The Hamplanet Room Parent If you check my post history, which you most likely will, I have 4 kids.  Two of which are in the public school system.  The oldest is 9 and #2 is 7.  I signed up to volunteer to help the teacher out with randomness (help in and out of the classroom), but she didn't really need much help.  The only real help she needs is getting parents off her back when the holiday parties come around.  Another thing to note:  We are in Georgia, in a VERY small town.  Gossip get around quickly.  We are new here, but I've been a room parent too many times to count. I was assigned co-room parent with another parent,Brandy, who happens to be a hamplanet.  Around 5'6 and topping the scales at 180 lbs, at least.  I am most likely under weighing her, as she tries to hide her weight unsuccessfully.  As a co-room parent we are supposed to work together to make sure that the kids have a scheduled party, during school time, with other parents being assigned "jobs" to do (IE: Mary bring some fucking awesome cupcakes!!).  My co-room parent apparently doesn't have access to the internet, so wanted me to call her instead.  I attempted to call her and her husband answered the phone.  He told me that the phone was actually shared between the two, and he mainly kept the phone on him for his "business".  (I don't know what this business is, nor do I care)  Okay, fine, tell her to call me.  She never calls me. Two months later, the Halloween party is coming up in about 4 days.  I'm getting tons of calls about how the other room parent, Brandy, isn't answering anyone's calls or emails.  Shocker, right?  No, not really.  Fine, whatever.  I coral as many parents as I possibly can (without a list, because Brandy stole the fucking list) and we make a list of things we'll need for the party.  Print out some instructions off my printer, give to the teacher to hand out, and people will bring in their stuff the day before.  It's not a huge list, just some things myself and another parent couldn't do ourselves.  Two of us are basically footing the bill for this entire party.  Awesome, right? Well, this is Fat People Hate for a reason!  I sent all of my things in the day before (field trip day) and gave them to her little chub monster (3'6, 125 lbs?, male) the stuff that I signed up to bring...plus some bonuses.  When I say I sent them in, I mean I was standing there and gave them to the teacher.  The teacher then gave them to the little turd, who decided to brag to me about his mom being THE room parent.  Yeah, okay, what the fuck ever, you little shit.  Something about his mom having to sort and prepare it.  (This meant taking our shit and shoving them into plain brown paper bags.  Didn't need to give them to her, at all.  She was worthless in this endeavor.) I send in roughly 35 of each thing for my oldest's class (#2 got the same things for her class) and there were only 21 students.  I did spider pencils, individual bags of cheetos, cupcakes, and candy bags.  I hand made the candy bags with cutesy ribbon and individual candies, cupcakes, and spider pencils.  I threw it together in less than two days, as I had very little warning to get it all done.  (Mind you:  my budget per kid is always around $1.50, this time I spent roughly $2.50 as I had very little notice of WHEN the party would be.  Whatever.  I'm the pro room parent for a damn reason.) Day of the party arrives.  We had it scheduled for 2pm.  I show up 15 min before the party (1:45 pm), to make sure that the teacher doesn't need any more help.  I don't want to interrupt class time with our party, which would make it harder on the teacher.....Walk into the classroom.... Teacher:  "Brandy showed up earlier at noon and told me she was setting up the party." Me: "Well, okay, is she still here?  I'm sure we can use some help." Teacher: "Well, Brandy brought 3 or 4 of her relatives with her, and she complained about having to wait for the party.  So, we celebrated it early." Me: "Seriously?"  Mind you, other parents were starting to show up too and I had to inform them that there was no party.  "Well are there any extras?" Teacher: "Brandy took them all home with her.  She signed her kids out and left with everything." Me: "Oh ok.  Should we just leave now?  I drove 30 minutes to get here to celebrate this party." Teacher tells me a few of us can stay and hang out in the classroom.  So, a few of us do and the other leave.  Wasting their time and gas money.  (Yes, I live in the middle of nowhere about 30 min away from the school without traffic.) So, this ham planet stole all of our extra candy, treats, and miscellaneous things to hand out on Halloween night or let her family consume,  Basically, what happened was:  Brandy showed up 2 hours early under the guise of "setting up".  She brought 3 or 4 relatives of her, and basically had a "family" party while soaking in the glory of her awesomeness at being a room parent (HA!).  She then signed her kids out of school and disappeared.  We still aren't sure exactly what the kids received, as my daughter was missing half of what was handed in (I had a list, I know what was turned in).  So not only did she steal the extras, she purposefully didn't give the kids everything. Later on in the week, kids and parents went trick or treating and some of us went to Brandy's house (I didn't know it was her house).  My daughters and son received three spider pencils with my sharpie initials written on them. (I learned a few years earlier to write our family initials on crafts we pass out, as people try to take credit for my shit).  We received my own treats that were sent to class, as a trick or treat.  Awesome. Sidenote:  My oldest is a mini-shit lady in the making. She told the butter golum's spawn that she hoped he enjoyed getting fat from eating our extra cupcakes and bags of candy. When he dared to say that his mom was room mom, all cocky again, she told him that his mom didn't do anything but steal from the other parents.  I love my kid. The worst part about all of this is:  She has twins, in separate classes.  There are complaints from the other class about the same exact issues.  I'm not surprised.  We are now trying to plan the Christmas party.  Guess who is absent from all of the workings on it.  Yup.  Hamplanet Brandy.  She will most likely swoop in early, steal all of the credit and excess again.  I would not be surprised if the kids didn't receive anything. Edit:  Almost forgot.  At the Halloween party, Brandy and her "relatives" ate most of the food leaving hardly any for the kids in the actual class.  So, our party at 2pm was left with basically just carrot sticks to eat.  The kids got brown paper bags of like 1 or 2 things to bring home.  The kids were upset and unhappy.  The parents are STILL pissed about what happened, as we all sent in a TON of stuff.  Emails and calls to Brandy are still not being answered.  She has taken zero responsibility. Edit:  Update