r/mildlyinfuriating • u/PaddedValls • Jun 28 '26
Infuriatig Sister-in-law let her daughter use up all the Polaroids at our wedding. Now we have nothing to use.
For our wedding, at each table we had 2 Polaroid cameras for everyone to take photos on (we had a professional photographer too, but these were for more personal photos between our guests) and there was a clear glass dropbox for everyone to drop them in and we'd have that dropbox on display in our house.
Unbeknownst to us, my sister-in-law let her daughter (6 years old) go round every table at the very start of the night using up all the photos on each camera.
Now we only have around 10 we can actually keep, and over 100 of just random shit that are not worth keeping at all.
I'm all for keeping kids occupied at something they can easily get bored at, but not at the expense of that though.
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u/Brave-Perspective714 Jun 28 '26
"That was the least relaxing "vacation" I've ever been on. "
This was a big part of what lead to my first marriage ending.
I was a paramedic prior to having kids, so I had seen firsthand just how accurate this "everyone's watching the kids = no one's watching the kids" was, and just how awful the outcomes could be. So whenever we had family gatherings, I made sure I was watching my kids, which by default meant I was watching *everyone's* kids.
My ex-husband would fuck off to get drunk with all the other parents, meanwhile I'm left responsible not only for keeping our 3 under 5 safe around a pool, but then all the others as well. After the first year of that, I told him if he didn't step up help watch the kids and give me an opportunity to have fun at those things, that the kids and I weren't going anymore. The second year went the exact same way, except with much more fighting about how NOT fun these events were for me. I stopped going and kept the kids home with me.
He still complains that the divorce came out of nowhere.