Dadchelor Parties: a new excuse to dance on the front desk of a hotel like a drunken bastard.
Male breeders of Brooklyn: come one, come all! There's a new excuse for you to go on Hangover-esque outings to get hammered with your buddies before that baby you’re expecting pops out of your wife’s vagina. We proudly present you with -- the Dadchelor Party:
David Hellmann, a medical device sales manager from Chicago, is planning a celebration for a friend this coming August. The two of them, along with several male friends, will meet in Cincinnati, possibly catch a Reds game and then go on a pub-crawl through the city. This might sound familiar, but no one's getting married. It isn't a bachelor party; it's a dadchelor party. Daddymoon, man-shower, whatever you want to call it: the practice of hosting a blowout akin to a bachelor party for expectant fathers is catching on.
Did ya' read it?! It’s like a bachelor party, but for expecting fathers to have one last blowout before they have to deal with the crippling woes of parenting. That sounds pretty effing sweet compared to the ones that are being thrown by their soon-to-be-mama counterparts.
Women’s baby showers -- as far as I’ve witnessed -- consist of a low-key gathering thrown at a friend’s house where the pregnant one opens her diaper genies and other baby type gifts all while the attendees are forced into some lame-ass baby games. For example, the ‘plastic fetus in the ice cube game,’ where whomever’s ice cube melts first (thereby "birthing" the fetus) gets some sort of prize. This actually happened at one I attended. It was very disturbing. Then there's the ‘guess whose baby pic is whose’ game and... oh, you know, other similar vomit inducing garbage. It’s all very unappealing if you ask me.
So expecting mothers and women who want kids someday: Let’s take an example from these dudes and toss out the traditional baby shower agenda and instead PARTY LIKE IT'S GOIN' OUT OF STYLE. Mail the gifts later. Sounds like it’s worth it.
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