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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For example, I was changing DC's diaper the other day, and a mom noticed it was cloth (hard to hide) and said, "Oh, I bet you think you're better than me because you use cloth and I use Huggies."  It was strange, so strange.  I didn't know what to say and just muttered something about it being cheaper.  I have a really hard time dealing with up front people and knowing what to say when I'm directly challenged.[/quote]

In sorry, but that didn't happen like that, out of the blue. 
I really think this is made up [/quote]

I grew up in the Midwest and I can totally believe this happened. When I return home for visits after having lived on the East coast for 20 years I get hit with defensive attitudes all the time from people assuming that I will think I'm better/smarter/more educated than they and they are very quick to jump on the offensive. And in fact it even happened before I moved away the first time. I saw this sort of snotty attitude all the time from people in the town in rural northern Missouri where I went to college. I was a waitress and there was a certain segment that really enjoyed talking loudly about how dumb college students were while you were bringing them their drink refills. And I'll never forget the time I was living in Kansas City and some old guy checking us out at the supermarket overheard me say I lived in the city and out of the blue leaned over and said, "What, Johnson County not good enough for you?" (To which, yeah, actually, with losers like him living there....not to mention Brownback these days. But he was working on nothing but his own low self-esteem there.)

That said, of course these losers were just a very small subset of the population and I'm sorry they're the people you're first encountering, OP. It's not you. It's definitely them. And it's also true that a lot of people don't necessarily realize how they sound and actually aren't intending to be jerks, so I like the PP's idea of turning comments into icebreakers when possible. But the diaper lady was just a bitch.[/quote]

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