So, the other day, I firmly stood my ground. 

The simpering idiot from a couple weeks back made such a weirdly random and rude comment that I decided to speak up and say my peace. 

She comes up to me one morning and says, “oh wow, your hips are getting so wide!!  it must be so hard to fit into your clothes anymore…and your belly!   Wow…you could stand in for Santa this year!”   Yeah, so in my mind, I punched her in the face and clawed her eyes out.  In reality, I told her, “look…I know you’re trying to just be observant, but in all honesty, it hurts my feelings and it’s quite disrespectful.  I know that you’ve never had a child so I’ve tried to be really understanding with your comments as of late, but it comes off quite differently to the receiver of your remarks.”  She was kinda taken aback…turned around and then told a co-worker, “watch what you say, Prego is really sensitive right now and she can’t take a joking comment”.    He then told Insensitve Creature that she was, in fact, very rude and my response to her was warranted.  I still don’t think she’ll ever learn. 

Oh well.  And for the record, I’ve actually LOST weight since I’ve become pregnant…so I’m kinda wondering if she also considered me a shoo-in for Santa’s job before I got knocked up.   Hmmm.