Re: Are you trying?
This one lady, a couple years older than myself, but got married a few years after I did. She and I say salaam to each other at community events, but we’re not friends, we don’t even have each others’ phone numbers. She came up to me and very confidently said, “Hey, I hope you don’t mind me asking, but are you pregnant?” I politely replied, “No, why do you ask?” And she goes, “Well some of us were talking, and we were looking at the way you’re walking, how you’re standing, and I said she’s definitely pregnant… Don’t get offended, I’m the kind of person who’ll just ask straight up, I don’t like contemplating things when I can just go and find out.”
I didn’t say anything to her then, assured her I wasn’t pregnant. Afterwards, I felt angry… Who does this woman think she is? Lets assume I actually was pregnant, and I haven’t announced it to the community for whatever reason, maybe the first trimester isn’t over and I want to make sure everything is okay before I start going around to inform everyone… What right does this person have to know news that I have not given out yet? She’s not my best friend, not my relative, not even anyone remotely close!
Oh no she didnnnnn’t!!
I can’t believe how some people are so insensitive!!
I would’ve waited for an opportune moment and said ‘are you pregnant? It’s only that I was just wondering because I was just sitting there and noticed how you were eating quite a lot today…don’t get me wrong, I know some people have a big appetite, but for someone who’s pregnant I can totally understand that the appetite is bigger than usual.’
Then wait for her gobsmacked look.
