Crazy Stranger Stories

MamaAllison · March 2014

This seriously happened yesterday when I was meeting a friend at Panera for lunch yesterday:

Random stranger lady from across the room: oh you have a baby!

Me: smile

Stranger lady: what is her name?

Me: Charlotte, smile and look at baby to signal end if conversation

Stranger lady: how old is she, what does she weigh?

Me: 8 weeks, about 12 1/2 pounds

Stranger lady: what did she weigh when she was born?

Me: 8 pounds

Stranger Lady: oh did you have a really rough delivery?

Me (thinking, seriously, you really want me to tell you a story about my vagina across the room in a public place!?! I've never been so happy that I had a c-section before now!!): I had a c-section.
Full body turn to indicate conversation is OVER.

Alright ladies, what crazy have you encountered lately?

queeniecrayon · March 2014

The worst I've been on the tail end of was a worker at kmart telling me that my car seat cover (the Cozy Cover) was going to smother my baby......and then something about how maybe I shouldn't use it.

People are weird

MoxyByProxy · March 2014

I had a lovely visit at the er on Saturday after falling and twisting my foot.. registration lady came to the room to get my id and insurance card and stuck her hand out to touch E's head who was in the k'tan.

Back. Off.

Soap1 · March 2014

MoxyByProxy said:

I had a lovely visit at the er on Saturday after falling and twisting my foot.. registration lady came to the room to get my id and insurance card and stuck her hand out to touch E's head who was in the k'tan. Back. Off.

I am really bad at telling people to back off. I think it's the Southern thing - it has been drilled into my head from a young age to be polite and never be rude or confrontational. I have trouble telling acquaintances, even strangers, not to touch the baby.

I know I have to step it up because he's my little one and he needs to be protected, but it's hard to shake off 30 years of Southern training!

An acquaintance at my church was coughing like crazy and kept insisting that she wanted to hold LO. I said no. Take THAT, Southern politeness!

keags5496 · March 2014

MoxyByProxy said:

I had a lovely visit at the er on Saturday after falling and twisting my foot.. registration lady came to the room to get my id and insurance card and stuck her hand out to touch E's head who was in the k'tan. Back. Off.

And she works in an ER? I would have gone crazy mama bear on her!

Codypup · March 2014

What is up with weird people at Panera? I had a eldery lady notice my LO, and then launch into a 10 minute rant about her own grandson. Apparently her grandson is allergic to fat (??) and they had to feed him a teaspoon of fat every day, and nothing else.

Ummmm. Okay? Is that even a thing? She walked away and I had a "what the hell just happened?" moment.

At least she didn't try and man handle my baby? People be strange.

magentawarped · March 2014

I talked about this before on here, but some BSC wench at the chiropractor saw my kid, asked me a bunch of personal questions about my pregnancy and delivery, and when I let slip that I'd had GD, she proceeded to tell me about how her daughter had diabetes from a young age and it was such a pain in the ass that it made her wish she'd never had a kid. What a peach.

shellbell3845 · March 2014

Mine aren't really stranger stories, but both were said by people whose first names I don't know, so I think it counts. (I'm employed by the church we go to, so everyone knows me, but unless you're a kid or a parent of a kid I know, I may not know you.)

This older woman came up last week and says: Are you breastfeeding?
Me: Yep.
Woman: Oh how beautiful!
Me: Uh huh
Woman: Isn't it just marvelous to feel your uterus contracting and going back to its normal size after months of being stretched out?
Me: *smiles while praying for someone to interrupt this conversation that's happening in the middle of the main aisle in the sanctuary*

Then on Sunday, I was in the lobby area giving LO a pumped bottle. A pregnant woman comes and sits by me. After asking questions about LO, admiring his outfit, and bashing the hospital where I delivered...

Lady: Are you pumping?
Me: Well, sometimes, but I nurse at home.
Lady: Why don't you nurse in public?
Me: Not totally comfortable yet, but I'm sure I'll get there.
Lady: You know everytime you give a bottle you're putting your nursing relationship at serious risk. You need to nurse everytime.
Me: *prays for LO to spit up or cry or anything that would let me leave abruptly*

MamaAllison · March 2014

@shellbell3845‌ Loling at uterus contracting! You've got to be kidding me!

MoxyByProxy · March 2014

keags5496 said:

MoxyByProxy said:

I had a lovely visit at the er on Saturday after falling and twisting my foot.. registration lady came to the room to get my id and insurance card and stuck her hand out to touch E's head who was in the k'tan.

Back. Off.

And she works in an ER? I would have gone crazy mama bear on her!

I guess no matter where you go.. panera.. target.. the ER, some folk struggle with boundaries. Me personally, if I see a woman with a new baby in a carrier or car seat, that's an instant flag as to just leave mommy alone. Normally these women are hauling ass and on a mission anyway.

shellbell3845 · March 2014

MamaAllison said:
@shellbell3845‌ Loling at uterus contracting! You've got to be kidding me!

I don't even know how to respond. Yeah, cramps are great?

shellbell3845 · March 2014

Bookshelves said:

MamaAllison said:
@shellbell3845‌ Loling at uterus contracting! You've got to be kidding me!
It's maaaarvelous!
We really need these:

For sure. I adore passive aggressive onesies.

MoxyByProxy · March 2014

I love the..
Stranger: is this your first?
Me: nope, 3rd
Stranger: what else do you have?
Me: 2 more boys
stranger pity face: are thry close in age?
Me annoyed: no there is a 12 yo gap
stranger gives are you crazy? face: I would never start all over again.. your brave.

Um.. okay. See ya!

shellbell3845 · March 2014

bribbon said:

shellbell3845 said:

MamaAllison said:
@shellbell3845‌ Loling at uterus contracting! You've got to be kidding me!
I don't even know how to respond. Yeah, cramps are great?
How about: "Yeah, it's also just glorious to feel myself being cleansed of my lochia and my episiotomy incision knitting. I literally feel the stitches just melting away. Ah, the miracle of the human body!"

That'll send her running.

@bribbon‌ I'll report back on Sunday!

lbalek2 · March 2014

When I was about 3 weeks pp, the cashier at the grocery store asked me about my LO:

Cashier: oh how sweet, how old is she?
Me: about 3 weeks old
Cashier: are you still bleeding?
Me: ! *embarrassed* um a little...

Wtf??

inluv4life2 · March 2014

lbalek2 said:
When I was about 3 weeks pp, the cashier at the grocery store asked me about my LO:

Cashier: oh how sweet, how old is she?
Me: about 3 weeks old
Cashier: are you still bleeding?
Me: ! *embarrassed* um a little...

Wtf??

That's insane! why does she want to know??

lbalek2 · March 2014

^ out of all the questions someone could ask, I never expected that one!

slwprincess · March 2014

I had a very similar conversation at the kids dentist last week! The lady (who looked like Mimi from the Drew Carey show) continued to describe her own 3 births as well as her daughters 2 (gruesome) deliveries! All to comfort me for having a tiny baby... WTH. The secretary had to rescue me with some paperwork.

slwprincess · March 2014

lbalek2 said:
When I was about 3 weeks pp, the cashier at the grocery store asked me about my LO:

Cashier: oh how sweet, how old is she?
Me: about 3 weeks old
Cashier: are you still bleeding?
Me: ! *embarrassed* um a little...

Wtf??

HOLY BEJEEBUS- I would have had to ask her about her last AF! Who asks that?!

MamaAllison · March 2014

lbalek2 said:

When I was about 3 weeks pp, the cashier at the grocery store asked me about my LO: Cashier: oh how sweet, how old is she? Me: about 3 weeks old Cashier: are you still bleeding? Me: ! *embarrassed* um a little... Wtf??

You win! WTF!?!?

BearyBear210 · March 2014

shellbell3845 said:

Bookshelves said:

MamaAllison said:
@shellbell3845‌ Loling at uterus contracting! You've got to be kidding me!
It's maaaarvelous!
We really need these:
For sure. I adore passive aggressive onesies.

Brilliant!

My boyfriend and I were in an elevator with LO and another couple. LO was in his stroller and gets fussy if it's not moving so sometimes my BF will lift the car seat out and gently swing it back and worth a little which calms him down pretty quickly. Anyway, we are in the elevator and he starts fussing so my BF lifts the car seat to start swinging it. The other man starts shushing him as the lady starts singing softly. LO calms down (because of the swinging) and the couple starts talking to each other (as if we weren't even there) about how they were able to calm *our* baby and then proceeded to recommend we try shushing and singing next time he fusses. Thanks assholes.

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