Friday, June 15, 2007
Showers and gifts and stuff
I can understand baby showers. I don’t really like attending them, but I guess having a baby, especially the first one, is a huge life change and requires lots and lots of new supplies and equipment. Babies are expensive little boogers. A little help from friends is nice.
It’s bridal showers I don’t get. If you’re having a wedding, you’re already getting tons of gifts, often expensive ones. Weddings are usually kinda big and everyone attending is expected to shell out something in exchange for chowing down on your reception food. So what the hell is a bridal shower for? What, the wedding gifts aren’t enough? You have to wheedle even more gifts out of your friends? That’s just tacky.
I have a friend who’s getting married later this year. I hate weddings, but what kind of a friend would I be if I didn’t go, y’know? But it’s never just the one thing, is it? Now I’m stuck having to go to a bachelorette party AND a bridal shower. Do you remember the last bachelorette party I went to? Yeah, the one with the sweaty gross strippers. Come to think of it, that party was for the same friend! I’d forgotten, she bailed out of the whole wedding thing. Imagine how pissed her parents were after having reserved banquet halls and stuff. They lost their deposit, and here she is trying the wedding thing again… with the same guy. Can you believe it? Would it be rude of me to tell her to get a clue?
Well anyway, bachelorette parties are okay by me. Celebrate your final days of singlehood and stuff. But bridal showers? Lame, lame, lame excuses to squeeze your friends and relatives for more than you deserve.
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