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Stupid things people have said to you

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JennH · 03/02/2004 13:42

I have never heard as much rubbish as i have heard since i had my baby.

Things i get a lot-
What is HE called? (He is a girl and always wears pink)
Aww is she a big sister (said when she was obviously new born)

Am i the only one who has a child that people constantly think is the opposite sex?

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Browbeaten · 07/02/2004 16:48

I was at a friend's son's 1st birthday party when I overheard her mother saying to someone "last time I saw her she was 6 months pregnant and half the size she is now". She was talking about me and I had given birth 11 months earlier!!

emsiewill · 07/02/2004 23:06

My mum always used to hate telling people that she had MS - standard reply "I used to know someone with that - they're dead now, though".

Can understand it to a certain extent, as I have to fight the urge to say to someone with MS "My mum used to have MS. She's dead now, though"

suzywong · 07/02/2004 23:09

Angeliz, that's so insensitive
What a dumb dumb thing to say, he doesn't sound like he's the sharpest tool in the box

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gingerbear · 07/02/2004 23:34

'Hasn't she got a lot of hair'.....
'Isn't she hairy?'......

just what do you say in reply to that?

Her dad is a chimpanzee????

Angeliz · 08/02/2004 01:26

thanks Suzywong+, i thought that too, i just kept thinking about the actual "meaning" of what he'd said! (though i don't think he ever did!)

musica · 08/02/2004 08:47

The best thing I ever heard was in the supermarket with ds. Ds is very blond, particularly in the summer, when his hair goes almost white. This particular checkout lady went "Oh, what beautiful hair - do you bleach it?"

Ds was nearly 2 at the time. Obviously I do tip a ton of bleach on it every night just to keep it looking blond!

marthamoo · 08/02/2004 10:55

hmb..me too (and I'm not a scientist). Said to ds2 in the supermarket the other day "OK, we need some carrots.." He points at the carrots "cats! cats!" so I said "no, not those carrots, those are organic carrots, we need...erm...inorganic carrots."

marthamoo · 08/02/2004 10:58

musica, that remonds me of my friend, who's daughter has beautiful curly hair. Woman in shop..."oh, look at that gorgeous hair. Is it natural?" Duh...no...she's 18 months old so her Mum gets it permed every couple of months.

saintshar · 08/02/2004 13:53

My now mil said when i found out i was pregnant with ds1 "never mind, you are only 10 Weeks pregnant, you might lose it."
It wasn't a planned pregnancy, and we wern't married at the time, but i was 23, and we had been engaged for 4 years. How incensitive can you get?

Demented · 08/02/2004 14:48

Old ladies on the bus "They're no babies long these days, dressed in aw their designer clothes", comment meant for DS2, a couple of months old in his dungarees and for DS1 (five) who was enjoying spiking his hair up after swimming and looking in the mirror at the changing rooms "They grow up so fast these days".

MIL when was told her I was pg with DS1 (planned) "What are we going to do about this problem?" .

arabella2 · 08/02/2004 16:01

What are WE going to do about this PROBLEM??? Is she mad?? I hope you told her to take a running jump. I bet now she behaves as if your children are in reality hers...

spacemonkey · 08/02/2004 16:19

several times i have been asked by complete strangers if my eyes are real!

i think they mean am i wearing coloured contact lenses???!

lou33 · 08/02/2004 16:24

I think that is hilarious, and I can confirm people have indeed said this, and yes they are real! Rofl!

Demented · 08/02/2004 20:50

arrabella2, unfortunately not, she told us not to have any more and when my pg with DS2 was announced eyes were rolled heavenward. Her solution with DS1 was for us to move back to their area of the country that we had just recently left (she had a house picked out and everything), for my DH to return to a much lower paid job and for me to go back to work full-time in the job that I had just left and for her to look after DS1 - "the problem", this was of course her living in a fantasy that these jobs would still be available to us. Mad, mad woman, I could go on all night but I won't.

Demented · 08/02/2004 20:51

LOL Spacemonkey, what colour are your eyes?

Lisa78 · 08/02/2004 21:39

Why on earth would people ask you if your eyes are real?!?! Are they purple and orange or something?

spacemonkey · 08/02/2004 21:44

LOL! Not purple and orange, no! I don't know what's weird about them, they're just a light bluey greeny colour

stupidgirl · 08/02/2004 22:02

I went to the doc when 8 months pregnant for something completely unrelated. I was given a prescription and and as he gave it to me the dr said "You're not pregnant, are you?" Erm, yeah, did you even look at my notes????

My mum when I told her I was pg made some comment about how I wouldn't miscarry as that never did happen when it was unwanted????? As if a miscarriage would be a good thing? And the pregancy was very much wanted (although I was only 17)

Oh, and incidently, there was a little girl who used to go to our m+t group - only about 3, and a redhead. Then, one day, at the start of a new term she turned up with jet black hair. Her mum was dyeing it. Poor little thing - it really upaset me.

lou33 · 08/02/2004 22:49

Spacemonkey has the biggest lovliest bright blue eyes, Demented. They are quite striking.

spacemonkey · 08/02/2004 22:55

aww shucks lou i love you!

nutcracker · 08/02/2004 23:03

Oh my god, dyeing a 3 year olds hair, thats awful IMO

lou33 · 08/02/2004 23:04

Spacemonkey.

Demented · 08/02/2004 23:07

Aw aint that nice! There was me thinking along the same lines as Lisa78 as well!

My Mum's first pregnancy ended in miscarriage and she spent alot of time in the first 12 weeks of my pregnancy with DS1 reminding me how common it was and not to be surprised if it happened. I know she was only trying to prepare me and was probably thinking of her own experience but I would have prefered if she hadn't gone on about it. My Mum is also of the "there must have been something wrong with it", "it's nature's way", "it was only a few weeks anyway" brigade, strange even after she has been through it herself.

spacemonkey · 08/02/2004 23:10

mind you they are usually red and blue after a night out with lou33

lou33 · 08/02/2004 23:46

You bring out the party animal in me, what can I say?!