My oldest son and the neighbor kid have ongoing Nerf battles with some of the other kids in our neighborhood. They went over to one kid's house and saw his Nerf guns in the open garage. They thought it would be a good prank to take the guns and hide them around the corner outside of the garage and then do an attack. It would be a bloodbath where the other kids were scrambling to find their guns while getting Nerf blasted. Pretty good idea, if you ask me.
Anyway, my wife got a text later that afternoon that said something along the lines of, "Tell your children never to go into my garage and take my children's things again." No name, no backstory, no nothing. We called my son in to question him about it. What happened? How did the parent get mom's phone number? He told us the story and fully admitted to going into the garage. He said that the kids' dad came outside and reamed them out and asked for his mother's phone number, which he gave him. My son is naive and doesn't know that it's not cool to go into people's garages without them knowing about it. So we talked to him about it and I think he got the message.
Meanwhile, my wife is pissed off at this other parent and she starts an angry text back to them. I see this and tell her, "Please don't do that. Let me handle it." We had a short argument about it. I explained that even if our kid wasn't malicious, he did do something objectively wrong. I agreed the other parent didn't handle it well, but whatever. We can't control if other people want to be assholes. She insists on responding. While she's typing she's muttering that the kids from the other house are at our house all the time and in our garage, etc. I just told her, "I know you are going to fuck this up and create enemies unnecessarily." So now she's pissed off at me.
She finishes her angry text and I ask her what she wrote. She says, "Hi, my name is Mrs. Ojo Rojo and my son's name is Ojo Rojo, Jr. I got your text and I am really sorry that our son went into your garage. We have talked to him and it won't happen again." I'm thinking, "Okay, that's pretty much what I would have said." She then continues, "And please tell your children to never come over to our house and play in our playhouse ever again." I just looked at her incredulously. "I knew it! Why did you write that? There was no reason to do that! I am so angry with you because you did that!" A few minutes later she says, "I didn't really write the part about them not coming over the playhouse again." What!? Then why the fuck would you tell me that!? You knew that would piss me off. Did you do it just to piss me off? Her response, "Well isn't that what you wanted to hear?" What? Which part? That you told the neighbors off like a bitch or that you really didn't? Are you really just trying to make me mad or are you just dumb? Now we are in a huge fight and I won't get laid until the end of the month.