I post on another BBS run by a close friend, he set up as a away that all his friends whom he met at uni couold keep in touch as some of us have moved away from where we went to uni.
One of my friends, I'll call him 'John' has put a post up saying his df ('Anne') is pg. I offer congrats - they've been engaged a few months and from talking to Anne I know they really want kids (In fact John has it all planned - how many and their names and everything!!).
It turns out that it was an April Fool. Ha ha, you got me. Except that another friend 'Jane' and her husband 'Keith' also use the site and are likely to see this post. Keith and Jane have been TTCing for well over a year and are getting pretty despondant - they are now being investigated as to why they haven't conceived.
Jane is a lovely, lovely lady and she confided in me how desperate she was to have a baby, especially when she saw my ds . She is also very soft hearted. If I were in her shoes, I would be very upset by this joke which from her point of view was in very poor taste.
I know John didn't mean any harm, he would have thought it funny and in any other circumstances it would be. He probably did it on the spur of the moment and not really thought of how it could have been viewed by Jane. We are a pretty close bunch and it is no secret that Keith and Jane are TTCing.
I'm just wondering if I should contact my friend who runs the board and ask him to get the thread deleted then email John privately to tell him why.
Maybe I should just ignore it and hope Jane doesn;t see it...
You gonna tell me I'm making a mountain out of a molehill. I really hope so...