I'm trapped in a zoom baby shower

[mamaduckbone]

Please help...!

Why are you there? I can't imagine ever wanting such a thing for myself - but I was at a zoom baby shower for my niece the other weekend. It was a chance to get together with other people who love her, many of whom would not have been able to get to a gathering in person, at a special and slightly anxious time in her life. We drank wine, caught up, played some games and made her very happy. As an adult, with agency, I don't see why I would stay in a situation where I was so unwilling to be there that I felt the need to post 'hilariously' about it on a parenting forum...

I predict an awful lot of guests at Zoom baby showers in the next few weeks encountering unprecedented levels of connection problems.

Start an argument about transgender rights and “chestfeeding”
That’ll end it for everyone, win-win

Sending commiserations.

On chat.. “I’m sorry I can really hear anyone, I’m going to shut over down and restart”
Take ages to do so and go on at the end.

Reconnecting.......

Suggest everyone puts the cat filter on, that will liven things up. (Or is it just me that thought the cat lawyer was too funny for words!)

Stay static,really still,tilt head look blank they’ll think your internet conked out.
Then log off

Do you have a young child? Sometimes mine wakes up and requires me to vanish from zoom for while. Eventually I crawl behind the laptop, slam it shut and send a message to say "sorry had to run!"

@multivac

Why are you there? I can't imagine ever wanting such a thing for myself - but I was at a zoom baby shower for my niece the other weekend. It was a chance to get together with other people who love her, many of whom would not have been able to get to a gathering in person, at a special and slightly anxious time in her life. We drank wine, caught up, played some games and made her very happy. As an adult, with agency, I don't see why I would stay in a situation where I was so unwilling to be there that I felt the need to post 'hilariously' about it on a parenting forum...

Agree

Well I think it’s funny

Tell them you’re saving your laptop battery for the gender reveal

Having consumed half a bottle of wine and played the customary baby bingo and Mr and Mrs games I bowed out with the excuse that the youngest needed me urgently.

Thank you for the entertaining replies (less so the terribly earnest ones - here's looking at you multivac )

@NotJackieWeaver

Start an argument about transgender rights and “chestfeeding” That’ll end it for everyone, win-win

@mamaduckbone

Having consumed half a bottle of wine and played the customary baby bingo and Mr and Mrs games I bowed out with the excuse that the youngest needed me urgently.

Thank you for the entertaining replies (less so the terribly earnest ones - here's looking at you multivac )

I hope you remembered to take off your toilet roll nappy!

Zoom baby shower. That sounds awful, and you don’t even get cake. Dismal.

Ha - fortunately there was no dressing up!

But sadly also no cake

@viques

Zoom baby shower. That sounds awful, and you don’t even get cake. Dismal.

Dismal is the PERFECT word for it.

If I had a small child I'd station DH behind my laptop and say

"No no no 'little Johnny'! Don't pull that cord! No! No!" and then have DH unplug the laptop. Problem solved.

@mamaduckbone

Having consumed half a bottle of wine and played the customary baby bingo and Mr and Mrs games I bowed out with the excuse that the youngest needed me urgently.

Thank you for the entertaining replies (less so the terribly earnest ones - here's looking at you multivac )

Ah, sorry not to validate you; but as you say, you got what you were after, so everything's good

Oh God, I'm organising one for my sister next weekend. I'm really hoping it's not awful and I don't find someone slagging me off on MN!

@viques

Zoom baby shower. That sounds awful, and you don’t even get cake. Dismal.

She's in her own fucking house; whose fault is it if there's no cake?

Fair play there for use of “validate” there.......

‘DH/DW/DP/DD/DS/BB/BIL/SIL/PIL need to use the phone’

Play yourself out using the old dial up tone;
m.youtube.com/watch?v=QDS4B0mM-ew