What planet are you from?
I work in a restaurant as a dishwasher/cleaner in the Netherlands. I'm also 5 1/2 months pregnant.
I don't usually have a lot of customer suckage because generally I don't even see the customers. Last night was a bit different because as I was drying a load of dishes, my boss came back with a 30-somethingish man who wanted to see how the "pregnant girl" was doing. Now, despite the fact that I'm 27 years old, people usually think I'm quite a bit younger and I think it does make a difference in how they treat me here. This part would not have been quite as annoying to me if the following conversation hadn't happened directly there after:
DB - Cool Dutch Boss Lady
MC - Misogynistic Asshole Customer
Kay - Me - Lowly foreigner cleaning chick
(This is paraphrased from the Dutch.)
MC: Let me go back there and see how the pregnant girl is doing!
DB: She's doing good, aren't you Kay?
Kay: Yes, doing just fine. (Drying dishes with that plastic customer service smile firmly in place. :D)
MC: Oh, you're pretty big, aren't you?
Kay: I guess so. :D
DB: They found out yesterday that they're having a girl, isn't that great?
MC: Oh how nice. And everything went well with the echo?
Kay: Yes, she's anatomically perfect as far as they can see, which is just awesome. :D
MC: Too bad she's incomplete.
Kay: What? No she isn't. (Grinning like an insane person now, and drying like a fiend.)
MC: Yes, she's incomplete. (Proceeds to make vulgar hand gestures mimicking a penis.)
Kay: WHAT. D: (Stopped smiling and drying entirely at this point.)
MC: (He apparently thought I still wasn't getting it.) Yes, incomplete. (Repeats vulgar hand motions.)
Kay: 0_0
At this point, my boss managed to distracting him and basically dragged him out of the kitchen.
Seriously, WTF was that? On what planet is it a good idea to say that kind of shit to a pregnant woman? Also, why would I want my DAUGHTER to have a penis? Girls don't have penises. Why would a girl be an incomplete male? And why should I be upset that I'm not having a boy? I mean, I may just be hormonal, and I'm certainly sure I am, but I can't wrap my head around how in the hell that could ever seem like a good idea. And were the hand gestures seriously necessary? Gah!
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I don't usually have a lot of customer suckage because generally I don't even see the customers. Last night was a bit different because as I was drying a load of dishes, my boss came back with a 30-somethingish man who wanted to see how the "pregnant girl" was doing. Now, despite the fact that I'm 27 years old, people usually think I'm quite a bit younger and I think it does make a difference in how they treat me here. This part would not have been quite as annoying to me if the following conversation hadn't happened directly there after:
DB - Cool Dutch Boss Lady
MC - Misogynistic Asshole Customer
Kay - Me - Lowly foreigner cleaning chick
(This is paraphrased from the Dutch.)
MC: Let me go back there and see how the pregnant girl is doing!
DB: She's doing good, aren't you Kay?
Kay: Yes, doing just fine. (Drying dishes with that plastic customer service smile firmly in place. :D)
MC: Oh, you're pretty big, aren't you?
Kay: I guess so. :D
DB: They found out yesterday that they're having a girl, isn't that great?
MC: Oh how nice. And everything went well with the echo?
Kay: Yes, she's anatomically perfect as far as they can see, which is just awesome. :D
MC: Too bad she's incomplete.
Kay: What? No she isn't. (Grinning like an insane person now, and drying like a fiend.)
MC: Yes, she's incomplete. (Proceeds to make vulgar hand gestures mimicking a penis.)
Kay: WHAT. D: (Stopped smiling and drying entirely at this point.)
MC: (He apparently thought I still wasn't getting it.) Yes, incomplete. (Repeats vulgar hand motions.)
Kay: 0_0
At this point, my boss managed to distracting him and basically dragged him out of the kitchen.
Seriously, WTF was that? On what planet is it a good idea to say that kind of shit to a pregnant woman? Also, why would I want my DAUGHTER to have a penis? Girls don't have penises. Why would a girl be an incomplete male? And why should I be upset that I'm not having a boy? I mean, I may just be hormonal, and I'm certainly sure I am, but I can't wrap my head around how in the hell that could ever seem like a good idea. And were the hand gestures seriously necessary? Gah!
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