buffet style

on our way to hometown buffet, we lost my mom who was following us to the restaurant. she didn't know where it was and just kept on driving. we were all starving to DEATH. it was very traumatic. but eventually they found the place.
some of the graduates from the anthropology department showed up to the ceremony a little drunk after having begun celebrations earlier in the day.
there were people in varying degrees of footwear from bare feet to flowery platform boots.
people would have their name printed on a card and it would get read off like "John-Thanks Mom and Dad- Doe." and one guy proposed to his girlfriend by having his name be "Jose Adriana Will You Marry Me Santos" and she said yes. *names changed due to lack of memory