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WIBU to get pizza delivered to DD's school for her birthday lunch?

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PizzaMom · 12/01/2019 19:51

I apparently am known as 'that' parent and have been given the side eye the few times I've gone in since!

It was DD's 16th last month on a school day. I ordered a few pizzas to be sent to school at lunchtime so she could share them with her mates in the common room. Teachers were not going to let her have themHmm and when they relented (by the time they got cold) made her and a few friends eat them in a separate meeting room when she had planned to share them as there was enough for about 20 people!

I don't see it as being that different from me bringing in a forgotten lunch box?

I also ordered flowers and a balloon to be delivered and school refused to let her have them until after school had finished.

I was trying to make DD's day special. I really didn't think would have been that much of an issue which ruined it a bit for DD.

WIBU?

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Lovingbenidorm · 13/01/2019 00:32

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 oh wait😳 I just don’t know what’s real anymore 🤪

GlitterStick · 13/01/2019 00:39

@KittensAndCake I don't know how to react to that cake lol.
I'm torn between please don't let that be real, WTF has some poor sod been subjected to that cake at a party in RL to celebrate her period, to the icing skills of the cake maker who thought "I know, I'll put a panty pad on top of a blood red cake!" Grin
So. Much. No. Can't. Cope lol

PyongyangKipperbang · 13/01/2019 00:41

@glitterstick glad to know that a)I am not the only one who thought of that and b) I am not the only Dwarfer!

Weirdlookingbricks · 13/01/2019 00:41

Not as good as the DH eating cake rejects from the bin but to be fair, that's mainly down to the responsesSad. It had potential though. Smile

GlitterStick · 13/01/2019 00:44

@PyongyangKipperBang Yay! Not just me, I have already come to regard you as....someone I met lol

PyongyangKipperbang · 13/01/2019 00:45
PyongyangKipperbang · 13/01/2019 00:45

Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas

FlamingoPoet · 13/01/2019 00:50

This is hilarious. And easily the most obviously unreasonable thing I’ve ever read on AIBU.

Rockbird · 13/01/2019 01:33

Our primary school is down the road from a girls' high school and I often see girls walking home with bunches of balloons. I can't speak for the pizza but it doesn't seem such a big deal. My nieces friends make cakes for each other as well as the balloons.

Lovingbenidorm · 13/01/2019 01:34

Pyong 🤣

cricketmum84 · 13/01/2019 01:54

Haven't RTFT but surely this can't be real?? There aren't people in real life who do this kind of thing?

Namechangeforthegamechange · 13/01/2019 02:01

I thought you were bvu until you pointed out it was Friday! Of course on Fridays there are no lessons or other day to day runnings in the school, they should be grateful of having something to do, chasing down you dd serving her friends, cleaning the mess afterwards etc. And EVERY child at 16 by right should have flowers delivered to school, it would be practically impossible for you to have arranged to give them to her yourself in the privacy of your own home! Give your head a wobble! Most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard!!

DianaPrincessOfThemyscira · 13/01/2019 02:02

I don’t think the pizza is a big deal - remembering my secondary school, we would often go to maccies for lunch and bring it back, and if she was meeting the delivery at the gates I don’t think it’s an issue? I’m assuming she’s 6th form though.

The balloons and flowers - unless this is boarding school then that is so cringy.

Atchiclees · 13/01/2019 02:14

Balloons or balonz?

YeahILoveSummer · 13/01/2019 02:28

Please more! Tell is how you have celebrated other occasions.

jessstan2 · 13/01/2019 02:36

DianaPrincessOfThemyscira, trust me: it is seriously cringy.

Klobluchar · 13/01/2019 02:38

It was a 16th birthday so not sixth form. Can you imagine if every kid’s parent did this for their birthday?

Also: that cake. Christ on a bike.

HamsterCheek · 13/01/2019 02:46

I really struggle to understand why it didn't occur to you to ask the school first if this would be OK.

AmIthatbloodycold · 13/01/2019 03:04

I'm waiting for the punch line not the deletion message

ohfourfoxache · 13/01/2019 03:22

Just doing the same as Bloodycold - can’t wait to see the deletion message

Rtmhwales · 13/01/2019 03:40

I'm Canadian-American and this could've happened here, with nobody batting much of an eye really. But I can't see it going over well in the UK at all.

sashh · 13/01/2019 03:53

The flowers would have fitted nicely in her tote bag, sticking out of it. Balloon she could have tied to the handle.

I might have guessed she would have a handbag instead of a proper school bag.

As a teacher I have ordered pizza for VI formers, but it was agreed beforehand so allergies / culture were taken into account, everyone got something they liked and I cleared up afterwards.

This was a one off.

16 is not a special birthday and you deserve the label, 'that parent'.

You are raising a brat, the worst kind, the kind that doesn't know she is one.

Klobluchar · 13/01/2019 03:56

I’m in America and no way would this have been allowed in my kids’ schools.

Nunya · 13/01/2019 04:37

3lucktstars

I think tbe teachers just reacted like this because they were surprised.
Maybe just give them a heads up the next time, they would probably do a flash mob dance for her if they had notice. It doesnt even need to be a birthday, then she would definitely be surprised.

This! Plus, it’s not all that exciting or special considering she was expecting^ it, as you said, OP! I always saved the balloon and flower deliveries for my DD for just regular days when they would not be expected. Now that is something special!

rainbowstardrops · 13/01/2019 05:32

Good lord 🙄

I'll give you 3/10

Must try harder 😉