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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: The1BigWillie on May 14, 2014, 10:10:30 AM
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Guy I work with just emailed me an invite to his "baby shower". I would consider said coworker a friend but we've never really hung out outside of work. I've never met his wife.
I've never been to a baby shower, never wanted to go to a baby shower, and you can bet your sweet ass I will NOT be going to this baby shower. Hell, I've never even purchased a gift for a f*cking baby shower...
Question for my fellow GoEmawers.... Should I feel a damn bit guilty for not going and not gifting? I don't. But, should I? Is this a thing? Guys going to baby showers? I mean... WHAT THE TAP DANCING eff? Baby Shower!!?!?! :jerk:
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Your coworker should feel guilty for inviting you.
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don't feel guilty...
however, maybe your co-worker wants to hang outside of work? Maybe he doesn't have non-work pals...and the wife will be surrounded by all her friends and he doesn't want to be chilling at this thing alone.
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maybe you can go in the backyard and pound brews and shoot guns and ride 4 wheelers while the ladies do the horrible baby shower stuff?
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don't feel guilty...
however, maybe your co-worker wants to hang outside of work? Maybe he doesn't have non-work pals...and the wife will be surrounded by all her friends and he doesn't want to be chilling at this thing alone.
Nope, he has tons of out of work pals. Has literally never asked me to hang out outside of work.
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maybe you can go in the backyard and pound brews and shoot guns and ride 4 wheelers while the ladies do the horrible baby shower stuff?
It's in a subdivision in Shawnee.
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Yeah, you shouldn't feel guilty. Unless you have given him some indication that you like to play party games like "Guess the flavor of this baby food" or "Guess how big around the pregnant lady's stomach is".
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don't feel guilty...
however, maybe your co-worker wants to hang outside of work? Maybe he doesn't have non-work pals...and the wife will be surrounded by all her friends and he doesn't want to be chilling at this thing alone.
Nope, he has tons of out of work pals. Has literally never asked me to hang out outside of work.
feel no guilt. prob just a extra gift in his eyes, knows you are EMAW and would give a $$ gift, but you'll mush his fat face in that load of crap.
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maybe you can go in the backyard and pound brews and shoot guns and ride 4 wheelers while the ladies do the horrible baby shower stuff?
While this sounds amazing, a baby shower is an awful first bro-date.
Kind of seems like the Seinfeld episode when Jerry helps Keith Fernandez move. What's next...T1BW is supposed to pick this guy up from the airport??
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pin the gens on the babe (baby)
eat a cupcake where there is frosting inside that indicates the anatomical sex
purse contents scavenger hunt
purse contents bingo
purse contents blackjack
baby name statistcal trivia
you really want to miss out on all this?
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wants gifts
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would give zero fucks about not going and would be a little disgruntled about him sending me invite but wouldn't fight him b/c he's prob temp insane b/c kid
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Did he invite other office people?
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Guy I work with just emailed me an invite to his "baby shower". I would consider said coworker a friend but we've never really hung out outside of work. I've never met his wife.
I've never been to a baby shower, never wanted to go to a baby shower, and you can bet your sweet ass I will NOT be going to this baby shower. Hell, I've never even purchased a gift for a f*cking baby shower...
Question for my fellow GoEmawers.... Should I feel a damn bit guilty for not going and not gifting? I don't. But, should I? Is this a thing? Guys going to baby showers? I mean... WHAT THE TAP DANCING eff? Baby Shower!!?!?! :jerk:
I just reread this and realized it was an email invite....he wouldn't even spare an actual paper invitation for you then you shouldn't even have spared the time it took to write this post.
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Guy I work with just emailed me an invite to his "baby shower". I would consider said coworker a friend but we've never really hung out outside of work. I've never met his wife.
I've never been to a baby shower, never wanted to go to a baby shower, and you can bet your sweet ass I will NOT be going to this baby shower. Hell, I've never even purchased a gift for a f*cking baby shower...
Question for my fellow GoEmawers.... Should I feel a damn bit guilty for not going and not gifting? I don't. But, should I? Is this a thing? Guys going to baby showers? I mean... WHAT THE TAP DANCING eff? Baby Shower!!?!?! :jerk:
I just reread this and realized it was an email invite....he wouldn't even spare an actual paper invitation for you then you shouldn't even have spared the time it took to write this post.
Was going to post same thing! :love:
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Did he invite other office people?
I don't know... I'm going to find out.
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don't the fathers usually skip out on the baby shower?
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don't the fathers usually skip out on the baby shower?
Traditionally, yes but somewhat recently some people have changed to include both parents. This goes along with having joint bachelor/bachelorette parties.
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maybe you can go in the backyard and pound brews and shoot guns and ride 4 wheelers while the ladies do the horrible baby shower stuff?
While this sounds amazing, a baby shower is an awful first bro-date.
Kind of seems like the Seinfeld episode when Jerry helps Keith Fernandez move. What's next...T1BW is supposed to pick this guy up from the airport??
:D
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If it was a good friend that invited you, you should be happy to go. But this doesn't seem like a good friend and it's definitely an odd first social interaction outside of work.
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maybe you can go in the backyard and pound brews and shoot guns and ride 4 wheelers while the ladies do the horrible baby shower stuff?
While this sounds amazing, a baby shower is an awful first bro-date.
Kind of seems like the Seinfeld episode when Jerry helps Keith Fernandez move. What's next...T1BW is supposed to pick this guy up from the airport??
:D
:D
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Trim316
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Get them a small baby gift and give it to him at work. You won't go to shower and won't feel guilty. Problem solved.
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I'm going to ask the kid next to me who makes half what I do if he invited him. :Wha:
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Trim316
Is he a cool dude? If so, his wife is probably a cool chick. If she is a cool chick, she probably has cool friends. If so, and you don't have anything else planned, then you should go. A gift is like $20. Probably will eat and drink that much at the party. May meet a cool girl. Prosper.
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On a somewhat related note, friend told me the other day about a wedding invite he received that was a specific "no plus one." He's single anyway, so he was like, "cool, I'll dance with a bridesmaid or something." But then he received an invite to a couples shower for the happy couple, which he declined because a) he's single and b) kind of a weird mixed message to send after the no plus one invite. I told him I hadn't heard of that type of thing before, but I'd have done the same thing.
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On a somewhat related note, friend told me the other day about a wedding invite he received that was a specific "no plus one." He's single anyway, so he was like, "cool, I'll dance with a bridesmaid or something." But then he received an invite to a couples shower for the happy couple, which he declined because a) he's single and b) kind of a weird mixed message to send after the no plus one invite. I told him I hadn't heard of that type of thing before, but I'd have done the same thing.
Yeah, that seems weird, like "You can bring your date to the shower but we don't want her at our wedding"
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Get them a small baby gift and give it to him at work. You won't go to shower and won't feel guilty. Problem solved.
There is no need for this.
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that is the weirdest thing i've ever heard slimz
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Is it normal to invite someone to a wedding with a specific "No plus one"?
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Get them a small baby gift and give it to him at work. You won't go to shower and won't feel guilty. Problem solved.
There is no need for this.
It's ok to think of others.
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I have a strict "I do not attend showers, be it wedding or baby" policy. This way its not personal when I decline.
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I have a strict "I do not attend showers, be it wedding or baby" policy. This way its not personal when I decline.
yup, same. it's even on my card.
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OK... I asked the kid next to me. he didn't get an email invite.... and they have Bro'd before and gone on road trips to KU bball games together. I asked him if he supposed I got invited because the guy thought I'd buy him something and he wouldn't. He said... "well if that's what he's thinking, he's at least half right."
EFF this prick and his baby shower stupidity.
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OK... I asked the kid next to me. he didn't get an email invite.... and they have Bro'd before and gone on road trips to KU bball games together. I asked him if he supposed I got invited because the guy thought I'd buy him something and he wouldn't. He said... "well if that's what he's thinking, he's at least half right."
EFF this prick and his baby shower stupidity.
Don't call him names or get upset. Just say Thanks, but no thanks.
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Maybe he sent the invite to you by mistake? :dunno:
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No... because I ignored it and he came over to me and said... "Hey, did you get my email???"
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