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| Newly Wed wrote: | | After giving birth: You had a baby? So not your type? Yeah, I'm still on on speaking terms with that woman.... |
In my 9th month, looking huge. A man comes up to me at a wedding and asks, "Excuse me, please. Are you expecting a child?"
My dh's grandma, me 5 days postpartum "You have a belly! You need a girdle!"
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| Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2012, 3:33 pm Post subject: Re: re: Dumbest comment you ever heard |
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| luv2cook4eva wrote: | | I was in the er in NYU and I overheard "is he or she in active labor?" politically correctness bs... lol |
On the ob/gyn ultrasound that's taken at twenty weeks in EY, the doctor has to fill out the gender of the patient (not the one in utero). The computer form clearly states on top: OB/GYN
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| Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2012, 3:35 pm Post subject: Re: re: Dumbest comment you ever heard |
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| luv2cook4eva wrote: | | I was in the er in NYU and I overheard "is he or she in active labor?" politically correctness bs... lol |
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| Sherri wrote: | | intrigued wrote: | | Sherri wrote: | | Sherri wrote: | | intrigued wrote: | I just gave birth 2 weeks ago. When I needed to register my baby somewhere I was asked what year he was born  | I actually get this one- was he born in 2011, a few weeks ago, or in 2012, more recently within the past 11 days? | Wait- when did you register him? As soon as he was born, when it was still 2011? |
Today. But I did say December as I gave the date before the year. I didn't bother say the year as I thought it was obvious. | Mazel tov, btw  |
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| Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2012, 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: re: Dumbest comment you ever heard |
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| jerusalem-girl wrote: | | justcallmeima wrote: | | Oh and.. (in Elul)You're due Chanukah? You're so huge!! Oh yeah, one more, when I was engaged: "You,re marrying so and so? He's old enough to be your father!" |
Someone told me that a friend asked, "You're nearing the end?" She said she was just in her seventh month. The friend was like, "Oh, ,twins!!" |
My neighbors start offering to take my kids when I'm in my 6th month. From month 6 - 9 I get comments that I must be due any moment (I do carry HUGE). One friend even commented that I look larger then a different friend who had triplets.
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| Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2012, 4:06 pm Post subject: Re: re: Dumbest comment you ever heard |
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| imaima wrote: | | Newly Wed wrote: | | After giving birth: You had a baby? So not your type? Yeah, I'm still on on speaking terms with that woman.... |
In my 9th month, looking huge. A man comes up to me at a wedding and asks, "Excuse me, please. Are you expecting a child?"
My dh's grandma, me 5 days postpartum "You have a belly! You need a girdle!" |
Omg, that takes the cake! Proves not only the young are insensitive...
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| Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2012, 4:07 pm Post subject: re: Dumbest comment you ever heard |
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| I had an unplanned homebirth (labor started, stalled, then restarted and went very quickly). I called my health insurer to add my child to my insurance. When the CSR asked if I'd delivered at the hospital I'd registered at, I explained about the homebirth. Then she asked, "Was it a vaginal birth or a c-section?"
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| Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2012, 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: re: Dumbest comment you ever heard |
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| anon for this wrote: | | I had an unplanned homebirth (labor started, stalled, then restarted and went very quickly). I called my health insurer to add my child to my insurance. When the CSR asked if I'd delivered at the hospital I'd registered at, I explained about the homebirth. Then she asked, "Was it a vaginal birth or a c-section?" |
No way !
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| Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2012, 4:16 pm Post subject: Re: re: Dumbest comment you ever heard |
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| jerusalem-girl wrote: | | anon for this wrote: | | I had an unplanned homebirth (labor started, stalled, then restarted and went very quickly). I called my health insurer to add my child to my insurance. When the CSR asked if I'd delivered at the hospital I'd registered at, I explained about the homebirth. Then she asked, "Was it a vaginal birth or a c-section?" |
No way ! |
I think the CSR was so used to going through the checklist of questions that she didn't think before she asked.
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| anon for this wrote: | | I had an unplanned homebirth (labor started, stalled, then restarted and went very quickly). I called my health insurer to add my child to my insurance. When the CSR asked if I'd delivered at the hospital I'd registered at, I explained about the homebirth. Then she asked, "Was it a vaginal birth or a c-section?" |
Ha, this is my favorite one.
Here's one for you Israeli folks: When I had my baby we had not yet qualified for Bituach Leumi, so obviously, among other things, did not get maanak leidah. A year later, we did qualify, and as the clerk was giving me all our BL information, I asked her how to go about getting maanak leidah retroactively. She said "how do we know you haven't already received it when you had your baby a year ago?" To which I said "....uh, because I only existed in your computer as of 10 seconds ago???" Nope, not good enough. I had to go BACK to the hospital to get a note from them proving I did not receive maanak leidah. (Of course they said, we don't deal with that, go to Bituach Leumi...... sigh)
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| Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2012, 4:50 pm Post subject: Re: re: Dumbest comment you ever heard |
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| jerusalem-girl wrote: | Two months after I got married: "Are you pregnant?"
Probably very interested in sharing that with you... |
Someone asked me that ONE MONTH after my wedding! I was so shocked I just answered "no" (I knew I wasn't) then the person asked "How do you know?"
A couple of weeks ago when I was in my 6th month of pregnancy, someone said to me "Wow! You are the same size as X and her baby is due in less than a week!"
I went to see an endocrinologist and when I was telling my mum what happened in the appointment I said "When he was trying to determine whether anyone in the family has any hormonal imbalances he asked me if my father was going bald" and my Mum replied with a shocked expression "And is he?!" (They were married!) We both laughed so much. She had meant to ask me if that was significant!
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After I had lost a baby in the sixth month : "You were going to have a boy this time, for sure."
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| hadasa wrote: | | After I had lost a baby in the sixth month : "You were going to have a boy this time, for sure." |
I'm so sorry, what a horrible thing to say.
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I was 18, at a GYN for the first time, getting an internally and the nurse who was in there (for security reasons, they insisted on having a woman in the room) said to me, very condescending "Dont worry honey, you are still a v!rg!n"
(I wrote it that way on purpose to make sure the censor monster doesnt eat my word)
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| Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2012, 6:09 pm Post subject: Re: re: Dumbest comment you ever heard |
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| anon for this wrote: | | I had an unplanned homebirth (labor started, stalled, then restarted and went very quickly). I called my health insurer to add my child to my insurance. When the CSR asked if I'd delivered at the hospital I'd registered at, I explained about the homebirth. Then she asked, "Was it a vaginal birth or a c-section?" |
The most insensitive/dumb comment I got:
Are YOU SURE you're not having TWINS?????
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| Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2012, 6:23 pm Post subject: Re: re: Dumbest comment you ever heard |
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| anon for this wrote: | | I had an unplanned homebirth (labor started, stalled, then restarted and went very quickly). I called my health insurer to add my child to my insurance. When the CSR asked if I'd delivered at the hospital I'd registered at, I explained about the homebirth. Then she asked, "Was it a vaginal birth or a c-section?" |
Really?!?!
that is so dumb but so not...as someone said its such a routine questions it probably just came out. Its like you say to someone x had a baby girl and they reply mazel tov what did she have?! 
A friend told me she knows s1 who is married 1 yr and not preg. She was out and a third person said to her your necklace is very nice. I know why your dh got it for you. So this girl said why? So she said because your sil was married a yr and no kids so your brother got her a gift so your dh did too.!!!!
Dumb or insensitive? More like totally obnoxiously stupid!
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| Posted: Wed, Jan 11 2012, 6:24 pm Post subject: re: Dumbest comment you ever heard |
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This doesn't have the humor that many other replies have, but it happened years ago and am still dumbstruck by it.
A dear friend had a mastectomy and was home post-surgery. A neighbor was visiting her and was complaining about the cost of all the work she had to have done on her car. My friend said, "Isn't it better to have your kind of expenses than mine?"
The response -- "At least yours are deductible."
I would write a follow-up sentence to this, but I'm dumbstruck again.
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| My premature son had to be rushed to a regional medical center. While registering when him in peds, I gave his name. A relative with the same name had been treated there also. The woman then said that my son's date of birth was _______. This would have put him in his eighties.
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My DH's boss asked my dh "oh is that your daughter?" about me. We're only a year apart!
Yesterday: random guy asked me if I put on tefillin. 0.o
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| makdragon wrote: | My DH's boss asked my dh "oh is that your daughter?" about me. We're only a year apart!
Yesterday: random guy asked me if I put on tefillin. 0.o |
I hope your wearing tzitzis too.
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