I work with a fertile holier-than-thou little know-it-all. She's good at her job and is perfectly nice in general, but her comments can make my blood boil in an instant. I've talked about her on here before (see Stupid b****) when I dared say I was feeling tired and she immediately said "What do you have to feel tired about? You don't have a teething 18 month-old at home." That was the first week or two she was working for us. (Please note I say "for" as I'm actually one of her supervisors.) Since then, I've had to listen to her go on and on and on and on and on about her toddler and her kindergartner every single time I see her. She's one of these women who seem to think that giving birth has made her superior to everyone around her in all ways. (I guess it could be worse, she could complain about her kids.)
Yesterday we were in a meeting and she turns to me and starts a sentence with "I don't know if you've ever thought about having kids..."
Seriously? "I don't know if you've ever thought about having kids." I would have started laughing if it hadn't immediately made me so angry that I think I turned deep red. I've essentially been thinking about nothing else but having kids for two years. (Or more if you count the year or two before we started trying when we were "planning" when we'd have kids. Joke's on us.)
I mean, you can't blame her. It does seem pretty likely that a 35 year-old woman who has been married a couple of years would never have thought about having kids before. The thought just never crossed my mind. But, now that I think about it, what's wrong with me?! That's what I've been forgetting all this time. I should think about having kids. I'd better hop to it. Maybe if I think hard enough they'll appear...
***Thinking***
Do you see them? Are they there? Because, from what I've heard, all you have to do is *think* about them and they show up!
It's not a matter of timing. It's not even a matter of relaxing. It's a matter of thinking.
Maybe if we all think about it together. C'mon ladies! Help me out here. Think with me!!
***Thinking***
***Thinking***
***Thinking***
Hmm. AF just showed up.
What the hell were you people thinking out there?!
Damn, I was thinking! Hard! So much so that my secretary appeared in my office doorway with my co-workers 5 month old baby, I kid you not!
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell? apparently my thoughts can conjour up other people kids while yours bring about AF. Perhaps we can be the superheros of IF, what a team.
I HATE know it alls of any variety, fertile ones happens to suck the most!
CRAP!!! That bitch - let's take that fertile bitch out back and show her what's up!
ReplyDeleteSorry about AF - that sucks. I've thought about it so much, and yet, no kid. It's all BS...
Ahhh!!!! How nuts. I wish I had a good response for her, I am not good with the snappy comebacks!
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed at what people say and how they can say it at the absolute worst times! I wish you could have just slapped her just once.
ReplyDeleteWhat would I be thinking? I'd be thinking that bitch deserved a slap in the face. But I probably would have just smiled and responded, "Well, I have thought about having kids. But then I see how miserable you are/how much of a life you don't have/how horrible your kids are/what a bitch motherhood has made you and I thought better of it."
ReplyDeleteUgh! You did so good not punching her in the mouth. Sorry you have to deal with this bitch.
ReplyDeleteWhoa! That woman certainly doesn't "think" a lot, does she? How insensitive! How rude! Even if you weren't dealing with IF, it's still a very personal and nosey question! The nerve! And Katie's answer is exactly what you should come back at her with!!
ReplyDeleteUgh - I just want to punch her in the face for you! I really dislike this woman just from reading the few things she has said to you.
ReplyDeleteI hope your day improves and she trips over something and falls on her butt today.
So that's your problem!!!! You're not "little engine that could" enough. Next time you're trying to get pregnant, just remember "I think I can, I think I can!" That'll do the trick! (insert eye roll here....)
ReplyDeletewow...I don't know how you bit your tongue from responding to that statement. I would have said something along the lines of "Thought about it?! Lady - you have no idea how much I've thought, prayed, hoped, wished, cried over it. Maybe you should stop and think before you let the words spew from your mouth. Maybe we're having issues and don't want to advertise it like you advertise how stressful motherhood is every five seconds. Shut the F up."
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ARGH!!! So frustrating that you have to work with a fertile mertile that's a know-it-all on top of everything. {{{HUGS}}}
ReplyDeleteYeah, I would have said something. Sometimes I WISH the power of thought could make this all better. Say something next time...and watch HER turn red as she thinks back on all the idiotic things she has said to you.
ReplyDeleteWell obviously thinking isn't her strong suit so where did her kids come from, Wal-Mart?
ReplyDeleteSome of the things that people say seriously boggle my mind. I agree with Dawn, you should've slapped her and then said, "Oops, I didn't THINK that was going to happen."
ReplyDeleteUgh...nothing worse than a smug fertile.
ReplyDeleteWhat an asshole!!! I love how woman with children think that woman without children are just sittin on a beach sippin margaritas or something, like we have NOTHING to do, like life is not really being lived if you don't have children. OH now my face it red!
ReplyDeleteAh, group think...Sorry about AF's arrival; that's no fun at all. :( Hugs.
ReplyDeleteUGH -- I hate that type of freaking question!! I got it all the time and it used to make DH and my blood boil. If you're mid to late 30s and you don't have kids, it means one of two things: 1) you don't want them or 2) you're having problems having them. Both of which is no one goddamn business unless the person in question decides to bring it up. Would these same people ask you what your salary is? Of course not, but it's just as personal a question. Sheesh. I'm sorry you have to deal with that idiot.
ReplyDeleteSeriously. What an idiot. Can you PLEASE, for all of us out here, go off on her? PLEASE??
ReplyDeleteThose are the people that I LOVE to lay into and put them in their place.
ReplyDeleteIf I could, I'd punch her for you.
Your description of her made me laugh, but I can only imagine how infuriating it must be to be around that every-freakin-day. I'm trying to think of good comebacks or bon mots when she gets into her superwoman act, but nothing is coming to me. Hmmmm. I'll think on THAT!
ReplyDelete*thinking* -- but you know what, if i think about it anymore someone's going to come and wrap me up in a white coat and take me away.
ReplyDeleteso you have your woman at work who asks if you've thought about having kids, and i have mine who just assumes that i'm infertile and gives me advice on how to conceive.
perhaps they should have a 'world infertility day' where they shower people with stupid comments about how to conceive and buy parsley plants for $2 to hand to infertile women....now wouldn't that just solve all our problems?!