Christina at RantRave&Roll's story this morning about her husbands birthday cake reminded me of a surprise party I threw for my husband when we were young and I didn't know he hates surprises...
It was a warm March weekend and I was going to plan a surprise birthday party for my husband whether he liked it or not. I thought he was just being modest when he said he didn't want a party much less a surprise one.
I had invited several of our work, college friends and family to our tiny apartment for a lasagna feed, as Robb loved lasagna. I just needed a good diversion to get him out of the house for the day... So at work one day while I was inviting people, (we worked at the same place), someone said they were going to be roofing their house all day that Saturday.
PERFECT!!! Robb couldn't turn down a friend if they asked him to help! So I begged Bob to ask Robb to help. Of course Robb accepted and spent the whole day climbing all over Bob's roof.
In the meanwhile, I shopped for the groceries, got several pans of lasagnas ready, used my oven and two of my neighbors ovens in the apartment 4plex. Moved all the furniture out of the livingroom into our bedroom, stacked it up high in there... Borrowed a bunch of tables and chairs and had 31 people crowded in our basement apartment waiting for Robb.
Around 6pm, he came home and opened the door.
SURPRISE!!!!
And boy was he surprised!!! He was exhausted and covered with tar and crud. He just really wanted to soak in the bath and go to bed early... but there were 31 people waiting in the livingroom for him to entertain... So he cleaned up quick and then tried to get into our bedroom for clean clothes.
Oops...
The couch parts were stacked up and he couldn't get to the dresser. I climbed over and got his clothes for him so he could join the party. I obviously hadn't thought this all the way thru yet...
It was a great time, but he made me promise never ever ever again to throw him a surprise party.
Okey doke.
As I roll my eyes and act innocent as March comes rolling up...
5 comments:
wow i didn't know that dad didn't like surprise parties because i sure do...
Shane thinks I'm fussing if I even bake a cake, so I know a surprise party would be out of the question. I can just see him turning around and walking out. LOL!
My husband would KILL me if I threw him a party.
poor guy but funny story!
Oh, Bryan would kill me if this happened to him too!
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