Weird Thing #1 Show up at a playdate with a sick kid and blame it on allergies

Other people’s children.  Not nearly as interesting as other people’s money.  And yet, other people’s children are the glue that binds new mothers together, as in, “Let’s set up a playdate for our non verbal, non social two year old toddlers and make believe it’s not really a playdate for us!”  But even the most friend-deprived, overly scheduled mother in the most isolated suburb somewhere usually draws the line at introducing someone else’s copious amounts of snot and a loud, hacking cough into her otherwise sterile playroom.  Which is why it’s so weird when another mother shows up, phlegm-ridden child in tow, and acts like everything’s normal, or worse, tries to cover it up by saying, “It’s just his allergies.”  Allergies never sounded like that!