What is it about motherhood (or the hint of impending motherhood) that makes people think your personal life is public domain?
Case in point, take this conversation I had with a friend last week. She called me while I was in the middle of a (particularly difficult) shopping trip with my son to confirm that...
Case in point, take this conversation I had with a friend last week. She called me while I was in the middle of a (particularly difficult) shopping trip with my son to confirm that...
SHE: Hey, in case you were wondering if K is pregnant. She is definitely NOT!
ME: Um, I wasn't but, all right, what brought that up?
SHE: Yeah, well she's been wearing these puffy tops and empire waists lately. They're in style, but it looked like she was starting to show... So, I just HAD to ask her point blank, "Are you...?"
ME: Oh, and how did that go?
SHE: BAD-LY. She said something about getting back on Weight Watchers and running a marathon before and needed to do it again... Anyway, I was so mortified! I tried to cover it up by saying that it was probably just the shirt that made her look...
ME: Fat?
SHE: She just looks like such CRAP these days. I figured she must be pregnant!
At this point, my son started screaming LOUDLY in the middle of the store and I had to let her go, but there really wasn't much more to say after that other than, "WOW!"
Who would have thought that a tantrum could be a welcomed interruption?
After like, every last friend I have has told me that she's pregnant, with one due any day now and another expecting twins, I can't turn down a glass of wine without some raised eyebrows and downward glances.
Okay, so it's more like FIVE of my friends, but I'm serious about the wine...
Not only am I even more self-conscious about my own tubbiness, I hid the fact that I had that nasty stomach bug for two weeks simply to avoid the conversation that starts with, "well, did you pee on a stick... do you know for sure, it's just a bug... You never knoooooooow"...
Actually, yes I do and it's none of your business... Geeez!
Okay, so it's more like FIVE of my friends, but I'm serious about the wine...
Not only am I even more self-conscious about my own tubbiness, I hid the fact that I had that nasty stomach bug for two weeks simply to avoid the conversation that starts with, "well, did you pee on a stick... do you know for sure, it's just a bug... You never knoooooooow"...
Actually, yes I do and it's none of your business... Geeez!
8 comments:
That's almost as bad as "when are you having another" over and over again!
I hate that crap.
And especially since I have ONLY one...People expect me to be pregnant already...Mind your own business damnit.
Uh oh. Awkward.
I had soemone ask me that and I really was not fat it was the shirt. I felt horrible but so did the other person they have never again spoken to me. (they work in my building)
I get it all the time. And, now that LITERALLY every friend I have is pg I get hounded in masse.
How's the 19th look for you?
Yeah why is it that pregnancy is the no holds barred topic. I mean there is seriously no privacy to it. People will ask you about everything and expect you to answer. Can't we go back to talking about the stork?
That is soooo true. AND what is the deal with her just asking the friend? Where does that come from? Thank God for the tantrum.
I feel the same way...I can't say I'm tired, stomach ache or anything...
"are you sure you're not pregnant?" YeeeEES! "Are you sure" I forgot, but you probably know better than me...I'll just assume I'm pregnant now. Kthanks!
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