Spring break cruise coordination drama—do I just drop it?

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure why we have to pick on people who like cruises. I like cruises and don’t like matching shirts or silly social media pranks. I also got an 800 on the math SAT and fully understand vent diagrams and concentric circles.

My husband loves cruises and he has 3 ivy degrees and had near perfect SATs, also fully understands venn diagrams. I don’t know where he would come down on the matching shirts …. He definitely would not push for it but might not care if other people were doing it. He has never been on social media, either to post or to view anyone else’s.

The OP didn’t mention social media, just that it would be a fun picture from a family reunion. Other are inserting so much narrative into her simple question.

Come on. We all know OP is the social media type.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure why we have to pick on people who like cruises. I like cruises and don’t like matching shirts or silly social media pranks. I also got an 800 on the math SAT and fully understand vent diagrams and concentric circles.

My husband loves cruises and he has 3 ivy degrees and had near perfect SATs, also fully understands venn diagrams. I don’t know where he would come down on the matching shirts …. He definitely would not push for it but might not care if other people were doing it. He has never been on social media, either to post or to view anyone else’s.

The OP didn’t mention social media, just that it would be a fun picture from a family reunion. Other are inserting so much narrative into her simple question.

Come on. We all know OP is the social media type.

Do you think people only take pics for SM? Believe it or not, everyone is not like that. I never post any pics to social media but I take a lot of photos with and of my own family. We don’t share them. A lot of people have stopped posting photos, if they ever did.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine thinking you’re the smartest person in the room because you refused to participate in a joke. That’s not intellect. That’s rigidity. The only thing more embarrassing than matching shirts is watching grown adults unravel over them. If your self-worth hinges on not participating in a joke, that’s not superiority, that’s fragility. Just wow.

The people flipping out over the mere suggestion of this definitely do seem certain type.

Ten pages of them desperately trying to prove their superiority. To the point of mentioning SAT scores and Ivy Leagues! Pure comedy!

Well, it was just in response to the people posting that people who cruise are all idiot rubes who don’t know what a Venn diagram is. I mean, maybe your stereotype of such a person also has ivy degrees and perfect sats, or maybe it suggests that your stereotype might be incorrect or underinclusive? I’m just forever irritated by the people who want to categorize people by the types of vacations people take. Like truly, who gives a sh&t?

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I’m from a big family and I will give my observation that it is impossible to plan things because no one will ever agree. It’s always the in laws that try this and my siblings and I are like “good luck with that!” We had to grow up with these idiots, so we know you’ll never get them all on board.

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I feel that no one has answered the question of who the prank is on? It would be really weird to buy your husband a shirt for vacation, pack it and tell him which day to wear it. Is there some story you all make up as to why?

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Anonymous wrote:I feel that no one has answered the question of who the prank is on? It would be really weird to buy your husband a shirt for vacation, pack it and tell him which day to wear it. Is there some story you all make up as to why?

Apparently some husbands would not find this odd or suspicious. Mine would.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel that no one has answered the question of who the prank is on? It would be really weird to buy your husband a shirt for vacation, pack it and tell him which day to wear it. Is there some story you all make up as to why?

Apparently some husbands would not find this odd or suspicious. Mine would.

Well, the OP said it would be for the tropical themed night. So, presumably, everyone on the cruise would be packing a Hawaiian shirt to wear that night - the joke is that their group would all end up wearing the exact same shirt.

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Op, do you live in the DC area? I can’t imagine anyone I know here being remotely interested in this “joke.” I also don’t know women who pick out their husband’s shirts. It seems from a different area or a different era.