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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People drop my sons friends at my home frequently. We would rather have the kids here, than wonder where they are/what they are doing. Sometimes I feel like I'm running a daycare, but not charging anyone! Heck, I think I might be raising the neighborhood. I'm fine with that too, and wouldn't change a thing.
But I'm glad to have my children go to another house to play or have other kids come to our house and play....and I expect the parents to say hello....and even to stop and talk for a few minutes unless they are having to go somewhere that they have mentioned beforehand...I guess that still makes me buzzkill...
And Watchdog is a troll. Read his other comments on other articles before responding to him at all. Don't feed the troll.