Overwhelming plastic garbage
This balloon we brought to decorate a 70th birthday party wasn't at all overshadowed by the ones left on display from the previous party.
Submitted 11 months ago by Quicky@lemm.ee to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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NAXLAB@lemmy.world 11 months ago
numberfour002@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Congratulations Aunt Trudy! Today is the 60th anniversary of your 10th birthday and we got you this amazing balloon display.
Is it possible that the 60 balloons are celebrating a 60th wedding anniversary? The ring between the 6 and the 0 make me wonder. Not that a 70th birthday isn’t a big deal, but I think a 60th wedding anniversary is an even more impressive achievement than not dying for the past 70+ years.
Knusper@feddit.de 11 months ago
Well, typically, being married for 60 years would also involve not dying for the past 70+ years…
Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Pop a couple of specific balloons and put yours in the middle.
Eggyhead@kbin.social 11 months ago
Just go with the sixty and be all cute about it: “You’re 70??? No way, you can’t be a day over 60!”
Or turn the 6 into a 9 and come back in 20 years.
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 11 months ago
Or go with the “70 is the new 60” line
at_an_angle@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Dude, if that was my party, I would love these decorations.
ares35@kbin.social 11 months ago
70 is the 'new' 60
Nougat@kbin.social 11 months ago
Peak helium.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Change the small balloon for an “80” and the average will be correct.
taiyang@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Reminds me of when I went to a baby shower for an incoming baby girl and the decorations were still up from a baby shower for an ungendered baby that were significantly more flashy. Luckily beigh and pink worked, but I bet they’d have rolled with it either way since more balloons is more balloons.
Plus knowing my grandparents, they’d love to pretend they’re 60, haha.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is such a confusing post. Was the last party 10 years ago? Was there a 60th party in that room before and they didn’t clean up? Why is that infuriating other than you now have to clean up their balloons?
Quicky@lemm.ee 11 months ago
- Party venue in pub conference room.
- Arrived 30 minutes prior to the start time of our party.
- Brought some token decorations to make it look like we’d made some effort.
- We brought a single small balloon.
- There was obviously a party the night before, celebrating a 60th of some kind.
- Pub owners hadn’t removed the decorations from previous party.
- We didn’t want to dispose of the original balloons in case their owners wanted to collect them and weren’t able to previously.
- The 60 balloons sat there the whole time during our party.
- Previous party organisers made us look like the absolute amateurs we are.
- MILDLY infuriating.
- Bonus extra item: nobody actually cared, just thought it was comical, emphasised by the placement of the 70th balloon, where each set of balloons is in direct proportion to the amount of sentiment held for the celebrant.
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
In my mind if you leave balloons after your party is over, you don’t want them. I would have just popped them all and tossed them in the bin
citrusface@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Seems to me like you should have just gone out and bought a 7.
Quicky@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Unfortunately we rocked up half an hour before the party started, but that would otherwise have been a good idea.
That or just a piece of paper to the right of it with “+10” written on it.