# Dear CitizenPained

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-citizenpained/611362>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 1, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-citizenpained/611362 "2012-02-01T00:19:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-citizenpained/611362/272 "2012-02-12T04:43:23Z")

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> [@CitizenPained](#):
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> I didn’t say it was in a frame on my nightstand. He wasn’t even with me at that time. (I actually don’t have a nightstand.) It was tossed on the floor next to my purse.

Where was the kid if he wasn’t with you? Doesn’t he sleep in your bed? When you said ‘there’s an ultrasound photo next to my bed’ people took it to mean that you were keeping an ultrasound photo next to your bed. Are you saying that you just looked at the photo briefly while sitting on the bed during the day, when your son wasn’t there? Because that’s not what most people would understand ‘a photo next to my bed’ to mean.

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> Stop making up shit. I say, “I put cereal, a banana, Craisins, and a protein bar in his lunch” and it turns into “She only feeds him little baggies of stale Cheerios for lunch because she’s a bad mom!”

Oh come on, you said:

> [@The Anxiety is Killing Me!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-anxiety-is-killing-me/612368/1):
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> I go grocery shopping every Saturday. I hate it. Sometimes i leave my cart behind and go home and order in for a few days. Sometimes my son eats cereal in his sack lunch because I couldn’t make it to the store. One anxiety streak three and a half years ago, I barely went to the store at all - had groceries, pizza, and subs delivered for 3.5 months.

And from that we were supposed to understand that you really meant ‘I always make sure my son has a healthy balanced lunch every day because I’m a great mom!’. Please.  
ETA: Okay, I got ninja’d while writing that. You didn’t say he only got cereal. But, praytell, where the hell did the banana come from if you couldn’t handle the store? Do you have magical bananas in your parts that last two weeks? Because I could use some of those.

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