# Is it strange that I want to go to my friend's baby shower?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-strange-that-i-want-to-go-to-my-friends-baby-shower/270244>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 20, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-strange-that-i-want-to-go-to-my-friends-baby-shower/270244 "2004-10-20T17:17:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-strange-that-i-want-to-go-to-my-friends-baby-shower/270244/21 "2004-10-20T23:21:56Z")

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> [@Lizard](#):
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> What I am leaning toward doing is sending her an e-mail asking to be notified when she has a shower so I can send ehr a present. To me, that is an opportunity to invite me without my seeming pushy.  
> Isn’t it? 😕

A problem with this is that she probably won’t have much, if anything, to do with the invite list. My friends through me a surprise baby shower and they worked out the guest list through my husband. If you really want to actually get invited to the baby shower, I would suggest speaking with her husband about it. Or, if people at work are organizing it, speak with the person who’s in charge.

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**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-strange-that-i-want-to-go-to-my-friends-baby-shower/270244/22 "2004-10-21T01:11:19Z")

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> [@t-keela](#):
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> Well, the first messed up thing about it is the name…\*\*'dadchelor \*\* for some reason it makes me think the guy is single and he’s sitting around getting drunk with his newborn baby. Who knows where Mom is…passed out in the back?

Of course not…that’s how I got into this condition in the first place 😉

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> I’m kidding okay, it just struck me funny I guess. 😃

Oh believe me, these parties are not to be taken seriously. That’s why they got dubbed ‘dadchelor’ in the first place.

The motto “when we celebrate fatherhood by abandoning our pregnant wives and drinking.”  
They are as ridiculously stereotypically male as some showers are ridiculously stereotypically female.

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