Boy, oh boy…..some people seriously have a chip on their shoulder about events to which they think they were not invited.  The thing is, everyone is invited.  It’s really not that difficult to attend Le Diner en Blanc (DeB) Kingston.  All you have to do is ask.  Yes, you need to pay for a ticket; yes, you should bring a picnic, white napkins, white flatware, cutlery and glasses; yes, some kind of table decoration wouldn’t go amiss; yes, in order to drink alcohol, you must purchase wines through DeB; and yes, you must wear all-white.  However, every party/event/concert to which you attend, a ticket must be purchased; if you go to a secluded beach or waterfall, you bring all picnic items, including drinks; anywhere you go, you must dress appropriately in some item of clothing – blue, brown, red and perhaps even white.

I am not saying that everyone can afford all things, but it doesn’t mean that those who can afford it should not spend their money in the way they choose.  Also, they should not be publicly ridiculed.  Are you laughing at the people who send their kids to the most expensive, yet fantastic, universities in the world?  Good for those people!  Their children, who live in our world, are getting a fabulous education.  It’s wonderful.  If only everyone could have that, but at least there are people who can.  Good for them.  Their parents can afford it.  If I could, I would do the same.  Wouldn’t you?  Don’t you want to have the freedom to spend your hard-earned cash on whatever you want?

People on social media are writing that DeB is the ultimate cooler fete – the upperclass version of a cooler fete, some have said.  Well, I wouldn’t quite put it that way.  That’s like saying that going to a restaurant, where food is served on china and with cutlery, is basically the upperclass version of going to a patty shop and eating your patty and coco bread out of the brown paper bag.  Let’s all laugh at the people who are being conned into going to the ultimate eating place – a restaurant – when they could be spending less money at the patty shop and not being so fancy by eating off china and with cutlery.  Ha! Ha! Ha!

Now, I know that some people on social media did not mean it this way, but many people did.  It’s been funny to read, actually, and it’s even more hilarious that this is the third year in a row that people are spilling the same crappy insults about Le Diner en Blanc Kingston.  No one, by the way, has come up with any new reason as to why DeB is so bad or so snobby or so….. whatever insults they can think of at the time of writing.  I urge the person who truly feels strongly that DeB is a terrible injustice to our society to put down on paper intellectual, economic and social reasons why those who enjoy DeB should not continue to attend and celebrate this debonair occasion.

FYI – The definition of Debonair: suave, urbane, sophisticated, cultured, self-possessed, self-assured, confident, charming, gracious, courteous, gallant, chivalrous, gentlemanly, refined, polished, well bred, genteel, dignified, courtly; and more

Not a damn thing wrong with being debonair.