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

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It 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. I was unable to convince him that he was begging for trouble, he said I was an anti-gun loony. My son had to find a new friend.

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I’m pro 2nd amendment and all, but people like this who have zero regard for gun safety should not be allowed to own guns.

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They wouldn't let their son attend another kid's party at a paint ball place because it was too violent...

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That kid is fricked. He is going to be a huge vag..

This is my friend's kid and its not really an interaction, just a very strange thing.

It was about 5-6 years ago, but his daughter was in 2nd grade at the time. Her class was invited to a girl in the class birthday party. He had to bring her because his wife had to bring their other kids somewhere, but it was a "spice girls" themed party.

He said the only thing he could figure out was that the mom was a spice girls fan when they were popular in the late 90s and somehow that resulted in her daughter having a Spice girls birthday party.

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

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Before I was a parent, a girl who I knew from High School let me PIIHB.

She was already a parent.

Still had wet teats…

The couple one house over from me were terrible parents. Their first two boys were destructive as hell and they played it off as just “boys will be boys” BS. They had a third and the ditzy mom never watched them. One evening while my boys were playing with some other neighbors, I hear the front door open fully while I’m in the kitchen. I had it ajar so I can hear my sons. I assumed one of mine came inside. After about 30 seconds, I see this toddler wearing nothing but a diaper and t-shirt round the corner! He was barely two years old. I pick him up and walk him to the ditzy mom and she says “That is so cute.” I’m pissed and tell her that the child was inside my house and that I was calling child protection the next time anything like it happened again. She knew that I was a practicing attorney at the time and volunteered at Caddo Juvenile. This was my last straw because the two older demons.

I say demons because those two did the following all before the oldest turned seven: 1. took a machete to the neighbors’ newly planted tree; 2. Took their fathers bow and tried to shot arrows straight up in the air and at cars; 3. Made a Molotov cocktail and used on a golf cart: 4. Set fire to the plants of the neighbor behind them; 5. Caught a snake and let it lose in their dad’s truck (I did laugh at that).

My block throw a hell of a party when they moved! These parents would never discipline their kids and actually bitched to some common friends that “our neighbors are just so strict with their kids that our boys don’t have anyone to play with.” They were certified crazy.

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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?

A good one though at least.

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We’re planning a midday birthday pool party for our 9 year old daughter. The mother of one of the girls my daughter invited (who we’ve met twice) texted my wife to see if we would keep their daughter overnight.

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This was commonplace for one of my daughter's friends, whose single mom was a bartender. The girl rotated between three different homes on nights when her mom was working. Stayed with us and I only ever met her mom once briefly.

I hosted large catered pool parties for one of my daughters' model agencies. Among the stories I could tell.... include moms asking me "Doesn't my daughter have a great arse?' and 'Didn't my daughter get great boobs?' Luckily, in those instances I immediately realized there is no socially acceptable answer (in my view, though they may have been expecting 'yes') and merely grunted in response. If you say 'yes' then you acknowledge taking notice of the attribute, and if you say 'no' you are disparaging their child. You also would not believe the things moms will tell you about their kids.

Can confirm. Two brothers are friends with my son and their mom texted me around 830pm on a Saturday night asking if the kids could come over and stay the night. I said 'no.'

Sorry, but she'll just have to sneak her married boyfriend into the house after the kids go to sleep.