice first when you walk into someone's home?
- How do you decide which queue to join at the supermarket?
- What could you draw from memory better than anyone here?
- Which chore do you enjoy, and what's your method?
- What does everyone do wrong that you know the right way to do?
- Do I seem like someone who sings in the car? Why or why not?
- Guess what the person on your left eats for breakfast, and why.
- Just by looking at me, guess the chore I never do. Why that one?
- Do I seem like someone who keeps every receipt? Why or why not?
- Guess which of us was the loudest child, and why.
- Do I seem like someone who talks to animals? Why or why not?
- Guess what's in my bag that shouldn't be there. Why that?
- Guess who here would carry a spider outside. Why them?
- Do I seem like someone who reads the last page first? Why or why not?
- Guess how the person on your right spends a free Sunday morning, and why.
- Guess which of us has cried at an advertisement. Why them?
- Do I seem like someone who names their houseplants? Why or why not?
- Guess what I would order in a restaurant I've never been to. Why?
- Guess what song the person opposite knows every word to. Why that one?
- Do I seem like someone who reads the comments? Why or why not?
- Guess who here has a collection nobody knows about. Why them?
- When did you last cook a dish from memory, and who taught you?
- When did you last leave a party early, and what did you say?
- What kitchen rule do you break every single time you cook?
- What do you eat constantly and would never serve to a guest?
- What invitation do you always accept and dread by the day itself?
- What can you fix that most people pay someone else to fix?
- What's the right way to load a dishwasher, and who taught you?
- What's in your fridge right now that you could turn into dinner?
- What do you make that people always ask you to bring?