yummybytes
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Ok -- so, I got a Bridal Show and Registry when I was making calls the other night. Awesome.
So -- I go and look up the address and it's in a HORRIBLE neighborhood. When I say horrible -- there have been several shootings on this block in the last could of months. Across the street from the address is an abandoned lot that's appaantly known to be an "open air market" for drug dealing. Cops are afraid to go in the area because they get shot at.
Now -- if the shower was on a Saturday afternoon -- broad daylight and all that, I would probably do it and bring someone with me. However, it's on a Friday night... Hubby orignally said he would drop me off and pick me up, but I don't want him driving around there with the kids, especially with it being at night. Then he got to talking to some of his friends about the area and looked it up online. Literally every hit when you type the name of this neighborhood involved a shooting, drug bust, rape, or burglary. What's worse? MANY of them were on this street with in a block or two of the house.
I never prejudge, I go to all sorts of places for parties, but EVERYONE - my director, her director, my husband, their husbands, my mother -- is telling me to cancel this one. The bride is SO sweet though. I don't want to crap out on her party just because she happens to live in a bad neighborhood. I have no idea what to do, but they are right -- it's not worth jeopardizing my life to do this. My kids, hubby, family -- they all mean too much to me.
How would you handle this situation? I'm seriously going to have to come up with an alternative plan, but I have no idea what to say to the bride. I'm a TERRIBLE liar - I just can't do it.
So -- I go and look up the address and it's in a HORRIBLE neighborhood. When I say horrible -- there have been several shootings on this block in the last could of months. Across the street from the address is an abandoned lot that's appaantly known to be an "open air market" for drug dealing. Cops are afraid to go in the area because they get shot at.
Now -- if the shower was on a Saturday afternoon -- broad daylight and all that, I would probably do it and bring someone with me. However, it's on a Friday night... Hubby orignally said he would drop me off and pick me up, but I don't want him driving around there with the kids, especially with it being at night. Then he got to talking to some of his friends about the area and looked it up online. Literally every hit when you type the name of this neighborhood involved a shooting, drug bust, rape, or burglary. What's worse? MANY of them were on this street with in a block or two of the house.
I never prejudge, I go to all sorts of places for parties, but EVERYONE - my director, her director, my husband, their husbands, my mother -- is telling me to cancel this one. The bride is SO sweet though. I don't want to crap out on her party just because she happens to live in a bad neighborhood. I have no idea what to do, but they are right -- it's not worth jeopardizing my life to do this. My kids, hubby, family -- they all mean too much to me.
How would you handle this situation? I'm seriously going to have to come up with an alternative plan, but I have no idea what to say to the bride. I'm a TERRIBLE liar - I just can't do it.