College Discussion - View Single Post - 'Fess up, moms. Which e-mail is yours?

latetoschool · 05-09-2008, 05:12 PM

I love this thread - lol - it reminds me of a voicemail message a friend of D's left for her....

I threw a party for her for high school graduation. I HATE vanilla off the shelf invitation cards - well - I actually hate any sort of commercial greeting card, but, long story short, I wanted to send customized invitiations, and so that is what I did. D said I could. The list of invited guests included a mix of mentors, friends, etc. So I plagiarized from CC a lot of provocative questions, such as "should our students be taught to read the Koran" etc. (Keep in mind this was hs graduating class 2002 so you can imagine the robust incendiary source material I had to chose from - my biggest problem was what to leave out.) I did add a few original thoughts of my own but mostly I simply stole from other parents on CC. I put the questions, phrases and statements on the front, back, and inside left panels of the invitation, with the details of the party on the inside right panel, and sent the stuff out.

I thought I did a wonderful job - it was in the colors of her college, and it looked just awesome. So in the mail the things went, and D distributed some at school, with disclaimers about the content.

Then the RSVPs started rolling in.

One young man - a highly ranked, normally very articulate student - headed for JHS - called and left a message that went something like this: Hi. I, received an invitation - well - at least I think maybe it's an invitation - to a graduation party. If that's what it is, I want to come. If that's not what is, please let me know. I'm pretty sure it must be an invitation - but it's sort of confusing, and hard to tell. I mean, it has all this...this...this...well...CRAP...and just totally weird stuff written all over the front and back of it...just a lot of weird ramblings...well hopefully I at least get it's supposed to be an invitation...

It's a lot funnier if you have the audio to go with it - incredulous overtones, emphasis on the descriptive words lol. We laughed so hard - we replayed that message over and over, and for college graduation I didn't even send invitations, just stuck to safe ground telephone/email.

05-09-2008, 05:12 PM	#36
latetoschool Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Miami and Washington, D.C. Threads: 119 Posts: 492	I love this thread - lol - it reminds me of a voicemail message a friend of D's left for her.... I threw a party for her for high school graduation. I HATE vanilla off the shelf invitation cards - well - I actually hate any sort of commercial greeting card, but, long story short, I wanted to send customized invitiations, and so that is what I did. D said I could. The list of invited guests included a mix of mentors, friends, etc. So I plagiarized from CC a lot of provocative questions, such as "should our students be taught to read the Koran" etc. (Keep in mind this was hs graduating class 2002 so you can imagine the robust incendiary source material I had to chose from - my biggest problem was what to leave out.) I did add a few original thoughts of my own but mostly I simply stole from other parents on CC. I put the questions, phrases and statements on the front, back, and inside left panels of the invitation, with the details of the party on the inside right panel, and sent the stuff out. I thought I did a wonderful job - it was in the colors of her college, and it looked just awesome. So in the mail the things went, and D distributed some at school, with disclaimers about the content. Then the RSVPs started rolling in. One young man - a highly ranked, normally very articulate student - headed for JHS - called and left a message that went something like this: Hi. I, received an invitation - well - at least I think maybe it's an invitation - to a graduation party. If that's what it is, I want to come. If that's not what is, please let me know. I'm pretty sure it must be an invitation - but it's sort of confusing, and hard to tell. I mean, it has all this...this...this...well...CRAP...and just totally weird stuff written all over the front and back of it...just a lot of weird ramblings...well hopefully I at least get it's supposed to be an invitation... It's a lot funnier if you have the audio to go with it - incredulous overtones, emphasis on the descriptive words lol. We laughed so hard - we replayed that message over and over, and for college graduation I didn't even send invitations, just stuck to safe ground telephone/email.