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Ghetto Baby Showers
Ladies and gentlemen of GC, is there anyone that has attended a ghetto baby shower in the past or as of late? Well I have, and have I got a story to tell y'all!!!! Let me warn you, it's gonna be kinda long.....
The ghetto baby shower that I attended was on Valentine's Day (how perfect is that?). It was for a "friend" of mine from JHS. This is her first baby and she had gotten married earlier that day to her baby daddy. :rolleyes: It's her second marriage, and I hope this guy's the one. Back to the shower. My friend (her best friend since elementary school) and I got to the expectant mother's childhood home (she lives in DC and the shower took place in my hometown; she drove up for the wedding and shower) at about 7:00 PM. Mind you, it was supposed to start at about 3:30. My friend asks said EM where the guests were. EM replied that nobody had gotten there yet. :eek: WHAT?!?! I'm standing there like :confused: and wondering when the guests were supposed to be arriving. Just to let you know, she's the youngest of like 10 kids, she's 26, and she's Jamaican. One of her older sisters went to my high school and we were both on the cheerleading team. I saw her and said hello and she began to tell me that she named her daughter after me (our names are spelled differently, but sound the same) and throughout the whole thing kids kept calling her name and I kept looking around to see if the rugrats were calling me. I found a good seat on the loveseat conveniently placed in the dining area and decided to keep it for the night. About an hour or so later, the guests began to arrive. The guests only consisted of her family, with the exception of me, my friend and another girl we knew from JHS. This girl (I'll call her Vicky) called to me from across the room asking if it was me and mispronounced my name. :mad: I corrected her and let her know that it was me. When she came to my side of the room, she mispronounced it again. Then I almost hit the roof, but I calmed down when I realized that I'll never see her again so it won't matter what she called me. Now back to the fam. Most of them didn't bother to bring gifts (yeah, I peeped that), but some of them surely were up in the kitchen getting drunk as skunks!!! My friend (I'll call her Kim) was walking around the shower talking to all of the family members (being that she knows all of them) and left me alone to fend off the BAD AZZ KIDS that were running throughout the house destroying stuh, fighting each other, and all kinds of mess. The only good thing about the shower was the FOOD!!! The games were kinda cheesy and..... well, the whole shower was just CHEESY!!!! Kim said that she could've thrown a much better baby shower for the EM at her house and she would've gotten a LOT more gifts. The games they had were Baby Nursery Bingo, the game where you couldn't say "baby" or any word meaning "baby," and if anyone did, you could take their clothes pins, the game where you measure out a string or something (in this case, they used toilet paper; HOW GHETTO IS THAT!?!) around the EM's belly, and whoever gets the closest wins. Now you know how you're supposed to measure around the stomach first and then everybody measures out their piece to see if they win. Why was this game all backwards. Everybody measured out their toilet paper and then put it around the EM's belly to find out if they won (mine was two TP sheets longer than her actual size) and there were a few that did, but come on, the confusion over who won was too much. When I found out that I didn't win, I stopped worrying about that game. With the Bingo game, the first time it was played, there were like five or six people (including myself) who'd won, but the girl who was conducting the game (the sister who named her daughter after me) said that we had to do it over because a bunch of people were saying, "Bingo." I took this to mean that the family didn't plan for there to be more than one winner and was too cheap to buy more gifts in the event of this occurring. When she began the game again, someone else won. The cake was a white angel food cake with buttercream filling fom Costco (this was the only food I didn't like) and the sister with the daughter with my name said that she was trying to get rid of the cake (she probably already knew it was nasty) and gave me like two big pieces (thank goodness I forgot to take it home from Kim's house). And to top it all off, when me and Kim were on our way back to her house (I was spending the night), we couldn't get a cab and had to wait an hour and a half before one of EM's brothers drove us. He said that he would've driven us originally, but his truck was trapped in the driveway by someone else's car. When me and Kim got in her front door, we collapsed on her couches and fell asleep after about ten minutes or so (we had to take off our clothes; they were kinda uncomfortable :p ). And that is my GHETTO BABY SHOWER STORY. I know y'all have some stories to tell, so share it!!!!!!!! ETA: EM's best friend (valedictorian of our JHS graduating class) decided not to show up (I know this b/c she called) because she had a hot date. Now given, it was V-Day, but she could've at least showed up for an hour or so, gave a gift, said congrats and been on her merry way. Now THAT is totally TRIF!!!! And oh yeah, she didn't come downstairs for at least two hours after me and Kim arrived. Kim suspects it was b/c she was in the bathroom crying her little eyes out about WTHWGO!!! |
Well, right from jump, I HATE baby showers and loathe going to them. I hate the games, the "showing" of the presents (its like a show to see who bought what and how much), the whole nine.
That is TRIF that her own family did not even show up until 3 1/2 hours later! :eek: By 7 pm, I would have been either gone, sleeping, out shopping, doing SOMETHING else beside waiting on them.:mad: |
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Actually I have never been to a ghetto baby shower. I've only been to about 5 in my life and they were all nice. Also we did the toilet paper thing at each one and it was ok. On another note, I don't really like baby or bridal showers. I go to support my friend or family member, but if I'm never invited to another it's ok. I just feel it's to "phony", the conversations are always about loosing weight, kids, or husbands, I'll rather be at home.
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I was at one baby shower where you had to guess the flavor of the baby food. Common, yes...but WTF did they only use one spoon? I was like, "Nah...I'm allergic." I don't know ya'll heffa's, WTH would I eat after you? :o I just don't like baby showers, maybe it will be different when I have mine, but ewwww...they are a pet peeve of mine. |
@ my line sister's baby shower, they took candy bars and mashed them up, placed them on diapers, and we had to guess which candy bar they were.
I love baby showers. I guess because I only go to showers of folks I care about and I WIN LOTS of the games. :cool: |
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Being the manners queen that Hubby calls me, I didn't want to go the shower w/o a gift so I stopped at Wally World and picked up a gift card and put it in a very nice Hallmark card. So we get to the baby shower and they play the usual games and stuff and of course some of the attendees are more than a little tipsy and then it was time for the gift show. The guest of honor's best friend opens each gift and tells everyone what the gift was and how much it cost and who got it. Everybody was oohing and ahhing and stuff and when she got to my gift, she announces, "Well, here's a gift card from Wal-Mart and it's only $25.00. And it's from 9dstpm and Hubby and family. Ummph!" There was like dead silence in the room. I was so embarrassed and mad that I could scream! I left right after that! |
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She actually announced the price for each gift?? That's just ridiculous. Some people. :confused: SC |
Announcing the amount of the gifts and passing judgment on them was straight tacky!!
She lacks home training. What ever happened to being thankful for anything you receive? She should expect a lump of coal in her Christmas stocking! I hate the toilet paper game. I've never played the baby food tasting game (we always take the labels off and guess the items). I have attended too many baby showers, mostly family. There are too many children in my family. |
I have never been to a ghetto baby shower. Most of the baby showers I have been to were pretty much on point with everything all the way down to everyone being prompt. I know hard to believe. HOWEVER:mad: I always wind up getting invited to Junior's first birfday porty. Lawd Hammercy, I don't have enough time to talk about how toe'up some of the family members get, how much peoples wanna fight cuz somebotty ate up all the cabbage or Shakeim got too much on his plate or Bones coming up in the porty drunk again and stuh, puulleeaaassee........:rolleyes:
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