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January 2016 Moms
kemerson531
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LONG RANT - Feeling Crazy and Need Some Support
kemerson531
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Ok, so I just got home from quite possibly the most ridiculous ordeal of my life, and I need to know I'm not the only one who's had a complete and total meltdown at a stranger, thanks to pregnancy hormones.
I'm prefacing this story by stating that yes, I am a sane person, no, I don't normally swear, and I promise am a generally calm, kind person (I'm a preschool teacher so I know how to handle my fair share of nonsense without losing my cool.)
So I just went to the mall to attempt to buy a swim suit, and if you haven't tried this yet pregnant let me just say, Godspeed to you. In the parking lot, I see a spot, turn my blinker on, and stop to wait for a mom and two kids to cross in front of the spot I'm waiting for. The mom stops walking suddenly and starts pointing my way, to which I realize an SUV on my passenger side almost backs out of their spot and into my car. Luckily, the driver doesn't hit me, so no big deal - I let the family finish crossing the street and I pull into my spot.
Here's where it gets interesting. I get out of my car and proceed to walk towards the mall. Well, the driver of the car that had almost backed into me (a woman in her 50s) rolls down her window and yells out some nonsense about me "taking all the time in the world, and the world doesn't revolve all around you!" I didn't even quite exactly hear what she said, so I just said "What?" She then repeats herself saying that I'm narcissistic, probably need a dictionary to look that word up, and I'm all that's wrong with today's generation. (Reminder: I assume this is about me making her wait approximately 15 seconds to let a family cross the street.)
I LOST IT! Guys, I mean I totally and completely lost it. I literally stopped walking, and am standing in the middle of a very busy parking lot, people staring, inches away from her window, screaming in her
face. I've never understood what it means to black out in anger before, but boy do I sure know now. Some of my more choice words to her were "go f yourself!!" and "you want to f with an f-ing pregnant lady?!!" There was definitely a lot more but I literally blacked out and don't remember exactly what I said. I think I also called her a crazy bitch. She then threatened to call the cops, to which I said, go ahead since I've done nothing wrong to you. Finally after about a full minute of arguing, while fully stopping traffic and blocking the road mind you, I storm off and she drives away.
Please, please tell me at least one of you has experienced something similar. I've never felt so completely out of control with my emotions. Granted the woman was totally in the wrong and completely rude, but I was still so embarrassed when I realized people were staring at me, probably thinking I was a psychopath. I wanted to cry my whole way through the mall and I actually did start crying in a dressing room (only partly because shopping for a bathing suit while pregnant is the worst sort of hell) but then continued to cry my whole car ride home and sobbed the whole story to my husband.
Someone please tell me it's normal to lose your mind when your pregnant so I don't feel like such a lunatic.
I'm prefacing this story by stating that yes, I am a sane person, no, I don't normally swear, and I promise am a generally calm, kind person (I'm a preschool teacher so I know how to handle my fair share of nonsense without losing my cool.)
So I just went to the mall to attempt to buy a swim suit, and if you haven't tried this yet pregnant let me just say, Godspeed to you. In the parking lot, I see a spot, turn my blinker on, and stop to wait for a mom and two kids to cross in front of the spot I'm waiting for. The mom stops walking suddenly and starts pointing my way, to which I realize an SUV on my passenger side almost backs out of their spot and into my car. Luckily, the driver doesn't hit me, so no big deal - I let the family finish crossing the street and I pull into my spot.
Here's where it gets interesting. I get out of my car and proceed to walk towards the mall. Well, the driver of the car that had almost backed into me (a woman in her 50s) rolls down her window and yells out some nonsense about me "taking all the time in the world, and the world doesn't revolve all around you!" I didn't even quite exactly hear what she said, so I just said "What?" She then repeats herself saying that I'm narcissistic, probably need a dictionary to look that word up, and I'm all that's wrong with today's generation. (Reminder: I assume this is about me making her wait approximately 15 seconds to let a family cross the street.)
I LOST IT! Guys, I mean I totally and completely lost it. I literally stopped walking, and am standing in the middle of a very busy parking lot, people staring, inches away from her window, screaming in her
face. I've never understood what it means to black out in anger before, but boy do I sure know now. Some of my more choice words to her were "go f yourself!!" and "you want to f with an f-ing pregnant lady?!!" There was definitely a lot more but I literally blacked out and don't remember exactly what I said. I think I also called her a crazy bitch. She then threatened to call the cops, to which I said, go ahead since I've done nothing wrong to you. Finally after about a full minute of arguing, while fully stopping traffic and blocking the road mind you, I storm off and she drives away.
Please, please tell me at least one of you has experienced something similar. I've never felt so completely out of control with my emotions. Granted the woman was totally in the wrong and completely rude, but I was still so embarrassed when I realized people were staring at me, probably thinking I was a psychopath. I wanted to cry my whole way through the mall and I actually did start crying in a dressing room (only partly because shopping for a bathing suit while pregnant is the worst sort of hell) but then continued to cry my whole car ride home and sobbed the whole story to my husband.
Someone please tell me it's normal to lose your mind when your pregnant so I don't feel like such a lunatic.
Re: LONG RANT - Feeling Crazy and Need Some Support
I've almost gotten out of my car in traffic to scream at people. I only stop myself because the light turns green. Lucky them.
We were in the Burger King drive thru and the "voice in the box" told us to hold- but of course it was distorted so we didn't hear it- a few minutes pass by and he goes "hello?!" She politely tells is to hold a minute (again)
I'm in the passenger seat telling him NOT to be mean to people who deal with your food (he rolls his eyes) -he's a cook at a restaurant mind you- . Finally the lady comes back and we place our order. When we start to pull off (thankfully out of earshot from the voice machine) he starts saying the m'effer word. And I'm like what in the world is going on I look behind us and the car behind us is basically on our bumper. And i look at him and I'm like it's ok, he didn't hit you. (Cusses some more) I'm like seriously it's ok.
He's says "no, it's not ok, he was yelling and throwing his hands up like what's going on why are you taking so long"...
It wasn't even our fault. It was burger kings fault.
My boyfriend as taken my pregnancy craziness... I believe that's a score for my books
Just think of it like this: she lost it on you first and probably doesn't have hormones to blame it on. :-)
The other day I was at a traffic light and was waiting to turn left. The traffic that currently had the green light was getting backed up into the intersection, and this idiot lady in her big red SUV decides that rather than staying where she belongs behind the white line when she can clearly see the traffic backed up, she would put herself in the middle of the intersection. I, being the first one in line in the left turn lane, decide to begin my turn as soon as light turned, and stop directly beside her car and stare her down with this pregnant lady death stare of insanity until she finds a way to maneuver her little sassy self out of my way. If I had not been thinking semi-rationally, things could have gotten much more dramatic, but I usually have the patience of Ghandi, so that was pretty serious for me!
At times pregnancy has felt like being possessed.
Another time we were turning into my father in laws drive way and this lady tried to pass us on the right- where there was no lane!!!! Then she had the audacity to yell at us. Clearly she was at fault and a bunch of neighbors came out to give her their mind. Luckily damage was basically non existent
I was completely irrational, my argument even made no sense in my own head, but I couldn't stop the stupid words from coming out of my mouth.
Thankfully I have a very loving, understanding and easy going husband. He knew it was hormones so he gave me some space to cool out and then let it go. Obviously I apologized later, but he knew it wasn't really me.
DD - January 2016
Um, yeah. I would've done this not pregnant. This pretty much describes my commute to work every day (an hour in solid traffic each way). People are so rude and inconsiderate these days! That witch deserved all of your reaction and more!
My crazy pregnancy meltdown really IS crazy. I had HG with DS (2.5yo), which makes you kind of insane. We ordered takeout and, when my husband brought it home, the mashed potatoes were missing. Mashed potatoes were the ONLY thing I could eat for pretty much a month at one point. Cue full-on, raving, hysterical crying, screaming meltdown at my husband for not checking the bag before he left the restaurant. I was mortified when I finally calmed down because I had completely Lost. My. Shit...over mashed potatoes.
A woman I used to work with was cut off in traffic by a rude woman when she was pregnant. She honked and the woman flipped her off, so she followed the woman off the exit ramp and got next to her at the red light at the end of the ramp. She threw her slushie all over the woman through her open window. THAT is crazy! And dangerous. I don't recommend throwing slushies at random strangers with road rage.
Anyway...totally normal! And funny!
DD 12/20/99, DS 12/14/12, M/C 9/2014, M/C 1/2015
On Saturday walking back to the car from our towns carnival/fire work show we had the cross walk sign to go, well this guy decided he didn't want to wait and figured if he started driving we would stop but I hadn't noticed him coming, luckily he stopped about 6 inches from hitting me, I very calmly snapped a picture of his license plate and informed him I'm calling the police to file a report and that he was more than welcome to pull into the resturant across from us to wait while I did so. He called me a C U Next Tuesday to which my fiancé kicked his car and started cussing him out until I managed to pull him away... Needless to say he sped off and I called the cops, they found him about 20 minuets later and found out he was like super drunk!