Anonymous wrote:OP never came back. Can clearly tell the difference between OP and imposters. Keep bumping this thread to wish her well during this time, and to come back. Or ask Dcum Psychic to summon her.

Anonymous wrote:I'm in awe, OP. Please don't forget "Getting into St. Alban's" (hasn't it set some sort of record at this point for number of posts?) and (this is not quite the right title, but) "What Were You Doing When You Learned of Big 3 Admission?" Classic.

Anonymous wrote:The thread about “the lifestyle of the upper middle class.” Or the one about the “coronavirus related structure” being taken out of someone’s yard.

Anonymous wrote:4 yo called my xmas pancakes disgusting

Abstract: The title of the thread lays out the issue at hand, but when OP's first sentence is "They were delicious, btw," it becomes clear DCUMers are dealing with no typical OP. OP, for reasons that are murky, demanded everyone eat Christmas pancakes when she was starving. This unfortunately interrupted her child's Christmas present opening. The 4 yo responded as 4 yo's will do and a pissed OP sent her to her room, because it was "mean" of her to call the delicious pancakes disgusting.

Battle lines were quickly drawn between posters who thought it was normal and reasonable to make a 4 yo stop opening presents so her mom could eat and posters who believed OP had set up her 4 yo for disappointment and should have just waited until presents were done or eaten something to cure her hunger. The thread could easily have stopped several pages in except for the tantalizing combination of yet another contentious food item causing familial strife, a recalcitrant and long-winded defensive OP, and a Christmas morning posting time ensuring many posters had time to engage. It brings all the holiday drama one expects from DCUM.


http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/691288.page

Anonymous wrote:Pinecone Boy

Abstract OP is reporting live with a real post from her neighborhood listserv, which details how a child threw a pinecone at a passing car and was distraught when driver of said car stopped to yell at mom to tell her kid not to throw pinecones. May have ultimately died a 1-2 page death if not for the fact Mom's email signature was included, which was "Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams."

Discussion began at first with whether the mom had a point or the driver was being a jerk, then morphed into how a child could hit a car with a pinecone had he simply been removing it from his carseat as mom claimed. Tangential discussion of what exactly is a listserv is a fun digression, but ultimately the thread is defined by DCUM bringing all its literary knowledge to bear and suggesting apropos quotes for a helicopter mom of a pinecone snowflake to have on her email sig.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/314104.page