Pregnant woman asked me today..."do you
have children"? "Oh, no", I replied.
"Do you want children?" she continued.
"Nope," I answered.
She looked at me a second.
"How old are you?"
I knew where she was going with that one.
"Old enough," I said.
Conversation over.
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AyaMiyaki
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Posted: 07-12-08 20:37pm
I'm sorry, Birch. It's amazing how some
people can't seem to fathom that there are
confident, capable, able-minded people
that choose to be child-free. I think it
was presumptuous of her to assume you
didn't want children because you weren't
old enough to know better. You seemed to
have handled the situation with grace, and
I applaud you.
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Birch
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Posted: 07-12-08 20:40pm
Oh, thank you, Aya.
I just have to say it wasn't so much
grace as sarcasm and a general dislike of
most of humanity right now.
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AyaMiyaki
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Posted: 07-12-08 20:47pm
By the by... if you'd really wanted to get
under her skin, you could have asked her
when she was due. And when she answered,
looked extremely shocked and asked if she
was having twins. Pregnant women are
EXTREMELY touchy about that.
The above would have been what I would
have pulled out of my little arsenal of
sarcastic low-blows. You handled it much
more gracefully than I would have.
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nightangel73
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Posted: 07-12-08 21:38pm
AyaMiyaki
wrote:
By the by... if you'd really
wanted to get under her skin, you could
have asked her when she was due. And when
she answered, looked extremely shocked and
asked if she was having twins. Pregnant
women are EXTREMELY touchy about that.
The above would have been what I would
have pulled out of my little arsenal of
sarcastic low-blows. You handled it much
more gracefully than I would have.
You know Aya I'm actually not touchy about
that. I have had some people tell me that
my belly is big for how far I am along but
to me is like a reassurance that the baby
is alive and growing good hehe. I just
love my belly. I guess it's because it is
not big enough yet lol!
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AyaMiyaki
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Posted: 07-13-08 08:01am
Wait until you're further along, Night.
People will be convinced you're about to
go into labor any second and you'll still
have 6-7 weeks to go.
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nightangel73
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Posted: 07-13-08 08:14am
AyaMiyaki
wrote:
Wait until you're further
along, Night. People will be convinced
you're about to go into labor any
second and you'll still have 6-7
weeks to go.
I totally believe that. There is two gals
in my company that look like they are
ready to pop in any second but I still see
them both everyday going together for
lunch. Kind of neat the two can keep each
other company like that. I will have no
company. There is another gal who's
pregnant two weeks behind me but she works
in a different department so we don't see
much.
