Parents of big families...I need GOOD come backs for idiots!

[FrChuckW]

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I would have placed a call to the manager or asked to speak to an assistant manager right away. That was totally uncalled for and that associate should have been talked to.

I never tolerated any of my cashiers to talk rudely to customers, I always instructed them that if they had a problem with a customer to excuse themselves and call for me.

Congrats on the new one

 

[klf73]

Congrats! We have 6 and are contemplating a 7th (need OB ok, had 4 c-sects

) . Maybe it's just me, but most people don't say anything. I go shopping with all 6 by myself and usually just get smiles. If I get any questions I just say "excuse me?" and that usually makes people realize they are out of line. Have a H & H 9 months

 

[chickorama]

Say:
" IT'S MY BABY, NOT YOURS!!!!"
or
"Why do you care if I have five kids????" and give them a look.

 

[FrChuckW]

I grew up in a family of nine kids, and both my parents where only children. My brothers and sister that are married have from 1 to 6 kids each. My dad always told people that he was trying for a baseball team of his own, because the pros where lousy players,

MY mom on the other hand, being a lady, would always use the comeback that her Dr. had told her she was having twins the first 7 times and wound up only having one, so they kept trying until the Dr was right and she had me and my twin brother.

Another great comeback my parents would use was Haven't you heard, there cheaper by the dozen, we ordered ours from the Sears and Roebucks catalogue!

And the one that always shut them up was : That's why their called Papa's little dividends!

 

[purplebaby]

my rudest received comment, and i think best reply comment (btw) went like this...

oh your baby is very dark (i am blonde blue eyed). is her father italian? little old ladies in supermarket asked. oldest was 3 months old.

i replied yes originally his family comes from just off the southern tip of sicily.... u know.. africa?

the faces were priceless!

my children are of mixed race and we have gotten lots of comments over the years. but i just laugh cause they are beautiful loving girls! wish i had more but not meant to be....

 

[agnes_day]

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I would have placed a call to the manager or asked to speak to an assistant manager right away. That was totally uncalled for and that associate should have been talked to.

I never tolerated any of my cashiers to talk rudely to customers, I always instructed them that if they had a problem with a customer to excuse themselves and call for me.

Congrats on the new one

oh i sure did, and i think she got fired!

 

[Henrietta23]

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I wish telling people that not being able to have kids worked for me. Most people assumed after 5+ years of marriage that was the case and offered fertility doctors' names, adoption info, etc. unsolicited. I think basically some people just don't know enough to mind their own business.

 

[FrChuckW]

I was talking to a friend of mine about thisHe and his wife are expecting #9 or 10, I forget which one) and he was saying that she took all the kids Christmas shopping last week-end with here, they were on the escalator in some department store and some lady behind her made a really rude comment. Now their kids are all well mannered (I know another miracle) but the oldest one is in his teens and he hollered up the escalator " Hey Mom, didn't you forget one?" She turned around with a look of absolute horror on her face and said "OMG I forgot the baby on the bus!"

Needless to say that they had rehearsed this routine very well, and the rude lady was so shocked she almost tripped over herself trying to get back down the escalator to get away from her.

 

[debilorrah]

Ok, that is funny!

 

[AngieChick]

We decided to stop at 2 kids and that if we wanted more we could adopt. That was just our personal choice. After the second child, we decided to take permanent measures. We had the opposite reaction that you are having. The urologist gave my husband a serious talking to full of "what if's" beforehand. He was very concerned because my husband was young and making a permanent decision. Our response was "if we don't do this then we WILL end up having another baby, which is pretty darned permanent!". Because we had our oldest child while still in college and the youngest just out, we were also subject to snobbery and judgement. Especially when we lived in the Bay Area and as my husband is in the computer industry. It was unheard of to be married in your early twenties (heck in your twenties at all), let alone to have a child at that age. Even now we are the youngest in our group of friends with children the same age as ours, youngest by more than 10 years. We love being in our mid thirties with teen age boys, it has worked out very well for us. If 5 kids works for you, more power to you and congratulations! You don't need to even think twice about what some may say when they see your family size, you can just tell them "You do know that it's very rude to comment on someone else's reproductive choices, don't you?" in a good teacher voice. They may even learn something new, like manners.