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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A family my kids and I had known since preschool invited my two kids to a laser tag birthday party when they were in elementary. I don't  trust their judgement so I usually would go and hang at their kids birthday party and help.  They insisted I drop my kids at their house. They planned to ferry all the kids to the laser tag place themselves but they only had one small sedan. I offered to help drive and they refused.

It was all a ruse to allow them to only take some of the kids to laser tag. 2 hours after dropping them off, my kids call for me to come pick them up at the host's home. The parents took most of the kids to the laser place but left some of the kids behind saying they'd be back to get them. The birthday kid's big sister stayed at the house with our kids and the other one or two unlucky ones. My kids had started to call me at the one hour mark but the big sister stopped them several times. I headed to their house but big sister heard my kids call me and called her parents. Dad hightailed it to get my kids - the other kids parents had already picked them up.  I got to the laser tag place before the dad showed up with my kids. The party was over and I had to wait for my kids to be ferried there for no reason.  The galling thing is that the mom was furious with me because she got caught. They never apologized and were angry at me for discovering their dishonesty. They knew they couldn't get all the kids there and didn't want to pay for laser tag for all of them so they just left some of the kids.

I'm so glad they moved so I never have to see them again.

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No, it's very real and the a@@holes were angry that my spouse and I showed up at the laser tag place. The only reason they invited my kids is that we are generous in our gift giving.

Another fun anecdote about them, they would bankrupt themselves to buy stupid things for their kids. They were not financially secure and are the only adults I've known who have had their phones or electricity cut off. Despite this they spent over $350 on one little plush animal that was in at the time. They would pay a fortune for a McDonald's kid's happy meal toy that was "rare". They were certain these pieces of trash were going to be worth millions.

One school night when our youngest kids were in preschool, mom called because they wanted me to buy girl scout cookies so daughter could win a prize. It was after 10pm on a weeknight and our youngest were in preschool. I said I'd buy them the next day but mom explained daughter wanted to win a prize and the deadline was that day. She insisted upon coming over. My husband and kids were already asleep and I had fallen asleep on the couch watching tv. I didn't agree but they showed up at my door. I kept them on the porch and signed up for a few boxes but the daughter said she needed to use the bathroom. I let them in and the daughter sat her butt on my stairs in the foyer and lectured me because, [u]this is the f'ing truth[/u], she need me to buy at least 50 boxes. They would not leave after 10pm at night and kept trying to push me to buy a ridiculous amount of boxes so the daughter could get some crap plastic prize. No I didn't and we avoided them after that until the party fiasco. [/quote]

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