Ha ha! - feel like I am taking my life into my hands asking you lot if I am being unreasonable.
Arranged with mum of a newish girl in class (think she started after Easter if I remember correctly)for her dd to come after school to play with my dd - since both girls have established a firm friendship. I would pick up her dd from school at the same time as mine - so she wouldn't have to turn out with her toddler in tow.
Am not entirely without fault - on the day in question it occurred to me - Holy crap! dd has her dyslexia tutor straight after school! (tutor sees her at school when school finishes) so dd wouldn't be available until 4pm, not the usual 3.15 departure time.
Decided I must ring the mum of other girl - was going to give her some options (1) I would pick up her dd at 3.15 as pre-arranged and she could hang around with me and ds for 45 minutes for my dd to finish with her tutor, or (2) we could reschedule if her dd would prefer (3) she could pick up her dd at 3.15, and I would subsequently collect her dd from her house (short distance from mine) at 4pm when dd had finished with the tutoring.
Didn't however have her phone number so rang school office - who understandably wouldn't pass on her number, but rang on my behalf and left a message on her answer machine asking her to phone me (they left her details of my phone number).
Well she didn't phone me all day - so I had little option but to go to the school at 3.15 to collect her dd (at the back of my mind was the fear that she hadn't checked her answer machine all day or had been out and about a lot - and I didn't want her dd left forlorn and not collected)
So I schlep up to school just to collect her dd (mine - remember, is still being tutored until 4pm)....to be told by the form teacher that the other child "isn't in today - planned absence" wtf?
Now everyone makes mistakes - but shouldn't the mum concerned have made grovelly apologies to me next day or so? She hasn't said a thing!
Dd is pushing me to invite the child again - but I can't quite bring myself to talk to the mum (I should just get over myself, shouldn't I!)
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To be peeved with mother who 'forgot' arrangements for her dd to come over to play
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hmc · 30/06/2010 19:49
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