What's the Most Obnoxious Thing You've Heard a Parent Say at Your DC's Private School?

[Anonymous]

PP, I am the 11:40 poster. I think you've won the prize thus far...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At a parents' dinner, a parent of a student who receives full FA said that her child detests the food in the dining hall. I thught her comment was offensive in the way that looking a gift horse in the mouth is.

Oh come on, YOUR comment, PP is so snotty! First, do you really know for certain that they are on full FA? I have no idea who in our school gets any FA. I dont think you should assume such a thing. Second, disliking the food is not obnoxious, there is no obligation to like the food just because you receive some FA. Just so long as they "like" the education. That is all that matters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At a parents' dinner, a parent of a student who receives full FA said that her child detests the food in the dining hall. I thught her comment was offensive in the way that looking a gift horse in the mouth is.

Oh come on, YOUR comment, PP is so snotty! First, do you really know for certain that they are on full FA? I have no idea who in our school gets any FA. I dont think you should assume such a thing. Second, disliking the food is not obnoxious, there is no obligation to like the food just because you receive some FA. Just so long as they "like" the education. That is all that matters.

Quite right.

[Anonymous]

If these are the most obnoxious things anyone here has heard at a local private school, then everyone should put on their big girl undies. Every Thanksgiving dinner with my extended family is filled with comments far ruder than any of these, most of them from my mother.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At a parents' dinner, a parent of a student who receives full FA said that her child detests the food in the dining hall. I thught her comment was offensive in the way that looking a gift horse in the mouth is.

Wow. You are repulsive.

[Anonymous]

Agree with 12:05 and 12:07.

Mine is pretty minor, but here it is:

My son became good friends with another boy at school, and one day I sent a friendly email to the boy's mother, asking whether he would like to come over for a playdate. I received a brisk, four-sentence response:

Thank you for your kind invitation. Unfortunately, ___ is not available on Friday. Perhaps we can find another time at some point the future. I will be in touch.

Translation: don't call me, I'll call you. Never heard from her again. Too bad - our sons really are great friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This could be a fun thread. In my view, the in-person comment by a fellow parent from one's school is more obnoxious than any comment on DCUM's anonymous boards could possibly be because, with the in-person comment, the parent does not care or does not know to care that she or he is going to be known having made that comment.

At a school outing, some parents were chatting at a table. Among the parents were a husband and wife who were both chaperoning. The husband was describing how he and his wife met and said that they had a great first date at which she ate heartily, and her big breasts were a bid draw, too. Awkward silence among the other chaperones at that comment!

OMG! We have a parent that makes comments about his wife's big breasts, in public, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At a parents' dinner, a parent of a student who receives full FA said that her child detests the food in the dining hall. I thught her comment was offensive in the way that looking a gift horse in the mouth is.

You're a STA mum, right?

I'm not going to call you a bitch, I'm not going to call you a bitch, I'm not going to call you a bitch...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Agree with 12:05 and 12:07.

Mine is pretty minor, but here it is:

My son became good friends with another boy at school, and one day I sent a friendly email to the boy's mother, asking whether he would like to come over for a playdate. I received a brisk, four-sentence response:

Thank you for your kind invitation. Unfortunately, ___ is not available on Friday. Perhaps we can find another time at some point the future. I will be in touch.

Translation: don't call me, I'll call you. Never heard from her again. Too bad - our sons really are great friends.

What is wrong with this. At least she was polite in declining. You don't know her reasons. I do this to people because I am not into the playdate thing. My kids are still young and have built in playdates with their sibs. Playdates are disruptive to me.

[Anonymous]

Question, PP. How do you know that the child is on full FA?

Anonymous wrote:At a parents' dinner, a parent of a student who receives full FA said that her child detests the food in the dining hall. I thught her comment was offensive in the way that looking a gift horse in the mouth is.

[Anonymous]

Maybe I have thick skin, but I didn't think her email was rude. I've probably sent something similar, when we've been going through a busy time. But it certainly didn't mean that I didn't like the other family--just that since the other family made the first effort, it is now up to me to make the second one.

Anonymous wrote:

Agree with 12:05 and 12:07.

Mine is pretty minor, but here it is:

My son became good friends with another boy at school, and one day I sent a friendly email to the boy's mother, asking whether he would like to come over for a playdate. I received a brisk, four-sentence response:

Thank you for your kind invitation. Unfortunately, ___ is not available on Friday. Perhaps we can find another time at some point the future. I will be in touch.

Translation: don't call me, I'll call you. Never heard from her again. Too bad - our sons really are great friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Agree with 12:05 and 12:07.

Mine is pretty minor, but here it is:

My son became good friends with another boy at school, and one day I sent a friendly email to the boy's mother, asking whether he would like to come over for a playdate. I received a brisk, four-sentence response:

Thank you for your kind invitation. Unfortunately, ___ is not available on Friday. Perhaps we can find another time at some point the future. I will be in touch.

Translation: don't call me, I'll call you. Never heard from her again. Too bad - our sons really are great friends.

What is wrong with this. At least she was polite in declining. You don't know her reasons. I do this to people because I am not into the playdate thing. My kids are still young and have built in playdates with their sibs. Playdates are disruptive to me.

Last time I checked playdates were about the kids creating bonds with others and having fun. I feel sorry for your children to have such a mother (?) that cannot be bothered with these annoyances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Agree with 12:05 and 12:07.

Mine is pretty minor, but here it is:

My son became good friends with another boy at school, and one day I sent a friendly email to the boy's mother, asking whether he would like to come over for a playdate. I received a brisk, four-sentence response:

Thank you for your kind invitation. Unfortunately, ___ is not available on Friday. Perhaps we can find another time at some point the future. I will be in touch.

Translation: don't call me, I'll call you. Never heard from her again. Too bad - our sons really are great friends.

What is wrong with this. At least she was polite in declining. You don't know her reasons. I do this to people because I am not into the playdate thing. My kids are still young and have built in playdates with their sibs. Playdates are disruptive to me.

Last time I checked playdates were about the kids creating bonds with others and having fun. I feel sorry for your children to have such a mother (?) that cannot be bothered with these annoyances.

Wow! I never said I was annoyed by playdates but rather they are disruptive to my children bonding and having fun with eachother. But, two points for you for nastiness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Agree with 12:05 and 12:07.

Mine is pretty minor, but here it is:

My son became good friends with another boy at school, and one day I sent a friendly email to the boy's mother, asking whether he would like to come over for a playdate. I received a brisk, four-sentence response:

Thank you for your kind invitation. Unfortunately, ___ is not available on Friday. Perhaps we can find another time at some point the future. I will be in touch.

Translation: don't call me, I'll call you. Never heard from her again. Too bad - our sons really are great friends.

What is wrong with this. At least she was polite in declining. You don't know her reasons. I do this to people because I am not into the playdate thing. My kids are still young and have built in playdates with their sibs. Playdates are disruptive to me.

Last time I checked playdates were about the kids creating bonds with others and having fun. I feel sorry for your children to have such a mother (?) that cannot be bothered with these annoyances.

Lemme guess, only child?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Agree with 12:05 and 12:07.

Mine is pretty minor, but here it is:

My son became good friends with another boy at school, and one day I sent a friendly email to the boy's mother, asking whether he would like to come over for a playdate. I received a brisk, four-sentence response:

Thank you for your kind invitation. Unfortunately, ___ is not available on Friday. Perhaps we can find another time at some point the future. I will be in touch.

Translation: don't call me, I'll call you. Never heard from her again. Too bad - our sons really are great friends.

What is wrong with this. At least she was polite in declining. You don't know her reasons. I do this to people because I am not into the playdate thing. My kids are still young and have built in playdates with their sibs. Playdates are disruptive to me.

Last time I checked playdates were about the kids creating bonds with others and having fun. I feel sorry for your children to have such a mother (?) that cannot be bothered with these annoyances.

Wow! I never said I was annoyed by playdates but rather they are disruptive to my children bonding and having fun with eachother. But, two points for you for nastiness.

Thanks!