Now that preschool is over for Halli, I no longer have the leisure of going shopping with only one little duckling following me. (I call them my ducklings cause no matter where I go, it seems I always have two little girls following me, I'm sure many of you can relate.)
Well, now that she is usually with me, and since my belly has grown quite large recently, I tend to get quite a few comments. "You've been busy", is a fairly common one, as is..."Were ya trying for a boy?" anything along the lines of trying for a boy seem to be the most common. After which I inform them of our third little girl. This is when the unsolicited advice happens.
Just today I was at Target and an older lady asked if I had read any of the books that tell you how to get one gender over the other. I said I've read a few things, after which she proceeds to tell me, in the middle of the store, what to do.
This may not really seem too odd, until you think about the fact that a TOTAL STRANGER is telling me to use douches and that frequency in my sex life matters.....in the middle of Target! This has happened more than once. I suppose that after all this wonderful advice I'm receiving, if our next is a girl then we just don't know what we're doing! ya gotta love people that just feel the need to let you know how things are!
6.05.2008
Unsolicited Advice
Posted by April at 5:07 PM
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Amen April!!!! Ya gotta love all the wise, random people out in the world:)
What is with people!!! How come they think that you need one of both to be happy or that you have done something wrong if you have two beautiful girls and a third on the way. This is when having terrett syndrome would be beneficial.
That is so true about terrett...I would have never thought it would come in handy, but there ya go!:)
You mean you don't like talking about your sex life in Target?
How come it is always older people??? I think it is because they forget what it is like having kids since it has been so long!
I get lots of unsolicited advice since Hailee is um...challenging! :)
I like to stop people at random and talk to them about such things as sex, periods, girl parts, boy parts... you know whatever I feel they need to know at that time. I usually get great comments like "gee thanks" or "I'll have to give that a try". I like to think that I am doing my part to help educate society.
Aren't you the little social butterfly... that people are so comfortable with you to give you such motherly advice. Hey, I don't even go there and I'm your mother.
Pretend to start throwing up, that should chase them off.
very nice britt...you will be a surefire pro when your older and people are actually expecting that kind of behavior from you. It's good to start early and get lots of practice in!
Thnaks for the good laugh this morning. :) People are so funny and say the most amazing things. I know they mean well, but my goodness...what happened to a thing called tact?! It no longer exists. I hear some interesting things myself...my favorite is "are your twins real twins?" No, they are FAKE! :) That's what I feel like saying!! Guess if you used some sort of fertility your twins are not real. Crazy people!! :)
didn't your mom tell you not to talk to strangers?!?!? just run the other way and scream, YOU'RE NOT MY MOMMY!!!
No, seriously. Some people!!! I hope when I am older, I still have tact.
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