Bit of a rant really. Last Friday I arrived at pre-school to pick up ds2 and found him in different trousers to the ones I'd sent him in. He'd had a accident - no big deal. I was handed a tied up carrier bag with his wet clothes in. Only when I got home and opened the bag - they weren't his clothes. Thankfully they were only weed on so I washed and tumble dried them and dropped them back at pre-school that same afternoon.
Now I expected the other Mum to do the same...but a week later and ds2's clothes still haven't turned up. The clothes I was given by mistake were...er...pretty scratty. The jeans ds2 was wearing were really nice - they were MiniMode and I bought them half price in the sale, he had only just grown into them. It's fairly obvious that the other Mum has decided not to reclaim her scruffy old trews and keep ds2's instead. I am mightily peed off. Pre-school are being very wishy-washy about the whole thing - vague promises about sending a note home with all the boys' Mums (I don't see why they can't just ask this other Mum directly - I don't know who she is and they won't tell me).
It's not even the trousers so much (well it is, actually - they were really nice - and I would never pay £15 for jeans for a 3 year old so I was very chuffed to get them half price) it's the principle!
Another MNer and RL friend of mine had her raincover (one of those Maclaren ones that has eyelets and fits on the hood) pinched off her buggy from the changing rooms at the swimming bath. It was a new one, the old one had ripped as they do, and so she'd bought a new one at not inconsiderable expense. It hadn't occured to her just to pinch someone else's.
I just think it's rotten that Mums can rip each other off in this way - I thought there was a kind of Mum solidarity. I'm naive aren't I?