"Are you pregnant?"

[themae]

or "When are you due?"

Do you know how many times I got that, while wearing an apron with a big pocket in the front.

One time, on a particularly bad day, with a particularly salty customer who rudely said "You pregnant?" I said "No, sorry. Just fat. Have a nice day!"

[ShinyGreenApple]

I got that a few times, and always when I was wearing a WM company polo. I stopped wearing that shirt

But I thought this was pretty much a taboo rule to break, yet people are doing it . . . UGH!

[Marnier]

I've had a customer actually touch my stomach before asking if i was pregnant. I was like then said "nope" and ran away.

[Rubystars]

I was ringing someone's groceries up one day and they asked me some kind of question and I didn't hear it, so I asked them to repeat it, and they said "Oh you were probably thinking about that baby coming soon." I told them I wasn't pregnant, I was fat. Their eyes got really wide and they looked really embarassed. I was too.

They forgot something because they just wanted to get away from me so I took it out to them in the parking lot and they were still apologizing to me.

I told them it was ok. It did bother me, but I at least wanted to be nice. Hopefully they won't act that way again.

[MaverickGypsy]

Somebody once said, "Never ask a woman if she's pregnant, unless you can see the head crowning."

[gunsage]

My wife was a member over at a pregnancy board for a while and discussed the issue of belly touching. Honestly, I think it'd be very rude to walk up to someone and touch the belly. I mean, come on, I don't walk up to you and grab your tits, why would you think that's acceptable? Actually, that's the way one of the members handled it. There was an old woman that touched the member on the belly asking the typical questions of when it's due and such...so the member responded by poking the old woman's boob.

She tried to say how rude it was, blah blah. The member responded with "Well, you didn't so much as ASK if you could touch my belly, so I consider that to be just as bad. Whaddaya think?" The old woman pissed off. Good stuff.

[Bright_Star]

Because a woman LOOKS pregnant doesn't mean that she IS. PLUS you should NEVER ask a woman if she's pregnant UNLESS you're 100% sure that she is BEFORE you even think of asking her. Whatcha gonna do if she's just a little on the heavy side & you ask if she's pregnant & she says NO? You're going to slink away with your tail bewtween your legs.

[ZeoViolet]

I made such a faux pas when I was thirteen years old. I was very embarrassed by my mistake, and it taught me such discretion fast. Luckily the lady did not act offended, but I must have still bruised her pride. Looking back, I still feel pretty bad, and that was almost fourteen years ago.

[gunsage]

This always reminds me of a section in an old old OLD Mad book I bought entitled "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions." One woman started with "Say, are you expecting...?" The other woman responds "I'm not pregnant." And then the original woman responds with one of multiple things and there's even a spot for you to write in your own. Here's the one that was already there that I liked best...

"Say, are you expecting...?"
"I'm not pregnant."
"...that bus to arrive soon? It's always late!"

[Ljt09863]

Ive had a woman go on for a few minutes about how great it must be to be pregnant and how excited i must be....when i wasn't pregnant.

but i have to say when i was pregnant, i loved it when people noticed. one of the first days i went on maternity leave (two weeks before i gave birth), fiance and i went to a video store, and the clerk behind the counter sounded geranlly excited for us. i was surprised because i have found that alot of men(that i have come across and i am not saying that all men are like this, just the ones ive been around), really don't show alot of interest in it.

even now almost 9 months after giving birth ill have customers come up to me and ask when i gave birth.

[Eireann]

I asked someone if she was pregnant in what must be one of the few safe ways to ask:

"Is it the clothing you're wearing, or are you pregnant?"

(She was pregnant, by the way.)

[crazylegs]

When working the healthcare counter at a pharmacy the question are you pregnant was treated in the same way you would a petrol soaked pile of fireworks surrounded by a minefield.

Easiest way around it was to simply state (whilst maintaining eye contact) Not to be taken whilst pregnant or breast feeding covers all bases.

[Marxfan]

Unbelievable that science has developed a pill that tones down the symptoms of herpes but not a pill that induces tact.

[Hobgoblin]

In my EMT training we were simply told to ask any female above the age of 13 who was experiencing stomach pains if it were possible she could be pregnant. The looks you get from parents....

Oh, and then you have to ask that again if you are thinking about giving some sort of medicine to the patient.

[queenbb]

years ago i had a issue about my weight because of some medications that i was on. at the time i worked in drug and alcohol rehab, and one of the clients absconded (ie ran away) he was in the program about 2 days or so before he took off. so a few months later he was apprehended and he comes back to my office to get tested and asks me "so did you have a boy or a girl" i had lost about 40 lbs by that point. i just said um i didnt have a baby, it was just the medication i was on that made me fat. the guy was so embarrased he absconded again (or so we would say as we would some times make up reasons for them to run off)

about the same time i had to go to my 10 year hs reunion, and everyone would ask me how many childeren i have had. my reply none i just got fat ok. i weighed 102 in school and at that time i was at 180.