Facebook Moms Groups

After I had Jack three years ago, I joined quite a few Facebook moms groups. They are often hugely helpful so you can ask things like:

• Is it normal for my toddler to act like such an asshole? (Yes) 

Or

•  Is it normal that my baby hasn't pooped in five days. (No) 

The New York City Facebook moms groups are particularly entertaining because you have a funny mix of moms who post about their million dollar apartments or Hamptons homes they are selling because they need more room (samsies), or they want to warn you about the notorious spitting woman on the Upper East Side who will spit at you and your children if you get too close. (I'm not making this up.)

There are also quite a few moms who will post photos of nannies and say something like, "If this is your nanny, I think you should know she was looking at her phone the entire time she was at the playground and not paying attention to your child." I laugh, thinking if any of those same complaining parents spent five days in a row with their kids, they'd probably be disengaged some (all) of the time too.

But today, I saw the post of all posts. The kind of post that you scroll past but then go back because you think whoa, did that just say what I think it said? Here's the post:

I apologize, I should have warned you to sit down before reading such a horrendous post. These poor innocent Upper West Side dogs were forced to dress up today in costume AND be photographed, just for some awful woman's amusement.

It's shocking and upsetting, I know.

After I composed my laughter self, I couldn't wait to read the comments so I could see how people were letting this woman know she was being ridiculous. I started scrolling through the comments and found...well...not what I was expecting.

Wait, what? They're agreeing with this woman? Am I being punked? 

Despite Mike's advice to never get involved with Facebook discussions, I couldn't help myself because this was maybe the most ridiculous thing ever, especially in light of everything going on in Houston right now. So, I responded with this:

I have to be honest, I'm quite proud of the fact that my comment has received the most likes of any in this post. As you can imagine, this stirred the pot a bit...

Surprise, surprise...the woman who is secretly plotting my death tonight has her profile picture set as...a dog.

So, I guess we all learned an important lesson here today-- if you're going to dress up dogs in costume to take photos of them, do it on the Upper East Side because the Upper West Side mamas ain't having none of it.