Well, let me think. Ah, in one Save, my guy Sim threw a dinner party for a few acquaintances he had made. Naturally, it was an absolute disaster. After cooking several plates of grilled cheese, the caterer died, so everyone was Sad. My Sim then got the goal to make a cake, and he didn't have very high skill. But I decided to have him try it. Of course the kitchen caught fire. It was a relatively short fire, since he whipped out the extinguisher pretty quickly. Luckily, that made him Confident, which overrode the Sad moodlet briefly. All the guests had run out of the house except the neighbor lady. She stayed to help put out the fire. My Sim must have been thinking, "Hey, this gal's got some true grit..." With them both feeling Confident, I snuck in a couple romance interactions.
He played the piano, thus I had been planning on having him do that at some point. I tried it, then, just to maybe salvage the evening somewhat. All the other guests came back in and began raiding the fridge, getting out breakfast food, turning on the TV, snooping on the computer, what have you. But our girl was the ideal guest and watched him play. He was still Confident, so I had him dedicate a song to her. He got Sad again, and so did she, but I had him Try To Cheer Her Up, and they commiserated together. Things just sort of fell into place for the rest of the evening, and in the days thereafter. Needless to say, the party rating was Lame, or Meh, or something, but to my guy, it was the start of a beautiful thing. :p
