Mom Cliques. I had no idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP Here—I didn’t ask for your kind opinions on my mom clique story. Believe the post asks to share your favorite mom clique story.

I understand why they didn’t invite you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP Here—I didn’t ask for your kind opinions on my mom clique story. Believe the post asks to share your favorite mom clique story.

Yours wasn’t really even a story, though. At least not a good one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like you made unnecessarily awkward. People are allowed to meet up without you. If you had just been friendly and not made an issue of it, you might have been invited to the next one.

Yes, this.

You sound grating.

+1

The text you sent about invite-only Fridays is not a good look.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP Here—I didn’t ask for your kind opinions on my mom clique story. Believe the post asks to share your favorite mom clique story.

Yours wasn’t really even a story, though. At least not a good one.

Yeah. And why start a thread to trash what women do. Don’t we have enough of that already in life?

[Anonymous]

How is this a clique? They probably had each others phone numbers and the person organizing it invited everyone they knew. It sounds nice that so many people were invited.

You sound aggressive and mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why did you go to the winery without inviting them?

OP—I have an event planned at the winery and was meeting up with a caterer/event planner.

Are all these moms invited to that event? Or is this for your own clique?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Ran into about 15 or so moms from our elementary school having wine and apps at a local winery on Friday around noon. I was like WHAT???? I didn’t realize mom cliques are still a thing. They felt uber uncomfortable seeing me there. I texted one of the mom’s later and said I didn’t realize there was an invite only Friday gatherings. Bus stop interactions will be interesting on Monday! LMAO! Share your favorite mom clique story DCUM.

Update us on Monday!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP Here—I didn’t ask for your kind opinions on my mom clique story. Believe the post asks to share your favorite mom clique story.

This sounds cliquey. Only people who do what you want can stay in the thread? WTF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like you made unnecessarily awkward. People are allowed to meet up without you. If you had just been friendly and not made an issue of it, you might have been invited to the next one.

+1

Agree. This is a group a friends, what makes it a “mom clique?” Not putting an invite in the PTA newsletter? Maybe they should have rented out the restaurant and invited every mom at the school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Ran into about 15 or so moms from our elementary school having wine and apps at a local winery on Friday around noon. I was like WHAT???? I didn’t realize mom cliques are still a thing. They felt uber uncomfortable seeing me there. I texted one of the mom’s later and said I didn’t realize there was an invite only Friday gatherings. Bus stop interactions will be interesting on Monday! LMAO! Share your favorite mom clique story DCUM.

Update us on Monday!

What did that mom you texted say?
Did you ever mention anything about planning an event at winery before to any of the "15" moms you saw there that day?

[Anonymous]

The worst part is OP its making it unnecessarily hard for her kid(s) to socialize. And even if your kids are prefectly nice, one wants to engage with the Red Flag Mama

[Anonymous]

15 moms is not a clique.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Ran into about 15 or so moms from our elementary school having wine and apps at a local winery on Friday around noon. I was like WHAT???? I didn’t realize mom cliques are still a thing. They felt uber uncomfortable seeing me there. I texted one of the mom’s later and said I didn’t realize there was an invite only Friday gatherings. Bus stop interactions will be interesting on Monday! LMAO! Share your favorite mom clique story DCUM.

Update us on Monday!

Most of those moms won’t even remember seeing OP by Monday morning because it was such a nonevent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like you made unnecessarily awkward. People are allowed to meet up without you. If you had just been friendly and not made an issue of it, you might have been invited to the next one.

Yes, this.

You sound grating.

+1

The text you sent about invite-only Fridays is not a good look.

I’m pretty ballsy usually but that text was way off.

[Anonymous]

I agree OP's text was bad form (why reveal that it bothered you?! Just act like you don't care and move on!) BUT I do think it was a bit clique-y because of the number of moms. A group of 15 is huge. If OP knew all or most of the mons, and they were all mons from the same school, it is a bit clique-y to do something that big and not invite OP.

Sure, maybe the organizer doesn't know OP, but if other people there do, it's a little surprising that none of them said anything to her. Indicating that the group or outing are at least somewhat exclusive, which is what a clique is.