In highschool I worked at a pharmacy. 30-something man looks lost so I ask him if I can help him find something. He says diapers and I assume he’s a father so I stupidly say “the adult ones are right down there but you don’t need those ha ha, the baby diapers are down aisle 1”
You can guess the rest of the story…
There is a funny columnist named Dave Barry who has a list of the things I took him 50 years to learn.
One is that, unless you see the baby crowning, never mention that a woman may be pregnant.
I think this falls into a similar category.
I 100% agree so it makes this story even better.
A friend and his wife were at a social event and his wife was very early in pregnancy, they had only told their parents at this point. A 70-something year old man in a suit walks up to them out of the blue and says congratulations. They are taken aback because they didn’t even consider him referring to the pregnancy. He goes on to say he is a retired obstetrician and because of years of experience can just tell.
Ballsy move by the doc but he sure did know his stuff.
unless you see the baby crowning, never mention that a woman may be pregnant.
Yeah I’ve heard that one before, but there’s a difference between overweight and pregnant, it’s very obvious. You’d have to be a real idiot to mistake fat with pregnant.
Overweight people do not put all their weight on their stomach, it gets distributed around the limbs and the neck and the upper torso as well.
It’s still best not to bring it up. I’ve known folks that, due to series of miscarriages, didn’t talk about it until like month 6 or 7. For similar reasons some cultures are different about it. My Russian friend talked about hers, but said in Russia you really don’t. Like a family will put together a nursery but not really discuss it until after the baby is born. That was one person for the record, I don’t know a ton of Russians, but it kinda indicated different people do it differently.
That or recovering from a surgery.
There’s plenty of reasons someone might need adult diapers without being old. Not that it’s any less embarrassing for some people either way.
The customer needed the adult diapers.
Not the OP, but I’ve been that person before. I’ll leave it up to your imagination what position I was in.
I’ll admit I am somewhat curious how it all played out though.
He was very embarrassed and went for the adult diapers. My 17 year old gangly, awkward self didn’t help the situation at all either.
I imagine you, still not getting it, yelling “Sir, sir! I said those were the adult diapers! Sir!”
Once I had food poisoning so bad that my spouse got adult diapers for me, so I could try to sleep. In sickness and in health!
