Playdate ettiquette (esp. re lateness)

[Anonymous]

Honestly OP, if I were in her shoes, I would have said the same thing.

It is rude of you to say you have to run to the grocery store when you are already running late for a play date. Esp. 15 min. late. Why not just cancel?? You would be doing both sides a huge favor.

As a mother of a young child, you should be considerate of other's time. Their time is just as valuable as anyone else's, including your own. You need to plan ahead and it sounds like you failed completely.

You not only are unfamiliar w/where this park is, you now have to run to the grocery store all the while this woman + her young child are waiting alone at the playground for you to arrive. Not fun.

If I were her, I would just cancel and not have any more play dates w/you again. Honestly, you do not sound reliable, responsible and considerate.

You sound like a flake.

[Anonymous]

What are the special snacks, OP? I'm dying to know what's so critical to your daughter's health yet you don't keep plenty of extra in-stock, ubiquitous enough to be at the front of the grocery store but rare enough that you couldn't ask the other mom to bring one, and that you couldn't possibly replicate quickly with something you had available? Why won't you just identify this elusive magical snack????

Bottom line-- I thing people would be a lot more sympathetic if you weren't so vague. It makes it sound like you're making up excuses. I have a feeling the other mom probably felt that too, and thus lost interest in the play date.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm never late and I cannot stand when other people are late. I work hard to get my three kids and huge dog ready to go someplace and arrive on time - and I expect others to do the same. You were WAY WRONG, OP.

You bring your huge dog with you everywhere you go?

15 minutes is NBD. Parents in this area are ridiculously high-maintenance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm never late and I cannot stand when other people are late. I work hard to get my three kids and huge dog ready to go someplace and arrive on time - and I expect others to do the same. You were WAY WRONG, OP.

You bring your huge dog with you everywhere you go?

15 minutes is NBD. Parents in this area are ridiculously high-maintenance.

+1

[Anonymous]

How stupid that your child has a medical condition yet you plan so poorly that you have no snacks stashed away,
What about an emergency, derecho...

[Anonymous]

What is this secret medical condition?
Something smells like bullshit.

[Anonymous]

You sound very inconsiderate. You are the one who basically flaked on the mom at the playground. If I was waiting for someone at the playground for 15 min and then she told me she had to run to the grocery store, I would be super annoyed and never do a play date with that person again.

What is this medical condition that you couldn't get your child this snack at the grocery store after the park play date?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm never late and I cannot stand when other people are late. I work hard to get my three kids and huge dog ready to go someplace and arrive on time - and I expect others to do the same. You were WAY WRONG, OP.

You bring your huge dog with you everywhere you go?

15 minutes is NBD. Parents in this area are ridiculously high-maintenance.

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm never late and I cannot stand when other people are late. I work hard to get my three kids and huge dog ready to go someplace and arrive on time - and I expect others to do the same. You were WAY WRONG, OP.

You bring your huge dog with you everywhere you go?

15 minutes is NBD. Parents in this area are ridiculously high-maintenance.

Parents where you're from are evidently ridiculously inconsiderate.

[Anonymous]

I am guessing the woman did not say "Whatever" in a rude way, she probably said something like "whatever works" and the OP drama queen is exaggerating.

[Anonymous]

OP how would you be 15 min late if the park was half hour away? 15+30=45. You'd be way over 1 hour late. I'd cancel too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm never late and I cannot stand when other people are late. I work hard to get my three kids and huge dog ready to go someplace and arrive on time - and I expect others to do the same. You were WAY WRONG, OP.

You bring your huge dog with you everywhere you go?

15 minutes is NBD. Parents in this area are ridiculously high-maintenance.

Parents where you're from are evidently ridiculously inconsiderate.

I'm from here. Apparently, based on this thread, parents where I'm from think the sun rises and sets on their @ss. I fail to understand how someone being 15 minutes late ruins an entire play date at a park. Are you and your child incapable of entertaining yourselves until the play date arrives? Presumably you go to parks alone sometimes, yes? These responses are somewhat mind-boggling. OP clearly felt there was a health-related reason she had to stop at the store to grab snacks for her child, it's not like she said, "I'll be 15 min late b/c I have to grab a quick pedicure since I'm wearing sandals." You people need to chill out.

[Anonymous]

What is the medical condition OP? Why so reluctant to tell us?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm never late and I cannot stand when other people are late. I work hard to get my three kids and huge dog ready to go someplace and arrive on time - and I expect others to do the same. You were WAY WRONG, OP.

You bring your huge dog with you everywhere you go?

15 minutes is NBD. Parents in this area are ridiculously high-maintenance.

Parents where you're from are evidently ridiculously inconsiderate.

I'm from here. Apparently, based on this thread, parents where I'm from think the sun rises and sets on their @ss. I fail to understand how someone being 15 minutes late ruins an entire play date at a park. Are you and your child incapable of entertaining yourselves until the play date arrives? Presumably you go to parks alone sometimes, yes? These responses are somewhat mind-boggling. OP clearly felt there was a health-related reason she had to stop at the store to grab snacks for her child, it's not like she said, "I'll be 15 min late b/c I have to grab a quick pedicure since I'm wearing sandals." You people need to chill out.

OP would arrive 45 minutes late. Not 15 and that assuming she's somehow related to The Flash.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't be upset over 15 minutes but they way you respond on here, OP, makes you sound all marty-ish and playing the victim.