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Original poster

To think some mums are being very nasty about DDs birthday

122 replies

atthewelles · 07/02/2013 15:27

My DD will be six soon and will be having a party. I made some invitations for her to hand out in school and put in a lovely poem:

It's my birthday soon
Six I will be
I'd like you to come
and join the par-tee.

I have dolls, I have books,
I have crayons galore,
I have so much lego,
It covers the floor.

So when you are coming,
To my birthday bash,
Please don't bring presents
Just give me some cash.

Some of the mums have been very shirty with me at the school gates and a few have sent snooty notes saying their DCs won't be at the party.

AIBU to think some people are very rude and should be delighted and honoured that their children have been invited to share DD's special day. Angry

OP posts:
StinkyWicket · 07/02/2013 15:28

Really?

earlierintheweek · 07/02/2013 15:29

Fred about a Fred?

wannabedomesticgoddess · 07/02/2013 15:29

Errrm.

Cash? Really?

Hmm
snowtimelikethepresent · 07/02/2013 15:29

Nice one atthewelles 9/10 for effort!

MechanicalTheatre · 07/02/2013 15:29

You are joking, right?

usualsuspect · 07/02/2013 15:29

Bit rude to ask for cash. I'm quite shocked TBH.

Purple2012 · 07/02/2013 15:29

Hope this is a reverse aibu. That's very grasping.

Groovee · 07/02/2013 15:29

The last line of the poem is rather crass.

JaneLane · 07/02/2013 15:29

I can actually imagine some of the mums I know doing this...

cantspel · 07/02/2013 15:30

tell me this is a wind up?

olympicsrock · 07/02/2013 15:30

Have my first jammy dodger.

FrustratedSycamoresRocks · 07/02/2013 15:31
ohfunnyhoneyface · 07/02/2013 15:31

Has to be a joke- made me smile!

usualsuspect · 07/02/2013 15:31

oh is it a thread about a thread?

I can't be expected to read every bloody thread on MN

LadyIsabellaWrotham · 07/02/2013 15:31

I believe this to be a wedding-related thread. V funny.

spanky2 · 07/02/2013 15:31

I would be annoyed . Cash?! Vouchers at a push but only if I was asked what dc would want. I wouldn't do it.

Sugarice · 07/02/2013 15:31

Grin is this a joke thread, please tell me it is.

Hullygully · 07/02/2013 15:32

heh heh

Original poster
atthewelles · 07/02/2013 15:32

No, not a wind up. We thought we could use all the cash and put it towards a family holiday in Spain. It would be a lovely way of remembering all her little friends back home in England while we're sunning ourselves on the beach.

OP posts:
Pandemoniaa · 07/02/2013 15:32
Grin
valiumredhead · 07/02/2013 15:33

Joke thread about the other thread, right?

snowtimelikethepresent · 07/02/2013 15:33

Grin at OP

DeepRedBetty · 07/02/2013 15:33

Has this anything to do with a thread I Hid ages ago perchance?

Not surprised some parents are being snooty, I can take the 'joke' about money but it's a bloody awful poem, fails to rhyme and scan!

wannabedomesticgoddess · 07/02/2013 15:34

:o

tiggerishtom · 07/02/2013 15:34

I would be a bit Hmm at the cash request, but I don't think I'd stop my child going to the party because of it though....

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