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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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Hassled · 07/01/2013 20:39

Knid - all the elderly poodles will be going to see Cats.

Alligatorpie · 07/01/2013 21:01

Another vote for classics! I laughed so much, I woke the baby up :-)

OnTheBottomWithAStringOfTinsel · 07/01/2013 21:09

This thread kept me from having a meltdown in the loo earlier. However am sure the muffled snorts of laughter coming from the cubicle frightened a few folks...

I reckon it's partly a windup, and partly a reverse AIBU based on children at weddings but substituting OAP's.

However if its true, and any of the OAP's are like my relatives, Bridezilla will need the med student to surgically remove the defibrillator from her jacksie.

TheVermiciousKnid · 07/01/2013 21:10

I think they might prefer the Poodle King, Hassled.

MakeItALarge · 07/01/2013 21:17

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apostropheuse · 07/01/2013 21:23

Grin Grin Grin

Hully you are a legend.

I really hope you're a writer!

Original poster
Hullygully · 07/01/2013 21:29

I know it seems funny, I do, but trouble has broken out. I have just had my friend sobbing on the phone, she was a little incoherent (night nurse for her blocked nose, apparently), but from what I could make out, Great Uncle Bruce is threatening to raise a mutiny. He abhors musicals and wants them all to go to a Radio 3 concert at the Wigmore Hall. She'll never sell that to them.

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Isabeller · 07/01/2013 21:32

Bet your Mum could organise her a cracking Hen night with the other silver stunnas and lots of "special tea" Wink

Original poster
Hullygully · 07/01/2013 21:33

Don't even mention the hen night. To give you an idea, she isn't calling it that, she is calling it The Feathered Flock WingDing.

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NewYearNewNN · 07/01/2013 21:35
elizaregina · 07/01/2013 21:39

Hully

If I was one of the OLDIES, about to be shipped off to the crappy Holiday Inn, I would be immedialty organising a rebellion of the said oldies to storm the wedding party itself....

Infact - I may even organise a coup to ship the bride off in the bus - then strap her to a chair and make her watch US partying and having a good time - with her watching via video link alone at holiday inn...

I also think we would take advantage of the doc on site - for some extra curricular activities - the meds that oldies carry on them - are fought over in young offenders insitutes.....Grin

Hassled · 07/01/2013 21:43

Slutty Chicken Outfits :o
What could possibly be better?

NorksAreMessy · 07/01/2013 22:02

Please tell us the date and venue of the wedding.
I feel a grey-wigged-MN-flasmob might be fun :)

SquinkiesRule · 07/01/2013 22:45

ROFLMBO
Oh yeah, Great Uncle Bruce will lead the rebellion, Walking sticks at the ready, everyone into the church.

yaimee · 08/01/2013 00:04

What an idiot. I genuinely hope no one turns up!

yaimee · 08/01/2013 00:15

Blush heeheehee

Avuncular · 08/01/2013 00:46

Well we all know who is going to suddenly develop the medical emergency on the morning of the big day. A lady well under 70 in a white dress?

As the Mikado would say "the punishment fit the crime".

Sad Wine

BookieMonster · 08/01/2013 01:09

Well, how about an "event crawl' whereby the bus can go past several different kinds of entertainment (Lion King, Radio 3 thingy, Soho sex shows) and the oldies can take their pick or have a kip on the bus. I think the defibrillator should stay with those leaving the bus at Soho.

MusicalEndorphins · 08/01/2013 09:50

Omg, perfect, I needed a good laugh.

samandi · 08/01/2013 10:04

If that's for real, the bride is mentally unhinged.

Jins · 08/01/2013 10:07

I've got a Great Uncle Bruce

piprabbit · 08/01/2013 10:13

A geriatric creche?

Oh, Hully. Thank you for cheering my morning.

WednesdayNext · 08/01/2013 10:19

This might be the funniest thing I've ever read.

The bride is bonkers btw

Pagwatch · 08/01/2013 10:28

A geriatric crèche would work though wouldn't it? And it would save money. Just corall them all into an area with pilchard sandwiches, some battenberg and an episode of All Star Family Fortunes on a loop and they will be quite happy. Maybe someone could bring a cat?
All in all, kinder to everyone.

Jins · 08/01/2013 10:29

I'd rather be in the geriatric creche than at the wedding as long as I could smuggle in a hip flask and I didn't have to watch the Lion King