Pregnancy wank in customers_suck
allthepettylies posts this little story in customers_suck.

Me: your lurvely prego assistant customer service whore manager
DOB: Dumb old bitch. DIE!

I seriously doubt my baby belly is showing already..but whatever.
This happened yesterday..

Me: *lalalala* ::wandering around being a good stuporvisor::
DOB: ::waddles over:: EXCUSE ME! I WAS WONDERING IF YOU HAD X ITEM?!
Me: ::turns around:: Yes ma'am, its over on x aisle.
DOB: ::not yelling now:: Thank you. So when is the little bundle due.
Me:.....uh.....O.o ::sweatdrop:: I'm sorry?
DOB: ::yelling again:: WELL YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY PREGNANT WHEN IS IT DUUUUUE?
Other customers: ::stop and stare::
Me: Not for a while now. :;smile:: What about you? Twins or triplets?
DOB: ::shock:: Well!! ::hmph:: ::leaves::

::palmface::
Not really suck, but a WTF moment that had me sulking angrily for a while.

All is well, she receives "WTF indeed", "good response", "what an impolite bitch" comments, until hatsumomo jumps in.

I don't see what's so bad about the first story. She was just asking when you were due and you basically called her fat? O_o


Which might be a valid question and first the discussion is on a rational level of "Just a question" vs. "privacy invasion."

dianawinters and musical_soul point out here and here that it this is simply nothing to ask a pregnant woman.

And hatsumomo swings the childfree hammer!


I guess i've missed out on this whole "OMGZ NEVER ASK A WOMAN WHEN SHE IS DUE" part of life. Or maybe the people i've grown up with/lived with/interacted with aren't so uptight.

And:

I can't say I've ever heard that saying, and i've never known a pregnant woman who didn't like to blab on and on and on about when wittle pweshus is due. 

So ... on the one hand it is uptight if people are offended if they are asked but they blab on and on when they are not and talk about it on their own? Well, breeders can't do anything right anyway, as we all know by now.


hatsumomo: Wah wah wah. Pregnant women obviously deserve special treatment and exceptions when they are being assholes because they are pregnant.

 geek-domestic: Where did I say pregnant women deserve special treatment? Anybody can be an asshole, pregnant or not.

"She could have been raped! It's not your business!!!"

"Pregnancy is WONDERFUL don't degrade it to a taboo!!!"

Of course it is all due to culture:

hatsumomo: The fact that almost everyone on this comm disagrees with me on it too, and they are from a different side of the Atlantic confirms this to me further. I can't succesfully debate with someone who feels completely differently to me regarding this subject, and vice versa.

Indeed. You US people are so straaaange to us Oldworlders. Here, pregnant women have to answer every question they are asked and have to carry all their shopping bags three miles over parking lots. By law. Because we're special like that.

It's only a medium sized wank but the OP adressed it in a later post in the comm, let's keep an eye on that.

I'm reeeeaaaaalllly sorry I don't like people sticking their noses into my business, next time someone happens to screech "OMGWTFBBQ WHEN ARE YOU DUUUUUUUUUUE!?!?" at me, I will whip out sonograms, development charts, and quote them the EXACT DATE I'M DUE Even thought I'm BARELY a month along, and not showing. At all.

Sorry if I seem a bitch. I never once said DOB was rude, I just thought it was a WTF moment.


EDIT: Aaaaand she's off yet again. Also she's outed there a cf_hardcore member. *fakes surprise*