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I could see Trump just picking himself.

Aww. He sounds like a sweet kid. It’s the pushy parents that frustrate me. Not affectionate kids like yours.

Thank you. I was hoping someone would post this.

Still pretty sure if you tell someone what they are doing hurts then that means they should stop what they are doing, whether or not that means they want to continue the larger current activity.

I’m glad you do that. The kids usually get it, it’s the parents that seem to want to force it.

That unwanted affection thing! I have a three-year-old and I often have to be firm about not making her receive hugs from her little friends because their parents think it’s “cute”. She doesn’t like it and doesn’t want it. It drives me crazy.

Ugh. UGH.

The worst were the blotters from Atherton, which typically boiled down to people calling the police because there was a brown person sitting in a car across the street. I’m not even sure how they actually saw the person in the car across the street, given how huge those pieces of land are and how far back from the…

My personal theory was that it was some rich brat who’d gone out after curfew who returned drunk and hungry - too drunk to remember to cover their tracks and with parents gullible enough to believe them in the morning.

Very true. I bet they left crumbs on the counter.

Burritos in that part of the world are huge!

“Who is that woman standing in front of Gwyneth Paltrow’s book?” were my thoughts.

I kind of thought the advice you got, based one what you said, was not great because I think if it was you being “overexcited” you probably would be having the same experiences regardless of who made the initial contact.

I had one friend who was visibly disappointed that my daughter’s third birthday was family only (ie, my parents flew in and we had a cake and did something fun and special). It’s such bullshit, it’s like the other parents want you to be as stressed out as they are to justify their choice to be stressed out.

“All the “mom jokes” on the internet about locking yourself in the bathroom with wine, or wearing sweatpants all the time, or being unable to ever relax or sit or watch tv or go out or go on dates or see friends just don’t ring true for me.”

My brother and SIL are vegan and my brother absolutely buys that shit about evangelizing veganism. It’s extremely off-putting and he gets really nasty about it.

I wasn’t expecting it to be so funny and I actually snorted.

Remember that clip of Bernie running over to help someone who was fainted at one of his speeches?

I was vegetarian for 18 years and nearly vegan for the last five. I never understood the point of the ersatz food. It is never going to be as good as the real thing, so why bother when there is perfectly delicious food that happens to be vegan?