With just five children with me in the grocery store I would get some of these same questions.
Anyone else have similar experiences?
Every time we go out, and I only have four! (plus one on the way)
My replies are much snarkier than this woman’s, though. Just because I have a big family doesn’t mean I have the patience of a saint. ;-)
Heck, I get them with three.
Yup- 4 kids here. I had a woman say I should get my tubes tied once at the store. I told her maybe she should go on a diet to stop being so fat.
I went to Germany (w. a side trip to Italy) last month to visit my grandfather (with all 4). No-one said much, but the stares we received were out of this world. Even in Catholic Italy, no-one does more than one or two kids (saw a three kid family once in Germany.)
All the time. Sometimes all the children with me aren't mine, because I've taken the Girl Scouts to the pet store, for example. (The fact that several are black might be a clue ...)
On other occasions, I don't have all my children with me. Then, when people ask, "Are these all yours?" I say, "No, I have several more. They're (at home, at Scouts, at a friend's house)." Shocking!
My impression is that a lot more people believe children are a punishment than are willing to admit it ... but they recognized themselves in Barack Obama and voted accordingly.