A wedding table
A rehearsal dinner or a wedding table. Two families who have never met, plus the friends who knew them before.
- When did you last get lost, and who did you ask for directions?
- When did you last laugh at the wrong moment, and where were you?
- When did you last dance where somebody could see you?
- What food do you love that you would never order in front of strangers?
- What rule in your house would look ridiculous to a visitor?
- What are you superstitious about while insisting you are not?
- What do you refuse to eat that you have never tasted?
- What do you volunteer to do at parties that you do not enjoy?
- What do you cook without measuring anything, and who taught you?
- What word does your family use that nobody outside would understand?
- Guess what the person on your left eats for breakfast, and why.
- Guess which of us was the loudest child, and why.
- Guess what song the person opposite knows every word to. Why that one?
- When did you last get caught in the rain, and did you run?
- When did you last dance somewhere with no dance floor?
- When did you last climb a tree, a fence, or a wall?
- When did you last swim outdoors, and how cold was the water?
- When did you last get lost on foot with no phone signal?
- When did you last cut your own hair?
- When did you last run for a train, and did you catch it?
- When did you last shout at a machine, and did it help?
- When did you last get stung or bitten by something outdoors?
- When did you last hold a baby, and whose was it?
- When did you last wear shoes that ruined an evening?
- When did you last give a toast, and how did it land?
- When did you last laugh at completely the wrong moment?
- When did you last queue for over an hour, and for what?
- When did you last make something with your hands?
- When did you last cry at something on a screen?
- What do you keep ordering that disappoints you every time?
- What do you own that you never use and would never sell?
- What are you bad at and refuse to stop doing?
- Which chore do you enjoy and pretend to resent?
- What did you fail at that you would try again tomorrow?
- What advice do you give that you have never taken yourself?
- What do you complain about weekly and would miss immediately?
- Which of your skills is useless, and who taught it to you?
- What do you dislike about your hometown and defend to outsiders?
- Which family tradition do you mock and would fight to keep?
- What part of a wedding is ridiculous, and which part would you insist on?
- What gift did you keep for years and never once use?
- What dance move do you do badly and refuse to retire?
- What do you photograph constantly and never look at again?
- What are you late for every time and never sorry about?
- What do you refuse to learn, and who keeps offering to teach you?
- What do people always get wrong about the place you grew up?
- What did an old job teach you that still comes in useful?
- Which sport should I watch with you sitting next to me, explaining it?
- What could you draw from memory right now, on a napkin?
- Who in your life should be famous, and what for?
- What do you know about the couple that the rest of us don't?
- Do I seem like someone who cries at films? Why or why not?
- Guess what I was like at fifteen. Be specific about the haircut.
- Do I seem like someone who dances at weddings? Why or why not?
- Do I seem like someone who reads the manual? Why or why not?
- Guess whether I talk to strangers on trains, and what gave me away.
- Guess what I still own from childhood, and why that survived.
- Guess how I know the couple. First guess only.