Posted on 11/07/2022 8:15:57 PM PST by Morgana
You would be shocked to learn that the common courtesy of an RSVP to a printed invitation is a thing of the past.
I’ve thrown parties where a bunch of kids showed but not one parent RSVPed. It was a crap shoot every time. The worst was my youngest who had only 1 kid show up. For the first few minutes, no one was there. Thankfully, that one boy made the difference. The same thing happened when this boy invited my son to his birthday. My son was the only one to show up.
She didn’t send printed formal invitations. She posted on Facebook. We don’t know where. If it wasn’t her site, she probably had never met parents. FB yes ain’t a formal RSVP. Of course, I say that because I spend so much time online.
When my kids graduated high school, we did the party thing and a few people showed up, but since there were many other parties the same day, you knew attendance could be iffy. And it was. We ate well for a couple weeks.
By the time the third one graduated, I told her that in lieu of the party, I would give her the equivalent in money and she could take as many friends as she wanted to a local restaurant for dinner, which she did with her best friends.
They had a great time and it saved me the work.
Because the Internet didn't really "take off" until the turn of the century. That explains why you didn't heard many stories like this in, say, the 1990s.
I’m just shocked at the rudeness.
The mother was probably standing in line down at the Welfare Office and screamed "B.D. party at Chucky Cheeze tomorrow afternoon!" and thought that that constituted a "formal invitation."
I really doubt that she sent out printed invitations!
Question: Where is the father in this story?
Regards,
True, that!
Regards,
Brandon Fugal and the Skinwalker Ranch guys would have gone, they are out of things to do until the weather gets warmer, so they say.
Maybe she looks and acts like Chucky.
So called social media provides a megaphone to narcissists, like this woman.
IIRC the rule of thumb was max number of guests was equal to age of kid maybe plus one or two. For that exact reason. Parents don’t count.
Plus she should have given the pizzas away, not throw them in the garbage!!
I’m assuming she is not Mormon. I knew a divorced guy at my work; his ex and child lived in Salt Lake. They were similarly shunned.
how did this make the news?
How does a three year old have 27 friends?
The kid is 3. He/she/it will never remember.
Mom didn’t call the other moms first? RSVP on the invites? Who were the people she invited?
FR is turning into People magazine...America doesn’t need to seize people’s firearms; we need to take away their ‘blackberries’.
BS story by an attention seeking idiot.
Several years ago, I invited about 20 friends to celebrate my birthday. I asked for an RSVP. Only one person said he could come--2 others declined due to other commitments. I canceled it 2 days out. No one else had responded. I found this extremely insulting.
I am still getting over this--and I will probably never plan such a party again.
indeed it is. i don’t get it but to each his own.
I always had the opposite problem with my kids parties, everyone invited showed up plus their friends!
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