What is One to do.

[LSU-monte]

So I have been planning on fishing the Blackjack tourney for a long while now. All of a sudden my wife tells me we have to go to our good friends from high school baby's shower. (we have stayed close friends with them forever and they even went to LSU with us). Should I skip a good friends baby shower to selfishly do what I want to do?

Maybe I can try to get him to skip it as well and join us for the tourney, but I doubt it.

What is one to do? Any good ideas

[bubbas kenner]

It would show that your friends are more important than a tournament there's always another one .I have good memories of baby showers.

[Ibtsoom]

I have the same issue for the crawfish boil.. I figure it's not every day my friend has a baby. No crawfish for me

[Robalo]

Steve Hoyland at the Seabreeze News has your answer: "Turn in your Man Card or man-up and tell the wife and friend's wife that God meant for wimmen to suffer through Childbirth, not Men, so she should have fun at the Baby Shower while you and the other husband fish-and when you get home, those wimmen need to clean the fish and cook them for you."

PS: If your wife threatens to cut you off, look her straight in the eyes and say "Ya can't, because ya don't know where I'm getting it." Worked well on my ex-wife.

[JT]

Steve Hoyland at the Seabreeze News has your answer: "Turn in your Man Card or man-up and tell the wife and friend's wife that God meant for wimmen to suffer through Childbirth, not Men, so she should have fun at the Baby Shower while you and the other husband fish-and when you get home, those wimmen need to clean the fish and cook them for you."

PS: If your wife threatens to cut you off, look her straight in the eyes and say "Ya can't, because ya don't know where I'm getting it." Worked well on my ex-wife.

Couldnt of said it better....I could care less about a damm baby shower but to each his own.

I didnt even go to my own kids baby showers and my kids didnt miss a beat. This may be a good "thread subject" for GHSmaker in a few weeks.

[Jhua]

Best baby shower I went to was my one of my friends from high school. Had it at the parent's ranch with a large pond. The women stayed inside and did their thing while all the guys stayed outside, grilled, played football, watched the sunday football game and fished. I even managed to win a 50 dollar Wal-Mart gift card. It was a pretty good day.

[JT]

Whoever started that couples baby showers need a country arse whuppin .

The same thing for attending "pregancy classes" and being in there and helping out when she dominoes..I remember the nurse came out and told me to get in there and help. I said no thank you; Ill just hang out in the waiting room smoking cigars w/ my buds and asked her to kindly STFU, and just come out and let me know if it was a boy or not.

[buoy37]

PS: If your wife threatens to cut you off, look her straight in the eyes and say "Ya can't, because ya don't know where I'm getting it." Worked well on my ex-wife.

Man, I just laughed out loud in a room full of dead beats.

[Rollo]

Whats ta shower ,the kid aint even been born yet Duh!.....................2things men dont do, thats Gynocoglijust and baby showers,Turn in yer man cards!!

[buoy37]

Keeping the wife happy is more important than any tournament or baby shower. How much fun can you really have fishing knowing you have to go home to a pizzed off wife?

[Robalo]

It's not his fault they planned a hetero baby shower, so she shouldn't be mad at him-if she loves him, she should be supportive of ALL his outside interests-especially when he hits Heartbreakers and comes home horny and takes it out on her-she should be happy-remind her that someday you'll be so old you'll need to put splints on it to work, so she should enjoy it while it works-same goes for fishing, hunting, golf, poker and happy hours!!!! Co-dependency can be suffocating!

Good luck!

[Moe]

Keeping the wife happy is more important than any tournament or baby shower. How much fun can you really have fishing knowing you have to go home to a pizzed off wife?

Momma happy, the whole house happy. Momma mad....... I would suggest you go to the shower. The benefits will outweigh the consequences if you do not go to tyhe shower. IMHO!

[Hesser]

Go fishing 1st, show up to shower a little late but covered in fish guts, blood and stank.

[Curmudgeon]

Keeping the wife happy is more important than any tournament or baby shower. How much fun can you really have fishing knowing you have to go home to a pizzed off wife?

Yep!
I was pretty mad when I found out I had to attend one of my daughter's baby showers with a bunch of folks I didn't even know. Little did I know that I'd meet one of my best friends there. You never know what'll happen.

[Oleander Kayaker]

My lifetime count of having changed 3600 diapers has me recommending to the expectant parents, Dr. Smith's diaper ointment (get it at HEB). If'n you go to the shower, include that as your (manly) gift.

Not only will you win admiration from the wimmin (most of them don't know about that secret paste) but you'll throw a gauntlet down to the men folk (yea, 3600 wads a poop I handled, what about you..).

Oh, and when the parents use that stuff, they will forever be indebted to you. Better than greasy Desitin.