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This was said to my daughter, by a parent of another student.
I picked up my daughter, and another girl was walking out with her mom at the same time. The girl was hanging onto my daughter, and they didn't want to leave each other, half jokingly. The girl continued to trail me to my car, and her mom kept telling her to come back.
So I said, as playfully as I could, "Stranger danger! You know her (my daughter) but you don't know me". Mom said thank you, and told her daughter to listen to me.
So the girl lets go, but won't go to her to her mom. She kept saying that she wanted to hang out with my daughter. Mom was getting frustrated, so I said let me make your life a little easier. I walked my daughter back to them, and her daughter asked if we could follow them home so my daughter can hang out. I said no, but asked mom if we could exchange numbers and maybe set a playdate some time. Mom gave me her number, then just kinda went off the rails.
She told my daughter she could come over, have a barbecue and spend the night, which was already over the line, IMO, given we just met, but whatever.
Then she takes a running leap over that line: Your parents can put me on your emergency contact and I'll pick you up early.
That's grand opening, grand closing if you ask me. That deaded the whole thing to me. My wife said we can have playdates at the park, but frankly, I don't even want to do that much after that comment.
I'm not making blanket judgements of her overall character, but that shit does set off alarm bells for me.
So...what would your reaction be?
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