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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because they want to ask their kid if they want to go

Because they have to talk to their spouse, look at their calendar, figure out which parent will take kid A to the party and which will take kid B to the soccer game

They need to remember what weekend grandma said she would show up.

They are on their mobile and want to wait until they are at their desktop so they can add it to their google calendar

They can't remember who your kid is and need to look at the class photo

They need to carpool with another family and need to see who is going first

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Yep.

Also:

because the evite went into spam
because the parents are separated or divorced and only one parent got the evite and they aren't on good terms (just experienced this w/ my kids' b'day party last month)
because they have conflicting invitations for parties on the same day
because they can't tell which child the invite is for - so they have to sleuth it out w/ the kids, a school directory or some other hopefully subtle means (said as a parent of twins)
because one or more family members has been sick so predicting whether Janie will be well enough to go is too dicey at the moment
because the parents have things they want to do and are trying to see if there's a way to get everyone where they want to be on that given afternoon
because there's a possible work trip that might mess everything up so they're waiting to see what is possible
because grandma is dying any day now so all plans for the next couple of weeks are subject to a parent having to be away suddenly and then the family traveling for a funeral
because life is hard and complicated and sometimes it takes a while to sort things out and your kids' b'day party invite just aren't the most important thing
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