HOW CAN PEOPLE BE SO RUDE???GRRRR!

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  • JennieAL
    JennieAL Posts: 1,726 Member
    My response would have been



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    This would have been my initial response. Unbelievable.
  • majones_orl
    majones_orl Posts: 195 Member
    Touching me like that, I would have gone to HR and had her charge with sexual harrassment....Get her fired.....LOL

    Sorry for the rude behavior. Some people really have no manners.
    You show them all when you reach your goal...Hang in there.
  • Forthe4
    Forthe4 Posts: 30 Member
    A man and a woman passed my wife and I in a store when she was well along in her pregnancy with our second child. They both smiled and the man reached over and put his hand on my wifes belly. I completely understood the innocence in his act, but I wanted him to understand how inappropriate it is, especially since he didn't know us at all. I reached over while he was talking to my wife and put my hand on his wife's belly. She looked at me like I was crazy and said, "What are you doing?" I just smiled and said, "Same thing he is. Tad bit uncomfortable isn't it."

    He must have caught on because he couldn't apologize fast enough.

    OP, I'm sorry you had to be put in that situation. Kudos to you for having more class than your questioner.:smile:
  • AliciaNorris81
    AliciaNorris81 Posts: 185 Member
    A man and a woman passed my wife and I in a store when she was well along in her pregnancy with our second child. They both smiled and the man reached over and put his hand on my wifes belly. I completely understood the innocence in his act, but I wanted him to understand how inappropriate it is, especially since he didn't know us at all. I reached over while he was talking to my wife and put my hand on his wife's belly. She looked at me like I was crazy and said, "What are you doing?" I just smiled and said, "Same thing he is. Tad bit uncomfortable isn't it."

    He must have caught on because he couldn't apologize fast enough.

    OP, I'm sorry you had to be put in that situation. Kudos to you for having more class than your questioner.:smile:

    You sir, are a genius!
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    i'd have hit her or gave her a hard shove away from me without even thinking of it and then reported her to HR

    i'm pretty sensitive about random people coming up to me non contextually and touching me like that. an old bf of mine found that out the hard way when he snuck up behind me on a crowded nyc street grabbed me and then felt my knee in his balls :laugh:
  • reluctanthippie
    reluctanthippie Posts: 3 Member
    The fact that you were able to get through it without b*tch slapping the heck out of her speaks well for you. Faced with a similar circumstance I don't know that I would have managed to do so well.
  • jfan175
    jfan175 Posts: 812 Member
    My wife told me a friend of hers was pregnant. I got her friends' names mixed up and congratulated the wrong one. Would have made a great "Gotta get away?" commercial. At least I didn't rub her belly.
  • AntShanny
    AntShanny Posts: 359 Member
    Good God, what makes people think they have the right to touch your body without your permission?!? Even if you were pregnant she had no right...I don't know what I'd do if someone touched me like that. Probably ***** slap them!
  • sfarrell1359
    sfarrell1359 Posts: 63 Member
    I did that once.
    "Oh, congratulations!":drinker:
    She was not in a family way one bit. NEVER AGAIN!
    Sometimes it's not out of meanness but stupidity. Sorry that happened to you.

    Yeah never ask a woman if she's pregnant unless you see the head coming out of her vagina, assume nothing.

    Agreed. I worked in a store once when they started selling maternity clothes. Even if someone looked pregnant and asked where our maternity section was, we were told to ask who they were buying for, never assume they are buying for themselves.
  • Sockimobi
    Sockimobi Posts: 541
    I could have dismissed the comment easily. But the touching?? I have an issue with that. I hope you didn't get creeped out too much.

    Good on you for not turning to food.
  • Il_DaniD_lI
    Il_DaniD_lI Posts: 1,593 Member
    You should have told her to ask her Husband cause he's the Baby Daddy. BAM.
  • scs143
    scs143 Posts: 2,190 Member
    I did that once.
    "Oh, congratulations!":drinker:
    She was not in a family way one bit. NEVER AGAIN!
    Sometimes it's not out of meanness but stupidity. Sorry that happened to you.

    Yeah never ask a woman if she's pregnant unless you see the head coming out of her vagina, assume nothing.


    This seems like an awesome rule!!!!
  • _hi_hat3r_
    _hi_hat3r_ Posts: 423 Member
    That bish deserves a swift kick in the taco!
  • mtaylor33557
    mtaylor33557 Posts: 542 Member
    An older man at church approached me one day and said "Congratulations!" .. I said.. "uhh.. why?"

    Then he made a gesture with his hands as if he was holding a huge belly out in front of him and stuck his tounge out and made a silly noise.

    I said "Oh, you think I'm pregnant?" "Yes, aren't you? One lady that sits over here is..."

    "No, not me.." I guess it was my fault, I was wearing an empire waist dress that kind of flared out over the stomach area.

    He apologized for weeks, and my friends and I still get a good laugh thinking about the hand motions he made instead of just saying "are you pregnant?"
  • 2143661
    2143661 Posts: 566 Member
    That happened to me a couple years back. I broke down and started crying. I wasn't even that fat! I just have a little lower pudge!
  • HotCuppaJo
    HotCuppaJo Posts: 476 Member
    I had that happen. A lady I didn't know said, "OH, when are you due??" I said, "What???" She asked again, "When is your baby due?" I said, "OH, I'm not pregnant". Embarrassed, she said, (trying to laugh it off) "Oh..., well, you never know! You might have a bun in the oven and not know it! I said, "Well, let's certainly hope NOT, since I'm going through a divorce!"

    She stopped trying to persuade me that I was pregnant. :smile:
  • nikki_att84
    nikki_att84 Posts: 152 Member
    thats happened to me quite a few times!! i laugh about it and make them feel stupid!! by saying aww just coz im fat it doesnt mean im pregnant and they just remain speechless!!! love to c their reaction!!
  • NelehY
    NelehY Posts: 52 Member
    So today someone at work came up to me, rubbed my stomach and asked when my due date was...I am NOT pregnant!!

    So upsetting.

    On the bright side I didn't run for the chocolate!

    Why are some people so rude??

    That's not rude - that is work place bullying and frankly you would be within your rights to make a complaint!

    What an appalling way to behave in a workplace!

    That is not professional behaviour!

    p.s. I would also like to sign up for Forthe4s fan club - you made me laugh!
  • GretchenReine
    GretchenReine Posts: 1,374 Member
    The last time someone asked me when I was due I told him in 12 years. He just looked at me and got this dumb look on his face when he apologized. Ironically...12 years later I had my daughter. WEIRD! I guess he just knew!
  • Erica27511
    Erica27511 Posts: 490 Member
    *kitten* :grumble:
  • Bumdrahp
    Bumdrahp Posts: 1,314 Member
    UGH! I had someone ask me YEARS ago if I was preggo! I was like UM nope, I'm just fat! LMAO she looked at me like I was crazy!
  • Edwin_S
    Edwin_S Posts: 440 Member
    Some people!

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  • sunnymel126
    sunnymel126 Posts: 359 Member
    WOW! :noway: Who the **** does that exactly? :explode:

    You should have b**** slapped them for invading your personal space. :angry:

    Sorry you went through that... some people's kids. :flowerforyou:
  • Schraudt814
    Schraudt814 Posts: 496 Member
    I think the rule on guessing that is never ever ever ever ever evereverever... think i got enough evers in there (who said it?!)

    In all seriousness that super sucks...good for you for not running for the chocolate!!
  • KittieLea
    KittieLea Posts: 1,156 Member
    OMG I don't think I know one woman that hasn't happened to..
    A few years ago my boyfriend and I were in the grocery store line to buy ice cream to watch during a movie. I guess I looked like a pig because the lady in front of us said something about our "bundle of joy" on the way. I was horrified and told her I wasn't pregnant. She kept apologizing and that just made it worse. I got out of line and went out to the car and cried.
  • JoeSzup
    JoeSzup Posts: 51 Member
    'eff an apology, sounds like a lawsuit to me. She touched you without permission.
  • luv_lea
    luv_lea Posts: 1,094 Member
    I would have slapped them for touching me!

    This. Pretty rude.
  • Arperjen
    Arperjen Posts: 108 Member
    Some people!

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    Abso-freaking-lutely. I guess people have never heard of the "personal bubble." I hate people touching me, so if that'd happened to me they'd have received an eyeful of my fist.

    This happened at work? Tell HR, that's definitely crossing a boundary.
  • mommy2AR
    mommy2AR Posts: 2,796 Member
    Im sorry that happened to you :( I know when I was pregnant with both kids... people would touch me all the time and it was very awkward....hated it!!
  • weighlossforbaby
    weighlossforbaby Posts: 847 Member
    I then told my sister about that old guy thinking I was pregnant when I was walking passed his house going to the trail when she said "People thought I was pregnant when I was fat too" (She has gastric bypass 6 years ago).
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