{"id":800,"date":"2009-07-24T12:48:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T19:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:50","slug":"you-break-it-you-buy-it-friday-july-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/you-break-it-you-buy-it-friday-july-24\/","title":{"rendered":"You Break It You Buy It- Friday July 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n

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Some friends of mine have a beautiful three week old baby boy.\u00a0 I purchased a small baby gift and card, then sent them an email to inquire about a convenient time to drop off the gift.\u00a0 I did not want to show up unannounced nor make them feel obligated to entertain me, hence “drop off the gift.”<\/p>\n

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A few days later, my friends called and invited me over to see the baby and have a glass of wine.\u00a0 The baby is beautiful.\u00a0 The parents were beaming and the wine was delicious.\u00a0 We had snacks, toured the nursery, and pet their dog. Everything was great.<\/p>\n

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After a half hour or so I hinted that I should be leaving.\u00a0 The father then asked me “Would you like to hold the baby?” to which I politely declined.\u00a0 My thinking was that I probably shouldn’t be holding a newborn after a few glasses of wine and because my hands had been petting their dog.<\/p>\n

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Was I being rude? Should I have said yes, washed my hands and held the child? Am I over thinking the entire episode?<\/p>\n

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Signed,
\nDual Income No Kids<\/p>\n

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Dear D.I.N.K.,<\/p>\n

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<\/strong> Let me assure you that you did the right thing.\u00a0 You should not hold anything if you don’t feel 100% confident about not dropping it. Would you hold a wedding cake under the same circumstances?\u00a0 Probably not.\u00a0 And I would imagine that people would be even more mad if you dropped their baby.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been known to drop stuff when I’m dead sober and just standing somewhere, doing nothing.\u00a0 I don’t need the excuse of a few glasses of wine and some stimulating conversation to just drop stuff.\u00a0 Sometimes you have to make the right decision, even if it seems out of sync with social niceties.\u00a0 In the end, you’re the one who’s going to feel embarrassed if you drop the wedding cake\/baby.<\/p>\n

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<\/strong> Also you probably have over thought this, but I understand that too.\u00a0 It sucks to feel like you’ve offended people or like they don’t understand that you were trying to be polite.\u00a0 Why don’t you write them a short note: “Looking forward to holding your beautiful baby when I’m sober!”\u00a0 That should do the trick.<\/p>\n

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<\/strong> Sincerely,<\/strong>
\nPoor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Poor Lucky Me,   Some friends of mine have a beautiful three week old baby boy.\u00a0 I purchased a small baby gift and card, then sent them an email to inquire about a convenient time to drop off the gift.\u00a0 I did not want to show up unannounced nor make them feel obligated to … Continue reading “You Break It You Buy It- Friday July 24”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3743,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}