Random Thoughts XII - This Thread Delivers
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I don't think YOU are the one that is confused in this story.
Here are a few hints for you fellas who may need to purchase Mother's Day presents for the mother of their children. A phone is an acceptable gift, especially if she has needed one for over a year. She may also purchase things for herself like earrings, or a nice haircut, and say those will work for Mother's Day presents. Do not offer to "float" the tires that you now need to buy as an acceptable anniversary gift (coming up in 2 months) instead of a Mother's Day gift. . . .
Love, ya honey!
Love, ya honey!
I guess the zip I had, 69, was incorrect.
Also, OU812 kind of hurts. It's when Van Halen seemed to decide that music wasn't supposed to be fun anymore.
You're confused? After everything I've taught her, I'm trying to figure out how my daughter could be leaning towards attending the University of Iowa.
Does she look like the milkman?
No. She's the one that looks like me. The other two don't so it would explain why they would do that.
@Fitzy ? That city slicker that can't even get to the right venue for a wedding?
@Fitzy ? That city slicker that can't even get to the right venue for a wedding?
sounds like story time!
I'll write it out to spare you the time, female bovine.
My wife's high school girl friend was getting married and her wedding officiant was my wife's father (pastor). The wedding was supposed to start at 4:30 in Albia, so the wife and I drove there (2 hourish drive from Ankeny) only to find the wedding venue listed on the invite (fairgrounds) basically empty. Since it was 4 o'clockish at the time, we decided that we city slickers might have just arrived a bit early and the small towners were going to start showing up 10-15 minutes before the wedding started.
So we drive around for 15-20 minutes and then go back to the fairgrounds - still no one there. At this point, we figured that since it was a cold/damp day, the wedding must have been moved inside to a church. So we go to every church in town that we can think of and don't come across any that appear to be hosting a wedding.
My wife had texted her dad around 4:15 asking where the wedding was, but he didn't get back to us. After exhausting all our church options in town, we finally give up around 4:40 or so and then just sit in our car waiting to hear back from my father in law.
5:15 or so, he finally gets back to us and says that the wedding had been moved to HIS church, in Knoxville (20 minute drive from Albia, we drove right by on our way to Albia).
While going around looking at churches, we had checked the bride's Facebook for an update on where the venue had been moved - nothing. Also nothing on her Knot site.
My wife's dad claims that he told my wife at some point, but neither of us remember that ever happening and we're both planners, so it's not something that either of us would forget easily.
In the end, after we realized what had happened, we just ended up driving back to Ankeny. So it was about a 5 hour drive for no reason on a Saturday night.
Whose fault is the mix-up? I'd say mostly the bride for not making the venue change more public. Maybe it was a bit of my father in law's fault too... Either way, it sucked.
yikes, that does suck. Something that important likely didn't get forgotten by both of you so yeah, I'd say her dad never told you. Plus a late venue change like that should get plastered EVERYWHERE. Or someone involved with the wedding should have been given the guest list to start calling/emailing as best they can.
Yepppp. It was a pretty small wedding and we're thinking it was one of those events where 90% of the guests were local and word got around. But not to us out-of-towners.
Here are a few hints for you fellas who may need to purchase Mother's Day presents for the mother of their children. A phone is an acceptable gift, especially if she has needed one for over a year. She may also purchase things for herself like earrings, or a nice haircut, and say those will work for Mother's Day presents. Do not offer to "float" the tires that you now need to buy as an acceptable anniversary gift (coming up in 2 months) instead of a Mother's Day gift. . . .
Love, ya honey!
I have discovered that jewelry as a gift for the vixen works every time.
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