# How do you interpret "plus one"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-interpret-plus-one/839066>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 22, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-interpret-plus-one/839066 "2019-08-22T16:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-interpret-plus-one/839066/81 "2019-08-29T15:48:47Z")

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> [@Acsenray](#):
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> That kind of depends on there being plenty of other people without a plus one, who are not close relatives of some kind. Not very common at the weddings I have attended.

Hell, my buddy and I were wedding crashers well before the movie. We’d put on suits and drive up to the hotels near O’Hare, and just bounce from reception to reception. As long as you reasonably behaved yourself, it was a cheap drunk. There was never a shortage of young women w/o a plus one. No reason to exclude close relatives or members of the wedding party!

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-interpret-plus-one/839066/82 "2019-08-29T16:00:19Z")

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> [@Dinsdale](#):
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> No reason to exclude close relatives …!

:eek:

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