My name is Undervalued...and I'm a pedant (sob)

[undervalued]

Imagine it pedants..... you're going on a hen night (fair enough, you can cope) Bride to be turns up with t-shirts to wear - one for day and one for night! (WTF???) You manage to keep smile on your face. Then you notice:
a) wrong spelling, your name now ends with a y, not an -ie!
b) On the back, in gold lettering (), are the words - 'Blah's hen's'
Feel my pain please. I am a farkin English teacher. Is wearing this T-shirt unprofessional? Will I be fired?

Hmmm, Could you just bold as brass no bones about it, stick a sticker on top of it?! NO attempt to be polite!

If for eg it is sexy Suzy then I think it would be ok to stick on something over the sexy. Do you have a massive I am 30 badge or something like that? (I would have lost mine 7 yrs ago but...)

I know how you feel. I don't feel UNsexy, but putting a notice on yourself, "sexy" is like inviting 22 yr old boys who've had a pint to be snide. It wouldn't make me feel comfortable.

Well remember how you lost all your dignity during child birth? Well just think of it as a simmilar experience. The only thing you'll be left with though is a headache. Sorry that dosn't help, does it?

Fewer people witness your giving birth!!

That is it exactly longliveGreenElizabeth! I am more than able to retort but that's not the point.
Thanks for trying mll, I know what you're trying to say

Yes, but they would have been sober. (I hope)

Where are you going?? What bar are you meeting in ?

Let's get some more t-shirts printed up!

Mumsnetter's who want to see the hen's!!

Marvellous Mumsnetter's?

Mamalicious Mumsnetter's?

decisions have been made.....
I am picking off the stray poz
I will 'forget' the evening T-shirt.
Thanks for your help, it is so nice to know that it's not just me being snooty!

It's in Glasgow. I don't live, or teach, there!!

och aye the noo, have a good time anyway!

cheers LLGE

Oh God how awful [supresses hideous memory of being made to drink wine through a willy straw].

Definitely take a jacket and drink two huge glasses of wine before you go.

Check, arfishy. Wine bought already.

and gin

and vodka

and brandy

no mixers.......

How did it go? Was it truly hideous, or bearable after a couple of bottles of wine and a few vodkas?

If that happened to me I'd have to miss the hen night. In fact, I think I'd be too upset to go to the wedding!

You lot were right, I should not have gone!!
It was far worse than I ever could have imagined. I have been home for 2 days and am stil having hideous flashbacks. I keep shouting out, "Oh God! And another thing that happened was...." It was like some cliched 1980's hen weekend.

Oh you poor thing. I'd hoped you'd be able to numb the worst of the horror with alcohol.

I've only ever been on two - one was in Rome and was actually ok (apart from the Bridezilla making me cut my holiday in Cyprus short and pay £2K to fly there of course ) and the second was the willy straw affair, that I spent being mortified and then left at 10pm because I couldn't cope any more.

Any particular horrors you want to share or is it all too raw?

Thanks arfishy. I hoped for the best really but it was a nightmare. Here are some.....
a pink cowboy hat
a willy straw
badges
a condom keyring
screaming women, armed with double entendres galore!!
we're having a gang bang singalong
tits and arses out the coach window
jumping on every poor man they could see.

The bride said, "oh what a shame you haven't got the teeshirts, you're going to feel very silly and left out...."
I did, but for very different reasons..

pmsl undervalued. I didn't think people went in for such high jinks at hen nights any more! Well done for surviving it

That is so much worse than I could ever have imagined.

[offers bottle of wine to help numb the pain]

You poor thing, it sounds truly horrific! I avoided a hen thing almost completely and ended up having a really traditional (old-fashioned) one the night before the wedding, when a few friends came over and we shared some fizz and had a laugh.

But I have been on several and lucky for me, none of them have been as bad as the one you had to suffer - the worst was probably at a Greek restaurant with the CBM bringing the usual hotchpotch of embarrassing crap; and I did go a few years ago to a weekend in Bournemouth (apparently the number 1 hotspot for hen weekends at the time) where our party was EXTREMELY sedate in comparison to some of the other horrors being perpetrated around us. Possibly the worst was a party staying at the same hotel as us who came down to breakfast in the same t-shirts they had been wearing the night before - regardless of their condition [bleugh!}

Califrau - Hen had a flashing L plate too.
One girl had a t-shirt with the words - Clitty Claire on.....

It attracted all the nobs in Glasgow - as was expected.

This bride to be was 38 FFS. I expect this of young 'uns.
By the way, she blamed the hen's on the printer...excellent!!

I've decided that I am clearly too snobby to attend these events. I will have to live with the thought that I am so unsociable that I will soon live alone with a lot of cats and will smell of urine and Youth Dew.....

Damn. Got all excited when you said it was in Glasgow (where I live) and now I discover it was last weekend. You could have come round to mine. I would never let a rogue apostrophe under my roof. You would have been safe here.

It sounds like hell.

Clitty Claire. Oh god.

no one will notice spelling error.just all the gallus lassies face it hen nights look like a troupe of numpties - no wonder you were ned magnet's

did clitty claire go to clatty pat's

send 'em round hyndland (my gaff)