Remember when I was the soccer mom from hell?

To refresh your memory...

Here it is almost a year later, and I'm still dealing with this woman. Not directly and not as aggressively but dealing nonetheless.

I met a mom at the playground this past school year who I like a lot. Our kids and husbands get along great, and we have been getting together regularly with some other families all summer long. It has been a lot of fun. Well the mother that I had the problem with last year is this new mom's best friend.

Yes... best friend.. and we talked about the incident and she agreed with me, thinking her friend was wrong for approaching my son the way she did, and has been incredibly diplomatic in trying to merge the women of her life, as she too is happy with all the new friendly activity. So, I've gone to two gatherings where this woman was and we made nice nice, and yesterday I actually went to her house for a barbecue...

Big f-ing mistake.

The kids played nicely, the moms and dads drank beer and got along well, and this woman? Well, for some reason she hid in her house the entire time and only came out three times to SCREAM horribly at all the kids for one thing or another. We were all outside watching them and there was nothing to scream about, so I'm not sure why she was so upset. I suspect I made her feel uncomfortable since she seemed to go inside when I arrived.

Oh, well.. I tried.. I have come to the conclusion that there is no common ground between us, and we shall just exist in tangential circles.. no need to interact directly.

The whole thing makes me feel so uneasy. Not only because the afternoon was awkward and I had to do all I could to bite my tongue as she screamed and ranted causing all of her guests to stand there in embarrassing silence, but because I don't know what these new friends I think so highly of see in her. What redeeming quality am I missing?

I don't get it...