# Fucking'ell not again! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001 "2009-06-16T23:00:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/1 "2009-06-16T23:00:45Z")
So I just had to carry a screaming two year old half a mile with groceries for dinner. She weighs more than 30 lbs, she wanted me to carry her, but wouldn’t grip with her legs for much of it. AND!!! My wife is pregnant again! So I have to deal with two of them in 9 months! How could something like this happen? AAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!! \*Those of you who know me IRL please don’t spill the beans where my family will see it, IE, Facebook, we are going to tell them when we see them in June. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/2 "2009-06-16T23:25:08Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > How could something like this happen? The boy bee shakes his pollen on the girl bee. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/3 "2009-06-16T23:45:11Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > How could something like this happen? In addition to AuntiePam’s excellent suggestion, it might have started when you said “we can’t afford a stroller”. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/4 "2009-06-17T00:35:37Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > How could something like this happen? The usual way, I would imagine. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/5 "2009-06-17T02:40:29Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > How could something like this happen? It’s them no-good storks, running 'round dropping babies on innocent folk. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/6 "2009-06-17T02:55:21Z")
Heh, heh! Congratulations! I’m an expectant father too, a couple months ahead of you. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/7 "2009-06-17T02:55:49Z")
Heh. 20+ years from now, you’ll look back on all this fondly. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/8 "2009-06-17T05:26:02Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Heh. 20+ years from now, you’ll look back on all this fondly. From the old folks home she put you in 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/9 "2009-06-17T05:51:47Z")
I didn’t plan to stop at one. But essentially I have. For precisely this reason. My girlfriend has two children under the age of 3. To her credit, she was medicated prior. I’m trying to teach my daughter to put on shoes before she goes outside. My husband takes her out (without shoes) to where I am, then wanders off. What do I have to do? Carry a 35lb kid UP a mountain. No, she didn’t grip with her legs either. The last portion of the ride, I was carrying a box turtle, a toddler, some gardening tools and a cup full of worms. Another one? No thanks. Although I did enjoy the bit of revenge I got on her later. Tickling her silly. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/10 "2009-06-17T06:25:47Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > From the old folks home she put you in 🙂 I certainly hope I am not in an old folks home when I am 51! **Auntbeast** Yeah, that sort of thing happens. I didn’t plan on stopping at one, and apparently we didn’t. It’s pretty nutty to think of having TWO kids. I just don’t know wtf to think about it. I’m a little worried financially to be honest. I tried to start a business and made a poor choice that basically fucked everything up, so now I am a bit in debt and need to get a job working for someone else. But ah well, there’s no motivator like necessity. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/11 "2009-06-17T10:52:19Z")
Eat the child. That way you will not have to carry it, and will save on carrying a few loads of groceries. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/12 "2009-06-17T10:57:38Z")
mswas, maybe you’ll get lucky and have twin girls the second time around. I did. Imagine doing what you do with twins. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/13 "2009-06-17T11:26:12Z")
Congratulations. Sending a wish for a healthy and easy pregnancy. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/14 "2009-06-17T11:37:31Z")
**Khadaji** , you forgot “small handed obstetrician” and “small but healthy child” and “Buckets and buckets of drugs” and “warm socks.” Hey **mswas** , these are things your wife will wish for. You got your own problems. 🙂 The best of luck to the three of you. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/15 "2009-06-17T13:51:19Z")
**mswas** - My mother had 4 under the age of three. If she can do it, you can too. (Altogether there were 5 of us in 6 years, plus a 2nd set of twins that died. She only stopped when uterine cancer forced her too.) Congratulations!!! StG ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/16 "2009-06-17T14:05:14Z")
This makes me think of an adorable conversation I overhead the other day. There was a dad in the same boat as you grocery shopping with a little one (or two) and I overheard this man expressing sympathy by saying, “My wife and I had three kids in 18 months so I can relate.” The dad asked how old they were. 46, 46 and 44. See? Living proof that this will pass. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/17 "2009-06-17T14:08:11Z")
> [@](#): > > How could something like this happen? Oh, sometimes it involves booze, sometimes it involves a romantic comedy, sometimes it involves a power outage. If you watch a romantic comedy while drinking, and then the power goes out, well, then, you are pretty much guaranteed to have a little bundle of joy in nine months or so. Glad I could clear things up for you. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/18 "2009-06-17T14:14:40Z")
Holy shit, dude, congratulations! My wife tells me she is making dinner plans with you guys, so hopefully we will see you all soon. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/19 "2009-06-17T14:25:19Z")
Ha ha, **mswas** is fertile. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001/20 "2009-06-17T15:41:41Z")
I wouldn’t mind having another kid, but the thought of another three years of no sleep changes my mind in about three seconds. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuckingell-not-again/500001.md?page=2)