Instead of bachelor and bachelorette parties before people get married, we should have funerals
Summary
A straphanger proposes replacing bachelor and bachelorette parties with funerals for your dating life, complete with speeches and all your exes in attendance. Kareem isn't buying it. He points out that's literally what bachelor parties already are, just for your friends instead of your former flames. But this rider has experience gathering romantic prospects en masse: they once invited 15 people from Hinge to a single dinner date, just to save time. It took 45 minutes for everyone to realize how they all knew each other. The rider, who's bisexual, sat at the head of the table with a friend and watched the chaos unfold. Despite this track record of dating chaos, Kareem remains unconvinced that a funeral is the answer. Sometimes efficiency goes too far.
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So, what's your take? Instead of bachelor and bachelorette parties before people get married, we should have funerals for our dating career. 100% disagree. And invite all of our exes and all of our situationships. Any Tinder? No. I want to give a speech. No. No.
This is what Americans don't understand. Bachelor parties are not for you, the bachelorette, or me, the bachelor. They're for the friends. And as a friend, I don't want to go to a damn funeral. Well, then what about in addition to—I just want all of my exes in a room and just do that on your own time. I have done that before.
Wait, what? When have you done that? Well, I was bored one afternoon and I invited everyone on Hinge to a dinner. All of the people that you were dating that I was matching with. I hadn't met them yet. I was trying to be economical time. I did a super date and they—it took them 45 minutes to figure out how they all knew me.
How many were there? Probably about 15. Men and women.
Men and women? Oh, everyone. Yeah, I'm bisexual. Everybody's bisexual. Wait, so everyone showed up?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And my friend Amanda and I were at the head of the table just observing. This is diabolical. And now you want to have a funeral for your past dating life?
Well, yeah. But why do you want to do that? It's fun. You just think it's fun. Yeah. It's quite rude. Yeah.
Do you want to be friends with your exes or you don't care? No, I don't really care. But I would—I would like to have a going away party for my life. You're only going to be with one person forever, so why not have a grand goodbye ceremony?
You know, that's called a bachelor party and a bachelorette party.