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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My answer depends in part on how far the party venue was from where everyone lives. Some of these party venues are almost an hour from where the kids live. [b]And you don’t want people to stay.[/b] So they need to go home or run other errands.  All of which means they may hit traffic and be late picking up. They should have texted you though once they knew they would be late. [/quote]

This is incorrect, at least for this particular OP.

[quote=Anonymous]WTH? My son’s birthday party (late elementary kids) was on Saturday, a drop-off party at a trampoline place [b](of course parents were welcome to stay)[/b]. Invitation very clearly stated jump time 2-3, pizza and cake 3-4, party concludes at 4. It was that spelled out.

Welp, three out of eight kids were still there 15-20 minutes after 4. So instead of being able to simply pack up and leave, we had to monitor three additional kids with essentially nothing to do, as they couldn’t go back out to the trampoline park (you only get an hour of jump time) and we had to clear out of the party/food room, as of course the staff needed to clean and set up for the next party.

RUDE. Get your kids. Five minutes late is one thing. TWENTY minutes late? What the hell?[/quote][/quote]

NP. No reasonable person reads it that way; she was clearly pointing out that they could stay if they wanted to--probably to curb the speculation, hypothetical, and whataboutism that always plagues this site when an OP doesn't provide every single possible detail and proviso.[/quote]

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