Don’t most people request an RSVP, just to gauge the response?
Sorry, this sounds fake.
You don’t invite that many people without getting a head count beforehand.
Best to give out invites and follow up with a parent for the RSVP.
There’s more to the story than this.
Sounds like very poor planning. Did mom and dad actually confirm with other parents their kids would come?
The ONLY thing worse that being that little boy is finding out that your Mom took a picture and told EVERYBODY in the country about how unpopular you are. Some people have no sense of discretion whatsoever!
We did NOT need to know about this dark day in her child’s life. The Mom’s reaction only makes it worse. What? no Dad around to play Yin to her hysterical Yang?
Not to belittle this story, but there’s got to be more going on here than meets the eye.
32 invites and NO ONE shows up? I know when my kids were young, the PC police made you invite every kid in the class so no one would have their feelings hurt. So since we weren’t going to do that, we called parents directly.
Now, his friends always showed up. Maybe some said no. But no one said YES and then didn’t show.
Something is very incomplete with this story and I’m sorry, but I think the Mother is a friggin jackass for posting the picture. It’s not about you douche. It’s about your poor child. Nice going. If this is even true.
This kind of thing apparently happens quite a bit these days. Invites get sent out, RSVPs get received, and then people don’t show up anyway. The kid’s parents may well have gotten email confirmations or even verbal ones from the parents of the invitees, and yet still they get blown off because people just decide last-minute to skip it. It happened to some autistic/disabled kid last year(?), with the same kind of sad picture. Lots of entitled and boorish people out there these days. Poor kid.
Sounds to me as though the invitations didn’t get out in time.
If the mother sets u pa Gofundme page over this, the kid will have a couple hundred grand in the bank in two weeks.
Next time do the party at an indoor gun range! We did that a while back and had incredible attendance. And pizza too.
So sad......sigh......
Mehhh.....this reminds me of my daughter’s heart-breaking 14 year old birthday party. She wanted to handle everything herself (invitations), so we let her. We helped her with the decorations and the food. It was a DISASTER.
Out of about 15 friends she invited, exactly ONE showed up. One. It was a tear-filled nightmare for me and my husband. We could barely choke up the sobs in front of her.
To this day, 16 years later, we still beat ourselves up over this. Our painful lesson: the parents should handle the invitations, the RSVP’s, and the reminders. You literally have to be a (pushy) helicopter parent to make sure young people RSVP and that those who say they are coming actually show up. Having parents deal directly with parents as well as the invitees is needed. These days young people are REALLY RUDE when it comes to RSVP’s, actually showing up after they’ve RSVP’ed ‘yes’, etc.
Well....he’ll get coverage from local news at the Suns/Lakers game Wednesday
At least the SUNS stepped up...thumps up Suns..
Well he can be a supreme court justice in 30 years...
Poor little guy.
Originally I thought this story was about Obama.
Sorry, my bs meter is going off.
A lot of us are older and this sort of thing is unimaginable to us. But it happens all the time now. I could write pages and pages on why but I won’t. Sum it up with “millennial values”. But it’s a good lesson for the kid. Have no expectations and you’ll never be disappointed. No one even called me on my birthday. meh.
Okay, let's imagine Teddy and his mom just moved to a new town. He started school a few days before and his mom got the class list. She sent invites by mail to all the classmates a couple of days before the party. People got them the day before and the moms scratched their head. Who? Tomorrow? But you have soccer and we don't have a present. You just met him? He won't mind if we miss this then." Times 32.
Could that happen? Maybe. Is it likely? Doesn't matter, it's just how I stop myself from assuming someone is making stuff up. What's clear from the picture is the kid looks miserable. That's too bad, however it happened.
When I was growing up, I never heard of inviting the entire class to somebody’s birthday party. Usually I would just have one or two close friends over for the party.