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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are quite close in a neighborly way with the retirement-aged couple who live next door. They are in their 70s but I don’t like to say “elderly” because they golf and travel and are lively. They are very early risers, too, so when a logistical emergency arose, I asked them for a favor and they seemed receptive and happy to help. I had to leave really early this morning, right at dawn. DD, who walks herself to the bus anyway and has a phone she can use and where I can track her, was going to wake when I left and then lock up and head to the bus just before 8, so like 2 hours from the time I left. She was a little apprehensive of being home in the dark, so that’s where the neighbors came in. I asked if DD12 could wander over there if she got scared, that she wouldn’t bother them, would sit in their front family room and read before she left for school. Well, not even 20 minutes after I left, she wandered over there. She told me that the woman was kind and polite and sat her in the family room area and went about her morning, but that the husband kept coming in to essentially tease her for being scared of the dark and being home alone. She’s upset. [b]I don’t do anything, right?[/b] I thought about explaining that people that she can be weird, but thought that might be dismissive. All I know is I won’t ask them again for a favor like that. [/quote]

What you do is thank them profusely for letting your kid hang out there at the crack of dawn.  [/quote]

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