Because I am still waiting for a single person to hold the door, help with a bag, offer their seat, or a place up in the bathroom line. Geez I always did this for pregnant women...the worst part is, I'm from the south isn't it supposed to be better here?
The only thing remotely nice anyone has done was today when the cashier at the grocery store was going to make me pull out the 24 pack of water bottles and put it on the conveyor for her to scan, the man behind me angerily put it up there for me and said to her, "can't you see shes pregnant"??
Anyone else experiencing really nice or really rude people?
Re: I thought people were "nicer" when you're preggo...
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I was just thinking this the other day! I had a guy nearly run me over in the parking lot because he wanted to beat me instead of wait as I went through the crosswalk. Then when I was inside the store I had a lady cut me off at the register with a cart full of groceries when I only had a gallon of milk and a case of soda (for the DH). Those items are heavy for me right now! Then at the post office the person just ahead of me did not wait the 2 seconds to hold the door open (and I was carrying a package).
I would hardly call Virginia "the South" but damn people just would not give me a break. PREGNANCY RAGE!!!!
I am in the south (Atlanta) and people have been pretty nice. The girl bagging my groceries at Whole Foods helped me pull my groceries out of my cart the other day and she took my groceries to my car and loaded my car for me. My husband usually goes to the grocery store with me and does all this stuff but couldn't that night..she said she recognized me from previous visits and wanted to help since he was not with me.
Plus, I have to testify in court often as a foster care case manager...and usually the parents' attorneys and whatknot try to grill me and ask me difficult questions during cross examination... but last time-no one had any further questions for me. Its prob because I do my job pretty well and make sure I'm prepared for court-but that has not stopped them before...So it may have been because I am hugely pregnant, and they didn't want to stress me more than I already am. But it was probably more because their own clients did not bother to return their calls or show up to court or make any effort to visit their babies
Everyone has been pretty nice to me regarding opening doors or not letting me carry heavy things or anything...people just keep making obnoxious comments all the time about how huge I am which is starting to get on my nerves.
Omg. Lol I can't help but laugh at the thought of this actually happening to someone. I'm a terrible person.
I'm still wondering HOW this happened and I was too annoyed at the time for her to enlighten me about it
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I'm in NYC area too and I half agree with you. Women tend to offer their sits more often than guys do. I saw guys pretending they were sleeping or that they didn't see my bump standing right on their faces countless times....
I'm glad the ladies are more thoughtful though......
People are nice, but I am pretty independent and don't really want their help. They give me weird looks when I don't accept their help. I just feel like I am pregnant...not disabled. However, I do like when people offer a chair for me to sit as I have a hard time standing for too long.
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LOL! This story is too funny. People tell the weirdest stories sometimes... I live in Maryland and people have been pretty nice to me. I've gotten free cookies twice, free donuts, a girl offered me her seat at the airport and people generally hold the door for others where I live.
WOW, what a-holes!
OP, if it makes you feel better, nobody's really "nice" to me, either. And sometimes I totally feel side-eyed! Sometimes I wonder if the general consensus is that pregnant women are entitled to special treatment, so people take it upon themselves to undo some of that attitude? Random speculation, but "Pregnant Women are Smug" by Garfunkel and Oats is in my head reading this post lol
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This really happened?
Omg!!!!
Yes, this has been my experience. Men will get up (never a man in a business suit, though), but I always get the fake sleeping when women see me approaching, and twice in the last week women pushed me out of the way to get the end seat where you can use the pole to stabilize yourself getting up and down. The 2nd time it happened I made a stink and she got up and walked to the other end of the car in shame. We can only hope that there really is karma.
I will never understand this. I see people in my office building. They are really nice normal people. Then I would see the same people at metro and they are pushing and acting like animals. DH has very strong feelings that I should not take metro while I am pregnant. Thank goodness for Uber.