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Do you invite out-of-town grandparents to your kids’ birthday parties?
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Date: September 20th, 2026 11:01 PM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) I’m kind of at a loss. I never realized birthday parties were worth traveling across country for. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50146584) |
Date: September 20th, 2026 11:03 PM Author: hank_scorpio I mean it would be weird to expect them to come but they should have an open invitation certainly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50146586) |
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Date: September 20th, 2026 11:04 PM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) I didn’t even invite one of my parents to my wedding. It’d be weird to start inviting them to 9th birthday parties. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50146587) |
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Date: September 20th, 2026 11:05 PM Author: hank_scorpio well having a shitty family is different I guess, but in a functional family grandparents should attend as many of the child's events as they can (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50146589) |
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Date: September 20th, 2026 11:09 PM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) My daughter had her maternal grandparents come and her aunt and uncle and cousins. It was a nice gathering. But the disjointed fragments were left dangling in their far off enclaves where they belong. I think my kids will be fine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50146598) |
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Date: September 20th, 2026 11:11 PM Author: hank_scorpio depends on the reason but it is suboptimal to say the least, also whatever is wrong with your parents has a high chance of occurring in your kids (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50146602) |
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Date: September 20th, 2026 11:25 PM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) It surely is bizarre for my children. On their mother’s side there’s all these people. Cousins, aunts, uncles, even great aunts and great uncles, grandparents. Then there’s this sense that I come from this weird sort of place that doesn’t exist anymore and is only half remembered. There’s heaviness in the air whenever we’ve gone to see one or another. Things left unsaid. Tension in the air so strong it’ll make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up like you’re inside one of those cherry red plastic tube slides that drops auspiciously into a ball pit. But at Oma’s house the ball pit is a dark labyrinth of sleeping snakes. |
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Date: September 20th, 2026 11:45 PM Author: hank_scorpio is there any chance that you are profoundly mentally ill? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50146656) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 8:10 AM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) No. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50146856) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 9:01 AM Author: xX_PsYcHo_SniPeR69 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50146901) |
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Date: September 20th, 2026 11:06 PM Author: Trust If Aryan This (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50146591) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 8:51 AM Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III ( ) Cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50146887) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 8:52 AM Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III ( ) Out of town grandparents? Prole tell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50146888) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 8:59 AM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) Yeah, I live near a major city. they live out in the hinterlands. One is a famer. The other desired a small-town feel and an active senior lifestyle among like-minded head-in-the-sand aging seniors of Shangri-la. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50146896) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 8:51 PM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50148416) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 9:36 PM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, No - definitely only invite other parents who aren't related to your kid - they're definitely thrilled. Bonus points if they're adult friends who don't even have kids the same age - they'll definitely think your kids birthday party is very interesting because you've done such a great job planning it than every other kid birthday party.
Whatever you do, don't invite the grandparents who are blood related to the kids and would actually be ecstatic to attend. |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 9:40 PM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) Just because you are blood does not make you a good person or "ecstatic to attend." I know what "ecstatic" means of course, but I've never considered using it to describe a person's reaction to an event, and certainly not a trivial event such as a 9-year-old's birthday party. |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 9:41 PM Author: xX_PsYcHo_SniPeR69 Wanna hit up a Broadway tour in Houston some time? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50148512) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 9:46 PM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) Sara Bareilles 10/08/2026 at the Hobby Center? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50148524) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 9:50 PM Author: xX_PsYcHo_SniPeR69 Tentative. How about the hit Broadway musical MRS. DOUBTFIRE Oct 13–25, 2026 at the Hobby Center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50148533) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 9:51 PM Author: average/ordinary/typical citizen/person Very xo poast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50148535) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 9:55 PM Author: Covid was a Hoax it depends on your relationship but its an obvious courtesy to just not mention it when you speak to them if you/they arent massive faggots. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50148544) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 10:04 PM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) My favorite wife posted some photos on her Facebook page and this is what set off the whole show. I didn’t mention it to anyone. The grandparents don’t remember my kids’ birthdays and I don’t bring it up either. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50148568) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 10:14 PM Author: Covid was a Hoax "are you coming to nico's birthday party?" your daughter asks you over the phone (nico is a girl btw)
Uh, i dont know sweetheart, ill have to think about it.
Here, why dont you facetime with Nico!
Pop-pop, awe you coming to my biwthday pawty?
"cough, ahem blech, arghh, cough" you reply, careful to use your red handkerchief to avoid nico seeing the blood filled phlegm.
are you ok pop-pop?
yeah its just a cold, sweetheart. are you enjoying seattle?
yeah but its weally wainy. how is tampa.
gets kinda hot this time of year kiddo but im doing fine do you like the new house?
yeah! the basement is tho big its tho much fun to play in.
yeah thats what the realtor said on the zoom calls. so anyways can i talk to your mother. |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 10:16 PM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) I’m not sure what this is supposed to represent but I sure would like to see that rumpus room. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50148584) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 9:58 PM Author: Rickys' Cat "...and if your in the area, your moar than welcome to join us :)..." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50148551) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 10:17 PM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (πΊπΈ π΅π±) are both of your parents still alive? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50148587) |
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Date: September 21st, 2026 10:26 PM Author: luke the drifter (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) Yes they are both alive, but they are separated by many miles and decades and everything that happened in between and what it meant for me and for those we lost along the way is lost in translation somehow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905596&forum_id=2/en-en/#50148623) |