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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A friend did this to me once.  I live across the street from the elementary school, and my friend asked if I wanted to hang out by the playground for a little bit and chat while the kids played.  I told her that I couldn’t stay because my toddler was napping in his crib and I needed to get back to the house.

I got a text message from my friend later that afternoon that was clearly for someone else, talking about how I left my child home alone.  Something about it made it clear that this was the next installment in jokes about my parenting.

I think I texted back something nice, and I tried to be friends again, but I never really got over it, and I always kind of wondered what else they said or if they were still talking about me.  [/quote]

That doesn't sound like joking, though. It sounds like straight-up criticism. (And I am cool with people texting jokes about their friends' quirks as long as they're just quirks and the friends would (a) acknowledge that the criticism is true and (b) not think seeing someone's flaws means you don't like them.

I've got the friend who overreacts, the friend who is fervent about natural consequences for kids, etc. They joke about it, we joke about it, and sometimes when I'm texting one friend, I'll include a comment that could be seen as a bit of a jab at another friend. I don't think I'd describe it as the "faux pas of the century"

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Isn't saying that someone's cupcakes are rock hard a criticism?  I don't really see how it's a joke.

I guess if the friend knew that the cupcakes were inedible, and she brought them over anyway to show how ridiculous they were, that's one thing.  But it seems like she was pretty sincere about it.  [/quote]

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