Wait, what? The bride is being a snotty bitch about having a Barbie cake?? That's not right. I'm going to a shower this Saturday and I don't have to do a damn thing, and I AM a bridesmaid!
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Jesse - Feb 28, 2005 4:16:59 pm PST #2758 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot - Feb 28, 2005 4:20:37 pm PST #2759 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I hate "save us from ourselves" laws.
I hate the fact that people want to attach nets or a fence to the Golden Gate Bridge to prevent suicides.
Strix - Feb 28, 2005 4:22:19 pm PST #2760 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Yeah. K., my poor Good Bridemaid friend, starts a new job this week, and she sensibly suggested that she provide a sheet cake, since she has no idea how to bake one of these things, can't afford to have one made and also starts BOTH new jobs tomorrow and will be late to the shower SHE'S hosting (because she has to do training Saturday, and they'll let her get off training early, but she'll still be rushing HARD to get there 1/2 hour after it starts.)
So the Bride goes all whiny and "I really want a BArbie cake, whine, whine."
She already had a destination shower in Chicago her close friends were forced to shell out money they didn't have. (Not me, though -- I didn't have a turnip to even squeeze blood outta).
So, yeah. Barbie Cake.
And please, bridal shower gifts should be TRAVEL THEMED.
sarameg - Feb 28, 2005 4:23:30 pm PST #2761 of 10002
At a friend's shower, they made her bake her own cake with no recipe from a bunch of stuff out on the table.
She forgot the eggs.
Which is even more hilarious when you realize that one of the things on the table was a box cake mix. She didn't see it at all.
(I normally cringe at shower games/tasks, but it was her sort of thing, so she enjoyed it.)
Jesse - Feb 28, 2005 4:25:56 pm PST #2762 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dear LORD, Erin! Sorry.
amych - Feb 28, 2005 4:26:10 pm PST #2763 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Showers are evil. I'm sure of this.
sarameg - Feb 28, 2005 4:26:16 pm PST #2764 of 10002
Erin, bake 3 graduated in size cake rounds. Stack the rounds. Or a bund cake with a skinny hole. Find an old barbie. Stab barbie through center. Slather in frosting. Including barbie unless you have a nice shirt for her. Hey, use draggees!
amych - Feb 28, 2005 4:26:58 pm PST #2765 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Bwah, sara! Dragée pasties, perhaps?
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2005 4:29:07 pm PST #2766 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Erin, that's horrible.
It seems some people work at showers, to make it horrible for the bride or the attendees or both.
My favourite shower involve margaritas and gay porn. My second favourite involved the bride to be picking up a random stranger in the bar and making out with him.
Jesse - Feb 28, 2005 4:31:39 pm PST #2767 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The one I'm going to Saturday will be just fine. At a restaurant, some unobtrusive and voluntary games, no big whoop.