HOW CAN PEOPLE BE SO RUDE???GRRRR!

It was a guy, wasn't it?... if it was a women, I would have slapped her to next Tuesday! Women should know better than that! Men too, but women more so! Plus no one should be touching your stomach at work! Doesn't your company show a video about that! :laugh: :laugh:

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.

Love this!

Me too.

So common this day & age. I have received so many rude comments from when I was pregnant to when I was too thin.

"are you sure you're pregnant or are you just fat from eating too much?"
"You got another one in there?" The day after I gave birth to a 10 pound monster
"You still look real chunky" A few months after I gave birth
"You look so thin, are you sure you're not sick. You can talk to me, I will help you if you're sick" After I lost all the weight

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??

Thats called applied Motivation!

I had a co-worker that was completely thin in every other part of her body (face, arms, legs), and her stomach was completely round. She was standing with her hand on her stomach. I hadn't seen her in awhile so I immediately assumed she was pregnant. She really didn't just look big in the stomach. She looked like she had a beach ball under her shirt and the top she was wearing was maternity or looked like it could be because it ballooned out around her stomach. I mean, I really thought she was about 5 months pregnant. She swore up and down that she wasn't though. So I asked if she had some kind of medical condition thinking maybe it was fibroids and she said the doctor had no idea why her stomach was doing that.

I don't know. Looking back, I think she probably just didn't want to admit that she was pregnant, but I don't know. Still one of those super weird, awkward moments that you wish you could take back. I haven't seen her since so I have no idea if she still looks 5 months pregnant or not.

As Dave Barry once said (paraphrased), "you should never, ever say something to a woman that implies in any way that you think she may be pregnant unless you see a baby emerging from her at that exact moment."

I'm so sorry that happened to you. People can be SO RUDE!

My son was born with a cleft lip and palate and you would not believe the comments some people make (and still do).

I have to believe that people cannot be that mean on purpose. I do think it's out of ignorance. It doesn't hurt less but I thank my lucky stars I have more brains than those people. I agree with the other poster that says use it as motivation. Be thankful you are not the person who did that to you.

Your son is beautiful!! :flowerforyou:

I have had that happen, I replied to the person No I am not pregnant just fat. Laugh it off you are doing something about it now so feel good about that.

^^Agree!

The only time that has ever had a positive effect with me was when a WAITRESS asked when I was due. :huh: Got a free meal out of that one, because she was EXTREMELY rude about it when I told her I wasn't pregnant. She had the nerve to say "Well, do you want to order a salad then?" :explode: I was up over that table faster than flash. I may be big, but I can still kick her *kitten*.

Anyway, manager was told by me and the 3 people I was with what she said and all of our meals were free. You could hear him yelling at her from the back. :ohwell:

And even if you were pregnant, what in the heck gives people the right to come up to you and just touch your stomach? :grumble:
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what?!! this makes my blood boil!! I have been asked several times myself as a I carry my weight in my stomach, I know the feeling of wanting to remain calm but being angry, and then to add insult to injury I would be furious!

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.

You sir, are a genius!

Agree!