You know those comments that some people make that you just can't believe they really said? Here's one from Sunday...
I was talking to a friend and when she walked off a man (who shall remain nameless) came up and asked if my friend is pregnant. I told him that was the rumor I'd heard and he said "Well she's either pregnant or has gained a bunch of weight... And what about you? Are you pregnant?"
What! So you're implying that I look like I've gained a bunch of weight? Luckily I didn't have to go and bury my head in the sand as I've actually been losing weight, but still... Who says that?
Here's another... I was pregnant with the twins and a woman at Walmart mistook me for someone else and I just said "I get that all the time..." And the lady who was about to take our picture said "Yeah. Us fat blondes all look alike!" What? Fist, she had gray hair. Second, I was pregnant. With twins! Who says that?
Here's another... A woman (who shall also remain nameless) told my best friend at church "You really look a lot better as a blonde." Right after she colored her hair dark brown... And the same lady later told her, "Your hair looks way better today without all the stuff you usually put in..."
Who says that?
I'm not sure if people are just not smart, or just plain rude, or just plain thoughtless... What have people said to you? I think it's funny. You gotta laugh or cry sometimes and I choose to laugh!
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Just after I dyed my hair dark brown (from being blond), my brother-in-law's random friend I had only met once: "NO! Oh no! What did you do?! OMG. You look soooo much better as a blond. You have to go back!"
Awesome.
When I was at BYU a guy in one of my classes came up to me and starting talking. Eventually he mentioned that he had served his mission in France. He asked me where I was from. When I told him Canada he asked if I was from the French-Canadian part. He then went on to say that the french women he met on his mission were the ugliest women he'd ever met. Hmmmm...what did he mean by that comment? In spite of this comment he searched me out every class to sit with me, and it was a HUGE class. Go figure! :)
I've got one for you, One Sunday my kids were well umm..being kids and I had to take one of them in the hall and a lady who was passing through our ward told me that she felt inspired to tell me that I'm a bad mom and that I'm crushing thier Spirits by not allowing them to behave how they want at Church. Then she mentioned to me that it isn't worth the fight for me plus then I don't get anything out of church. I just smiled and said oh you are right their salvation along with mine just isn't worth it. And then I walked away! The nerve of some people!
And have you ever noticed that those comments do NOT come from the beautiful, or those with perfectly behaved children, or whatever. They just as "normal" as the rest of us. Maybe they're working at boosting their own self esteem by hacking away at others'!
When I was pregnant with Samantha, a lady in our Ward kept telling me, "Are you SURE you aren't pregnant with twins? Really? You look big enough to be pregnant with at least 2 if not 3 babies!" Nice, huh? Didn't do much for my pregnant self-asteem. LOL
This happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I took my 93 year old mother to the library. Waited for a handicap parking spot. I get out of the car to have someone stop behind my car and ask if I was handicap. Noticed they had a handicap plate on their car. When I say I wasn't handicap but my Mother was their reply was I couldn't park there. I continued on got the wheeelchair out of the car and Mom in her chair. They continued to talk to me about the spot. I was so upset about this I had to go home and have a piece of chocolate calm myself down.
A few years ago when I was at the YMCA watching Gillian dance, a lady asked me if Gillian was my grand-daughter. Seriously? Do I look that old? The only thing that made me feel better was the fact that this woman was a good 300pounds.
Brenda...I just totally laughed out loud!!! You are the funniest lady I know!! Here's my "Really" moment. After my 4th child was born I was walking by the pharmacy in Target pushing the really big cart (you know the one with the extra two seats) with all my kids piled in diffrent places when I heard someone say "are thay all yours?" When I didn't respond the question was asked again and this time even louder. So I smiled said yes and was quickly shot an "On purpose?" response. Really? All I could think was she was told once she was and accident and there for everyone in the world is too!
One of my old friends from Rexburg (she's so dramatic we probably already told you about her when we visited you) got on my blog and literally said, "I pretty much hate you" under the comments causing that whole blogging problem I had a couple of months ago. Whether you're being sarcastic or serious that's just something you should say in writing. I'm sorry those things happened to you. I just choose to believe that the worst stuff happens to the best/strongest. I think everyone already knows how cool you are. And just count your blessings that you're not married to them! That would be the REAL curse!
Correction : You *should NOT say*. Whoops!
oh april. people really are crazy!! when i was like 8 months pregnant with trey a lady told me she could tell i was having a boy cause i looked like a boy. i cried. but in my defense, those hormones don't like hearing things like that. now i think it's funny.
I was visiting my grandma and she introduced me to a staff member saying "this is my grandson and his twin girls." He then asked me if they were both mine. Really?
When my grandmother heard that Matt's family had goats when he was growing up, she said that goats are a sign of poverty. Nice. Also, when I was in high school, a boy asked me if I had ever thought about dyeing my hair. Great for the teenage self-esteem!! I still haven't ever dyed it.....probably just to show him.....although I don't even remember who he was. :0)
What a fun blog this has been! I guess I should add one too. When our children were small, we visited Dave's sister in Seattle who also had small children. Karen and I took the kids for an outing around town without our husbands (between us we had 6 children barely 5 years old and under which included Karen's set of twins and our daughters who were only 13 months apart). Some ladies who were passing by said in great disgust,"Go tell your husbands to get a job!!"
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