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Parents: Are You a Pickup Bandit?

When it comes to picking up your children from a friend's house, what's the proper etiquette?

Are you a pickup bandit?

, a columnist with Patch, about what she calls "pickup bandits"—parents who pick up their (mostly it seems adolescent) children from a visit or play date without so much as a hello to the hosting parent.

Is, as she writes, the formality of parking, coming to the door, making introductions and saying “thank you” a thing of the past?

What do you think? Have you ever done this or had it happen to you? Tell us in comments and take the poll below.

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