Suburban Turmoil - Latest Comments in Where I Go, Throwdowns Follow

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Amber — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:16:12 -0000

What a hateful woman! My hubby says that these kinds of people seem to find me wherever I go...that and fire ants. :)

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mickeyfanatic — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:15:12 -0000

LOL I think they search me out too. W E I R D! I explain it to my hubby the same way.

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Bitsyparker — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:18:35 -0000

OMG. This is exactly something I needed to read. How appropriate! I would have either dragged her in the pool or moved away and avoided confrontation (and later dragged someone else into the pool.) You are good! Great that you didn't assume you were wrong. Again, yay for this episode. I'm taking a note.

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suburbanturmoil — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:53:40 -0000

Ha ha. I do think people don't know what they're getting into sometimes when they're being rude to me. And the older I get, the more I stand up for myself. I won't say something just to say it, but if I think their behavior might be impacting others who are afraid to stand up for themselves, that's bully behavior and I feel like I have to say something about it.

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suburbanturmoil — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:52:01 -0000

I knew it would make her madder than anything I could have possibly said. Wrong of me, but I'm just being honest!! ;)

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suburbanturmoil — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:49:52 -0000

Oh anyone should know better than to mess with a napping child. I'm sure fistfights between adults have resulted over that very thing.

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Me! — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:42:42 -0000

Too Funny!

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suburbanhousewife — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:43:35 -0000

It's your magnetic personality...Twania is right, you're a CRAZY MAGNET!

At the Smithsonian Wed, a woman had the crazy idea that manhandling my son's stroller out of HER way was a fabulous idea instead of walking AROUND. "Hold up Sister...I spent too long trying to get him to sleep...he's your problem if you wake him up." She tried to give me a withering stare, but it didn't work.

"C'mon in...we like CRAZY around here."

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cattywampus_steph — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:38:16 -0000

The older we get, the more fun it gets to mess with people who walk around taking life entirely too seriously, doesn't it? Wish you could have stuck the tongue out at her. LOL!

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suburbanturmoil — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:07:47 -0000

It is a wonder we made it through lunch together without incident.

Can't wait to see you again!

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mochamomma — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:05:21 -0000

The more you write about YOUR confrontations and the more that I have confrontations the more I'm convinced that we will combust if left alone in a social situation.

Let's TOTALLY do that next week? We'll meet at the corner of Bitchy Attitude and Sickly Sweet Smile Street. It's a crossroads. We'll heckle everyone we come in contact with and be the belles of the ball. Looking forward to it, yes?

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suburbanturmoil — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:04:01 -0000

You just brought back a memory of the time I went swimming at the pool in my grandparents' Florida retirement community as a kid. One of the old guys yelled at me and told me it was "Adult Swim" hours. My grandfather went over and yelled at HIM and they got into a shouting argument and I quietly got out of the pool, hopped on my grandmother's gigantic tricycle and pedaled home as fast as I could!

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jmorgan — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:20:09 -0000

Years ago, when our children were small, we visited in Florida every year with the in-laws. My children were terrorized by blue haired, turkey-neck biddies who had nothing else to do but cackle at my kids for splashing. (really? In a pool?) I am a grandma now (altho I most certainly do NOT have blue hair!) and would rather put a fork in my head than yell at a kid having fun. As adults, my children, btw, have not once re-visited Florida.

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cathylwood — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:42:27 -0000

Both my daughters were lifeguards -- you would not believe the stories! This is pretty tame stuff from their point-of-view, but sounds as if you stood up for free swim everywhere! Good job! I found your blog through the Newsweek article and I'm so glad I did. Looking forward to becoming a regular visitor.

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Kay — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:51:59 -0000

Of course you're not confrontational :)
I'm sure that's the reason all the meanies pick on you, because you give off that "I'm easy" (but not THAT kind of easy) vibe. They assume they can get away with harassing you.
And no, that wasn't sarcasm. That's what I tell myself all the time when those same people seem to find ME.

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Hatta — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:59:36 -0000

I was at a mom and me swim class with my littlist and we were letting them float and my daughter was kicking with her feet. She splashed one of the other moms and she was such a drama queen saying "uh get that splasher away from us." Hello Lady your in a pool with a bunch of TODDLERS you are so going to get wet! From then on over the next six weeks she called my daughter the splasher and I smiled and let her splash away.

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Snafuzled — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:31:56 -0000

Heh. That’s funny. Recently I wrote a blog about when my hubs farted in the pool and my daughter totally busted his ‘bubbles’ and screamed his shame for the entire pool to hear. So naturally when I saw mishap, swimming, Y – I thought you had done the same thing and I was going to go and show my hubs how he really isn’t that alone in his shame. But apparently he is and he should continue to be really shamed. That’s funny and I’m gonna go tell him.

BTW – you rule. I would have wimped out and gotten out because I have no self respect and old people scare me.

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mountainmomma18 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:02:38 -0000

i would have totally stuck my tongue out, or at least laughed loudly and pretended I was just having fun with my kid. But then I'm a bitch.

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Tami — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:23:14 -0000

Oh, I could write a book on her, except people would think I've made this crap up. In the last month, I've been bitched at for PETTING HER DOG through the fence because that will make him "not protect her," and for allowing my girls to write on MY driveway and MY fence and the road in front of MY house with sidewalk chalk, because that will teach her visiting grandchild "bad things." She is so old and out of it that she thought it was paint. Not that it was her business if it was.

Sorry. I'll shut now. This post is making me have flashbacks of the last TEN years I've spent trying to hide from her wrath/going off on her after I've reached yet another breaking point.

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Tawnia — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:50:21 -0000

You are not confrontational, you are a crazy magnet :) I am too. If there is a nutball in a fifty mile radius, he will seek me out, and the insanity will begin. When you see crazy coming, turn and run! I always say this to my mom when she gets nuts, and I hope in the future you will be able to use it, "Put your crazy away!"
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suburbanturmoil — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:23:56 -0000

Oooh, I'm a total germ FREAK at the doctor's office. I have too many bad memories of going to my pediatrician as a kid, only to catch something else while I was there and be sick another week! My kids both know they're not allowed to touch anything in there, even though all the other green-snot-nosed kids are playing up a storm. Yes, I am THAT MOM. :D

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suburbanturmoil — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:22:32 -0000

Ha! I can only imagine what you would have said!

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suburbanturmoil — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:21:24 -0000

I'm cracking up imagining that neighbor! THE NERVE.

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Tami — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:55:43 -0000

Right there with ya. I have confrontations on a regular basis, and with God as my witness, I am not looking for trouble. My latest example: I was in the back of MY van in MY garage cleaning the vehicle up from our vacation. My next door neighbor hollered at me and asked where we'd just been. When I told her, she yelled, "Well, thanks for telling ME! WooWee!" Followed by her walking back into her home and slamming the door. Because, you know, I guess I missed the memo on the rule about reporting vacations to a neighbor. Particularly when she is a crochety old bag who rarely speaks. Now, I don't look for trouble, and I don't start it, but I'll end it. Which I did. :) Anyway, this crap is so much a part of my daily life that I really think there's something wrong with me that attracts it. And I don't want to sound like I don't like elderly people, because there are so many who are precious, but more often than not, my experiences like this are with older women. I think they see us as little kids who need to be set straight. Ugh.

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Jenny — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:22:55 -0000

That is hilarious. Good for you, I probably would have just glared at her the rest of the day ;) You should have yanked her in the pool.