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[dragonlady7]

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ok so like

actually today was fine, i ran around all day, lots going on, but i’m just

i’m just going to put out this one lil vignette

cut for body issues and indirect pregnancy talk and just, length and whining i guess

i was at a thing, walking around, looking at stuff, kind of a fair kind of thing? outdoors, masks, whatnot. anyway. this woman. this old woman. she’s sitting in a booth. i’m standing there with my mom perusing the merchandise. this woman says. “Oh! When’s your baby due?”

I look around. who is she talking to. where is this potential mother. there’s no one here. oh there’s me. and my mom. and my mom is seventy. and i’m. wearing. a dress. that fits kinda funny but is comfortable oh no. oh no she’s looking at me. oh fuck.

here’s the thing. like rule one. rule one of at least western society. you never ever. ever ask a person that. like ever oh god. so it wasn’t that i was so upset or anything but then i had to look at this woman, and be like ha, ok, so, funny story, i’m just fat. and then she was like oh no oh christ oh shit oh no, because you don’t. you don’t ask a person that question and why would you.

anyway it was super awkward. and i was like genuinely like oh! ha ha. no this dress just fits kinda funny, plus i’m fat. understandable mistake. but then she couldn’t let it go and kept apologizing, and i’m like ok it’s like. it’s only funny if we both laugh, so can we just laugh, and move on.

fortunately it turns out my mom knew her, because my mom knows everyone, and was like oh! your farm is on X street. surely you knew your neighbor Mrs. X, who died at age 108 last year. Tell me all about her. And that was great, and we were finally able to move on. but like

man just. like don’t. like i’m not upset but that did not have to be so awkward, and now it is like fully ten hours later and i’m still like that was so fucking awkward and that didn’t have to be like that, and there’s literally nothing i could have said that wouldn’t have made that awkward. (how sure do you have to be, to ask that, and like, no, i don’t actually really look like a pregnant lady, i genuinely really just do look fat i promise if you actually know what a pregnant lady looks like, that is a really distinctive look and i for sure for certain do not have it, why would you. anyway. Mom was like, ha so my neighbor asked me when you were due three weeks after you were born so i know the feeling, and i’m like mm but you were actually pregnant at some point, i’ve never even been pregnant for a minute of my life, but anyway. whatever.) (i am also approaching the point of my life where that’s sort of flattering though if you idolize youth because i am rapidly approaching Too Old For That Shit, as it happens. anyway.)

anyway. i also got to have an unreasonable amount of ice cream for lunch so at least I had that.

also I got both of my brothers in law to work on my tiny house at once so it now has a floor, and i’ve realized that really what i have is a subfloor and i’m going to have to buy some hardwood or tile or linoleum or something, but that’s a problem for Later Me. So that’s exciting and fun as well, but i also am exhausted as hell and i hope i sleep well tonight because i didn’t last night and this is all kind of a lot, at the moment. (Your picture was not posted)

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[minoanmiss]

Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooo. I really hope you slept well..