This is somewhat off-topic, but I thought I would throw this out there to see if this is common place now, or weird. I took SD6 to a musical over the weekend. During the intermission, we picked up a drink and dessert for her, and we were both sitting there. A girl she knew from her class at school had been in the same row as us, and ran up to say hi. She was also with another girl who SD6 did not know. The mother of the girl in her class comes up and says “hi” and then tells both the girls “ok, I have to go somewhere for a few minutes, so stay right here with her (me). I’ll be back soon”, and then leaves both girls with me.

Is this super weird and impolite or is it just me? First of all, she doesn’t know me at all. I could be a dangerous criminal for all she knew. And second of all, even if she did know me, it would have been nice if she had asked if it was okay to leave the girls with me during the intermission. She was probably gone 10 minutes, which isn’t THAT long, but still rude to me. I didn’t say anything about it, but I’m just wondering if this is the norm now. I haven’t had this happen to me before except with kids that I know, and even then they’ll usually ask unless it’s a very close relative.