‘My wife is so mortified by my mistake she refuses to take our child to school’

A dad has been left scratching his head after he accidentally used poo bags instead of party bags at his daughter’s birthday party – he wife was so upset she ended up crying in the bedroom about it

While you’re not always going to get everything right as a parent, you can always learn from your mistakes to better your parenting skills in the future. A dad has been given the ‘cold shoulder’ after making a “horrific” mistake at his daughter’s sixth birthday party, which left his wife crying in the bedroom.

Taking to Reddit, the dad explained how he was in charge of sorting his daughter’s birthday cake and the gift bags for her young guests. He said: “My daughter just turned six. We had a birthday party for her on Saturday. That morning was pretty hectic. I was outside setting up and suddenly my wife comes outside yelling about how the grocery store screwed up the birthday cake and I didn’t notice.

“All that happened was that they spelled our daughter’s name as ‘Sarah’ and it’s ‘Sara’ and I said, ‘who cares, just scrape off the H’ but she insisted on returning it. I said ‘fine whatever’.

“Then as she’s leaving, she says since I screwed up already I should make up for it by finishing the decorations. I go into the kitchen and I ask my daughter, ‘what’s the most important thing?’ She says ‘the gift bags’.

“I found all the candy and toys and what I thought were the bags they were supposed to go into. So I made up the bags, my daughter helps, and she thinks they look great and she’s happy with them.

“My wife comes home and takes over, satisfied by the new cake and the attempt I made at helping.”

Guests started arriving and everybody was having a nice time until the six-year-old reminded her parents about the party bags they needed to hand out at the end of the day.

“My wife panics thinking she forgot about them but she says ‘don’t worry, dad made them’ and she looked so relieved until I got the box,” he added.

His wife took one look at the party bags and ran into the bedroom crying – but refused to tell him what she was so upset about, leaving him scratching his head.

He said: “I followed her and find her sitting on the bed crying. She’s so embarrassed. Why? She won’t say.

“I’m not sure what to do because people are trying to leave and they’re confused as to what’s going on. I then I just take over ‘goodbye’ duty and hand out the bags to kids at the door and say bye with my daughter.

“Well halfway through doing that my wife came back out and took the box from me and brought it into the bedroom and threw it on the ground.

“She finally tells me ‘those are dog poop bags’ and basically I’m stupid and I’ve ruined all the hard work she put into the party”

He tried to explain to his wife how nobody would know they’re poo bags because they’re “just small pink bags with hearts on them” – and how their daughter wasn’t concerned about it.

“I tell her ‘It’s not like they’re dirty – they’re small bags like any other bags’. She says she’s so mortified she doesn’t even want to show her face at the school anymore,” he added.

“I’ve been bringing my daughter to school every day this week, which has been making me late for work.

“My wife will barely even speak to me even though my daughter thinks everything was fine. She laughed when I told her they were really dog poop bags.

“My wife got even more mad at me for telling her. I told my wife she needs to chill and she basically said I was a huge a***hole and she’s mad that I don’t think it’s a big deal.”

While some users claimed the woman was being too “dramatic” about the entire situation, others said she was likely pushed to this reaction after a day of “screw ups”.

One user said: “I think the wife is probably overreacting because this was the last straw on a big pile of apathetic f*** ups by her husband.”

In agreement, another user added: “The bags weren’t the real problem, but yet another symptom of a deeper underlying problem. We all crack sometimes.”

While a third user said: “He sounds like he was doing the majority of work actually. If the party was that important to his wife, then why weren’t the gift bags done already, and why was everything so last minute? She sounds like she’s less mature than the kid.”

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