weddings and oaps

[Hullygully]

I have been invited to a wedding where the bride has developed what must really be called a phobia about old people. (Long story)

She refuses to have any one over 70 in case there is a "medical emergency" which would spoil her day and in order to avoid an outcry she proposes to organise a coach trip for the old people to see The Lion King as a treat on the same day with a special tea at a Holiday Inn afterwards and a video link to her ceremony.

Her mother is 72 and is allowed to go because she recently passed a stringent medical, but no one else of a similar age is allowed. My mother is 73 and looked after her a lot when she was little and really wants to go. Also, she has seen The Lion King already. I think she should be allowed to go to the wedding as a fit and healthy sort of "extra" mother. AIBU?

[mistlethrush]

Thank you for bringing it up into Active again - surely a classic?

[TheVermiciousKnid]

Bloody hell, I've been staring at Hully's thighs for almost two months now! Time to stop and get on with some work.

[impecuniousmarmoset]

I'm bumping this because I haven't laughed so much in ages and there must be lots of others who missed this.

And by the by, I can't believe that the two funniest threads I've read on MN this year (this and the funny things kids say when they're pissed off) are not in classics. MNHQ?!?!

[Hullygully]

huh

I meant the pin from the wax dolly

[TheVermiciousKnid]

I'm sorry, Hully, but nobody is posting on this thread anymore because we have all been staring in alarm at your thighs since your last post.

[Hullygully]

[ExitPursuedByABear]

I think of your thighs often



Where did that come from?

[Hullygully]

How kind of you to remember my thigh! It is quite better thank you, someone somewhere must have taken the pin out.

[ExitPursuedByABear]

www.dramabutton.com

[ExitPursuedByABear]

How is your thigh injury Hully?

Have the meds kicked in yet?

[DeepRedBetty]

Hello HQ I've nobly given up both my arms in Hully's quest for advice about geriatric guests. The least I deserve is for this whole thread to move to Classics.

[Hullygully]

His. I am afraid he dribbles uncontrollably and also his palsy makes it fly about.

[OnTheBottomWithAWomansWeekly]

Mr Wildebream's dribble or Absy's? (I've heard shocking rumours about an untreated salivary gland condition she has...)

[Absy]

Sold

[Hullygully]

You'll have to sit next to Mr Wildebream and ignore his trembling and wandering hands. You might want to take an apron too, for the dribble.

[Absy]

Physically, 31, Mentally, 93 and retired to Boca Raton

[TalkativeJim]

Sorry but I think your friend the bride has a point OP.

I was at a wedding where OAPs had free access, at least 5 of them were well over 70. Not surprisingly there was a serious medical emergency and most of the wedding guests sadly did not survive; the venue also exploded leaving the couple with an enormous bill and life-threatening infections.

So while it's a very difficult situation she is probably being prudent.

[BellaVita]

[TheVermiciousKnid]

My phone autocorrects 'Hully' to 'Bully'. Not that I believe those rumours about her and poor Gertrude.

[BellaVita]

Oh fucking hell hully damned auto correct. I still love you!

[BellaVita]

Hulu, I love you!

[Hullygully]

Are you 70, Absy dear?

[Hullygully]

Goering wasn't much of a one for that, he had very different, shall we say, novel, ideas.

[Absy]

Well, then I am perfectly entitled to take her place

[FellatioNels0n]

Gertrude and Goering sitting in a tree

K. I. S. S. I. N. G.