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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's be honest. Nobody should be paying $50-$100 to rush a child's swimsuit to an irate person who cannot solve a simple setback. There is a time to throw money at a problem, and there is a time to buy another swimsuit on the way to the beach. [/quote]

And decent person would have met the other Mom halfway. A 30 minute drive is not life-ending.

Not sure why it's up to the other Mom to solve the problem and not the OP. [/quote]
Not a 30 minute drive. It would have been a 1-hour round trip late at night with two young children in the car. It's an unreasonable request.[/quote]

An hour, the horror! 10PM, yes definitely so late at night. How are you even up now??!![/quote]

I'm not going to get my kids out of bed, stick them in the car for a drive, for a bathing suit.  And neither are you.  It's unreasonable.[/quote]

So many of you are getting caught up in the item. For me, it's not about the item. It's about accountability. Correcting a mistake. While inconvenient as hell and I certainly would have been annoyed, I absolutely would have met the Mom at 10PM and been done with it. Especially, considering OP opened the "I'll bring it to you" conversation.[/quote]

I'd argue you are getting caught up in the "make it right" mentality. This isn't a case of gross negligence and the OP was willing to make the drive, just not at the exact time the mom wanted. I mean, why are we blaming OP's kid? Why didn't the 10 year old make sure he grabbed his own suit? If the suit was needed so badly then why couldn't the other mom come get it??[/quote]

Yikes! I would hope that most people would lean towards making things right. DCUM is usually great about not blaming the victim. Not sure why it's okay here.

It's unfortunate that we've become a society where we're unwilling to inconvenience ourselves for the sake of others. When that unwillingness is tied to righting a wrong, it's even more gross. [/quote]

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