Nevermind the general rudeness and abruptness. Here’s what took the cake:
“That YOUR baby?”
“Yes, he’s mine.”
“You’re awfully young! How old ARE you!?”
“I’m 19…”
:looks at Michael: “Aww, poor baby…”
Excuse me, bitch?
Oh, poo. This, as you can guess, was supposed to go in the Pit. My apologies.
Aw. Your trouble is you’re too slow on the uptake. Allow me to rewrite that conversation for you.
“That YOUR baby?”
"Er, no, actually, I just found him in a car out in the parking lot…"
“You’re awfully young! How old ARE you!?”
"I’m 13, but everyone says I look 16…"
:looks at Michael: “Aww, poor baby…”
"Yeah, poor kid–and the worst of it is, when I’m done here at the Post Office, I’m going to leave him in the Kentucky Fried Chicken’s dumpster down the street, he’ll probably end up in a foster home for a while until they figure out who he belongs to, that’s if the Sanitation Department guys spot him in time and he isn’t crushed to a bloody pulp, poor little guy…"
**Awwww Poor Baby **
Poor Baby? This is Bill Gates only nephew. I’m the nanny.
“That YOUR baby?”
"Baby? What ba … EUGGGHH! GET IT OFF ME! GET IT OFF ME!"
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! neofishboy, you cracked me up!
“That YOUR baby?”
“Oh, yes, pardon me. I’m always doing that. <zzzzzip>”
[Fat Bastard]
That kinda looks like a baby…
C’mere! I’m gonna eat ya!!!
GET IN MY BELLY!!!
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Thanks for the laughs, guys, wish I’d thought of those myself (though the bitch would probably have just called Social Services on me for trying.) But this is really very pissy, and it gets to my girlfriend (his mother). She gets dirty looks everywhere she goes. When she was pregnant, a woman walked up to her on campus at KU and put her hand on my gf’s chest and yelled “GOD BLESS THE MOTHER AND THE CHILD!” I mean, she’s scared shitless to go anywhere with him, because everyone looks at her and thinks “whore.”
There are two possible responses to that in my violent little mind:
- Snap and kill GodLady.
- Shriek in an equally loud voice “MAY THE DARK LORD CHTHULHU DEVOUR YOUR SOUL AS IT WRITHES IN TORMENT!”
Apologies for butchering the spelling of the Dark One.
SanibelMan, although I know having a baby young isn’t the ideal situation, it can work. My cousin had her son at 18, dealt with an abusive husband, and when we got her away from him - she put herself through community college, has worked her butt off for years, met a wonderful guy and married him, and now in addition to her 17-year-old son (who, although he’s got the typical teenage attitude, he’s a hard worker and has designs on Harvard), she has a 13-year-old daughter, and a great life that she’s worked extremely hard for - so tell your girlfriend to ignore the naysayers, she knows what’s best for her and your son. There are idiots all over the place - the hard part is ignoring them.
(And personally, I would have grabbed the postal worker’s supervisor and lodged a complaint, but that’s just me…)
Ava
Or you could take SpazCat’s advice. Personally, I like her advice better…:D.
Ava
SanibelMan, sometimes you can’t win for losing! People criticize you and your girlfriend for having a baby so young. I was 25 when I had my first one, but sometimes I get criticized for being too old to have a 3-year-old (I had my last one when I was 38, so now I’m 41). People feel sorry for her because I don’t have the energy that a younger mom has! And they bitch because I have more than two kids (although I’m sure they’d bitch if I only had one), they bitch cuz I’m a stay-at-home mom (although I’m sure they’d bitch if I worked outside the home), they bitch because I homeschool my kids (and they’d probably bitch if I let them suffer the indignities and inadequacies of public school), yadda, yadda, yadda.
Whatever happened to “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all”???
Well, you know what they say: You can’t please everyone, so screw it! (Well, OK, they don’t say that. I just made it up, so sue me).
Best of luck with parenthood!