What a shame she wasted her kindness on some grumpy ol biddy who then went on to complain, probably because she had nothing better to do.

What a shame she didn't get the message the first time it happened, when she was told to keep her religion to herself. It's like Susan said above, some people have more enthusiasm and less polish or substance when they push their religion on others. I would suggest, Lizzie, that you're the fish in the water who can't see the water she's swimming in. Those of us outside that tank find the water rather putrid.

My son was in a day care program in kindergarten that was run by the local YMCA. Down here they take the "C" as a mandate, not a simple affiliation. I learned early on that the ladies who ran the program were regularly leading the kids in prayer. I asked them not to do that to my son. The idiot who was doing it suggested this was a bad parenting idea because "your son will feel left out." I told her that if they would lay off the religious training (lots of non-christians in the group) then that wouldn't be a problem. These ladies actually STEPPED UP their pressure on my son. I am convinced they thought they were doing him a favor because of what they interpreted my ignorance regarding their sublime beliefs. I pulled him out of there and wrote a scathing letter to the Y.

I actually met that woman again years later; it turns out she is the mother of an acquaintance of my son's, and I picked him up at their house one day and realized who she was. I thought it amusing that she reminded me that she knew him from before and "I taught him at day care." In a pig's eye, she did. I told my son the story of what she had pulled when he was so small; he barely remembered, because he was only there a few weeks. Considering how I characterized her in my letter, I think she'd have done well to never remind me it was she who behaved so badly.

SRS