What’s Your Take On This?

by Leslie

I was having a lovely lunch at a restaurant with my family recently. An elderly couple was seated next to us. When we were finished with our meal, I scooched my butt to the end of the booth seat, maneuvered my baby belly to avoid the table and got myself up, in that characteristic pregnant lady way. The elderly woman watched me. More specifically, she was watching my belly. Once I was up and on my feet, she broke the hard belly stare with a roll of her eyes and a shake of her head, and then said to her husband, “You know, Albert is finally losing some weight.”

So, how would you have responded to that?

Wanna guess how I did? Okay.

Did I:

Ignore her. There’s no way her behavior was any kind of response to me.
Give her a mean look.
Say, “Excuse me, I’m not so much fat as I am pregnant.”
Cold cock her honky ass, Mary Katherine Gallagher style.
Smile politely on my way to cry in the bathroom.

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Amy on February 20, 2008 7:33 pm
Well, if it was me, I would have given her a mean look on my way to cry in the bathroom. Some people! I am very anti-people right now. Must be all of the hormones. If you punched her I only wish I was there to see it.
Amy on February 20, 2008 7:39 pm
PS. I think we need a picture of Julia’s new hair cut. I bet she looks adorable with the shorter hair!
Karly on February 20, 2008 7:55 pm
Hmm, I think the not pregnant, normal hormoned Leslie would smile politely and go cry. I think the swollen, tired pregnant Leslie punched the bitch. Okay, no I don’t. I think you told her you were pregnant. And if it makes you feel any better, after I had Cindy-Lu I had THREE people ask me if I was pregnant all within a week of each other. And when I answered that no, I wasn’t, but I had “just” had a baby the people were dumb enough to ask how old the baby was. Me? I just blushed a whole bunch and told the truth that she was 9 months old. So, thats totally the opposite of what happened to you, but I thought maybe hearing about my misery would make yours a little more bearable?
Veronica on February 20, 2008 10:14 pm
I’m gonna go with telling her you were pregnant. However, I bet you were dying to punch her.
kristian on February 20, 2008 10:46 pm
What an ass! I’m guessing you 5′d her, while I would have 4′d her. Do tell!
Daddy Forever on February 21, 2008 12:32 am
I think you smiled and cried. If they were not an elderly couple, you probably would have said something. Did I tell you my wife cried when someone asked her if she was having twins (child #1)?
Dana on February 21, 2008 9:22 am
The NERVE of that woman. I hope you said something. Just put her to shame. I know that’s probably not the humble way to go about it, but women like that piss me the funk off. GRRRRR.
heathersway on February 21, 2008 10:07 am
Some people are just creeps. I would have done #5. Is that what you did too?
Pam on February 21, 2008 12:25 pm
You excused the pickled mind of the senile old lady who probably wasn’t blessed with any beautiful children of her own and walked right on out. Although I don’t know why we excuse the elderly, at some point in her life, she obviously was a total bitch, just with less wrinkles.
Me on the other hand, well, let’s just say her face would have been leaking by the time I was done with her. That is just horrible. Obviously she was jealous of your blessings. Satan is like that.
Pam on February 21, 2008 12:27 pm
And PS- I’ve had people ask me if I was pregnant recently. And like Karly, I say well, I did just have a baby…even though he’s 6, I just haven’t gotten around to losing that baby weight.
Suzanne on February 21, 2008 12:39 pm
What with all the pregnancy hormones pumping through you, I’m going to guess that there was large amounts of either crying or violence. Possibly both at the same time.

(Sorry. What an old hag.)
Jerseygirl89 on February 21, 2008 2:06 pm
I hope you gave her a mean look while you told her you were pregnant, but I’m afraid with hormones and the fact that she was old you might have gone to the bathroom and cried.

I absolutely hope I’m wrong and that you cold cocked her honky ass, though.
jenn in holland on February 22, 2008 3:41 pm
I so wish you cold cocked her, and not only because she totally deserved it, but also because I totally wish I would react in such a way when someone does something like that to me. Alas, I am afraid that my actual reaction (and yours too I am guessing) is to try to keep it together long enough to make it into the bathroom before I broke down and bawled.
Boo, hiss on her. I think your belly is the bestest belly in the world.
Laurie on February 22, 2008 8:44 pm
I so hope you number 3′d.
susiej on February 22, 2008 9:03 pm
I’m guessing you told her you were pregnant…. that would have made her really feel BAD.
Fourier.Analyst on February 23, 2008 4:41 am
Knowing that you are one of those nice people, I figure you went with 5. Me, I would have gone with 6. Told her in no uncertain terms in a very loud voice “How dare you make comments about someone who is X months pregnant and suffering from early pre-eclampsia. Do you know how bad I would like for all of this to be over and that my self and my baby are healthy? This may be the last time I am able to get out of the house for the next X months as the doctors are about to confine me to total bed rest. And then you have the nerve to be so insulting and turn this into a horribly memorable experience. I hope you don’t behave this way to your family members the way you do to total strangers who have done nothing to you, or you will find yourself in the nursing home in no time at all” How do I know I would say this? Because I did in a very similar situation when I was 8 months pregnant with DD2. I wasn’t suffering from pre-eclampsia, but she didn’t know that. And I accompanied the story with floods of tears which seemed to come for any reason due to the raging hormones. And while I did it in my best Dutch, I am sure it was obvious I was not a native speaker, which called for even more attention on the part of the other patrons around us. The entire restaurant had stopped eating to hear/watch this drama. The manager came out and apologized and offered to pay for our meal. A lady customer at a nearby table thanked me for having the courage to respond and wished me luck. I am not so sure about the other patrons, but the old hag and her husband left quickly while I was still trying to get into the car.

The down side of this is that my DH was not pleased. He had been getting DD1 into her coat and hadn’t heard the remark. Being German, he is not very fond of making such spectacles and if he had heard, he would not have said anything. But instead of spoiling the whole evening for me, I felt totally vindicated and good about myself. I even rewarded myself with dessert and did not feel at all guilty about it!

Okay Les, what did you do? More important, what did Dave do?
Jen in MI on February 23, 2008 5:09 pm
I have a feeling you responded with number 5, although you shouldn’t have because it’s her idiot problem, but I think number 4 might have been more therapeutic, if not mature. I’m so sorry - folks are just plain evil and stupid at times.