My very good friend gave me a surprise party for my 60th birthday. She told everyone to park on the side street.
The ruse was that the party was for someone else…not me. When I got there, I parked on the side street…but I recognized cars of folks who didn’t know the “ruse” person.
It didn’t matter. It was such a nice treat to have a bunch of my friends in one place at the same time.
They did give me a neat gift. They made a “gift card tree”. Guests were asked to bring a gift card if they wanted to. No obligation to do so. They put the cards on this wooden twig thing that looked like a tree in multi colored envelopes. It was really fun!