When are you going to have kids????
It's a nosy question and if you're like me you get tired of answering it! In a recent column, Dear Abby advises one fed-up unparent as such:
Dear Childless And Happy: There are several ways to handle questions that are nobody’s business.One is to deflect the question by asking another: “Why do you ask?” Or, “Why do you think that’s any of your business?” Alternatively, if you really want the person to back down, you can reply, “If it were any of your business, you’d already know the answer to that question. Please don’t ask me again!”
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Of course, BNOB has its own suggestions for deflecting unwanted prying into your personal life.
Question
Why don't you have any children?
Answer
Earnest: Because I don't want any!
Witty: Why don't you have any manners?
End of conversation: I'm infertile, you jerk! (Burst out crying)
Question
Are there any children on your horizon?
Answer
Earnest: Not the last time I looked.
Witty: No, but I think I spot a flock of geese.
End of conversation: not since losing my reproductive organs in a gruesome fly-fishing accident.
Question
Soooo, when do you think you'll be having kids?
Answer
Earnest: I have thought about it and have decided against it.
Witty: How about never? Is never good?
End of conversation: When minivans are sexy and daycare is free.
Question
Aren't you getting to the age when you should be thinking about kids?
Answer
Earnest: Gosh, i really don't think that's anybody's business.
Witty: No, but you're getting to the age when you should know better than to ask.
End of conversation: Actually, I'm getting to the age when my ovaries start producing half-wits.
For more quick replies for on the fly, check out the book!
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Dear Childless And Happy: There are several ways to handle questions that are nobody’s business.One is to deflect the question by asking another: “Why do you ask?” Or, “Why do you think that’s any of your business?” Alternatively, if you really want the person to back down, you can reply, “If it were any of your business, you’d already know the answer to that question. Please don’t ask me again!”
[LINK]
Of course, BNOB has its own suggestions for deflecting unwanted prying into your personal life.
Question
Why don't you have any children?
Answer
Earnest: Because I don't want any!
Witty: Why don't you have any manners?
End of conversation: I'm infertile, you jerk! (Burst out crying)
Question
Are there any children on your horizon?
Answer
Earnest: Not the last time I looked.
Witty: No, but I think I spot a flock of geese.
End of conversation: not since losing my reproductive organs in a gruesome fly-fishing accident.
Question
Soooo, when do you think you'll be having kids?
Answer
Earnest: I have thought about it and have decided against it.
Witty: How about never? Is never good?
End of conversation: When minivans are sexy and daycare is free.
Question
Aren't you getting to the age when you should be thinking about kids?
Answer
Earnest: Gosh, i really don't think that's anybody's business.
Witty: No, but you're getting to the age when you should know better than to ask.
End of conversation: Actually, I'm getting to the age when my ovaries start producing half-wits.
For more quick replies for on the fly, check out the book!
[LINK]
2 Comments:
Hehehe! Those are great. My favourite:
"When I run out of better things to do."
I laughed out loud at "When minivans are sexy and daycare is free." I might, in my cheerfully vulgar way, rephrase the sentiment as "When men can give birth, and babies are born toilet-trained." *grin*
I'm getting to the age where the people with the lack of manners are going to start bothering me, I wager. I may have to buy the book.
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