In my last post I indicated that people still ask me if the girls are identical. It's true, they do. And sometimes they stare for a while to compare to see if they can pick out any differences. It can get a little weird, or as X likes to say, AWKWARD! But this week we had the strangest encounter yet! Let me tell you about it!
We decided to make an outing of going to pick X up from school one day, so girls in stroller, M, AM, and I walk to the elementary school. Where only elementary school aged children, their parents and teachers are. I point this out to make the inappropriateness of this encounter more obvious.
As we were walking around the building to get to the door X comes out of, a mom (I assume) with a little girl in tow says, "Aww! Two little girls! You're going to have to buy lots of birth control! And pony tail holders! And polish your gun!"
Right. Here's the thing. After almost 6 months, we have ceased stopping for random strangers to adore our children. We still slow down, but no longer come to a complete stop. When said stranger turns out to be TOTALLY freaky, we speed away! So, at "aw, 2 little girls," I smiled at her, but kept walking, so "you'll have to buy lots of birth control" was called slightly louder. When a person looks at 6 month old baby girls and thinks "they're going to have sex," we RUN, so by the time she was calling for us to polish a gun she was shouting this! At the elementary school! While holding her own daughter's hand!
Also, (can there really be more?) I did not even wait until she was out of ear shot before I looked at my sister and said "Why would birth control ever be the first thought? Obviously my babies are not going to be sexually active for another 35 years." Even though she must have heard me she kept tossing these one-liners, as though to prove how funny she was. Not so much!
So let this be a lesson. Don't be inappropriately weird!
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