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.
Actually, people carry weight in different ways. I tend to gain most of my weight in my gut, I have to gain a lot of weight before it becomes noticeable elsewhere.
In high school every one thought the one teacher was pregnant. Nope just getting fat.
You've clearly never seen my father.
Can't be sure, could be a hernia
I love me some Dave Barry. Don't follow the Herald but his books were great.
Could have simply been looking after an elderly parent.
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.
A really bad UTI could cause temporary need for diapers too, and some women use adult diapers after giving birth as they work better for lochia(after birth bleeding can be intense from what i hear).
He was very embarrassed but it very well could have not been for him personally. Either way it was a dumbass thing to say!
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!
We debated diapers for after my partner's colonoscopy, because we weren't sure what to expect. We decided against them, but he did sit on a puppy pee pad the rest of the day.
The way out is easy: "oh god, sorry to hear it, I'd rather have the person too". I don't think I'm a social genius.
I also choose this lady's dead husband.
Yea for real. They know you didn't know that. Just be empathetic.
well it depends on the person... just saying...
And then a very charismatic person behind her asks "How much do you want the person", while twirling their mustache.
Are there not standard questions the teller is supposed to ask when they're handed a check this large?
In OP’s case, that would be even worse.
Sometimes you trip into other people's bad days. OP didn't say anything wrong.
IIRC bank tellers are supposed to talk about stuff like this to help catch fraud and extortion. If she sees a huge sum of money, it's her job to strike up conversation about it.
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"Oh wow, the crime must be going really well, eh?"
Me, had I been the teller...
Do it a different way or there won't be a cheque dude
A while back I broke up after a long term committed relationship, and part of the process involved splitting our finances. I went to the bank to close our account, and it being around November, the teller innocently asked, "Do you have any plans for the holidays?"
I deadpan replied, "Well, I'm closing out a joint checking account, so what do you think?"
The teller: O___O "I am so sorry!"
Fortunately I was able to laugh about it and tell them it was okay.
Joke's on them, though, because I wound up getting blackout drunk on Johnny Walker Black with a real beard mall Santa that Christmas and saying things about my ex that I should not have said.
Black Label is the best thing to blackout from.
I want to know more about your time with Santa. That night sounds epic tbh
Summed up very briefly:
Better than saying, "I'd kill for one of these."
"I'll kill again for one of these"
"For what it's worth, they probably weren't all that great."
Problem fixed.
This is why when you work in customer-facing positions in any capacity, you NEVER comment on their purchases, their choices, their business, what they are buying, if you've seen them before, etc. Just mouth-shut, smile and get them through.
"Well, I'll take the money if it's not important to you..."
I also choose your dead person.
Classic
"I'm a person. Wanna trade?"
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