Just venting-I am so over the Country Club Mom Club

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Anonymous wrote:What's a dolt?

You.

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Come on over to Silver Spring. None of that goes on here.

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Anonymous wrote:I personally am really tired of hearing people talking about their vacation homes on the Cape.

You know you wish you could join us regular folks at Great Wolf Lodge.

Great Wolf? I was thinking of the pool at the Super 8.

It could be that they're just from New England originally. There are a lot of transplants here. The Cape to New Englanders is the same as the Shore for NJ and Ocean City for this area. No one really blinks except I guess you.

Oh, okay. So then it categorically cannot be annoying to hear people who live in million dollar homes in Chevy Chase talk about their million dollar second homes on the Cape? Whoops, how did I not know that. Thanks for telling me now before I really embarrass myself!

Take it easy. Just know several people who vacation or have family houses on the Cape that could not afford a vacation regularly at Great Wolf Lodge. If they are millionaires, they can vacation wherever they want.

+1. Lots of New Englanders here who go back to the two-bedroom family cottage occasionally. A million dollars? I think my uncle paid $18K back in the mid-'60s for the one we visit, and the interior hasn't been updated since.

And yes, you will hear me talk about it. Sorry!

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Anonymous wrote:Ouch OP, looks like you struck a nerve. At least with the PP.

+100000

Some people will never fit in, strictly because of their constipated expression on their weasel face, and their deliberate unfriendliness toward others. OP, if they look like a poseur, they're a poseur. No loss to you.

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I don't see this in NW DC but I definitely know the type from my past life in the Boston area. I attribute the absence of that in DC to the fact that most of the high SES SAHMs in the nicer parts of DC were educated, high-earning professionals before having kids, usually in their mid- to late-thirties. This is the same set that was too busy working and perhaps being politically engaged during their pre-SAHM days to have focused much on appearance. They show off by talking about their kids' achievements, not by flashing a bit of leg in a white tennis skirt.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care. If someone walks by in their tennis skirt, I assume it's because they play tennis. I walk around in my yoga pants all day, but that's because I work from home and I like to be dressed in clothes that are as close to PJs as possible. I don't expect anyone to "look good" for me, for the crowd at Starbucks, or anywhere for that matter. I'm 40, and I just don't give a rat's azz about all that crap anymore--whether you're fancy, sporty, or hobo attired (like me ). I do care if you're funny, nice, polite.

I find funny, nice, polite people all over. Even in tennis skirts. Even in mom jeans. Even in garish Christmas sweaters when the season's right.

If someone doesn't want me to be part of their circle, owch, it stings for a little bit, but I don't particularly have any desire to have a huge network of friends either. I'm an introvert. Seven, eight people to call my buddy, and I'm good.


No biggie.

Meanwhile, enjoy your coffee! I go for 16-oz nonfat latte. I never remember what the hell the right Starbucks terminology for it is, either, though I've been there and ordered it like a ga-zillion times. Please don't snicker if you're standing behind me in line--there just isn't room in my scattered brainses for this incidental information to stick!

PS: Talking shit about other people's kids--if you don't actually care about them--is mean. Talking about other people's kids when you do care about them, hell, okay by me. Talk about my kids if you want to. They're quirky and I love 'em.

You and I would be friends in real life. FWIW, I do belong to "a club" and I play tennis terribly, but have been caught out in all manner of crazy looking clothes

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Anonymous wrote:Luckily I don't have this problem.. But that's bc I live in falls church (not city)

Where we get the joy of putting up with the pool club queen bees.

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I belong to a CC and I don't gossip and I don't think my kids are perfect. I'm probably a lot like you. We joined the club because my DH was a legacy and he grew up going there and we got a greatly reduced rate that we paid over ten years. It's a stretch financially but we love the amenities and enjoy the friendships. I wear my tennis skirt occasionally to the Giant at night to pick up something we need (like toilet paper) after playing in the early evening. It just doesn't make sense to go home first and change.