wlu_lax6 wrote:My wife and I got into a a bit of a heated argument last night. My team has a game at 8:30. Temps on Saturday at that time will probably be ~25F-~28F. I explained that we will bundle up and play some soccer. Hats/Earbands, Under Armour, Pants, and Gloves. Maybe even a sweatshirt under the jersey. She was all in a huff and puff about our poor little boy and the rest of the boys on the team. I have no sympathy and explained that kids have played in worse and this is about toughening the kids up. We play and get some warmth quickly after the game. She said she did not want to sit in the cold. I told her she did not have to come (that was the wrong response).
We held practice on Saturday morning, 21 degrees at 8:30. I didn't even consider cancelling, and we had 11 of 14 show up, and the 3 who missed weren't weather related. A couple girls complained at first, but were fine as soon as we started moving. The field was just aerated and frozen, so the pitch was terribly bumpy. Hilarious when a couple girls thought the entire field was completely covered in frozen dog turds.
Fuck it, I wasn't going to vent this, but it's too insane. 2 girls on my team have older brothers on the U-13 boys team that just won the State Cup. The boys volunteered to help coach for the practice. One is a stud goalie, and he wanted to teach goalie drills. Great, right? How could anyone have a problem? My wife just joked that my daughter will suddenly want to be a goalie, because the goalie brother is a good looking kid. The girls were all excited, because what 8 year old girl wouldn't be excited for 12 year old boys coaching them?
Sure enough, within a minute of sending the e-mail announcing the boys are volunteering, a mother sends a text asking if the boys are really coaching. The other coach responds saying we have all 4 adult coaches with the boys, they are just helping out. The mother responds, "Then we aren't going." Coach responds saying, fine, see you at the game on Sunday. He became concerned that maybe the boys are bad kids or something, so he calls the mother since she also has a boy their age. Nope, they are great kids, but one of the boys' mother (let's call her Nancy) will post this on Facebook, bragging about how great her son is, and she refuses to let the other mother use her daughter as a pawn so Nancy can brag about her son. Holy fuck. Meanwhile, complaining mother is the most obnoxious "you won't believe what my kids did/said" FB poster of all time. Nancy, otoh, posted a link to the local online newspaper who did a story about her daughter setting up a lemonade stand to raise money for the town's volunteer rescue squad and an article about her son's team winning the State Cup. FFS, I was proud of Nancy's daughter when I read that article. But, the other mother is so fucking insecure, she took offense to someone else being a good parent. Not sure if I mentioned in my previous bitching above, both these women went to HS together in the town we live in.
So Nancy is the mother with all of the griping I mentioned before, because her son played for 6 years, and she has never seen blah, blah blah. After all of the above nonsense, I learned Nancy pissed off some parents this week. Our last game is next week, and 2 mothers took it upon themselves to plan an end of season party, and were collecting donations for a gift for the coaches. Nancy texted the group that it's not how things are done. End of the year parties are only done in the Spring, not in the Fall. And coaches gifts aren't given until the end of the Spring season. Not sure if Nancy is upset because they are out of town and missing the party, or if she just won't stand for anything to be done differently that her son's team does things. Last night I got an e-mail from e-vite, notifying me of changes to the party e-vite. The name changed from "End of Season Party," to "Fall Party." I'm assuming it was trolling, because the mother who sent the evite is hilarious and sarcastic, and I love it. I am so ready to quit and put my daughter on an academy team.