Graduation present...FB status

[Taxman10]

This cracked me up...

just learned I'm a bitch for asking for asking for a botched graduation gift, which should have happened 4 months ago. and the idiot who screwed up the order said I'M THE BITCH.

then...

well, "the idiots" being my parents. My dad ordered the frame from the wrong university. and here was are 5 months later, and he's holding it over my head. his mistake, and he's telling me if I ask about it again, I'll be getting NO graduation gift. thanks for 4 years of work.

So her dad bought her a frame for her diploma I guess, but it has the wrong university's name on it? (Like Florida, instead of Florida State I guess). So she's nagging her dad about it and he tells her to STFU??

That just cracks me up...how pissed would you be if you got a frame from the wrong university?

[swamp]

I'm not sure why she's asking for it if it's from the wrong school. And if he's being an ass about it, why even talk to him?

[Tennesseer]

I would just buy the correct frame for myself and move on.

[swamp]

Sept 28, 2012 9:05:07 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

I would just buy the correct frame for myself and move on.

[973beachbum]

Sept 28, 2012 9:05:07 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

I would just buy the correct frame for myself and move on.

First of all how can you be so stupid to buy the frame from the wrong university? I would think as a parent he had written enough checks to know what univ she went to.

We had to buy a frame for DH's masters and it isn't a simple little thing like from Michael's. The diplomas now are really big and not standard sizes. So I couldn't just get one off the shelf so to speak. The frames from the univ cost hundreds of dollars not 50 bucks. We got the cheapest one they had and it was $248 just for the fram and we still had to pay to get the diploma put in it properly.

[Taxman10]

If my diploma wasn't hanging on the wall behind me in its wal-mart frame, i'm sure I would have lost it by now. Do most people make a big fuss about their diplomas/frames?

[Tennesseer]

Diplomas? Yes. The frame?

[swamp]

Sept 28, 2012 9:12:08 GMT -5 Taxman10 said:

If my diploma wasn't hanging on the wall behind me in its wal-mart frame, i'm sure I would have lost it by now. Do most people make a big fuss about their diplomas/frames?

My dad made the frames for my diplomas, so they do have a special meaning to me, but if he hadn't made the frames, I probably wouldn't know where the diplomas are.

[973beachbum]

Sept 28, 2012 9:12:08 GMT -5 Taxman10 said:

If my diploma wasn't hanging on the wall behind me in its wal-mart frame, i'm sure I would have lost it by now. Do most people make a big fuss about their diplomas/frames?

I think everyone knows me by now that I only did it because I had no choice.

DH is a civil engineer and he had to get it framed and on the wall at work. If they didn't require it it would still be in the tube it came in before I spent $300 to frame it. ;D

The diplomas today are also much larger than when I went to school. My diploma for my BS is 8X10. His is like 14X17.

[alabamagal]

My DD graduated in July. She didn't even get an actual "diploma", she got like a card size one. Maybe you have to pay extra for that.

My diploma is in a nice frame in our hallway. DH has a diploma from the 80s from a very prestigious college, I think it is also in the hallway.

[movingforward]

I had my diplomas framed myself at a craft store. If my dad had bought my frame and accidentally bought it from the wrong university I wouldn't be mad about it. I might laugh my ass off because he was so goofy as to buy it from the wrong place but that is just not something I would waste my time getting angry about.

ETA: At my college graduation he and mom forgot to bring the camera and had to run out to Walmart and buy a disposable one. My parents were always forgetting things and doing goofy shit. It is part of the reason I love them.

[Formerly SK]

You can always get a diploma custom framed from a non-university source. With coupons that should easily be <$100.

[Peace77]

She should sell the wrong frame to someone who graduated from the other school and then buy another frame.

[973beachbum]

Sept 28, 2012 10:05:35 GMT -5 movingforward said:

I had my diplomas framed myself at a crafts store. If my dad had bought my frame and accidentally bought it from the wrong university I wouldn't be mad about it. I might laugh my ass off because he was so goofy as to buy it from the wrong place but that is just not something I would waste my time getting angry about.

That was what I tried to do with DH's diplomas. I went to Michaels and AC Moore etc and the size was not usual so they told me I had to get one of the ones from the college bookstore and then bring them back in to have them put it properly in the frame for u. If the size was normal and I could have gotten a frame to fit I would have gladly just gotten the cheap one! I also tried to put the diploma in myself and it kept sliding like they said. So evenutally I took it in and paid the $40 bucks to get it done right.

I am not sure what he would have done if the frame said the wrong school. They put them on the wall so people feel good about paying for their engineering services. What would people think if they saw a diploma from one univ and a frame that said another?

[Tennesseer]

Sept 28, 2012 10:10:11 GMT -5 Peace77 said:

She should sell the wrong frame to someone who graduated from the other school and then buy another frame.

Sell it on Ebay.

[Tennesseer]

I have quite a bit of original artwork in my home. I quickly learned having it professionally framed cost big bucks. So I learned how to frame pictures myself including cutting my own mat boards.

[Phoenix84]

The only people I've seen hang up their diplomas are people who provide professional services directly the public. It seems weird otherwise.

I never got any of my degrees framed. I'm not even sure exactly where they are. They're somewhere, I could probably find them if I had some reason to.

But I'm not trying to sell my services to clients.

Diplomas themselves seem pretty meaningless. I've only ever used my high school diploma once (to get a raise for having it at my crappy retail job), and I"ve never used my physical college diploma. Every job I've ever gotten post college has wanted to see my transcript, not my diploma.

[Phoenix84]

Sept 28, 2012 10:05:35 GMT -5 movingforward said:

I had my diplomas framed myself at a craft store. If my dad had bought my frame and accidentally bought it from the wrong university I wouldn't be mad about it. I might laugh my ass off because he was so goofy as to buy it from the wrong place but that is just not something I would waste my time getting angry about.

ETA: At my college graduation he and mom forgot to bring the camera and had to run out to Walmart and buy a disposable one. My parents were always forgetting things and doing goofy shit. It is part of the reason I love them.

Yeah, I could totally see my Dad doing that. It would be funny, not a big deal worth getting upset over. They'd just get a new one.

[happyhoix]

"well, "the idiots" being my parents. My dad ordered the frame from the wrong university. and here was are 5 months later, and he's holding it over my head. his mistake, and he's telling me if I ask about it again, I'll be getting NO graduation gift. thanks for 4 years of work."

It this is a big deal for her why not ask her dad for the frame, see if she can return it to where he bought it, and then get the right one herself?

Clearly this is not a big deal for him, but it is for her. She can either whine about it to try to make it a big deal for him, or she can handle it herself and STFU.

I vote for STFU, but maybe she likes to have things to whine about.

[Deleted]

I framed my diplomas for personal enjoyment and for safekeeping. The first two I had done at a local framing shop with mats in the University's colors. For the third one, the MLIS, I splurged on the UA frame, which includes their name and seal in the mat. It was $150 at the bookstore, but I did that instead of "walking," which would have cost just as much.

They all hang in our home office.

[Deleted]

Each diploma for higher education was bigger than the last. (high school, BS, MS) I didn't frame any...

[Cookies Galore]

My diploma is in a crate in the closet. I think.

[Phoenix84]

Sept 28, 2012 15:41:45 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

My diploma is in a crate in the closet. I think.

I think mine is at the bottom drawer of my computer desk at home. That or in the closet somewhere.

[maraqxa]

Probably needs to go back to school and learn how to write a proper sentence.

[Tennesseer]

Sept 28, 2012 18:26:08 GMT -5 maraqxa said:

Probably needs to go back to school and learn how to write a proper sentence.

'Who' probably needs to go back to school and learn how to write a proper sentence?

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I see nothing positive coming from calling one's dad an "idiot" on Facebook. (Even if the dad IS an idiot.)

[maraqxa]

Sept 28, 2012 18:30:04 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Sept 28, 2012 18:26:08 GMT -5 maraqxa said:

Probably needs to go back to school and learn how to write a proper sentence.

'Who' probably needs to go back to school and learn how to write a proper sentence?

What? Feeling a little touchy? Don't you see her facebook status?

[Tennesseer]

Sept 29, 2012 11:11:38 GMT -5 maraqxa said:

Sept 28, 2012 18:30:04 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

'Who' probably needs to go back to school and learn how to write a proper sentence?

What? Feeling a little touchy? Don't you see her facebook status?

I was critiquing your critique of the Facebook user's inability to write a proper sentence. In your comment, you failed to state 'who' needed to learn how to write a proper sentence. "Probably" is an adverb and not a noun or the subject of your sentence.

[maraqxa]

Sept 29, 2012 11:50:11 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Sept 29, 2012 11:11:38 GMT -5 maraqxa said:

What? Feeling a little touchy? Don't you see her facebook status?

I was critiquing your critique of the Facebook user's inability to write a proper sentence. In your comment, you failed to state 'who' needed to learn how to write a proper sentence. "Probably" is an adverb and not a noun or the subject of your sentence.

I didn't want to state "who".

[Tennesseer]

So you didn't want to write a proper sentence?