#2. greeted www with a cordial wave and hello and the kids jumped on me and I hugged them
#3. Kids ordered their pizza, WW did too and then aked "you are not eating" I said "no, thanks but I will get a drink." I just had a brunch. We made polite small talk in the line.
#4. Kids gave me their gifts, I was effusive with praise.
#5. WW and I made polite small talk about family, her mom, her Dad, my Mom, etc... It was all cordial and just polite, like a neighbor.
#6. After the kids finished (maybe 45 minutes later) I said OK, let's bus our tables kids.
#7. I said to the entire table "Lets go get the shoes from the car that W wanted me to bring, and let me put some sunscreen on you monkey's and give you some hats. I also had to give D6 her Girl Scount vest. WW had reminded me about that earlier too. It was really sunny and hot and they had just told me they were going to the park to play.
#8. I walk out to the car, my daughter runs behind me, I put sunscreen on her, she laughed and she put on her hat. She ran back into the restaurant ahead of me. I gathered up the shoes and other hat, GS vest and walked back to the restaurant - my WW and son and daughter were gone. I walked back out to the parking lot, they were gone.
#9. I called WW on the phone and said "Where are you, I've got the hat, shoes, sunscreen, etc..." I honestly thought she was going to tell me she was at the drug store next door.
She replies "You left so we left." I said, "I told you I went to the car to get the shoes you asked me to bring and the sunscreen and vest."
#10. She was annoyed by her tone of voice, thought I had just gotten up from the table when I said I was getting sun screen, hats, and shoes. I clearly said I was going to the car, I will be right back. She turned the car around and met me in the back parking lot.
#11. She said "We don't need any sunscreen and we have hats too". I looked her in the eye and authentically said "Thank you for bringing me the Mother's Day Gifts, and for meeting for lunch. I really appreciate it, " and just let everything else drop. She drove off in a huff.
I swear. I am glad I had no expectations.
I felt like she is angry just seeing me, no matter what I say or do, she takes it as a put down. Again, I feel as if I did something wrong. In the old days I would have said "What is wrong, why are you upset? What's the matter? etc... This time, I looked past it and thanked the Mothers Day gifts.
