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AIBU?

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weddings and oaps

331 replies

Hullygully · 07/01/2013 13:28

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?

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Original poster
Hullygully · 08/01/2013 22:42

You are confusing her with Deep Red Betty

Do keep up

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ExitPursuedByABear · 08/01/2013 22:47

There are two Bettys?

Or should that be Betties?

jammybean · 08/01/2013 23:18

Snort Grin

This is insane!

MakeItALarge · 08/01/2013 23:45

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GreatUncleBruce · 08/01/2013 23:56

Ahem. Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Hmm
Copernicus · 09/01/2013 00:12

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GreatUncleBruce · 09/01/2013 00:16

Don't worry about it, Coppy. It was an easy mistake to make, they look just like spaghetti.

GreatUncleBruce · 09/01/2013 00:20

I don't think Hully noticed. Just don't tell her.

CatPussRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 09/01/2013 02:13

Hully, are you on drugs? Confused

MrsWembley · 09/01/2013 03:29

Pmsl at this but my ap keeps crashing half-way throughSad, so marking place to read later on my laptop...

WednesdayNext · 09/01/2013 10:06

Pmsl @ "rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated"

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Hullygully · 09/01/2013 10:17

Ouija boards always end in tears.

Head to the light, GU Bruce.

Copernicus, snorty snorty sniff spit spit snort

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RuleBritannia · 09/01/2013 10:26

Back to the topic of the thread ......

I would be insulted if I knew someone very well who did not invite me to her wedding just because I was older than 70. As for organising a coach trip for us ..... Well!!! She would no longer be a friend worth having. My friends and I still jive (youngsters can't do it), trek travel to remote places and take part in extreme sports.

When I married 20 years ago we invited moire than 100 people ranging from a woman pregnant with twins, a 6 month old baby to a 95 year old great uncle. We wanted those we cared about to be there and they were. If there had been an 'emergency' it would have been dealt with.

God! I'm glad I don't know the woman. Or do I?

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Hullygully · 09/01/2013 10:32

Well quite, Rule, this is what I keep telling her!

Look at Richard Attenborough and the Queen, old but chugging on. Simply marvellous.

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JazzyTheSnowman · 09/01/2013 11:58

I am DYING!!

ExitPursuedByABear · 09/01/2013 12:21

Some people lead very sheltered lives.....

(Wink)

TheVermiciousKnid · 09/01/2013 14:13

Look at Richard Attenborough and the Queen, old but chugging on.

Are you suggesting that there is 'something going on' between Richard Attenborough and the Queen!? Shock

WandaDoff · 09/01/2013 14:32

Don't ever change Hully

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Hullygully · 09/01/2013 15:05

I tried to change hully, but no one would swap

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acceptableinthe80s · 09/01/2013 15:20

Haven't been on here long but this thread deserves to go into classics, surely?
Personally i think all the uninvited oap's should just gatecrash the wedding, i mean what's the bride going to do about it? have them thrown out by security?
Anyway oldies are great fun at weddings, the last wedding in my family about 7 years ago ended up with my great aunt, who was around 88yrs at the time (RIP Peggy) being busted by the police for smoking a spliff in the back of my dad's car on the way home. My cousin (who's wedding it was) had given her it to ahem 'help with her appetite'.
Obviously she got off with a caution being a first time offender Grin

saintlyjimjams · 09/01/2013 15:42

I shouldn't be laughing should I?

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 09/01/2013 15:44

loving great aunt with a spliff Grin

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Hullygully · 09/01/2013 15:45

No.

I know people are finding it quite amusing, but these are real people with real feelings. I have had Gertrude on the phone in tears, she hasn't felt so rejected since 1942.

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Hullygully · 09/01/2013 15:46

I'm also wondering about the Lion King's target audience, none of them are keen. Is it for the young?

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ExitPursuedByABear · 09/01/2013 15:54

What happened to Gerty in 1942. Was it a war romance that went wrong?

Or were animals involved?