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DCUMomers are everywhere!!!! Hooray to the judgmental I3!tch35 around.
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Today I was in line at Così and I hear someone behind me saying "Oh, she's so cute!". I gave the person a smile and said thank you and the person kept talking "but isn't this young lady a little too old to be facing mommy? She should be looking around, no? You have a fancy stroller why don't you just turn her around?" I just pretend I didn't hear it. As I reach to get my order from the counter the voice again behind me "What kind of sandwich is that?" I answered the question with another smile and turned around to go to my table.
As I walk to my table pushing the stroller the person gives me a huge smile and I just keep walking. I started feeling awkward. Once I'm about to finish my sandwich I noticed the person changing tables to a table right next to ours. I pretended I didn't see again but the voice was just too loud "Is it your first child?" I smiled and said YES with my mouth full. (at this point I started getting pissed) The person just didn't stop "and did you get an epidural?"  I just gasped.
"I'm sorry sir, what did you say?" I said standing up. And he said "You know, the injection to keep you from feeling pain, did you get it or you went all natural?" I just looked at him  and said I'm sorry but it's none of your business. Have a good one" and I left.
Yes, it was a guy and I could not believe he asked me that question!!!!!!! I thought people were very passionate about this kind of arguments here because we're all anonymous, you know? I never imagined people really cared that much about other people's parenting choices in real life. OMG! I'm still in shock! Great, I feel better now. Vent over. |
Anonymous
| I don't get the title of your post. WTH? |
Anonymous
| Seriously, people are so f-ing weird. I believe it to tell you the truth, no one has a damn filter anymore. You were alot nicer then I would have been! |
Anonymous
So you don't belong in here. Get out then! |
Anonymous
Why don't you just use the word "bitches" ? |
Anonymous
| bizarre and creepy. i don't know how he went from cute kid to stroller advice to epidural... i find it very odd and it would have made me very uncomfortable... doesn't sound like a dcum judge-y type - more like a weirdo pervert type. |
Anonymous
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Well, that was certainly a weird post, OP. I'd think you were making it up, especially with your odd title, and the fact that it's fairly unbelievable the way you wrote it. ONly thing that makes me think it is real is that I actually was asked by a man (in the pain quotidien on capitol hill of all places) if I'd had an epidural. My husband and I were eating lunch there and the man and his infant daughter started making small talk, and then out of nowhere he asked a series of personal questions, including whether I'd had my child in a hospital or not (yes) or if I'd had an epidural (no). He then went on to say that his wife had their daughter at home, natural birth. I was a bit taken aback but he was not American and I think it was a genuinely sincere attempt to make conversation / find something in common with one us. Maybe we also just screamed "crunchy natural birth types" or something. In any case, he guessed right, but I do kind of wonder if I'd have said I had an epidural how his response might have been different.
FWIW, that's the only time I've been asked invasive questions. |
Anonymous
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I didn't spell it out because some people access it from work and they should not click on links with graphic words since it shows up in some filters.
Have you ever heard of SFW kind of posts or the only discussion boards you guys visit is DCUM? Geesh! |
Anonymous
| That is very, very weird OP. Asperger's Syndrome possibly? I would just write it off or try to laugh about it. |
cuzimawesome
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Ha. That's something my Kindergartener would say. |
Anonymous
That was supposed to be a joke. Oh well... |