Who is right? Son accidentally took item - disagreement results

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP quickly went from "poor temporarily single mom with sleeping baby" to "scheming and laughing life of the party."

You should have quit while you were ahead, OP.

I like OP even more now she deserved that laugh

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did not read all the posts, but is anyone questioning the " accidental" part of her son taking it? If it was an accident, how did the other kid know who had it?

I admit, I would want the suit. If my son does not wear special suits at the beach he will develop a rash. I could see us being in a one suit situation at the beginning of the year (not wanting to buy more than one until we know it fits right). No amount of money would fix it, as the suit has to be bought online.

If another child had mistakenly taken your DS's special suit the day before you were leaving for the beach, then if for some reason the mother of the child who took it could not come to you, would you go to her to pick it up? It wasn't the other woman's child's mistake (or at least, nobody actually knows), but she could have solved the problem if OP could not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I did not read all the posts, but is anyone questioning the " accidental" part of her son taking it? If it was an accident, how did the other kid know who had it?

I admit, I would want the suit. If my son does not wear special suits at the beach he will develop a rash. I could see us being in a one suit situation at the beginning of the year (not wanting to buy more than one until we know it fits right). No amount of money would fix it, as the suit has to be bought online.

If another child had mistakenly taken your DS's special suit the day before you were leaving for the beach, then if for some reason the mother of the child who took it could not come to you, would you go to her to pick it up? It wasn't the other woman's child's mistake (or at least, nobody actually knows), but she could have solved the problem if OP could not.

I agree that OP could've done more to return the suit, but if it was that important to the bathing suit mom she should've just met the OP at the school to get the suit, once she saw OP was unwilling to drive to her or meet her halfway at a later hour. The fact that she didn't suggest that herself means his was less about her being in a bad predicament than about her just being inflexible and kind of nasty.

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Anonymous wrote:So you strategized with a more than a handful of people, discussed PayPal, and yet never considered ubering the swim trunks there? Befuddling.

They clearly wanted the swim trunks returned--not money to replace them.

Next time use your noggin: uber.

I have to say it sounds like you had enough time to leave them on their porch with all the scheming and wine opening you were doing. Why didn't friend's husband offer to watch your kids while you went?

Okie dokie.

I can assure you OP did way more than I would've in this situation.

And if I were there other mom, my kid would have just swam in some lightweight shorts until we procured him a pair of trunks.

What exactly did the OP do?

She (with the help of others) gave the other woman $30, hand-delivered, to buy a suit on their vacation. Hand-delivering same-size same-print suit would have been ideal, but twas not to be.

Again, what did OP do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who only has one swimsuit?! That is bizarre.

Don't start this shit again!

[Anonymous]

We did think of uber! According to my friend, uber will not deliver goods. They have a service called uberRUSH that is a a delivery service but it is only in select cities, and not here yet. Admittedly I did not check this info, but just took her word for it. Apparently some uber drivers will do it but they are not licensed for it and are not supposed to do it.
In any even it would have been very expensive I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We did think of uber! According to my friend, uber will not deliver goods. They have a service called uberRUSH that is a a delivery service but it is only in select cities, and not here yet. Admittedly I did not check this info, but just took her word for it. Apparently some uber drivers will do it but they are not licensed for it and are not supposed to do it.
In any even it would have been very expensive I think.

Are you, OP? You seem to let your friends do a lot of your work for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who only has one swimsuit?! That is bizarre.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you strategized with a more than a handful of people, discussed PayPal, and yet never considered ubering the swim trunks there? Befuddling.

They clearly wanted the swim trunks returned--not money to replace them.

Next time use your noggin: uber.

I have to say it sounds like you had enough time to leave them on their porch with all the scheming and wine opening you were doing. Why didn't friend's husband offer to watch your kids while you went?

Because asking someone to drive almost 2 hours to return a $10 swimsuit is utterly ridiculous. I wouldn't have done it either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you strategized with a more than a handful of people, discussed PayPal, and yet never considered ubering the swim trunks there? Befuddling.

They clearly wanted the swim trunks returned--not money to replace them.

Next time use your noggin: uber.

I have to say it sounds like you had enough time to leave them on their porch with all the scheming and wine opening you were doing. Why didn't friend's husband offer to watch your kids while you went?

Because asking someone to drive almost 2 hours to return a $10 swimsuit is utterly ridiculous. I wouldn't have done it either.

She didn't ask. OP offered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We did think of uber! According to my friend, uber will not deliver goods. They have a service called uberRUSH that is a a delivery service but it is only in select cities, and not here yet. Admittedly I did not check this info, but just took her word for it. Apparently some uber drivers will do it but they are not licensed for it and are not supposed to do it.
In any even it would have been very expensive I think.

Ever heard of a courier?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We did think of uber! According to my friend, uber will not deliver goods. They have a service called uberRUSH that is a a delivery service but it is only in select cities, and not here yet. Admittedly I did not check this info, but just took her word for it. Apparently some uber drivers will do it but they are not licensed for it and are not supposed to do it.
In any even it would have been very expensive I think.

Ever heard of a courier?

Not OP. I've heard of couriers that carry things to other countries. How do I find one in DC, and would expensive would that be?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did not read all the posts, but is anyone questioning the " accidental" part of her son taking it? If it was an accident, how did the other kid know who had it?

I admit, I would want the suit. If my son does not wear special suits at the beach he will develop a rash. I could see us being in a one suit situation at the beginning of the year (not wanting to buy more than one until we know it fits right). No amount of money would fix it, as the suit has to be bought online.

What special suit are you getting at target that isn't causing a rash?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We did think of uber! According to my friend, uber will not deliver goods. They have a service called uberRUSH that is a a delivery service but it is only in select cities, and not here yet. Admittedly I did not check this info, but just took her word for it. Apparently some uber drivers will do it but they are not licensed for it and are not supposed to do it.
In any even it would have been very expensive I think.

Ever heard of a courier?

Not OP. I've heard of couriers that carry things to other countries. How do I find one in DC, and would expensive would that be?

I just had a flashback to 1989, with the guys on bikes carrying things all over town! You missed a lot in the "olden" days, PP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We did think of uber! According to my friend, uber will not deliver goods. They have a service called uberRUSH that is a a delivery service but it is only in select cities, and not here yet. Admittedly I did not check this info, but just took her word for it. Apparently some uber drivers will do it but they are not licensed for it and are not supposed to do it.
In any even it would have been very expensive I think.

Ever heard of a courier?

Not OP. I've heard of couriers that carry things to other countries. How do I find one in DC, and would expensive would that be?

Google "couriers in DC" good grief

Of course this area has same day couriers wtf