No Appreciation

It's been a while since I've posted. I've been taking a well-earned vacation.

This week I had a sand art activity. I ordered a sand art kit that had 50 bottles for the kids to make their own sand art bottle. I also had enough sand for them to make their own sand art picture with colored sand, markers and glue. I assumed that 50 bottles would be enough. Why would more than 50 kids descend on the library on a Thursday afternoon? Well, I was wrong. We were swamped. I ran out of bottles. I felt SO bad but how was I to expect so many. The last activity I had there were 30-something kids.

Most of the mothers were fine and gracious and happy doing the second sand art craft...except for one mom. I personally apologized to this mother and invited her to do the second craft. She refused and instead decided to rant to the reference desk about their not being enough bottles. Now I understand that if I made her pay a dollar for the bottle and it not be there for her to be that upset. But to complain about a FREE activity where she showed up 20 minutes late to I thought was unfair. How about a thank you for spending the money and time for having the activity at all?