The cycle of get togethers

dreamers75 · 04-08-2018 11:21pm #1

So I am 40+ now and my family/freind get together thing has moved on to funerals.

So far i have it nailed at:

Teens/early 20s: 21sts
Early 20s: christenings.
Mid to late 20s: Weddings
Late 20s to early 30s: Weddings in far away places
40s: Funerals

Am I missing something?

05-08-2018 12:01am

Christenings before weddings? I hope you've written an outraged letter to Len Brennan OP. Down with this sort of thing!

Cutie 3.14 · 05-08-2018 12:17am

Early 20's: Going away parties.

Someone is always off to Oz or Canada or some such

Atlantic Dawn · 05-08-2018 12:25am

I feel lately I have hit over 50% of my life on the earth going by my older relatives deaths, life is very short, only getting to know the ins and outs and you are gone, have no regrets, they don't work, the fella that made no mistakes made nothing.

On a side note I bloody love the Irish funeral, it has it all, I won't admit it in public but I love the booze and celebration of someones life, great stories shared of their faults and qualities.

andekwarhola · 05-08-2018 12:31am

You forgot the most depressing one of all.

45+ weddings of your nieces and nephews where you feel ancient

Baron Kurtz · 05-08-2018 12:33am

dreamers75 wrote: »

So I am 40+ now and my family/freind get together thing has moved on to funerals.

So far i have it nailed at:

Teens/early 20s: 21sts
Early 20s: christenings.
Mid to late 20s: Weddings
Late 20s to early 30s: Weddings in far away places
40s: Funerals

Am I missing something?

I dunno, what do you mean nailing it?

Is it funerals for your friends or for parents of friends you know?

If it's the latter, yeah that happens. Folks get old and tear away outta here.

Not sure what you're missing. Apart from them.