The cutting play date guest 🙄

[Ledkr]

Anyone else has one of these?
Over the years I've had many.
Todays 7 year old.

Your house is MUCH smaller than ours.

Don't you have a piano?

Why is the basin so small in here (downstairs loo)

I felt quite judged. 😂

She did at least eat what I have her which is unusual.

Dd had a friend over who looked at our stairs (very normal stairs in a Victorian semi) and said ‘is this your staircase?’ With genuine surprise and confusion. We assured her that, yes, this was indeed the stairs of the house, to which she replied ‘oh, it’s just in my house we have two stair cases that curl around to the top of the stairs’. It wasn’t said maliciously and she wasn’t trying to show off, I think she genuinely hadn’t been in a ‘normal’ house. Which, at the age of 7 is pretty sad to have been that cut off from different types of life. She also kept staring at dh when he came home in his work clothes (he works outside in a manual type job so he was quite messy and grubby) like it was some amazing sight she had never seen before. The play date was never reciprocated by the mother, who likes to stick herself only to those that she deems are living in suitably sized houses.

Oh dear. I was this child...
We'd moved to new house and while my mother was unpacking I escaped (this was a theme for the next few years). I wandered over to the neighbours - we didn't know them yet - who had a boy about 9months older than me. I proceeded to tell them that their house was very messy and may have given some house keeping tips. Meanwhile my mother was having a heart attack because i was misding. Fortunately she could hear me (terraced houses) holding forth nearby.
Apparently the fact that I was only 2 mitigated the terrible rudeness. Unfortunately I was a precocious speaker so there was no lack of clarity to what I was saying.
My mum was mortified. But not as mortified as later on that summer when I went on a neighbourhood tour wearing nothing but a hat.
Our neighbours were remarkably understanding.

My daughter (aged about 5) spent 30 minutes looking for stairs whilst on a playdate with a friend who lived in a bungalow. She couldn't be persuaded that they didn't have stairs and was convinced that they were hiding them from her! After 30 minutes of looking, she loudly proclaimed "I give up, please can you just tell me where you have hidden them so we can go upstairs to play!"