Jack and #$#%# Jill baby showers!

[Jenn]

OMG!!! you guys have no idea how good you have it!!!! Try being a woman (who by the way cant STAND these things....probably even more than you)!!!! If you are a woman and invited to a baby or bridal shower you are doomed no doubt. First you need to RSVP which equals a half hour on the phone discussing the shower, then countless hour and stress of finding a gift, then you have to have something acceptable to wear, THEN you have to go there and sit through it all. Sure you could call and say you cant make it but then its an hour of being harassed about all the fun you'll miss and how you really should go, a month of everyone else asking if your going and then freaking out because you tell them your not, THEN after its all said and done everyone that went tells you in detail about the whole damn thing anyway!!!!!

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by Jenn

OMG!!! you guys have no idea how good you have it!!!! Try being a woman (who by the way cant STAND these things....probably even more than you)!!!! If you are a woman and invited to a baby or bridal shower you are doomed no doubt. First you need to RSVP which equals a half hour on the phone discussing the shower, then countless hour and stress of finding a gift, then you have to have something acceptable to wear, THEN you have to go there and sit through it all. Sure you could call and say you cant make it but then its an hour of being harassed about all the fun you'll miss and how you really should go, a month of everyone else asking if your going and then freaking out because you tell them your not, THEN after its all said and done everyone that went tells you in detail about the whole damn thing anyway!!!!!

I feel so sorry for you, it is so stressful!

[Rockport24]

Amen to all of this! thanks again guys

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by Jenn

OMG!!! you guys have no idea how good you have it!!!! Try being a woman (who by the way cant STAND these things....probably even more than you)!!!! If you are a woman and invited to a baby or bridal shower you are doomed no doubt. First you need to RSVP which equals a half hour on the phone discussing the shower, then countless hour and stress of finding a gift, then you have to have something acceptable to wear, THEN you have to go there and sit through it all. Sure you could call and say you cant make it but then its an hour of being harassed about all the fun you'll miss and how you really should go, a month of everyone else asking if your going and then freaking out because you tell them your not, THEN after its all said and done everyone that went tells you in detail about the whole damn thing anyway!!!!!

Being a proponent of Siddhartha, as you obviously are, why don't you do what the guys do under similar circumstnces: find a clean or at holeless t-shirt, an appropriate pair of denims, put some deoderant on, comb your hair and head to Hooter's. Once there look around and say, "is this as good as it gets or what?" And then kick back.

[Jenn]

Swimmer...I am still on my journey to enlightenment. I still need to learn how to say "no" and not let my conscience bother me.

[Raider Ronnie]

Jack & Jill went up the hill
each with a buck and a quarter
Jill came down with fifty cents

[bloocrab]

Being newly married, I'd have to suggest that the winter-time is the purrfect time for putting cookies in the cookie-jar,....in saying that, I was co-herced (or in woman terms, forced ) to attend one of these gatherings not that long ago. She convinced me that she has always been the "lonely" wife at these things because most women bring their husband, and since it wasn't fishing season, this would make her VERY happy (which in a man's terms, means xtra SEX )

Ok, so I went and I gotta say, believe it or not....I'm very happy that I did. I arrived at this "Jacka$s & Jill" shin-dig and was soon sitting in a room filled with women, yeah...some pretty, some ugly and some pretty ugly. There may have been 3 or 4 other men/saps/suckas also trapped in this hall. After 20 minutes of this thing being started, I started staring at my wife,,, It didn't take long before I started with the... "where are all the Jacks???... I only see Jacka$ses" ....//....It's a very GAY ritaul ...(Gay meaning, ...a real girly/happy thing, - no offense to the homosexuals on this site)...It was driving me nutz and she could tell -

Ok, so why am I happy that I went? 10 Reasons

#1. She was very apologetic and said I'd never have to go again.
#2. After 30 minutes she said LEAVE, so I hit a nearby bar in the city I grew up in....and was paged when she was ready to be picked up....and again, she was very apologetic
#3. Most important reason = I will NEVER go to one of those seances again..
#4. Many cookies were obtained from my short attendance
#5. She (like Jenn) was not happy with the whole thing herself as she was constantly being asked "when are you going to have one?"
#6. She was very apologetic
#7. I will never have to go to one of those or anything else girly-like again.
#8. She was very apologetic
#9. I can rub it in for a long time making it very dramatic when needed as an "edge".
#10. Did I mention apologies from a woman often lead to sex?
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I think I put those in the right order.


Rockport, do what you think is best for your marriage before anything else - Only YOU know.

[Rockport24]

you make some good points bloo crab, nobody really knows what goes on with a couple except the couple themselves

either way, she got the picture on this one and that's that. ok I feel like we are

[Dad 818]

Originally Posted by bloocrab

Being newly married, I'd have to suggest that the winter-time is the purrfect time for putting cookies in the cookie-jar,....in saying that, I was co-herced (or in woman terms, forced ) to attend one of these gatherings not that long ago. She convinced me that she has always been the "lonely" wife at these things because most women bring their husband, and since it wasn't fishing season, this would make her VERY happy (which in a man's terms, means xtra SEX )

Ok, so I went and I gotta say, believe it or not....I'm very happy that I did. I arrived at this "Jacka$s & Jill" shin-dig and was soon sitting in a room filled with women, yeah...some pretty, some ugly and some pretty ugly. There may have been 3 or 4 other men/saps/suckas also trapped in this hall. After 20 minutes of this thing being started, I started staring at my wife,,, It didn't take long before I started with the... "where are all the Jacks???... I only see Jacka$ses" ....//....It's a very GAY ritaul ...(Gay meaning, ...a real girly/happy thing, - no offense to the homosexuals on this site)...It was driving me nutz and she could tell -

Ok, so why am I happy that I went? 10 Reasons

#1. She was very apologetic and said I'd never have to go again.
#2. After 30 minutes she said LEAVE, so I hit a nearby bar in the city I grew up in....and was paged when she was ready to be picked up....and again, she was very apologetic
#3. Most important reason = I will NEVER go to one of those seances again..
#4. Many cookies were obtained from my short attendance
#5. She (like Jenn) was not happy with the whole thing herself as she was constantly being asked "when are you going to have one?"
#6. She was very apologetic
#7. I will never have to go to one of those or anything else girly-like again.
#8. She was very apologetic
#9. I can rub it in for a long time making it very dramatic when needed as an "edge".
#10. Did I mention apologies from a woman often lead to sex?
.............................. ................

I think I put those in the right order.


Rockport, do what you think is best for your marriage before anything else - Only YOU know.

All fine and well, but was it on the day of MSBA?