CRAZY COMMENTS

Rynleigh · October 2013

Edited so that @MrsLee04 can pin this as a Crazy Comments thread for everyone to contribute to. Share the crazy comments people make about your multiples!

Rynleigh · October 2013

Our mundane crazy comment this week:

Cashier: Are they cousins?

Me: Nope, twins.

Cashier: They don't look like twins - they don't even have the same eye color.

Me: Yep - totally fraternal in every way

Cashier: Well usually all twins look alike.

:-w

pinkmickey24 · October 2013

Some people are clueless. I am still baffled when people ask me if mine are identical when C has an olive complexion and D has a white complexion. Besides the fact they have totally different head shapes. However they do have the same eye color.

heaven22tw · October 2013

Mine favorite...is it a boy and a girl. They are dressed head to toe in pink and in matching pink car seats?????

tootsscott · October 2013

Still pregnant here, but for some reason it bothers me when people say 'You look good for having twins!'.... so if it wasn't twins I'd be a lard? I know they mean it as a compliment, I just can't accept it. haha

BabyCarryingVessel · October 2013

I feel sooooo sorry for all the fraternal twin mamas! In a way, I think ID twin parents have it slightly better in the comments department!

Scorpgirl444 · October 2013

Mine don't look anything alike so I get told all the time that they can't possibly be twins.

I also get asked how far apart they are. I'm starting to answer in inches...like how far away they are from each other at the time I get the question. hehehehehe Confuses people.

kellibelle0417 · October 2013

I had a guy say to me a few days ago... "Wow, boy/girl twins. That is really rare! Usually it is boy boy or girl girl." Uhhhh...

JordynLeighx3 · October 2013

Scorpgirl444 said:
Mine don't look anything alike so I get told all the time that they can't possibly be twins.
I also get asked how far apart they are. I'm starting to answer in inches...like how far away they are from each other at the time I get the question. hehehehehe Confuses people.

Just to let people's mind wander, even though mine are ID, when they say "twins....?" I say "nope, this ones three years older!"

ks3pink · October 2013

Apparently my identical twins are maternal. There's maternal and fraternal. At least that's what this older gentlemen at Olive Garden insisted today. @-)

raraavis28 · October 2013

Everyone's an expert.....
:-B

BabyCarryingVessel · October 2013

A woman today educated me about twins. Two placentas = fraternal and one placenta = identical. She asked how many placentas I had and informed me that my girls are fraternal. (They are didi identicals). I just nodded and backed away!

hgrosch · October 2013

^^ I had an ob nurse give me the same lesson this week...ummm I don't want her as my nurse ever again.

katieg314 · October 2013

Today a lady told me her son "was supposed to be twins, but he ended up just being really big instead." Huh???

Mrs.Guz · October 2013

kellibelle0417 said:
I had a guy say to me a few days ago... "Wow, boy/girl twins. That is really rare! Usually it is boy boy or girl girl."
Uhhhh...

I've gotten this one more than once...

tootsscott · October 2013

When people find out that my husband and I are both twins they're like 'Oh, WELL, you should've EXPECTED twins then!"

We used to go in to how only the maternal genes count for fraternal twins, but now we just nod and smile

8-}

Rynleigh · October 2013

MrsLee04 said:

@Rynleigh we can....should it be this thread or start a new one?

I edited the OP to be more open and less specific so we can pin this one

Rynleigh · October 2013

ks3pink said:

Apparently my identical twins are maternal. There's maternal and fraternal. At least that's what this older gentlemen at Olive Garden insisted today. @-)

LMFAO there is no such thing as maternal twins... there are "sororal" twins, which are just girl/girl dizygotic twins.... but most people still just call them fraternal in that situation.

(I think that person has fraternal confused with paternal.....)

TobieRose · October 2013

Yesterday at the salon when I said our twins were fraternal the hairdresser gave that lesson to everyone else present. (Usually when people ask I say "probably fraternal," but sometimes I get tired of explaining the whole di/di, fraternal vs identical thing and just say "fraternal.")

JuliaAndPete · October 2013

"Maternal" ? Good Lord!

Sigh. My grandmother screams at me for wearing a seatbelt in the car. Because I'm having twins I'm much bigger and I'll squish them. If I were having one baby it would be ok. Getting ejected from the seat is much safer right?

Momof8inSC · October 2013

These are hilarious!

Rynleigh · October 2013

Yesterday I took them shopping alone.

Lady: OOOOOH!! Twins?

Me: Yep

Lady: Ohhhhh look Honey, twins!!!

Husband: No.....

Me: Yep

Husband: No... they wear different clothes! Why you no dress them alike?

Me (shocked and not sure what to say): This one is bigger - they need different clothes!
Husband: Oh he bigger than him! Oh and eyes are different! Cannot be twins....

Lady: NO. Beautiful twins! Congratulations!

ashleighlt · October 2013

I have been told many times "I prayed for twins and only got one" I respond with "... If you are still interested in having twins feel fee to come over at 2am and watch my 3.5 month old twins"

Jess63085 · October 2013

I have boy/girl twins and more than one person has said, "but they don't look alike!" or "are they identical?" Ummm...no. Someone yesterday asked me "Are they twins?" I said yes and she said "but he's bigger than her". I guess they can't be twins if one is bigger than the other lol.

Scorpgirl444 · October 2013

ks3pink said:

Apparently my identical twins are maternal. There's maternal and fraternal. At least that's what this older gentlemen at Olive Garden insisted today. @-)

OMG!!!! I totally got that same comment from a woman at a mall. I've also recently gotten paternal. It's really sad how misinformed people are.

mylittleladies1229 · October 2013

"Oh, a boy and a girl! How do you tell them apart?" Um...it's two girls and they are fraternal!

I also get, "Which one is the aggressive one?" People have sick minds about what twins are/should be.

carrotcake06 · October 2013

tootsscott said:
Still pregnant here, but for some reason it bothers me when people say 'You look good for having twins!'.... so if it wasn't twins I'd be a lard? I know they mean it as a compliment, I just can't accept it. haha

I got this all.the.time. Usually the convo started w asking me when I was due. They'd get all bug eyed and asked me if I knew what I was having. When I would say "two boys", this look of relief would come over them after the initial confusion and they'd say, "well you look fantastic!"

Right. Bc if there was only one in there, I'm clearly a fat ass. Thanks.

Mamavogel · October 2013

carrotcake06 said:

Still pregnant here, but for some reason it bothers me when people say 'You look good for having twins!'.... so if it wasn't twins I'd be a lard? I know they mean it as a compliment, I just can't accept it. haha
I got this all.the.time. Usually the convo started w asking me when I was due. They'd get all bug eyed and asked me if I knew what I was having. When I would say "two boys", this look of relief would come over them after the initial confusion and they'd say, "well you look fantastic!" Right. Bc if there was only one in there, I'm clearly a fat ass. Thanks.

I got the same thing, my answer was "just two" and the reaction was usually priceless. No one understood how we could wait to find out either.

My favorite comment since the girls were born has to be from the wack job at Wal-Mart yesterday:

Oh twins! Are they girls?

Yes (head to toe pink)

Oh so they are identical!

No, fraternal

Are you sure? (Looking at me like I am an idiot)

Yes

Well now your done! But you should have had a boy first.

I did, he's in the basket in front of us.

Oh, so then you really are done having kids!

(I have no idea who this woman was or why she thought I needed to be done, seriously?)

Rynleigh · October 2013

Slightly off topic, between the obnoxious comments at the store this weekend, we happened to run into another set of twins - 10mo old fraternal girls. My loudmouth, Jamie, was standing in the basket of the cart and making noises at the bigger girl, who was doing the same from her cart. The girl looked him dead in the face and let out a playful scream. Poor James... his lip came tumbling out and the tears started rolling and he just cried his little head off. Why o why would she scream at me? hims says.

KimCousino · October 2013

I have b/g twins & multiple times people look confused and ask "So, they aren't identical?" @-)

carrotcake06 · October 2013

AshB62 said:
I posted about this in a separate thread last week, but I think it's worth repeating here.

Some random lady at Target: "I had twins the hard way. A year and two days apart."
Cause, ya know, we did it the "easy" way.

I've gotten this too. "I had my kids the hard way - one at a time". Thanks, lady.

carrotcake06 · October 2013

The latest: not necessarily multiples related, but we have 3 boys. A lady at the farm we went to this weekend said, "oh no! You won't have any weddings!" which is stupid on so many levels.

raraavis28 · October 2013

A lady once told me "You don't look like a mom of twins!" Um, thanks?

raraavis28 · October 2013

AshB62 said:

A lady once told me "You don't look like a mom of twins!" Um, thanks?
Hmm... I wonder what a mom of twins is supposed to look like.

I know right? It's hard to not be offended for somebody with a comment like that....

ceechie · October 2013

marchesa28 said:

AshB62 said:

marchesa28 said:
A lady once told me "You don't look like a mom of twins!" Um, thanks?
Hmm... I wonder what a mom of twins is supposed to look like.

I know right? It's hard to not be offended for somebody with a comment like that....

I get this a lot! "Oh, you have twins? You look great!"
Huh? I forgot, I'm supposed to look beat down and depressed...I mean, thanks, but with that I feel like you aren't really expecting too much of me.

mommyof4boys · October 2013

"You didn't waste time having another one. What are they, a few months apart?"

Said from a cashier at Walmart when my duo was around 9 months old.

"You brought your son's friend with you! How nice."

Since my twins look nothing alike.

"What do you mean THEY are the twins and not THESE two?

Said after people insisted my youngest is the twin to my smaller twin.

"They are twins. They should be around the same size."

Said their pediatrician recently after realizing there is a 2.5-3 inch and 19 pound height difference between the two boys.

Kissimi21 · October 2013

ceechie said:

AshB62 said:

A lady once told me "You don't look like a mom of twins!" Um, thanks?
Hmm... I wonder what a mom of twins is supposed to look like.

I know right? It's hard to not be offended for somebody with a comment like that....
I get this a lot! "Oh, you have twins? You look great!" Huh? I forgot, I'm supposed to look beat down and depressed...I mean, thanks, but with that I feel like you aren't really expecting too much of me.

That's nothing. I got, "You had twins? Did you not eat for the nine months?" from a random woman at Costco last weekend. Ummm, thanks for implying that I would starve my babies for my figure.

I've also been told that my frat boys had to be identical. They have different skin tone, Ben looks like H while Sam looks like me, and Ben is 3.5lbs heavier than Sam (way bigger frame, not just chunkier). They are both boys so they must be identical.

On a funny note, I had a woman crawl through a clothing rack today to see my boys. I was talking to another woman who asked if they were twins. When I said yes, this second woman in the next aisle said, "Twins?" then pushed the clothes apart and crawled through to see them. I was shopping with my mother and I swear I nearly wet myself when I seen the look of disbelief on her face.

Rynleigh · October 2013

Happy_Yahoo_Personaler said:
Cashier: Oh, well you must have been pretty chubby to begin with!

BYTCH!

BabyCarryingVessel · October 2013

Random gentleman at a restaurant: Did you have twins on purpose?

Me: I don't understand what you're asking.

RGAR: You know, did you have fertility "help"?

Me: No.... ::slowly backs away::

cukimerrydoll · October 2013

carrotcake06 said:

AshB62 said:
I posted about this in a separate thread last week, but I think it's worth repeating here.

Some random lady at Target: "I had twins the hard way. A year and two days apart."
Cause, ya know, we did it the "easy" way.
I've gotten this too. "I had my kids the hard way - one at a time". Thanks, lady.

I've gotten this before now that I'm pregnant with mine. It made me really angry at first since we've had pregnancy losses - there was nothing easy! On the flip side, I get a lot of "I'll pray for you" too.

My personal favorite is when people ask what kind of babies we're having. I know they're looking for gender, but I tend to respond with human instead.

Rynleigh · October 2013

cukimerrydoll said:
My personal favorite is when people ask what kind of babies we're having. I know they're looking for gender, but I tend to respond with human instead.

I liked answering with "crocodiles".

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