Today is the tenth.
On the fourth, I wrote this post about joining a new mom’s group.
So, that makes it exactly 6 days since I joined.
Tonight, I received an email telling me that if I didn’t get my ass to a meet & greet to meet the other moms, or tell them when exactly I could go to meet the other moms, I would be kicked out on the 15th. Okay, they didn’t say “ass” but it was pretty much a form letter. A form letter, from a mom’s group on meetup?
Can I repeat the title of my post?
WTF?!
Did I mention this is supposed to be a “Progressive” mom’s group?
Since when do open-minded, independent, and free-thinking people go all dictatorial in less than a week? I haven’t even met them yet!
So I sent them an angry note. Yes, angry. Pleasantly phrased, but downright angry.
I have better things to do with my life than waste my time with people who don’t want me around. I have a life, after all, I’m not a mom who can schedule a coffee break with four days notice. I work, for christ’s sake. I have better things to waste my time on, like ranting on a blog.
Oh, crap. Tonight sucks.
screw them, NAM rules!
Don’t even worry about it! Glad I got out before they sent me the same letter, since I hadn’t been able to make one of their meet and greets either! I love how they were all 3 days in a row, then NOTHING…I even knew 3 of the organizers, had been to the bday party of one of their kids, 3/4 of them have been to MY house, and I still had to go to a meet and greet…I am telling you, they aren’t as progressive as they say…I kinda knew from the getgo! We will just have to do some different things within NAM!!!
No WAY! To me, the key to a mother’s group is getting the fact that the people in it *need* flexibility. Elsewhere in the world, people don’t necessarily understand if, say, your child falls asleep in the car on the way somewhere and you have to cancel, etc.–a mother’s group needs to give a mother a break. They sound pretty bossy. Good riddance.
I’d like you all to know that I did write her back letting her know I wasn’t interested in arguing but if she wanted clarification, I would be happy to give it so this doesn’t happen to any other prospective members.
She responded by making sure I knew that it was wrong to judge people before meeting them. And then she signed it “peace.”
And my “you’ve been kicked out of this group email” included a note that ended with “our hearts are always open to you.”
Ahem…any one think that maybe there was a little too much effort put into looking pc again, without actually apologizing for being a stupid head?
I love my world. It gives me the giggles in infinite ways.
I and about 15 other women received a similiar form letter when we joined a new Mom’s group…although that group had given us a whole MONTH (soooo generous) to get our acts together and participate. Most of us had just or were GOING to move to the area and didn’t have the pep or time to “pull our weight.”
I think it’s best that these “PC” group leaders show their true colors right up front like this before we all got sucked in to the shinanigans!
Good for you to respond like you did, and WTF (all over again) to her reminder about not judging people. What a wild story–whoever would have guessed the drama that a f-ing mothers group would try to create–and in the name of “peace,” no less. What a story!
I’m such a follower sometimes. 🙂 I had signed up for the group, when you were excited about it. But after I read this post, I deleted myself. I made up some excuse about not having time for another group. Which is partially true…but not completely.
Good on you.
oh, derangedchicken, you are too funny! i was kind of hoping you would stick it out just to find out if any of them talked about me. i’d like to hear what judgments they pass on ME 🙂
that group sounds like my old church group