Wednesday, November 12, 2008

It's getting old

Why does every sales person have to ask me the same 3 questions? (It was 2 questions but lately a third has been added.) I have been asked these questions for the past four months or so at every single store I go to. I need to start wearing a sign with the answers because it's getting old.
  • When are you due?
  • Do you know if it's a boy or a girl?
  • Are you excited?
The last one is the best. It's the new question. It's just such a stupid question because if you say anything other than "yes", the person asking would be shocked. I just don't have the boldness to say what I think would be funny ...
  • Not really.
  • I'm putting him up for adoption so it doesn't really matter.
  • Yes, because then I can hopefully figure out who the father is!
I am just not the type of person that likes talking about myself to random people that I'm never going to see again. I hate when I get stuck in line and someone then proceeds to tell me all about when their sister was due and when she actually had her baby. I try really hard to be nice, but I don't have the energy anymore and don't care.

Luckily, I haven't been assaulted like a lot of other woman I've known that live in east Tennessee. Apparently, people around here think it's okay to come up to pregnant women they don't even know and start rubbing their bellies without permission. This only happened to me once at a Mexican restaurant when I was already seated and our waitress did it before leaving our table. I was so startled that I didn't even say anything. I kept telling Brian that if anyone did this to me they'd risk losing their hand. I do not understand why people think that pregnant women don't have to be treated like normal people. No one would go up to stranger that isn't pregnant and just start rubbing one of their body parts. That gets people punched, arrested, or shot! Besides, what are you accomplishing by rubbing someone's belly? You're most likely not going to feel the baby kick, so what's the point?

Does it sound like I'm tired of being pregnant and am ready for this little guy to arrive?

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