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  • OK, let me explain further. I told the admissions director she rejected my ds, but I said it was a smile and then we did go on to have a good talk about what schools are appropriate for what children, etc etc. She was mortified at first, but we ended up having a lovely evening together. I should have explained further and I apologize, but there was no need to jump on me and call me rude.

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    07.16.08, 07:17 AM [ Flag ]

    • Meant to say "with a smile"

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      07.16.08, 07:18 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • You are contradicting yourself. If she was mortified, you were rude.

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      07.16.08, 07:20 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I'm with you. All these posters just lack imagination and humor.

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      07.16.08, 07:51 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • Right? ITA. It was very easy for me to see how that conversation went with no ruffles feathered at all. too weird.

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        07.16.08, 08:00 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • what is the proper way to handle that situation? normally, if you are reintroduced to someone you've met before, you acknowledge the prior meeting. how to tactfully handle this, if not the way OP did it?

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      07.16.08, 08:16 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • What? I missed the earlier post.

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      07.16.08, 08:59 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • OP here was sitting next to a admissions director of a preschool that rejected her dc at a casual dinner in the hamptons. When she found out the woman was a DOA she said 'Oh you rejected my son'.

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        07.16.08, 09:19 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I think I'd get along well with you OP. I'd have said the exact same thing! If she was truly offended by it, then I'd think she had a stick up her butt anyway and wouldn't care to befriend her. If that is what she does for a living, she has to realize she will cross paths with someone she rejects some day. OTOH if she realized (as I guess I would if I were in her shoes) that I was just giving her crap about something and it was water under the bridge, I would probably put in my list of people I could hang out with.

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      07.16.08, 11:26 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • ^PS responses that you've gotten so are about you being 'rude' is why I don't think I could hang out in the Hamptons

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        07.16.08, 11:30 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • Do you honestly believe that this is the first time the admissions director has crossed paths with a hopeful that didn't get into the school?

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          07.16.08, 11:31 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

          • no, but what's your point.....OP said she seemed "mortified" at first which leads me to believe it was the first time someone called her on it

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            07.16.08, 11:35 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

            • I interpreted the mortification to mean that she was taken aback by OP's delivery. Who knows. Neither of us were there.

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              07.16.08, 11:36 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • In situations like this, you'll come across 100 times better if you say things like that in a self-deprecating manner. People say hostile comments all the time with a fake smile. The smile only makes it seem worse.

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      07.16.08, 11:30 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • i'm not following what happened, but if you ended up sitting next to a doa at a dinner party and told her that she rejected your kid, i think that's hilarious. of course it's awkward. life is a series of sometimes awkward things.

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      07.16.08, 11:44 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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