Do I have to go??

[Stina]

I'm supposed to go to a thing tonight and I DO NOT WANT TO GO. I should know better than to commit to things on Monday evenings.

Do I have to go? Do you keep all of your commitments? I can think of a zillion reasons not to go and only one good one to show up, and that is that I said I would.

What do you think?

PS. It's a freaking Mary Kay event that a friend has been hounding me about. I do not wear Mary Kay, I am not planning to wear Mary Kay, I am not planning to SELL Mary Kay. Ugh.

[Stina]

Yay Barb!

[Félix]

Don't go. I wouldn't go.

[~Geektastic~]

Nope. Those Mary Kay/Tupperware/random-cheap-jewelry parties are the worst.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I was going to say send Larry in your place, but since he won't go...

The only solution is to drop any friend who does these horrific parties. Also: Mary Kay = the Devil.

[Stina]

Larry is so unhelpful... I hate when he won't take my place at things that I don't want to go to.

Yes, Mary Kay = the Devil. I'm staying away from this chick from now on. I was feeling guilty, but LG has helped me see the light (seriously).

I am able to maintain my strict I DON'T WANT TO ATTEND YOUR STUPID candle/sex toy/make-up/jewelry/kitchen product/CAbi/dig through your closet and bring your old clothes for trading/ex-boyfriend swap/Scentsy PARTY.

[Félix]

Satan sells Mary Kay from the trunk of a pink Cadillac.

[Phil]

Why wouldn't you attend a sex toy party?

[Félix]

Mary Kay sells sex toys?

[~Geektastic~]

I hope not. If the quality of their cosmetics is a measure of quality in other products, I'll pass.

[Félix]

So, sex toys are like, what, little matchbox cars that you push up and down your partner's naked body?

[Stina]

Phil wrote: "Why wouldn't you attend a sex toy party?"

Because the image of one of your very good friends scrutinizing a vibrator's "stimulator attachment" is something you can't ever, ever erase.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Because all these parties are inane, and the quality of merchandise is far below even what a really shitty retail store would sell. Imagine China and its products. Now imagine if China had an unwanted stepsister who produced even shittier products - that's where these sex toys would be made. Imagine the worst merchandise at a dollar store, and then imagine 10 levels of quality below that and you're just beginning to approach this merchandise.

I bought a pair of "sexy underwear" at one of these parties, and when it arrived in the mail I couldn't even figure out which holes were for my two legs, and which hole was for my waist.

[Stina]

LG- Those underwears do sound super sexy.

I was with people who were actually SAMPLING the ladypart creams. They were shocked that it burned... and not in a good way.

[Suefly]

Hehehe.

[ms.petra]

HA! thanks for this conversation. needed a laugh. I always get invited to the stupid candle parties... I would never buy one of those overpriced items and I don't go.

[Rebecca]

I'd go to a Tupperware party! I like Tupperwre a lot. And I'd go to the sex-toy party. I don't like sex toys per se, although they seem to be perfectly good quality. I'm more the creams and gels type. But they're just fun, regardless.

But if I said I'd go, I'd go, but I'd never agree to go to a Mary Kay party!

[Mary]

So did you go?

[Cynthia]

I routinely tell the Mary Kay ladies that their products make me break out in big ugly boils, all over my body.

[Stina]

Mary wrote: "So did you go?"

I didn't go... I let her know that I couldn't make it and she seemed fine with that.

I need to remember that I abhor those parties and stick with my gut instinct to not attend. How did this lady get around that? She must be a witch or a sorceress or at least REALLY TRICKY.

[Rebecca]

ha ha!

[Charlotte]

In general, at my age and being a working mom, I rarely do anything that I am doing merely out of obligation. I'd rather do nothing. Mary Kay would be at the top of the list of things that I would be doing merely out of obligation. Followed closely by anything planned in an afternoon with my mother-in-law and her lady friends.

[Mary]

Kristina wrote: "Mary wrote: "So did you go?"

I didn't go... I let her know that I couldn't make it and she seemed fine with that.

I need to remember that I abhor those parties and stick with my gut instinct..."

I hear what you are saying! I am such a people pleaser when it comes to saying no. Luckily, I have gotten to the point in my life that I really try not to do things I really don't want to.