One Way to Shut it Down
July 8th, 2007
“I just can’t believe people. I mean, people we don’t even know! They have no problem just blatantly asking us if we’re going to have kids, are planning to have kids, want kids. How do they think it’s appropriate to ask? And what possible answer is there?”
“I’m just going to start telling them no, we can’t have kids, because I have penile leprosy.”
One time a woman asked me if I had kids and when I said no, she followed up with, “Oh, well then… got grandkids?”
Get used to it! People will ask you that the day you give birth, that is if my brother gets over his leprosy! LOL.Its annoying but it NEVER ends.
Hi, Jess,
I am finally ending my lurk-only policy and adding my two cents here. Back in the stone ages when we decided to get married in June, and planned a Sept. wedding, everyone thought we were pregnant. Even during the wedding, it seemed every conversation started with, “So?” Eventually progeny ensued, but Really. The nerve.
Be strong.
To follow up on Suzanne’s point…
And the day AFTER you give birth, they’ll start asking when you are going to have another.
Well played, childless, useless to society non breeding breeders. I’m gay so I DON’T have to have kids.
It’s so like Keith to pull the penile-leprosy card…
When I called a friend of mine who had gotten married 2 years earlier, and didn’t have kids, that I was pregnant and getting married in the coming months her reply was: “Oh my God you are so lucky - you will totally avoid the ‘when are you having a baby?’ question!”
(on the other hand I couldn’t drink at my wedding - so it all balances out}