Thoughts on this situation PLEASE! (LONG!)

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maybeamommy
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Thoughts on this situation PLEASE! (LONG!)

A month or so ago, I went to a workshop for speech-language pathologists that work for my district. (Here in CA, the district is HUGE - there are over 100 elementary schools, 25 middle schools, 30 high schools, + over 30 charter schools... you get the idea).

I have the Medela Freestyle - and if you have a Medela, you'd recognize the bag that the pump comes in. So, at this workshop, I see another SLP with a Medela bag. My friend and I start to chat with her since we both are new mommies. She suggests that we get together. Work email addresses are exchanged. We'll call my friend Betty. We'll call the girl with the Medela bag Jane.

Jane emails me and Betty and says she'd love to get together. She suggests a date and says she's going to email another SLP who also recently had a baby... we'll call her Sue. Betty suggests that we meet at a park.

The day before the playdate, the forecast says that it's going to rain.

Sue says we can go to her house instead. I thank her for the offer and say that I'll bring snacks.

The day of the playdate arrives (yesterday).

It's raining - but not too hard. I get ready and decide to go. Sue's house is about 45 minutes from where I live.

As I'm driving to Sue's house, I realize that she lives WAY out east... driving up to her house, the roads are winding and narrow. My GPS says "you have arrived" and I go to pull into the driveway right as Betty pulls up behind me. She waves to me to let me know that it's the wrong house. She backs up and goes around me toward the actual house. As I go to back up, my car starts skidding. I'm pressing on the gas and pressing on the gas and my car was NOT going forward... it was sliding down the hill! I'm kind of freaking out, sweating, and getting nervous! After a minute or two, I make it up the hill and continue on to Sue's house.

As I get to what really IS sue's house, I see that the driveway is SUPER STEEP! Literally, the steepest I've ever seen. At the top of the driveway, I can't even see the road that the driveway is on. It feels like I'm about to drive off a cliff! I was honestly TOO scared to go down there! So I pull ahead to turn around and I see my friend Betty has done the same thing! She calls me and says she is NOT going down that driveway. I agree. We decide to drive to the nearest shopping center (about 5 miles away) and call Jane and Sue.

I call Jane and ask if she's gotten to Sue's house yet. She says no. I explain what happened. She says she's going to give it a try and call me back. She calls me back 10 minutes later and says she's made it there to Sue's house... says I must have gone to the wrong house because it wasn't that steep. I explain that both Betty and I went to the same spot at different times and saw the same thing (how steep it was). I ask if she wants to go in and speak to Sue and see if they'd want to meet us in the shopping center since there are tons of restaurants there. She says she'll speak to Sue and call me back.

She calls me back and asks if I'd be willing to "try it again." She says it's not that steep. Sue in the background is saying that it's not steep, delivery drivers go down there with their trucks all the time, etc. Of course I'm feeling like a total moron!!!! But I can't help but be actually SCARED to go there again! Maybe it was the rain... but my car was skidding and I told this all to Jane and said that I honestly did not feel comfortable going there and that Betty felt the same way. I told her how idiotic we both felt. She says "Okay, I guess we'll do this another time! I'll speak to you soon!"

And that's it!

Betty has driven about 20 minutes there. I've driven about 45 minutes there. And neither Sue nor Jane wants to meet up with us at the shopping center RIGHT NEAR Sue's house!

Were Betty and I in the wrong? Or were Jane and Sue?

Thoughts on this situation??

Posted 2/28/10 1:16 PM