For the past decade or so, couples from across the world have decided to let their friends and family know the gender of their expectant child through something known as a gender reveal party. I’m sure most of you know the drill — the couple think of a cute way to surprise everyone at a social setting by revealing if they will have a boy or a girl by popping some stupid balloons that are filled with either blue or pink powder. It started with using balloons to reveal the gender but lately couples are making things way more complicated than they have to be as opposed to just saying, “Hey everyone guess what? We’re having a girl.”
Yes, I know that I’m no fun.
A North Carolina couple recently had one of the biggest gender reveal fails I have ever seen in my life and I love every second of it. The premise of it was pretty simple — wife pitches ball to husband, husband swings to break the ball and the blue or pink smoke comes out.
Welp, it didn’t quite go as planned.
Laura Garner grabbed the ball filled with mystery powder and told her husband, Justin, to “just hit it real soft.” Unfortunately, the spirit of David Ortiz entered Justin’s body just before he took his “soft swing” and he let loose with one of the best 3-0 swings you’ll ever see.
Unfortunately for Laura, Justin connected.
The best part of this is hearing Justin say, “That didn’t go well.”
To add insult to the injury, the goddamned ball didn’t even break either. Add to THAT, the couple decided to do this at their 3-year-old’s birthday party so I’m pretty sure that kid will never play baseball again after watching daddy almost kill mommy with one vicious swing.
Before you freak out about me being insensitive, Laura was OK and the couple’s families got a good laugh out of the whole thing.
They took a second swing and the ball eventually broke.
Laura and Justin are expecting another baby boy this December.
