Usually a man walks a perilous line when he engages a woman in any discussion related to pregnancy. Because if he's commenting on her perceived condition, invariably she is not pregnant, she is just fat. And that earns the man a well-deserved slap or verbal abuse.
I stepped in the conversation hole the other day when I commented on a female co-worker's computer desktop background, which was a picture of a baby.
"Yes," she said, "that's my new baby."
"When did you have him?" I asked.
"June," she said, "right after you left to work on another project."
"Really?" I said. "I didn't realize you were pregnant. Or maybe I knew, and I've forgotten."
"No," she said, half smiling, "You probably thought I was just fat!"
Um.
2 comments:
Believe me, it's not just men who make that mistake!! Women do it to other women as well. I'm sure it stings even worse from a woman.
There are just some situations that are better avoided ;)
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