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3rd Trimester
sleepingbeauty825
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Wedding rings: it's not what you think.
sleepingbeauty825
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I was wandering through the mall today, starbucks in hand, browsing all the adorable clothes I can't wear. I live in a VERY VERY conservative area, so the fact that I have coffee alone is not widely accepted. I noticed that I was get more dirty looks than usual, and I THINK it is because I wasn't wearing my wedding ring! So pregnant, coffee, and unmarried. In Utah. LOL. Anyway, it gave me a sense of glee to be offending these people who are clearly so close-minded. Call me immature, but I just want to go all sorts of places with my pregnant coffee drinking self! Maybe even on a Sunday! Maybe I'll sub coffee for wine! The possibilities are endless! 
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Re: Wedding rings: it's not what you think.
I'm so glad you are comfortable going out without your wedding ring. I wish I could be the same - but I bought a decoy ring because mine is waaay to small right now.
Should have walked around with color foils in your hair too... SHE'S COLORING HER HAIR WHILE PREGNANT????? ::60 year old woman grasps her pearls and faints::?
Just tell them DH's other wife has the rings today.
Sorry.....that was terrible, but since Big Love that's all I think when I hear Utah!!
I get the dirty looks to without my rings on, but come on people...they don't fit anymore! I don't care what they think, but I do feel naked without them. Maybe I should walk around with a 32oz diet coke...hmmm
OMG! This is too funny!!!!
where in so cal? not oc?!? they are super conservative there! (i grew up there) now long beach... you can have coffee and a drink (even though i haven't this go round). that's why i love it here!
LOL love it!!! Seriously what person actually expects that at this point we would be able to wear our rings at all!
You could really get em' if you went to a restaurant and ordered a virgin daquiri or pina colada! Haaa!
You skank (jk). I am 24 but I look like I am 16 and I keep getting dirty looks from people. Everyone thinks I am a teen mom
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It was really funny when I went to see my step mom at work. She works at a high school and I kept getting stopped in the hall by the staff asking me why I wasn't in class. You could tell they were trying not to show their annoyance at yet another knocked up high school student. It was even more fun when my SM would introduce me to them as her 24 year old, married, step daughter.
I can't believe how many people are so judgemental about pregnant women drinking coffee! You should walk around with a sign saying "How do you know it's not decaf, stupid?" or something.
LOL
Gotta love the 'looks'.
We throw a big huge party every summer and I was just starting to show around the same time. We went to the store to get all the food and supplies and as we got to the checkout DH remembered something else we needed and went to grab it.
Try buying beer with an obvious tummy in Utah! I thought the clerk was going to have a heart attack or refuse to sell it to me until DH walked up and started to put the bags in the cart! She looked so relieved to see someone other than just me there to buy it that she didn't have time to give me the side-eye for daring to buy alchohol...
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At Chili's yesterday DH got a margarita and while flipping through the photos of all of their drinks, I reached over and took a tiny sip. The waitress ran over and was like "would you like a specialty drink?" I turns to her, clearly showing my belly and said no thank-you. she then shot me a dirty look and was like.... oh, i see.
haha she probably went to the back and told everyone about the pregnant lady who was drinking at table 45?
Ha! Love it.
DH looks older than we are and I look like I'm 12, so we get some great looks.
LMAO! THAT would be priceless!
I can totally see that as a pic for the baby book!
I live in Kansas, so it's super conservative! The fact I MIGHT have a beer, diet coke, dye my hair, or drink coffee is just TERRIBLE! And I'm NOT MARRIED! OMG! I'm such a terrible mother and a tramp. LOL
I take my friends to the bar a lot. Since I'm prego I don't drink but I will go and have a good time. I love going and buying a pitcher of beer for the table and being obviously pregnant! I always get served and the bartender knows me so he knows it's not for me. I LOVE the looks other people give me though! The "OMG! She's drinking?!". The next time someone gives me "that" look I'll tell the bartender to skip the glass, I just need a straw!
I will drink a beer or two but not every night and not even every weekend! Some people just REALLY need to mind their own business!
During my one of my appointments the nurse asked me about my relationship status. She thought I was married (Not anymore) or with BD (Nope). She got soooo embarrassed when she realized I'm a single unwed mother...not embarrassed about that..just that she had said something about it. I told her that was part of the reason my ex husband and I split up so she asked if we were getting back together. LOL NO! Ex is a great guy, just not the guy for me. We had other problems besides baby problems. Any way, after she made an ass of herself she left. Mom and I couldn't stop laughing. I felt so bad for her!
The doctor asked me about it too! I told him BD was unfortunately hit by a train. He just started smiling and laughed at me.
Lots of respectible people have been hit by trains!
I love pissing people off in this way. My favorite is to run on the treadmill - you should see the looks I get at the gym!
My fingers didn't swell with this one, but last time I got the dirty looks a lot. The worst was an old woman who came up to me in the grocery to explain how a condom worked.
Gee thanks, but it was a little late at that point. I did look fan friggin tastic though, I was hot and swollen and in flip flops and a cotton pg skirt and a tank top that didn't quite meet the skirt, so that hot 1.5 inches of pg belly stuck out and I was holding a handle of Jose (we were having friends over for Mexican)