So I asked this lady when her baby was due and she said she wasn't pregnant.

[Bake]

I didn't believe her, because, well, she sure LOOKED pregnant. Not to be ... ahem ... "deterred", I asked her if she was SURE she wasn't pregnant, and had she been to the doctor lately? Because she really really looked pregnant, I'm tellin' ya!

I don't know why she got all upset.

Bake

[Sequoia]

1. Upset?! You just had to push it. She thinks you think she's fat.

That was not nice manners.

[Bake]

Think? THINK?

I mean, there was no question about it!

Bake

[Sequoia]

17. Tee hee...I did that once. Boy, was I ever embarassed.

"No. I am NOT pregnant. Why?" An even worse event was when I went to a park with my little kid and another little girl was there whom I thought was making eyes, you playing around, and I said something about the girl with the crazy eyes. Then her mother said, "She's blind." That was the time I wish the earth would open up and swallow me, or shrink to a size of a bug....STOMP !!!

[Midlodemocrat]

2. Doofus. That was a beer belly.

I would have thought you could tell the difference. :eyes:

[Bake]

4. Then she was about to deliver a 12-pack!

It was an honest mistake.

Bake

[Arugula Latte]

3. Sheesh. Some people are so sensitive.

Like, I asked a woman why she had a beard 'cuz she was a lady and all. She said -- get this -- she was really a man. I said: "Then why do you have such big boobies?" S/he got all huffy and stormed off. I mean ... come on, people. Get over yourselves.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Yo Bake

About 90% of the females over 12 in Mississippi look like they're pregnant.

[Bake]

7. True dat, my friend!!

True dat!!

Bake

[hedgehog]

6. Never, but never assume a woman is pregnant unless you can

actually see the baby's head crowning.

[Ava]

8. that's a motto to live by

:spray:

[Deep13]

9. "Do you mind if I check to see if a baby's head is crowning?"

What?! I'm just asking! :shrug:

[BOSSHOG]

10. So that would be a royal baby?

[Lost in CT]

12. I learned that lesson the hard way once.... once.

[undeterred]

11. I would have deterred you with my fist

and said that looking pregnant makes me crabby. :hi:

[Bake]

15. I would never really do such a thing!

I would have been totally "deterred."

:hi:

Bake

[CreekDog]

13. Dave Barry's advice is worth heeding:

"You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment."

[edbermac]

14. "You're sure you aren't carrying octuplets?"

:hide:

[ismnotwasm]

16. On the other side of the gender equation

All you can really ask a man is is that a (intentionally left blank) in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Sigh.