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?

[LongLiveGreenElizabeth]

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.

[mummyloveslucy]

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?

[LongLiveGreenElizabeth]

Fewer people witness your giving birth!!

[undervalued]

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

[mummyloveslucy]

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

[LongLiveGreenElizabeth]

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?

[undervalued]

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!

[undervalued]

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

[LongLiveGreenElizabeth]

och aye the noo, have a good time anyway!

[undervalued]

cheers LLGE

[arfishy]

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.

[undervalued]

Check, arfishy. Wine bought already.

and gin


and vodka

and brandy

no mixers.......

[arfishy]

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

[uberalice]

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!

[undervalued]

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.

[arfishy]

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?

[undervalued]

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..

[Cies]

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

[arfishy]

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

[offers bottle of wine to help numb the pain]

[thumbwitch]

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!}

[undervalued]

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.....

[midnightexpress]

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.

[ScottishMummy]

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

[ScottishMummy]

send 'em round hyndland (my gaff)