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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]please just don't do it. And I will try to refrain from complaining about large class sizes, etc. to you. [/quote]
Why not?  Do you find my complaints uninteresting?  Do that hurt your feelings?  Is it just because you cannot relate to them?  I don't understand.  [/quote]
Seriously? You're complaints are boring. They are more boring even than you telling me about the dream you had last night or the indigestion you have this morning. If you are choosing to stretch yourself to afford private school tuition (a choose that I do not share), then go complain to others who have made that choice. Or just accept your choice and suck it up.  [/quote]
Ok. But isn't it the same with almost every topic people discuss over the water cooler?  Why a separate thread about this specific topic?  [/quote]
because I suspect that sometimes private school parents complain to public school parents about tuition as a means of "keeping it real." i.e. "I might send my kid to a pricey school, but oh, it is SO painful to write that check. (See, I'm just like you!)" [/quote]
OK, well, that's just you projecting some sort of issue. I send my kids to public and don't take the comment that way.

Basically, this thread amount to: "Don't complain to me about your life choices unless your life choices are identical to mine."[/quote]
I'm the "Why not?" poster.  I agree with PP.  It's not simply that OP is bored by the complaints, it's that she hears some implication she doesn't like.  But I think that's ridiculous.  Everyone makes life choices that have benefits, but also burdens, and then they complain to friends about the burdens.  I have a job that pays well, but I complain about the travel required.  You might have a nice house in a good school district, but you complain about the mortgage payments.  Someone else pays for private school, but complains about the tuition costs.  Even at a mundane level, I have a dog I love, but I complain about her bad gas.  That's just how people are.

If your neighbor cannot talk about anything else besides her one complaint topic, then sure, you're entitled to be exasperated ... not because of the tuition payments themselves, but simply because she can't talk about anything else.  But when you say you're annoyed because of what you suppose she might be thinking, you're being judgmental and unfair.

I also don't buy the "I've got an easy solution" line.  If that's the case, then I've got an easy solution to your high mortgage (just sell the house), my work travel (just quit), and my stinky dog (just give her to a shelter).  None of those are as easy as you'd like to pretend.[/quote]

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