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Old 07-08-2020, 04:27 PM   #81
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That sounds like the opening to a "Fear Thy Neighbor" episode

This kinda sounds like an ESH situation. You injected yourself into another family's situation (rightly or wrongly) and brought about embarrassment and humiliation to them, too. They aren't reacting well, but few folks do. Hopefully everything'll cool down and you'll just be distant to each other.
To be clear, the people that showed up at my doorstep yelling and demanding that we send home their kid are not the same people as my neighbours. But you are right—my son's friend's parents were certainly embarrassed and extremely frustrated with us. In that instance I was really uncertain about what to do: my son's friend is welcome in my home, and we are happy to have him here, and I was not about to force him to leave in the middle of the afternoon to go home with his erratic (abusive?) parents screaming on our doorstep.
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