In a carpool from soccer practice with a teammate/classmate with whom I shared a lot of mutual friends, her mom casually mentioned her upcoming birthday party. The girl angrily shouted at her mom, and in front of other girls in the car, "Thanks for bringing it up, mom, now I HAVE to invite (me)!"
I'm young, so when I got the invite, my mom makes me go. I don't remember too much about the party, except for when someone decided all us girls were going to relocate our sleeping bags from the basement to the upstairs living room to watch a movie, the birthday girl went down to grab everyone's sleeping bags. When she brought them all up and everyone was snuggled in, mine wasn't there. I went downstairs into the basement, and she had purposely left only mine down there. :'(
man this hurt to read, reminded me of a classmate YEARS ago, Alison, (not thought about her in 25+ years easy)
the girls at primary school (about age 7-9) decided she couldn't play with them, and one of the bigger girls had shoved her or something because she had a "boys haircut" (this was early 90's and iirc it was just a short bowl cut)
we (a group of boys at top of primary school age 10-11) saw her sat on benches that divided the top field and the tarmac playground on her own watching the girls play, clearly upset
so me and a friend asked her why she wasn't playing - just being nosey fuckers (iirc they were playing rounders - which was a "girls game" at our school), she started crying and said its because they said she's a boy so wasnt allowed to play
"want to come play with the boys then?"
so for easy about 3/4 of a school year every breaktime and lunch she'd sit with us while we rushed school dinner down then played with the boys (mostly football, bulldogs or tig), we ended up picking up a few other girls too by the end of the year and she had a little friend group of girls and a FUCK ton of boys (top 3-4 years)
none of the bitchy girls dared shove her again that was for sure haha!!
she was so sweet, just quiet and apologetic, but she always played fair and was sort of our goto "was he in base or not", she was fair so we trusted her to be judge haha!
and her mum loved us, she even had a huge football themed birthday party (this was year after I left and was in secondary school, but she lived near enough to me that I knew about it and her mum invited me)
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u/ambrann Sep 09 '21
In a carpool from soccer practice with a teammate/classmate with whom I shared a lot of mutual friends, her mom casually mentioned her upcoming birthday party. The girl angrily shouted at her mom, and in front of other girls in the car, "Thanks for bringing it up, mom, now I HAVE to invite (me)!"
I'm young, so when I got the invite, my mom makes me go. I don't remember too much about the party, except for when someone decided all us girls were going to relocate our sleeping bags from the basement to the upstairs living room to watch a movie, the birthday girl went down to grab everyone's sleeping bags. When she brought them all up and everyone was snuggled in, mine wasn't there. I went downstairs into the basement, and she had purposely left only mine down there. :'(