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The parents of a 6-year-old boy whose classmates did not show up for his pizza, said their son was disappointed by the size of the pie – but they still regret not sharing the photo that was made viral history.
Sil Mazzini and Ted Bollinger said that the Sunday birthday party at Peter Piper Pizza in Tucson for their son, Teddy, was the boy's "first party," an opportunity for him to go wild with his 32 classmates. BASIS Tucson primary school. But an hour after the beginning of the war, no one had introduced themselves, which had thrown the spirits of the family.
"I was disgusted, I was disgusted for sure," Bollinger told The Post newspaper in a phone interview Tuesday night. "Teddy, the most important thing for him was to have his classmates there, so not seeing them arrive an hour after the start of the party was disappointing."
So Bollinger and Mazzini did what most parents would do in this situation: keep their son busy.
"He's 6 years old, so he was distracted by the arcade games, the pizza, he got back quickly," Bollinger said. "He is hard. But when Sil told me that she was posting [the photo]I told her not to do it, but she did it and it took off. It's pretty wild. "
Mazzini said that she had sent the photo with "disbelief" while none of the "20-something" that she was waiting for had come up. After giving invitations to Teddy's teacher with her phone number, she said she received "15 responses to the question", along with a few others who said they would not succeed.
"I was a little shocked and at the end, when I had to pay for it, I was upset," Mazzini said about the $ 130 bill. "That's why I wrote a message. But I did not expect anything of it, that it becomes so viral.
But Mazzini said she'd now like not to have sent Teddy's photo sitting alone in front of several half eaten pizzas at a local news website, triggering an absolute frenzy that will continue Wednesday night – when the family will present itself as special guest Watch the Phoenix Suns take on LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers.
"Honestly, I would like to go back without sending this message," Mazzini said. "We do not want all the attention. We did not do this to attract attention or to offer gifts or anything. I did it in the moment but I was not smart. I was pissed off. That's all. "
Regarding the people who criticized his decision, Mazzini said: "I do not know, I can not say anything. It happened and you know, it's a loving boy, I give him a lot of love and I feed him, so he's happy. He was not sad that day, just then. "
Mazzini said Teddy had quickly overcome the consternation of partying alone because Bollinger – who works in an oilfield in Alaska and left for several weeks at a time – had "come from his job" from his workplace to to join his son.
"So at the end of the day he was very happy," said Mazzini.
Still, Teddy will not have a birthday party next year, she said.
"No, we are not," she says. "No more now, I do not think so, because it's a lot of planning for me. I'm just going to take her on a trip. "
Mazzini said she had given Teddy three options for her birthday: a trip to Disney World, a trip to Legoland or a party with her classmates. He chose the third, she says.
Teddy, meanwhile, went back to school on Monday and seems to have moved on, said Mazzini.
"All the children saw her and they told her that they were very sorry," she said. "They forgot to go there. It was a difficult day for him, but it happened and we move on. "
Bollinger said Teddy "understands that people are busy" and did not take the absences personally. They are now focused on attending the NBA Family Match – "It's going to be crazy," Bollinger said – and navigate the deluge of wishes and unsolicited gifts for Teddy on behalf of aliens from all over the world.
"Honestly, I thought there would be local news in Tucson and maybe Phoenix, but we are getting calls from around the world," Bollinger told The Post. "It's nothing like I would have ever guessed, never in my wildest dreams."
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