Who is right? Son accidentally took item - disagreement results

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geeeesh!!
Op here.
I did not expect this.
I haven't read all of it but thank you to those with good advice!
This is nothing near the bobcat thread, though, let's be honest. That was the best ever!
And we aren't in Bethesda or Cabin John or NW, just FYI. But I love the sleuthing.
So it really turned into a debacle. Two friends came over that night to return some patio furniture that they had borrowed for a party, and while we were unloading the stuff, the HUSBAND of the bathing suit mom sends me a text, saying they have to have the suit tonight. At this point it is 8:30. My friend says her husband will bring it there. In the time we take to figure that out, the husband texts me a second time reiterating the need for the suit.
Then her husband maps it, and calls back and says please can we just PayPal them money, it's going to take an hour to get there and an hour to get back.
(Virtually everyone we know at the school lives very close. This location is highly unusual and I have no idea why they don't go to a closer school.)
So I text and offer to PayPal money to replace the suit. I offer $25. They say no, they don't use PayPal and don't know how and don't wsnt to!! At this point, my friend's husband has texted my husband (forgetting he's overseas) to say what a jerk this guy is, so now my husband is involved. (Which frankly I wanted to avoid.). Then one of my friends remembers that another mom we are friends with works close to the bathing suit mom's house (within 20 minutes) and is likely still at the office, and maybe she can help get money to them. So we call her, and she tells us they are full on crazy people, and to stay away from them. She offers to drop money off (i think she was anxious to help because I used to keep her son two days a week from 7-8 am so she could get to work, for those of you who think I'm some sort of freeloader because I sent my kid to a party with a friend!!) and she says it's not out of her way cause she's headed to - you guessed it - Target!!! My friend calls the target in that town and they don't have the suit in that size. But, now we have someone to drop money. So, she heads there and says she will report back. At this point, the friend that took my kid to the party hears about this (because she lives on the same street as the family with the husband who texted my husband and they ran into each other walking dogs) so SHE now comes over cause she feels bad that she grabbed the wrong suit/let my son grab the wrong suit and now it has turned into this. So now the wine has been opened and we are all awaiting news from the cash drop off. I text the Bathing suit mom and her husband and tell them a friend can drop off the $25. He writes "fine"
And this was the report we got from our cash deliverer -- friend gets to the door. She says hi, I am a friend of so and so, XYZ is my son, sorry about the mix up, my friend (me) is sorry she couldn't return it but it's quite a long drive and she's on her own these days. Then she tries to make a joke about the horrible traffic, since she works out there, but they don't smile. She gives them $30 (cause that's what she had on her) they don't offer change, they shut the door.
No thank you or anything.
And yes, I realize this is a total asinine chain of events. But in the end it was a little entertaining.

Sounds like a troll.

So wait - he asked you to Paypal and then said he doesn't use Paypal?

[Anonymous]

This can't be real.

[Anonymous]

This thread is so crazy.

I get that some people might only have 1 bathing suit for their kid. But, if you go on beach trips, why don't you have more than 1?

And if OP wasn't going to deliver the bathing suit on time before they went on their trip, what is so good about getting them the money? Won't OP eventually deliver the bathing suit (don't their kids go to the same school, can't she just send it with her kid to school?)

If they are sending their kid to private school and going on a beach trip, surely they can afford to get a new bathing suit.

The whole thing is just so weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Geeeesh!!
Op here.
I did not expect this.
I haven't read all of it but thank you to those with good advice!
This is nothing near the bobcat thread, though, let's be honest. That was the best ever!
And we aren't in Bethesda or Cabin John or NW, just FYI. But I love the sleuthing.
So it really turned into a debacle. Two friends came over that night to return some patio furniture that they had borrowed for a party, and while we were unloading the stuff, the HUSBAND of the bathing suit mom sends me a text, saying they have to have the suit tonight. At this point it is 8:30. My friend says her husband will bring it there. In the time we take to figure that out, the husband texts me a second time reiterating the need for the suit.
Then her husband maps it, and calls back and says please can we just PayPal them money, it's going to take an hour to get there and an hour to get back.
(Virtually everyone we know at the school lives very close. This location is highly unusual and I have no idea why they don't go to a closer school.)
So I text and offer to PayPal money to replace the suit. I offer $25. They say no, they don't use PayPal and don't know how and don't wsnt to!! At this point, my friend's husband has texted my husband (forgetting he's overseas) to say what a jerk this guy is, so now my husband is involved. (Which frankly I wanted to avoid.). Then one of my friends remembers that another mom we are friends with works close to the bathing suit mom's house (within 20 minutes) and is likely still at the office, and maybe she can help get money to them. So we call her, and she tells us they are full on crazy people, and to stay away from them. She offers to drop money off (i think she was anxious to help because I used to keep her son two days a week from 7-8 am so she could get to work, for those of you who think I'm some sort of freeloader because I sent my kid to a party with a friend!!) and she says it's not out of her way cause she's headed to - you guessed it - Target!!! My friend calls the target in that town and they don't have the suit in that size. But, now we have someone to drop money. So, she heads there and says she will report back. At this point, the friend that took my kid to the party hears about this (because she lives on the same street as the family with the husband who texted my husband and they ran into each other walking dogs) so SHE now comes over cause she feels bad that she grabbed the wrong suit/let my son grab the wrong suit and now it has turned into this. So now the wine has been opened and we are all awaiting news from the cash drop off. I text the Bathing suit mom and her husband and tell them a friend can drop off the $25. He writes "fine"
And this was the report we got from our cash deliverer -- friend gets to the door. She says hi, I am a friend of so and so, XYZ is my son, sorry about the mix up, my friend (me) is sorry she couldn't return it but it's quite a long drive and she's on her own these days. Then she tries to make a joke about the horrible traffic, since she works out there, but they don't smile. She gives them $30 (cause that's what she had on her) they don't offer change, they shut the door.
No thank you or anything.
And yes, I realize this is a total asinine chain of events. But in the end it was a little entertaining.

Sounds like a troll.

So wait - he asked you to Paypal and then said he doesn't use Paypal?

She offered to Paypal the money to them and they refused.

[Anonymous]

One lesson here: Do not engage with these people again, ever.

Kids mix stuff up. Even if they only had one bathing suit, they could have gotten another one at or on the way to the beach. Stuff happens. Sometimes it's inconvenient.

You should not have offered to drive it out there if you had no intention of doing so but that is a minor "offense." In no way should you have needed to do so. An hour? Um, no. They are lunatics and you need to avoid.

[Anonymous]

Use Venmo, people. Download it and use it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone actually believe this story after the update?

I don't.

What was the update? I can't search thru 44 pages for it. And who is tuna lady??

Why should we enable your laziness?

Read the God damn thread if you really want to know.

Exactly....and at one point, I did copy and paste the update so one didn't have to dig that far for it.

Seriously, because a thread is so many pages doesn't mean it takes forever to read. Do you read 500 page books? Do you read them in one day? I bet some people on this site do. Same principle applies here.

Ha ha, what's the principle?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone actually believe this story after the update?

I don't.

What was the update? I can't search thru 44 pages for it. And who is tuna lady??

Why should we enable your laziness?

Read the God damn thread if you really want to know.

damn why the anger? Just don't respond if you don't want to answer.

Not the person your are responding to, however if you can't be bothered to read the thread yourself why bother clicking on it. And do you REALLY trust other people's reading comprehension skills to give you an accurate update that isn't missing info or swapping info - which happened numerous times in this thread. It's just kind of lazy.

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eh 44 pages - not reading thru the whole thing no. if you can't be bothered to help (which others did by pointing out the page with the update) then don't.

How is it "helping"? Helping is walking an old lady across the street. Your idea of "help" is weird. It's more like entitled someone to be lazy and entitled.

You are a jerk, PP. Step aside with your "lazy and entitled" slurs while I help this old lady across the street.

The update was a convoluted, spaces and returns-crazy mess about how the OP ran into someone's cousin who knew the bitchy mom because she works down the street and somehow it was supposed to make sense that that kind of general proximity meant they crossed paths,and then the OP ran into someone returning patio furniture to her who gossiped with her about what a lunatic bitch swimsuit mom was as they drank wine and laughed meanly behind swimsuit lady's back, then a DH of one of the wine drinkers texted the OP's husband and told him what was going on, which the OP had been trying to avoid because her DH has a really juvenile sense of humor and immediately began texting her non-funny so-called jokes like, "I left my toothbrush in the car and you need to get it to me immediately" which made the OP think, if it weren't for my 6 year old, size 10 DS and my new baby, I would divorce this pathetic man and open another bottle of wine.

Then she asked her friend who worked near swimsuit mom to swing by their house and give them $30 for their trouble. And when she did, they did not say thank you.

That's it in a nutshell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hold up. Are people still talking about a kid's bathing suit??

This was never about a bathing suit. It's about doing what's right vs doing what's convenient. I'm not surprised by the outcome of the divide.

Too bad this didn't happen in Florida. I'm pretty sure it's legal to shoot someone for mistakenly taking the wrong suit at a party.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone actually believe this story after the update?

I don't.

What was the update? I can't search thru 44 pages for it. And who is tuna lady??

Why should we enable your laziness?

Read the God damn thread if you really want to know.

damn why the anger? Just don't respond if you don't want to answer.

Not the person your are responding to, however if you can't be bothered to read the thread yourself why bother clicking on it. And do you REALLY trust other people's reading comprehension skills to give you an accurate update that isn't missing info or swapping info - which happened numerous times in this thread. It's just kind of lazy.

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eh 44 pages - not reading thru the whole thing no. if you can't be bothered to help (which others did by pointing out the page with the update) then don't.

How is it "helping"? Helping is walking an old lady across the street. Your idea of "help" is weird. It's more like entitled someone to be lazy and entitled.

You are a jerk, PP. Step aside with your "lazy and entitled" slurs while I help this old lady across the street.

The update was a convoluted, spaces and returns-crazy mess about how the OP ran into someone's cousin who knew the bitchy mom because she works down the street and somehow it was supposed to make sense that that kind of general proximity meant they crossed paths,and then the OP ran into someone returning patio furniture to her who gossiped with her about what a lunatic bitch swimsuit mom was as they drank wine and laughed meanly behind swimsuit lady's back, then a DH of one of the wine drinkers texted the OP's husband and told him what was going on, which the OP had been trying to avoid because her DH has a really juvenile sense of humor and immediately began texting her non-funny so-called jokes like, "I left my toothbrush in the car and you need to get it to me immediately" which made the OP think, if it weren't for my 6 year old, size 10 DS and my new baby, I would divorce this pathetic man and open another bottle of wine.

Then she asked her friend who worked near swimsuit mom to swing by their house and give them $30 for their trouble. And when she did, they did not say thank you.

That's it in a nutshell.

The End.

[Anonymous]

So it was all a dream?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone actually believe this story after the update?

I don't.

What was the update? I can't search thru 44 pages for it. And who is tuna lady??

Why should we enable your laziness?

Read the God damn thread if you really want to know.

damn why the anger? Just don't respond if you don't want to answer.

Not the person your are responding to, however if you can't be bothered to read the thread yourself why bother clicking on it. And do you REALLY trust other people's reading comprehension skills to give you an accurate update that isn't missing info or swapping info - which happened numerous times in this thread. It's just kind of lazy.

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eh 44 pages - not reading thru the whole thing no. if you can't be bothered to help (which others did by pointing out the page with the update) then don't.

How is it "helping"? Helping is walking an old lady across the street. Your idea of "help" is weird. It's more like entitled someone to be lazy and entitled.

You are a jerk, PP. Step aside with your "lazy and entitled" slurs while I help this old lady across the street.

The update was a convoluted, spaces and returns-crazy mess about how the OP ran into someone's cousin who knew the bitchy mom because she works down the street and somehow it was supposed to make sense that that kind of general proximity meant they crossed paths,and then the OP ran into someone returning patio furniture to her who gossiped with her about what a lunatic bitch swimsuit mom was as they drank wine and laughed meanly behind swimsuit lady's back, then a DH of one of the wine drinkers texted the OP's husband and told him what was going on, which the OP had been trying to avoid because her DH has a really juvenile sense of humor and immediately began texting her non-funny so-called jokes like, "I left my toothbrush in the car and you need to get it to me immediately" which made the OP think, if it weren't for my 6 year old, size 10 DS and my new baby, I would divorce this pathetic man and open another bottle of wine.

Then she asked her friend who worked near swimsuit mom to swing by their house and give them $30 for their trouble. And when she did, they did not say thank you.

That's it in a nutshell.

Only half of your details are incorrect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So it was all a dream?

Yes. Shhh shhh. Go back to sleep.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So it was all a dream?

Yes. Shhh shhh. Go back to sleep.

That's so weird. Last night I dreamed I was taken out of bed and carried to the car, then I dreamed we were flying in the SUV for either 30 or 25 or 50 minutes. Then I was carried again and someone said, "Shhh, go back to sleep, we're home now." Then I heard the baby crying so I knew it was true. Such a weird dream.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if OP could have called uber, had them drive to crazy peoples house, honk, crazy people come out and retrieve shorts from uber driver, and OP have uber charger her for the ride there and back.