You pick your kids up from a drop-off party ON TIME

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTH? My son’s birthday party (late elementary kids) was on Saturday, a drop-off party at a trampoline place (of course parents were welcome to stay). Invitation very clearly stated jump time 2-3, pizza and cake 3-4, party concludes at 4. It was that spelled out.

Welp, three out of eight kids were still there 15-20 minutes after 4. So instead of being able to simply pack up and leave, we had to monitor three additional kids with essentially nothing to do, as they couldn’t go back out to the trampoline park (you only get an hour of jump time) and we had to clear out of the party/food room, as of course the staff needed to clean and set up for the next party.

RUDE. Get your kids. Five minutes late is one thing. TWENTY minutes late? What the hell?

This should be your biggest problem in life

[Anonymous]

15 to 20 minutes of your life is NOT a big deal. Get the f over it. If it’s so annoying then don’t have parties - easy.

[Anonymous]

all these mad people are the late ones LOL

They're so defensive and angry

[Anonymous]

It's so rude OP and I don't understand why the majoiry of posters here side with them. Call or txt the host if you are running more than a couple of minutes late for whatever reason, that is the polite thing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gosh you're very unforgiving. People have so many things going on, And some people have truly very difficult things going on, and I can easily see how people could get there 15 minutes late.

You sound very highly strong to have found that to be a big deal. Seriously, in the grand scheme of things, this was 15 minutes for you to sit around on your kids birthday and let them frolic for a few more minutes with some other kids. Life is short, try not to be so miserable about it.

You.are.a.jerk.

Get there on time. It’s your responsibility. Step up.

[Anonymous]

Very frustrating. If not invited next year, then they would be the ones on here complaining their kid was left out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTH? My son’s birthday party (late elementary kids) was on Saturday, a drop-off party at a trampoline place (of course parents were welcome to stay). Invitation very clearly stated jump time 2-3, pizza and cake 3-4, party concludes at 4. It was that spelled out.

Welp, three out of eight kids were still there 15-20 minutes after 4. So instead of being able to simply pack up and leave, we had to monitor three additional kids with essentially nothing to do, as they couldn’t go back out to the trampoline park (you only get an hour of jump time) and we had to clear out of the party/food room, as of course the staff needed to clean and set up for the next party.

RUDE. Get your kids. Five minutes late is one thing. TWENTY minutes late? What the hell?

Now you know how teachers feel every single day! I’d say out of 180 school days, every student is picked up on time maybe 10 of those days. I work second job and don’t even have time to use the bathroom because parents are late and I have to leave. Rude. I wish I could charge them by the minute like daycare centers do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Team OP. Everyone knows how these places work. You have to clear out when your slot is over. It’s not difficult to be on time. You just have to care enough about it to make it happen.

Yeah. I agree. People who are late are people who never host parties. If you’ve ever hosted one, you know how it works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Team OP. Everyone knows how these places work. You have to clear out when your slot is over. It’s not difficult to be on time. You just have to care enough about it to make it happen.

+100!

I can tell who the freeloaders and moochers are by thinking it’s not a big deal to pick up 20 minutes late from a drop off party at an event venue. Seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I don't know why people are dragging you. It isn't right. I hope that they profusely apologized. Everyone knows that the parties at those places have end times.


I would have still been gracious and understanding to their face, but it was totally rude

Yep, this.

[Anonymous]

My answer depends in part on how far the party venue was from where everyone lives. Some of these party venues are almost an hour from where the kids live. And you don’t want people to stay. So they need to go home or run other errands. All of which means they may hit traffic and be late picking up. They should have texted you though once they knew they would be late.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see the issue. Why did you have to babysit? They probably figured the kids would go bounce after.

Paid by who?

[Anonymous]

Teachers feel like this all the time.

Solidarity OP.

[Anonymous]

Everyone is very aggressive here.

I have hosted tons of parties for my kids, now young adults and teens, and there was always one parent late, as in, more than 10 minutes late. Rarely, one was very late.

And since I'm not an aggressive jerk, I'm going to tell you all that this is not a problem in the big scheme of things. Tardy people are one of the minor inconveniences in life.

[Anonymous]

Late parents were rude. If the venue isn’t near home, run errands close by or go for a nice long walk with a podcast or something. This isn’t hard.

But it’s not something to spend a lot of energy on. It happens and you assume the risk when you host a party.

It’s life.