Cenk Uygur
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Kid's Birthday Parties Are Getting Ridiculous
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January 24, 2015
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7:39Now Playing"The Internet outrage of the week is the tale of 5-year-old British boy Alex Nash, whose dad RSVP’d on his behalf for a pal’s birthday party at a local ski and snow resort, only to discover his son preferred to keep a previously scheduled visit with grandparents instead. As a result, little Alex was a no-show without notice at the celebrations. The furious mom of the birthday celebrant quickly sent the Nash family an invoice for 15.95 pounds—about $24—to cover the cost of his nonappearance.
The angry Nashes took their case to social media, and the contretemps quickly went international. At the Nashes’ hometown paper, the Plymouth Herald, 87 percent of readers responding to an online poll said the family should ignore the invoice. At theChicago Tribune, columnist Eric Zorn sniped that the Nash family should “pay up and pipe down.”
Yet among all the hot takes, no one asked the most important question: Since when do moms and dads host birthday parties for children at ski resorts? And why do we think that’s OK?"
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