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Weird parent at school

204 replies

Summerwood1 · 10/12/2013 21:02

I was friends with a Chinese lady at my daughters school. The Chinese lady's daughter fell out with another child at school, who's mum i also spoke to. Because I talked to the other mum,the Chinese lady now won't speak to me! My daughter and the Chinese lady's daughter are still friends at school and play together at school,but if we walk past the little girl whist she is with her mother,the child turns away and looks at the grass so she doesn't have to say hello! Yet play together every day at school. My daughter asked if she wanted to come and play,she replied 'I can't my mum doesn't know I play with you' . Our only sin was to walk with the other mum she had fallen out with,bizarre behaviour!!!

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5HundredUsernamesLater · 10/12/2013 22:32

I'm pleased there was a Chinese lady involved otherwise we wouldn't have known which lady was which. What if had just been a lady who fell out with a lady who ignored a lady cos she's friends with a lady?? So I'm really pleased the lady was a Chinese lady. ( she was a Chinese lady wasn't she? I think I read it somwhere)

hashtagwhatever · 10/12/2013 22:33

oooh she is a chinese lady, why didn't you say.

it explains everything now..

maybe she just really, really doesn't want to talk to you?.

Mim78 · 10/12/2013 22:36

I opened it thinking it must be about me, too!

However, then I thought there was a subtle hint that the lady was Chinese... Could be wrong though. If so, it's not me, sadly. Sad

IneedAwittierNickname · 10/12/2013 22:45

I don't think we have any Chinese mums at our school. We have many many ethnicities, but not Chinese as far as I am aware.

Am I missing out on anything?

Yellowcake · 10/12/2013 22:46

But Kew, unless I'm misreading the thread, surely the piss taking is at the expense of the OP, who seems obsessed with the ethnicity of the other mother?

LimitedEditionLady · 10/12/2013 22:47

Im not speaking to you if you are speaking to her ok?
Its me,I am chinese lady.

waltermittymissus · 10/12/2013 22:50

I really wish I could help, OP.

But I'm only an expert on Chinese people and I'm not sure you've mentioned where she's from...

namechangesforthehardstuff · 10/12/2013 22:52

I fink a close reading of Kew's post might reveal that she has her tongue firmly in her cheek?

I am intrigued by the fact that one in four people is Chinese. How come there are no weird Chinese ladeez at DDS school? I want one Sad. Statistically the playground ought to be full of 'em.

Brokensoul · 10/12/2013 22:55

Maybe she doesn't want to talk to you cause you are not from China. :o
Just a thought.....

LimitedEditionLady · 10/12/2013 22:55

Maybe you dont realise,if youre not an expert you might avoid the weirdness.

LynetteScavo · 10/12/2013 22:56

JollySantersSelectionBox DH wants to know why I'm laughing so much. Grin

OP, I believe in some parts of China it is considered perfectly normal to not speak to someone who has spoken to someone you have fallen out with.

Binkyridesagain · 10/12/2013 22:58

I really fancy special fried rice and curry sauce now.

ThePinkOcelot · 10/12/2013 22:59

Ffs!

Brokensoul · 10/12/2013 23:00

Me too... You think that lady is strange, you should see Croatians.... ( I am Croatian by the way)...
We would pretend that we don't even know you ..:0

bialystockandbloom · 10/12/2013 23:06

This is the funniest thread I've seen in over 6 years on MN

It is at times like these that I would turn to Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. It has all the answers for understanding Chinese people and their actions.

lmfao at that and #chineselady Grin

Bizarro world.

sebsmummy1 · 10/12/2013 23:10

You lot have made me roar Grin

Worst thing is I didn't really clock the constant CL reference throughout until you all piss took.

Serious question. If you are trying to describe someone in say a group of three and the main differential is the person you're on about is black or say, from China. Do you skirt around the obvious difference and start talking about the one with curly hair or the fact they are wearing a red top say or do you say that bloke over there, the black guy?

I'm always intrigued whether there's done kind of inverted racism by ignoring someone's skin colour as though it's a negative thing.

carabos · 10/12/2013 23:10

I have used two independent IT support chappies since starting my business. They are both Chinese.

sebsmummy1 · 10/12/2013 23:11

Some

K8Middleton · 10/12/2013 23:13

It's times like these I think... What would Prince Philip do?

HTH.

JollySantersSelectionBox · 10/12/2013 23:14

Do you know that Monty Python song, OP?

Perhaps sing that to her next time you see her. It'll definitely cement any differences.

By "her" I mean the Chinese lady. Incase you were confused.

BTW could the Croatian lady set up another thread? Ethnically it's getting very confusing in here.

Shnickyshnackers · 10/12/2013 23:14

op is surely too embarrassed to come back now...

K8Middleton · 10/12/2013 23:15

Or she's gone out for a Chinese

Earningsthread · 10/12/2013 23:15

I opened this thread knowing it must be about me.

I've learned a lot from it. Until now I didn't know I was Chinese.

waltermittymissus · 10/12/2013 23:18

I'm Chineseacus

ChrisMooseMickey · 10/12/2013 23:19

Xmas Grin i love mumsnet