This is a true story.
A mother approaches another mother in daycare.
Mother A: So it seems like our 2-year-olds are friends.
Mother B: Yes, they adore each other.
Mother A: So. . . I’m sorry, do you work?
Mother B: Yes! I work. You?
Mother A (looking relieved): Oh yes, I work. Do you want to arrange a play date for our kids?
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Not specific to Montreal, I think, indeed it sounds rather familiar. For these mothers to arrange a playdate will mean negotiating claims on one another’s time — so it’s reasonable for them to want to know if they’re in the same situation. For example, it would be awkward for a mother who works regular hours to seem to presume that one who doesn’t is simply free.
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I think it’s more about not wanting to hang out with a housewife. 🙂
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Well, this is totally silly, but…I’ve tended to gravitate to other working moms, because of this bizarre and irrational sense that (as Vance suggested) we are in the same basic boat and she won’t judge me for not being able to schedule and/or reciprocate the way some moms expect.
It’s so dopey, the way SAHMs feel like working moms judge them, and working moms worry that SAHMS are judging them, and most of the time either their isn’t any judging at all or if there is it’s in “response” to some projected judging they are convinced is going on…sigh.
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And the entire situation gets aggravated by the really judgmental folks, like myself. 🙂
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