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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is beyond my experience.  I have 3 kids, 9, 7, and 5 and have never invited to a fast food restaurant party.    I just can't imagine any of DCs' parents even considering it.

I think it's in bad form, because fast food pretty much sucks nutritionally. That said, we have been invited to a Chuck E. Cheese party, and I feel the same about that, with an extra frisson of dislike for the games and materialism.  You should have heard the rumblings among the parents at the Chuck E. Cheese party -- the parents of the birthday child were not very popular that day.   They sheepishly said they'd given into their child's wishes, and the rest of us just kind of rolled our eyes.

If invited by a good friend, our kids would attend no matter how DH and I disliked the site of the party.  [/quote]

Well, you sound like a bundle of joy!

You know, your kid could go to Chuck E Cheeses, grow up and graduate college! Mine did  :roll: [/quote]

I'd go so far to say as PP and the rest of the parents were acting like rude assholes. You set up a dynamic where the hosts felt compelled to "sheepishly said they'd given into their child's wishes" (shock of shocks, letting a kid pick his own birthday?!)  and that "the rest of us just kind of rolled our eyes". The host would not have said anything at all I am sure if she or he did not feel the complete disapproval, etc. from you. If you had all remained neutral instead of just absolutely needing to make it obvious I'm sure the host wouldn't have felt the need to justify your need to roll your eyes (sometimes as grownups we have to fake it, because you know, we are grownups trying to not be assholes).[/quote]

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