A woman who was planning a baby shower for her best friend has slammed her pal's mum for completely ignoring her messages regarding the party - and then claiming she planned everything herself.
The anonymous woman said she was supposed to be planning a surprise baby shower for her friend in conjunction with the friend's mum, and was tasked with helping to organise the decorations, cake, and some games they would play.
However, whenever she tried to message her friend's mum to ask for details about the event, she would receive no response, leaving her to take a guess at what she's supposed to be ordering for the party.
And according to the woman, her friend's mum has even had the "cheek" to say she's been "unhelpful" so far - despite making no attempt to communicate with her.
In a post on Mumsnet, the woman fumed: "My friend is currently pregnant with her third baby and asked me to help her mum with organising her baby shower. She gave me her mum's number to message her and her mum stated she had organised most things but left me with some loose ends to organise (decorations, shower games, cake etc).
"I found her quite unresponsive to messages and has been hard to organise with but ploughed on through. Anyways, she left all of my messages on read, even ones that are asking simple questions such as 'What time do we get the keys to the venue so we can start setting up?'
"She told my friend she's found me unhelpful (I'm so confused as I've been left on read on every message with zero communication) and doesn't like what I have done so far, and my friend has asked me if I could return some things and re-order them. It's partly a surprise so she said she couldn't go into detail about what it was as she 'didn't know'."
The woman then sent another message to the mum and was ignored again, before the mum put out a group message on WhatsApp that publicly accused her of being "no help".
She added: "I sent a message to her mum and was again met with nothing. Until today, in the WhatsApp group chat for the event, she sent a message out saying that she's organised everything by herself with NO help and to 'bear with her' but she's proud of what she's achieved by herself.
"She hasn't done it by herself and some of my money has gone into this? Why would she say this? All the other people invited thought I was helping so I feel like I don't look like a good team player and left the task to her. This isn't true but it's being made to look like this.
"I am really confused. I don't want to message her mum and upset her and I'm worried my friend will be upset with me. I feel awkward to even attend! I don't even know the details to even help set up so I would now be turning up at the same time as the other guests and I'm worried there is going to be a situation."
Commenters on the post were quick to call the friend's mum "cheeky" for taking credit for the baby shower.
One person said: "Wow. They are like a CF [cheeky f***er] family. Taking your money and the credit."
While another added: "So odd. I think I would need to tell the friend she is not replying to messages and then making comments to the group about how she is doing everything!"
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