It baffles me how people talk to a pregnant woman, sometimes.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of the random things people say have been sweet and politely curious, but as we all know, it's the few that really just blow it that get all the attention.
Take, for example, this beastly woman who was in a class with me last week. She, for some reason, thought it would be alright to call me not only fat, but "really fat" in front of the whole class. Yeah, okay, let me just sit back and take that. She seemed shocked that I didn't "get her joke" when I pulled her outside to tell her that it offended me. But, really, since when would a woman, pregnant or not, think it's funny to be called fat? I can't think of a single one.
Then, yesterday, a man approached me as I was eating chips & queso at work. "Oh, so you think just because you're pregnant you can eat chips & dip?" .... What? I politely replied with, "I would be eating this even if I wasn't pregnant." "And what's with your shirt?" I look down to my shirt. No stains, no tears, no random drawings. "It's all untucked and shit." Oh. He meant my size medium but getting a little tight work shirt that I keep untucked because I wear an undershirt (tucked in) to make it look better. I didn't know what to say. I couldn't believe this guy was really getting onto me about this. He broke the awkward silence with "So, if I get pregnant, can I wear my shirt untucked, too?" ".....Yes," I replied, not knowing what else to say.
He then gave me a high five.
What the heck, people? Think (think) before you speak. I hardly ever take off my work blouse because I'm not getting any smaller and I try not to shove my big o' belly in people's faces, but my internal heater has been on high and I just don't care anymore. It's hot at work, and I want to just have my t-shirt like anyone else would do, were they to get hot at work. I don't need idiots coming up and telling me what they think.
Humph.
People say the dumbest things to pregnant women. This doesn't really fit, but my first stranger comment was when I was eating dinner with my mom and Johnathan Farmer. This stranger came up to Johnathan and Shook his hand and congratulated him on knocking me up. It was the funniest thing ever.
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