Oh, the comments

[wendyk]

Cashier at the grocery store on tuesday:
"There's a baby in there!"
To which the older female bagger replied
"You know, I bet she didn't know that until you told her."

I was thinking more along the lines of "No s--t, Sherlock," but her reply was good nonethless.

Cashier at the grocery store today:
"You look like you're ready to bust!"
To which I replied:
"I hope there's no busting involved."

What did I want to say?
"You make comments like you've had a frontal lobotomy."

Seriously- why do I go to this grocery store?! Do they put them through special "How to make idiotic comments to very pregnant women" class?

I want a shirt that says:
"Pregnancy is not a open season for making comments about my body. Violating this rule, particularly in the very pregnant, opens you up to comments on your body. Please be forewarned that being large, cumbersome and highly hormonal does not equate to kind words from me."

OK, I feel better now

[Shenandoah]

[Shazer]

What can you do but roll your eyes and mutter under your breath when people make such silly comments? Pregnancy seems to trump all rules of politeness.

[kat85]

Well it make it worst when the father asks does the baby kicks.....uh yeah, and I wish he could kick you in the butt.

[swtpesq]

Oh, mama...

Alas, it seems that lame, violative comments about very pregnant women are a universal phenomenon...I seem to get at least one a day, sometimes more (if I'm really lucky!). Just today I got (from the very sweet lady at the dry cleaner, who also is a mom, and has watched my bump grow over the months) - "Wow, I never thought you'd get THAT big! When are you due again?" :

[timneh_mom]

Just popping in from Feb... I had a woman at church tell me last weekend that I looked miserable!! I said, "I look MISERABLE??" She had a 15 month old too! She didn't mean anything bad by it, just that she said it looked like my back hurt. The funny thing is that my back doesn't hurt, but everything else does!!

I'll have to try to come up with some comments for later on... I'm sure I'll get plenty! (unless I decide to stay in the house from now til I'm due...)

[*~Danielle~*]

Thanks for that, I'm having a really crappy morning...and that was funny!

[jilly]

I told dh last Sun. evening that I not going to church again until after the baby is born. So tired of not just silly comments, but the patronizing, misty eyed older women (ie -- over 70), nostalgic for when they were young and pregnant who come over and pat me on the head (literally) and say "So how ARE you dear?".

"Well, lets see, my two year old is demanding my constant attention lately, I'm big, sore, getting kicked and prodded constantly from inside and out, I'm trying to keep up with my house, and my husband has been so busy running around fulfilling all your silly little Christmas demands that I've had no help at all in the last three weeks. How do YOU think I am?"