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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow- I cannot imagine. I would be pissed. OP, chalk this up to a bad experience with a horrible parent.

I do not know any parent who would behave this way. [/quote]

I would never assume this is a troll. Parents do stupid crap like this regularly. I live in an affluent neighborhood in the suburbs but have experienced something like this.  Sorry op. I'm going to hijack.

When my kids were early elementary age they were invited to a former preschool chum's birthday party one weekend. The kids were to meet at the bd kid's house and the mom explained that they were going to do two car trips to get all the kids to the facility 15-20 minutes away.   They had two cars but were going to only use one car and make multiple trips.  I was reluctant to let my kids go. I offered to drive a carload of the kids over myself trying to be helpful but mom declined. Mom called me back and told me they were going to take both cars and could fit all the kids, so no worries, please let your kids come.

Dh and I planned on picking our kids up at the laser tag facility so we headed that way. Our kids called after about 2 hours and told us they'd been left at the house with bd boy's older sister who was 11 or 12. The parents had taken all the other kids over and let them play 2 games of laser tag and then the dad drove back and got our kids and the bd kids sister. We went to the laser tag facility and the mom was horrified to see us and tried to hide from us. She could not explain why our kids were not there. Dad walked in with our kids and bd boy's older sister well over two hours into the birthday party. This mom acted like she was furious that we showed up. I can not fathom why she would do this. We had always gotten along but are at opposite ends of the wealth spectrum. I offered to help her out in several different ways. I really think they wanted to save the price of 2 games for 3 kids. Dh said that he had noticed resentment from them that I ignored ie comments about our house (so big it's useless, your brick front mcmansions all look alike,etc).

I've never spoken to these parents since.

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