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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the OP -- These gems rarely ever come from friends.  I have a lot of colleagues with younger children than I have so I hear a lot of it from them.

And it goes like this

[b]CW:  How was your weekend?
Me:  Great. [/b] Busy.  We had to drop off Mary at her bff's birthday in Arlington and then I had to be back home to meet the landscaper for an estimate and my husband took Logan to his fencing finals.  That is the last time I let my husband near the scheduling duties!
CW:  *Shaking head*  You really dropped off Mary in Arlington?  For a party?  I would have cancelled the estimate.  There is NO WAY I will EVER leave Samantha at a birthday party.  EVER.  You just never know what might happen!

Mary is in upper elementary school and Samantha is in diapers.

And yes, I was being somewhat tongue in cheek with a couple of my examples, but not a whole lot.  My husband has a cousin whom we see infrequently, but my MIL had prepared some God-awful meal (like liver and onions, but not).  It was like rare chicken with cold lumpy mashed potatoes and canned green beans.  I did not want to eat it and I knew my children wouldn't eat it and I don't force feed them.  They eat what they eat and generally the next meal is in 6 hours.  This was so bad I knew I wasn't going to eat it and that I would be fixing myself something else when we went home.  My husband made the colossal mistake of telling his cousin that we would be fixing something else back at our place if they wanted to come over later.  Well, I got an hour long lecture on the evils of short order cooking and recommendations for books.  The works.  Her kid is eating Gerber from a jar.  WTF does she know about kid friendly meals?

Those are a couple of examples.[/quote]

OP, next time, just answer with a "great" and nice smile.

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