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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG.  I go through this every year with my borderline mother.  No card can be good enough compared to the card I get for my father for Father's Day.  No card cannot be picked apart for subtle insult.

Here's the best example.  In 2006 I had my first child in late spring by c/s.  I was so proud of myself that I got it together, got her into her layers of clothes, got myself dressed and dragged us both to Whole Foods to buy mom a MD card, found a stamp and mailed it on time!  Yay me!  They didn't have a huge selection of cards but I found one that was innocuous and pleasant or so I thought.  It had a cute little frog on the front and a glass of fizzy champagne and said "Have a Hoppy Mother's Day!

She called saying she had to talk to me because she was concerned and hurt about my card.  Her complaints:  (1) She did not know what the frog "meant" and it was ugly; (2) since I don't drink so why was there champagne on the card; (3) the joke wasn't funny.

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I'm so sorry.  This is exactly something my mother would do and say.  " No card can be good enough compared to the card I get for my father for Father's Day.  No card cannot be picked apart for subtle insult."  This is what I go through, too.  And to all you who say just don't send a card.  It's not worth the torrent that would follow so I pick as innocuous card as I can, send it, and then forget about it. [/quote]

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