I was offered Easter egg roll tickets

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really? Conflicted? Sure, your kids are only young once but this is something you’ll bring up later in life. How do you want that to play out? Good luck with that.

(Assuming all parties involved are anti-Trump, since that’s your insinuation)

“We took the kids to the Easter egg roll at the White House one year. They had so much fun! Here are some of the pictures. Here is our souvenir egg. Here’s Larla asleep in the stroller on the way home. Look at her curls! Larlo really enjoyed the story time. Such a great memory, I loved living close enough to DC to do stuff like this.”
“Wow, looks cool. Did you meet the President?”
“No, never got to see the first family.” Or “Yes, actually! We were right there when they came out, and Larla shook his hand.”
“Who was the President when you went?”
“Trump. It was still fun though.”
“Looks like it! Lucky you guys!”

THE END. How would it play out later in life when you tell your kid you refused tickets to a kids event because you didn’t like the administration? Who knows?

+1

[Anonymous]

still laughing at "how will it play out later in life?" yes, OP, don't put this on your Human Rights Campaign job app. otherwise, i think it's a non-issue.

[Anonymous]

I would not. My DS is a good age for it now, but we'll just have to wait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really? Conflicted? Sure, your kids are only young once but this is something you’ll bring up later in life. How do you want that to play out? Good luck with that.

(Assuming all parties involved are anti-Trump, since that’s your insinuation)

“We took the kids to the Easter egg roll at the White House one year. They had so much fun! Here are some of the pictures. Here is our souvenir egg. Here’s Larla asleep in the stroller on the way home. Look at her curls! Larlo really enjoyed the story time. Such a great memory, I loved living close enough to DC to do stuff like this.”
“Wow, looks cool. Did you meet the President?”
“No, never got to see the first family.” Or “Yes, actually! We were right there when they came out, and Larla shook his hand.”
“Who was the President when you went?”
“Trump. It was still fun though.”
“Looks like it! Lucky you guys!”

THE END. How would it play out later in life when you tell your kid you refused tickets to a kids event because you didn’t like the administration? Who knows?

Are you drunk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:still laughing at "how will it play out later in life?" yes, OP, don't put this on your Human Rights Campaign job app. otherwise, i think it's a non-issue.

Me, too. How would this ever come up? What a loon!

[Anonymous]

I'd give away the tickets -- there's no way I would go as long as the current resident of the WH is there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would love to go but I would honestly be embarrassed to tell people we went during the Trump era.

+1
I tried the lottery every year under Obama but never got tickets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd give away the tickets -- there's no way I would go as long as the current resident of the WH is there.

They are tickets for a large group, not really mine to give away, more mine to accept an invitation with the group or not. It is a group of mixed politics. I feel like the odds of the stars aligning in this way again are slim at best.

[Anonymous]

I'd go and I don't like Trump. We've been to WH events including the egg roll under Clinton and Bush 43 and politics really weren't a factor. We saw the Clinton's at the egg roll one year. They come outside and say hello and go back in. I wouldn't be surprised if the Trumps are still in FL on Easter Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd give away the tickets -- there's no way I would go as long as the current resident of the WH is there.

They are tickets for a large group, not really mine to give away, more mine to accept an invitation with the group or not. It is a group of mixed politics. I feel like the odds of the stars aligning in this way again are slim at best.

Surely the tickets could go to someone “outside the group”, no problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd give away the tickets -- there's no way I would go as long as the current resident of the WH is there.

+1

The ticket system was much more fair when people actually made huge sacrifices (!!!) and stood in line during the wee hours. Now, its 90% +\- about political favors, which is known, so people automatically take it as an endorsement of the current administration, for good reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really? Conflicted? Sure, your kids are only young once but this is something you’ll bring up later in life. How do you want that to play out? Good luck with that.

Going to the Easter egg roll isn't an endorsement of the politics of the white house. Or it never has been before.

LOL Oh no, it will scar the poor darlings for life!

[Anonymous]

Wasn't it a chaotic mess last year? Have they figured out how to run it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go but don't tell anyone you went.

[Anonymous]

I would go, and I don't like Trump. Odds of being there at the same time are very slim.