Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Makes It All Worthwhile

Dear Snag,

Thank you for arranging to provide free tickets to a major league game for the Little League coaches. I requested tickets for July 3, which will be my daughter's first birthday. I figured she wouldn't know it's her birthday so I could go to a game. I guess I don’t know my wife as well as I thought. Can you please give me tickets for a different night?

13 comments:

Pinko Punko said...

Life is such a minefield of decisions.

Baby's first hot dog and a cute ice cream sundae in a plastic mini batting helmet is not going to cut it?

fish said...

Gee. Forget one little anniversary and you hear about it forever.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

forget a SECOND anniversary, fish, and you will probably stop hearing about it.

Jennifer said...

And never ask your wife... who has only been a new mother for a month... why people are giving her stuff on Mother's Day...

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

ouch. He DIDN'T, did he, Jennifer?

Mandos said...

OK, I'll bite. Why are they giving you stuff on Mother's Day?

wv: "unreadi"

fish said...

OK, I'll bite. Why are they giving you stuff on Mother's Day?


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Jennifer said...

Our firstborn, although a wonderful and worthwhile addition, did blowup our previous existence in ways not totally expected. If I recall, thinking and reasoning were the first to go.

He felt horrible when he realized... but of course I continued to milk it for YEARS!

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

but of course I continued to milk it for YEARS!

like now, for example.

Snag said...

As I explained to one of my kids, "What makes you think your birthday is something I want to celebrate?"

Mendacious D said...

My dad says much the same thing about his birthdays.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

I haz a birfday story: One day, when I was little (8ish? 11ish? can't begin to recall), I had a birthday, and it was all like so underwhelming in terms of prior birthdays, siblings, and such as that I had big fit.

Then it turned out that there was plenty of presents, they just hadn't been produced yet for some reason I can't recall.

So after that, I was so embarrassed and ashamed I never wanted to have the day mentioned again. In fact, at my latest job they ferret that date out to have like a workday 1/2 hour or so with a cake...but they didn't get mine out of me for 2 years (and then I think it was by cheating).

*heavy sigh - facepalm*
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Jennifer said...

Yes, but we know when it is due to your Tiny Bubbles post. :)