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

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.