Tom and Jess. It had been hot gossip in the OP’s office that two of their colleagues were having an affair. OP then hit it off with Tom’s wife at the Christmas party. Nine months later, OP spots Tom and Jess at a spa hotel somewhere and wonders if she should message the wife to tell her because “She was just sooooo lovely!”
Although I thought she would be mad to get involved, I think it did come from genuine concern. However, I couldn’t say the same for the slathering dogs posting responses in a desperate attempt to create more drama. “Text the wife from a burner phone.” “Call the hotel and pretend you’re Jess and lost an earring - you’ll be able to find out if they had separate rooms.” “Get a male friend to make the call so they don’t know it’s come from you.” It was unhinged! And a worrying number of people couldn’t see how it could cause problems for the OP at work. “She’d just be sharing the faaaaacts…”
It’s already been mentioned, but the woman who wanted to send pizzas, flowers and balloons into her daughter’s school for her 16th birthday to make her “feel special”, and couldn’t get why the school staff weren’t bending over backwards to accommodate this. Most people told her she was nuts, but one particular poster - my absolute least favourite MNer - went on a bizarre rant in her defence, telling us that our children deserve to feel special and that we’re encouraging youngsters to aim for a low bar; how did we expect anyone to have any ambition?
A thread where the OP had interviewed someone for a job which involved working one Saturday a month. Even though this had been made clear on the application form, the woman announced she wouldn’t be doing that as she had children. When told it wasn’t optional, she’d stormed out in high dudgeon, shouting “I can’t believe you don’t have any flexibility on this for a MOTHER!”
Again, most responses were sensible, but one particular poster kept coming back insisting that the woman was in the right, and that the rest of the team should do her Saturday shifts for her because “nothing they could be doing is as important as raising a child”. Having jumped on any criticism immediately, she suddenly disappeared from the thread when I asked what would happen if more people with children joined the team, or if existing team members had children. And yes, it was the same poster who thought getting pizzas delivered to school was central to developing ambition.
Not a specific thread, but I’m fascinated by any thread where OPs are trying to force their children to eat bread crusts. The argument is always that the kids will be raiding the cupboard for snacks because of the calories they’d missed out on 🙄 Yeah, because kids never eat junk food just because they like it - it’s because they’re craving the extra 12 calories they would have had if they’d eaten the crusts. Then you get the “But it’s a waste of fooooood!!” crowd. Except it isn’t! One sandwich = two slices of bread. One crustless sandwich = also two slices of bread.