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Constant belly-rubbing by pregnant ladies

— Hairnette Funicello from Malibu | Etiquette | 6.4.2009 | Comments (7)

This and the opposite: Random people taking the liberty to rub your pregnant belly not taking one thought to maybe they are breaching the personal space laws that exist.

— Zee

Also pregnant celebrities who pose with hand-over-belly and don't even get me started on celebrity husbands.

— jmc posted 6/4/2009

Or, maybe pregnant women in general. There was one on my train this morning....parting the poor shmoes who were standing up like the red sea as she got on....nodding sagely to the 3 people who all jumped up to give her their seats, and finally, spending the rest of the ride in contemplative silence, rubbing her belly and staring off into what i can only imagine was the reflection of her own, breathtaking glow in the window across the aisle.

— me posted 6/5/2009

I don't want to post a link-to-elsewhere here, but if you google the words "pregnant women are smug" in quotation marks, you will not be sorry.

— Diana posted 6/5/2009

Seriously?? I mean really? Are you seriously peeved about woman who are pregnant that rub their bellies? You'd rub yours too if it got so quickly stretched and tight, and a BABY kept jabbing your organs (all day long), dancing on your bladder, little feet under your ribcage - rubbing/soothing may be the only thing to quiet it down enough to be able to stay standing. Keep away from bloated bellies. Have a good day anyway.

— Cynthiana posted 1/21/2010

I realized I was doing it when I was pregnant, and I gotta tell ya, it used to bother me, too ... but then I realized that I had nowhere else to put my hands! Sorry if it annoys you, but speaking from experience, it's primal. Instinctual. Don't know why ...

— Betty posted 1/21/2010

When you're used to being SKINNY, and all of a sudden you have this HUGE belly.... it's kind of hard to keep your hands away from it. Not to mention, I seem to hit my belly against things (since I'm not used to having it) and keeping my hands there, reminds me to pay attention to it.

— Jami posted 3/20/2010

When parents start voicemail messages with "hey [name], it's your mother/father." » My husband does this with his kids! It never fails to drive me bugshit! – Mindy 7/26

Grubby, tangled haired children. » Keeping clean is one thing; the kids I see don't even start out clean. Parents and kids both seem to roll out of bed and go to the local WalMart (where else?) without so much as running as hairbrush through their hair or taking a bar of soap to their bodies. I think we can be quite sure they don't know what a toothbrush is for! The trend of wearing pajama bottoms in public needs to stop as well. – Mindy 7/26

When strangers try to touch my children. » Good god, it's like you read my mind. I absolutely hate it when I'm in the grocery store and people touch my son's feet or poke his little cheeks. Yes, I know he's the cutest thing on this earth but THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN TOUCH HIM – CakeThief 7/24

Air quotes. » use shocker quotes instead. form shocker with fingers, bend to mimic quoting action. – kn obel 7/22

When non-white street beggars call me racist when I don't give them money. » I always want to know if people would feel equally as badly if the opposite were true. Like, if you only gave money to non-white street beggars out of guilt/fear of being perceived as racist. That's racism, too, right? Right? No one complains about that one... – Chelsea 7/22

When non-white street beggars call me racist when I don't give them money. » Ugh. This happened to me when I declined to sign a petition without even hearing what it was about (I was also not a registered voter in that state AND was in a hurry). Jeez, I'm not racist! I hate all petition signature gatherers equally. – Kate 7/21

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