re: Parents of the OT, what’s the weirdest interaction you’ve ever had with another parent?

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took some questioning, but he and his buddy took some of his dad's guns and were firing them. I go to see the dad, none of the guns are locked up, boxes of ammo are laying around, dad thinks this is fine, "boys need to learn about guns". No safety training, no supervision.

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frick that!

Yes, they need to learn about gun safety WITH PARENTAL SUPERVISION. And your consent. I would have lost it.





For us, our weirdest interactions are with our neighbors. Their son is maybe 1-2 years older than ours and just shows up in our back yard sometimes when he sees my son playing. Sometimes the parents know, sometimes they don't. One day he showed up and an hour or so later the dad came out yelling the kids name to find him. The mom had fallen asleep and I guess the dad just wasn't watching him. It's not that bug of a deal. He's a sweet kid, but I don't like being used as a free babysitter.

I invited him over for a play date on MLK day because daycare was closed and I had to work, so thought the kids would entertain eachother. The mask mandate had been lifted here, and the mom made her son wear a mask for 5ish hours while he played at my house. I felt bad for him. The mom said she was keeping us safe because they had been in Gaitlinburg the day before. I said I don't care, we've all had Covid so doesn't matter to me if you were around a bunch of people. But she insisted he wear it the whole time. It was me, my son, and her son at my house. That's it. They are also from Wuhan, China, so maybe it's more a culture thing?