Story time:
My first year of college - fairly large school in the 3rd largest city in a state in the middle of the country. Had found a girl I was interested in - her best friend happened to be dating the quarterback of the school’s football team.
This was 2009, so Halloween fell on Saturday, and the football team was having a party after the game. I had the girl I was dating ask her best friend ask her boyfriend if it was a costume party - word got back to me that it was. I had a banana costume handy so that’s what I went with.
Quarterback drives us all to the party. Turns out it was not hosted by the football team, it was hosted by the NPHC - the historically African American Greek-lettered fraternities and sororities. Also it was not a costume party.
Not much more to the story - but things were not good. Everyone was mostly chill about it but it was super awkward and I tried to keep to myself as much as possible. Had to dig in my contacts for a family friend that I knew lived in the town and awkwardly called explaining who I was and why I was asking them to pick me up.