I went to lunch with a friend today. She looks at DD in the stroller and snarls up her nose and says, "When babies are that age, they're more of an accessory than anything else." WTH?
Reminds me of Nikison's post about carrying a doll in her car seat. People are wierd. What's the craziest thing that you've ever been told about your LO?
Re: Non-Clicky Poll: People say the darnedest things!
You're right, Rosie. I'm going to change it to people in general.
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we went on vacation with my cousins in july and for some reason t wouldn't sleep past 430. (i guess she didn't get that it was VACATION, lol !). they were like 'do you put up with this at home?' and 'i would just let her cry until she went back to bed. that's just ridiculous!'
my other favorite from that week (we've had probs with her not eating much) 'maybe you shouldn't feed her so much formula and that will make her eat more real food' and 'she obviously doesn't like what you are feeding her' (as they proceeded to feed her bbq potato chips to prove a point.
sorry, once i started, i couldn't stop lol ! they aren't bad people--just a little clueless.
I'm just pregnant, so mine probably don't count, but here's my favorite pregnancy/LO related comments by people w/o children:
Coworker 1: Hey, did you hear that Sara is knocked up?
Coworker 2: What? How did that happen?!
Later that day....
Coworker 2: Bye, Sara. Um, congratulations, I guess. I hope it wasn't an accident.
WTF? For real? He met my husband 6 years ago, we've been married for 2 years, together for 8 ... It's not like me getting pregnant is some huge surprise or anything?
Another coworker: Dude, I heard you were pregnant! Wow, y'all didn't mess around huh? You really rushed into that one!
Me (already annoyed from the other coworkers reaction): Yah, we really did rush into getting pregnant, only waiting 8 years and all ...
"There is a fine line between a princess and a witch...thinking you're one does NOT give you the right to act like the other." my grandmother
Well in that case I'm going to start dressing DD to coordinate better with my outfits.
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Don't feel too bad about people thinking your boys are triplets. My sister and I were once mistaken for TWINS. Um, I'm 5'6", she's 4'11". I'm 3 years old than she is. We were both adults at the time (30 and 27.) It was at Kerby Lane, so it's possible the mistaker was high.
Nothing so far about LO, but my coworkers had lots of good ones when I was PG:
From a 50-something male sketch-ball: "You're due in May? That would put conception in August."
"Oh No! Kristen's on the elevator, we've exceeded our weight capacity!"
"You now look pregnant from behind."
"You are practically a Weeble."
Ew..lol!
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1) "OOH! Twins!"
2) "EW, what's on his head?" by a 10-ish year old girl in Buy Buy Baby. I almost throat punched her, and I'm not sure if I was more bothered by the "EW", the "his", or about it being the 85th millionth comment about V's strawberry.
(read it. you know you want to.)
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I don't have anything about LO yet, but I did have a co-worker (who has kids of her own, so she's been pg before) say, "How many babies do you have in there? You're HUGE for 5 months along!" Of course, my response was, "Um, that's because I'm 7 months pregnant!" Ooh - I could have smacked her.
Do people just not think before they speak? Or do they really believe the things they say?