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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't go just because I don't have the time in the day for that kind of nonsense.

It's emotional labor being asked of the OP, particularly if somehow the other parents turn out to be manipulative bullies as well.

It's just time out of the day when OP could be doing literally anything else.[/quote]

You've just described most of the things in life.  Living in the world involves interacting with other people.  That's how it works. [/quote]

See, but you can choose to do certain things and not others.  That is also living in the world.  I occasionally get the choice about whether or not to have meaningless and potentially harmful interactions.  I'd be dumb if I chose to have those interactions.[/quote]

Pretty much any interaction has the potential to be harmful or helpful, meaningless or meaningful. There's not enough information here to make an assumption that this one would be one way or the other. You'd be equivalently dumb if you avoided potentially helpful interactions just because there was a chance it might be a harmful one. So you show up, and if it goes sideways, you leave... but most other parents I've met are sincere, and you might have the opportunity to realize that the situation as your kid has presented it to you isn't quite as black and white as it seems (it hardly EVER is).[/quote]

I conceivably can run into traffic and still be fine, but there is zero benefit to doing so and lots of risk.

You can't be this pollyannaish in reality. [/quote]

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