Some people will complain about anything...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Recently, we got a complaint because one of the big ad signs in the maternity department, for some brand of maternity clothes, features a woman not wearing an engagement or wedding ring.

[Mikkel]

Recently, we got a complaint because one of the big ad signs in the maternity department, for some brand of maternity clothes, features a woman not wearing an engagement or wedding ring.

Tell the complainant that she took it off because she was going to wash dishes .

[Amina516]

Gah!! I hate people!

Seriously...dumb shit like that pisses me off...Ugh. Get. A. Life.

[Mnemjian]

How is just an engagement ring on an obviously expecting woman any better than no ring at all? Either way, she engaged in some premarital relations

[Merriweather]

Gah!! I hate people!

Seriously...dumb shit like that pisses me off...Ugh. Get. A. Life.

Geez. I mean, even if you do have deep rooted feelings about unmarried mothers and think you're entitled to make it your business when it isnt,

First, that's a MODEL, she probably isn't even pregnant.

Second, since when are married women required by law to wear a ring so we can confirm their status?

Third, in reality, many many pregnant women can't wear their rings cause their hand swell up.

Fourth thru empteenth, Get a life it aint your concern, LOL.

[EvilEmpryss]

Merriweather, you put it perfectly. People need to get a life.

I was married and pregnant while working in a machine shop, so I almost never wore my wedding rings. Not only couldn't I wear them for safety reasons at work, but by the end of the day my hands were swollen and they wouldn't fit.

I wonder if people are so worried about not being able to control their own lives, they feel the need to try to control other people's lives?

[depechemodefan]

Oh great, now the teens and unmarried women who walk in will see that ad and decide, "hey, why get married to have a kid?"

[blas]

I've never really been a ring person, but I tell ya, working at several jobs where hand jewelery is forbodden (especially the last 3 1/2 at my current job), I don't even bother trying to wear rings on my days off. Sometimes on my days off I forget to even wear a necklace because it's so routine to not wear them.

I have a feeling if hell froze over, earth turned upside down and Wisconsin moved to Arizona's spot and the right guy came along and I got engaged/married, it'd be a huge new thing to be wearing a ring and it'd have to be getting into a new habbit.

[lobo94]

Ya know, if I were independently loaded, I'd travel from store to store, and when I saw an SC, I'd swoop in and tell them to quit being sucky. Maybe wear a cape...call myself Captain Avenger.

In all seriousness...some people...

[AccountingDrone]

Merriweather, you put it perfectly. People need to get a life.

I was married and pregnant while working in a machine shop, so I almost never wore my wedding rings. Not only couldn't I wear them for safety reasons at work, but by the end of the day my hands were swollen and they wouldn't fit.

I wonder if people are so worried about not being able to control their own lives, they feel the need to try to control other people's lives?

Also was a machinist, and mrDrone is a naval auxilliaryman, which is a strange combination of plumber, diesel mechanic and outside mechanic. We do not have wedding rings, as neither of us can feel comfortable wearing rings. Made for a very strange wedding, the poor justice of the peace had trouble because the standard ceremony calls for rings.

[42_42_42]

Heck I'm married, but not pregnant and I don't wear my rings half the time! I have very sensitive skin and wearing them all the time causes irritation, plus I am frequently engaged in activities (cooking, cleaning, crafts) that I would be taking them off and leaving them lying around the house. I only put them on when I'm leaving the house or we have company coming over, otherwise, they're in their dish on my dresser.

[jackfaire]

In Basic we would travel to various parts of base in these cattle cars it was unsafe during training to be wearing your wedding band. I was the only one who listened and left if off while we were training. I kept getting crud from the other guys that leaving it off like that was disrespecting my wife.

Ironically in advanced training all the same guys and me. I was the only one that didn't cheat on my wife. I mean that literally every single married guy but me cheated but damn they were sure wearing their wedding rings.

[mikoyan29]

In Basic we would travel to various parts of base in these cattle cars it was unsafe during training to be wearing your wedding band. I was the only one who listened and left if off while we were training. I kept getting crud from the other guys that leaving it off like that was disrespecting my wife.

Ironically in advanced training all the same guys and me. I was the only one that didn't cheat on my wife. I mean that literally every single married guy but me cheated but damn they were sure wearing their wedding rings.

I seem to remember a Seinfeld where George started to wear a wedding ring in order to pick up women.

[jackfaire]

I seem to remember a Seinfeld where George started to wear a wedding ring in order to pick up women.

It works I was wearing mine the weekend the other guys cheated I was propositioned but told them no. Can't help it I am a hardcore monogamist. and closet chick flick watcher.

[lobo94]

Jackfaire-more power to you. When I was stationed at McClellan, some fools got the idea I was practicing an alternative lifestyle because I didn't run around chasing the local womenfolk. In my defense, for a time, there was someone back home.

A funny. There were a couple of local girls who were well known to the soldiers of Charlie Company, 46th Engineers. To the point that anyone pulling duty was instructed to make sure they signed into the visitor log.

One day, they come knocking on my barracks room door.

The door is opened. By a little old lady with graying red hair. My mother was visiting. I'd taken my little brother off someplace. They said they had come to see me. Mom invited them in, chatted them up. Made it a point to show them a picture I had on my desk of an old girlfriend I was still friends with, giving the impression that we were still involved.

The girls beat feet. When I found out later, I laughed like heck.

A wedding ring, without the committment, is just a piece of jewelry.