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5-pack of Father's day cards available While it's funny at face value, what am I missing or am I correct to shake my head at how absurd this is? 10 years to retirement! Just waiting! | ||
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Saluki |
Let’s you have 5 kids and each one wants their own card to deliver. It’s possible they have different addresses, I mean who knows? ----------The weather is here I wish you were beautiful---------- | |||
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Who be my baby daddy? No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain | |||
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Hmmm, I can buy that there are 5 or less kids in the house and mom just buys a 5-pack so each kid can give Dad an individual card, but who's giving Dad 5 of the same card lol. 10 years to retirement! Just waiting! | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
I wasn't aware that greeting cards expired within the next 1-4 years. All joking aside, I can imagine a situation where - even without a bunch of "baby daddys" - a woman could have 5 fathers in her life to whom she wants to send a card: Husband and father of their kids Her own father Her father in law Maternal grandfather Paternal grandfather Then if you start throwing in stepfathers, it expands further. | |||
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Get out of here lol, you giving him the same card every year? I'm not sure I would notice, but still! That list makes sense. I was thinking one for each of my step dads I've had. 10 years to retirement! Just waiting! | |||
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On the wrong side of the Mobius strip |
I knew a woman with three kids. Each kid with a different father. Five is not much of a stretch. | |||
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Savor the limelight |
My dad never noticed my mom gave him the same Christmas card three years in a row. Same card, same envelope. Put it on display for a few weeks, back in the envelope, and back in the drawer for next year. We found out when she passed and we were cleaning out the drawers. | |||
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Oh I see, yeah not arguing that, but that just means me shaking my head is correct! 10 years to retirement! Just waiting! | |||
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That's hilarious and wholesome in a way, my wife of course would be madder than hell, but I think its funny. 10 years to retirement! Just waiting! | |||
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Prepared for the Worst, Providing the Best |
I dealt with a guy a few weeks ago at work who felt the need to share (with zero prompting on my part!) that his dad and grandpa were the same person. When you considered the totality of the circumstances, it actually kind of explained a lot. But that situation warrants 2 cards...one for father's day, and another for grandparent's day. I have no answer for the five pack. | |||
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Dances With Tornados |
^^^ Might could be. ^^^ There are a lot of grandparents nowadays who are having to raise one or more of their grandkids. It could be that Grandpa and Grandma have had to legally adopt a grandchild/grandchildren. It sucks, but that's the reality today, for example too many young adults with children get involved with drugs or crime and are dead or incarcerated for a long long time. | |||
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I've known a few instances where a mom and dad took on their grandchild from a way-too-young daughter and raised the child as a sibling of its actual mother, sometimes not knowing the truth until way later in life. I've never personally known a man to father a child with his child. 10 years to retirement! Just waiting! | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
A true Father-Grandfather situation like that is always going to be messy, but I had a few dealings at work with a somewhat more benign (though still kinda trashy) Uncle-Daddy situation. Story was like this: Teenaged boy starts dating teenaged girl. Then boy's divorced dad and girl's divorced mom hit it off. Right around the time the parents are announcing their engagement, girl comes up pregnant by the boy. Parents proceed with wedding. By the time the baby is born, its father is also its (step)uncle, because the teenaged parents are now stepsiblings. So no incest involved, but I still bet Family Tree day in school was going to be a bit confusing for that kid. And yes, there are lots of grandparents who end up raising their grandbabies. Sometimes due to no fault of their own or the parents. But unfortunately, while not always, it often enough just means that they now have a second generation of kids to screw up with their shitty parenting. (E.g. parent is an addict/criminal due in part to a shitty childhood and can't care for the kid, so they end up with the grandparents who are responsible for the mother's shitty childhood to begin with, thus extending the cycle.) | |||
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My maternal grandparents ended up being step-siblings in this way. 10 years to retirement! Just waiting! | |||
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delicately calloused |
There could be a traditional father/husband, sons who are fathers, sons in law, grandfathers….. I can see the need for the five pack You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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Prepared for the Worst, Providing the Best |
Yeah, that's not what this was. Grandpa made a baby with his daughter. | |||
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thin skin can't win |
I have Valentine and Birthday cards for 2-3 years stored up, so what's your problem with planning and trip efficiency? AND panic-avoidance.... You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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Mistake Not... |
I mean, why buy one when you can buy five at five times the price? Plus, you're missing the clear economies of scale here. Five will cost less to print than one, so instead of paying five times the cost, you are probably paying only 3.5 times the price. What a bargain!! Last, but most relevant, what dad is actually going to remember what Father's Day card he got last year, right? This makes SO much sense for today's value minded shopper. ___________________________________________ Life Member NRA & Washington Arms Collectors Mistake not my current state of joshing gentle peevishness for the awesome and terrible majesty of the towering seas of ire that are themselves the milquetoast shallows fringing my vast oceans of wrath. Velocitas Incursio Vis - Gandhi | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
"Well, we didn't do a DNA test, but I'm pretty sure that one of you guys is the father." הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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