Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! / myLot

Jamaica

November 30, 2009 3:11pm CST

Daughter's fiancee arranged a surprise Birthday party for my daughter at his parent's house and I was told not to spill the beans. Daughter had been in NC and Tennessee for a week. Rachel had told me that she would come to my home on Monday when she came in late Saturday night. We live about 2 and a half hours away from the city. And no, it is not a straight road but up hills and down valleys. So # 1 son and I went in together and the jokes were flying - at one time he had to park on the side of the road because we were laughing so much that he could not drive. Like me, he laughs until he cries. Then daughter calls and asks what I was doing. I said that we were going out to lunch as neither of us felt like cooking and I made the conversation short because she can be a sly little witch who may ask a lot of hard questions. She then phones her fiancee and says that something is not right so she is going to drive to me to find out what is wrong. He panicked and the told her to come to his parents house first and he would drive her to me. He then phones us to find out which way we were driving into town. But the worse thing was that four hours earlier, as he needed her to be out of the way, he had asked his friends to ask my daughter for tutoring as she knew that the husband had an exam coming up and he needed help. What my daughter did not know was that the friend had already taken the exam whilst she was off the Island but they needed a convincing excuse to get her out of the house.

Later, when all of this ( and plenty more) emerged during the party. The husband said that every time he made an excuse and left Rachel and went to the bathroom or kitchen his wife would say, "Go back in there and study. We have to keep Rachel for a longer time." It was a great party and she was so happy to see us both. His parents are so loving and kind to my daughter she is so blessed.

So tell me, would you have studied on a Sunday for 4 hours to keep the surprise Birthday party a secret?

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katsmeow1213

@katsmeow1213 (28716)

• United States

30 Nov 09

Wow! What fun that had to have been. No, I probably would have come up with another plan, like have some of her friends take her out or something. When I was pregnant with my first son, I was still in school and still lived home with my mother. My mother had recently lost her eye sight and we were awaiting her first disability check, which takes a very long time to come. Well I'd planned to have a baby shower, and made all the arrangements before my mother's check arrived... planning on using the check to throw the party. It never came and I ended up having to cancel the whole thing, which was very upsetting. One of my friends, who ended up becoming my son's Godmother, offered to take me to lunch the day the party was supposed to be held, and do a bit of shopping afterwards. I agreed, and spent half the day waiting for her to come pick me up. She was over half an hour late! And back then not everyone carried a cell phone, so I could not reach her. She finally came to get me, and we drove to the other side of town to go to a restaurant. Why on earth we had to drive way over there when there were perfectly good restaurants near me, I had no idea.. and it never dawned on me. We walk into the restaurant, we don't bother to wait to be seated, we just walk in... and there at a table was almost all the girls I'd invited to my baby shower and a whole mess of gifts for me and the baby. And of course we still went shopping afterwards for more baby stuff!

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Patsie Hatley is Deceased

@Hatley (163772)

• Garden Grove, California

30 Nov 09

hi katsmeow what a lovely surprise shower and they really did surprise you too. what fun. the nursing staff did that for me when I was about seven months p regnant and wondering where the money was going to come from for all the things the new baby would need. all of a sudden after I had just signed out one of the staff pulled me into a side room. told me some silly storyabout how I needed to fill out some paper work for my matenrity leave. meanwhile all the staff had gathered in the staff room, I mean all the staff, and then the head nurse ushered me into the staff room. there was food and beverage and piles of gifts. I was overwhelmed and in tears and was so grateful for all tjhe love from my coworkers. I knew I might not come back and felt bad abo ut that. but a baby came first.

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