Bingo!

[Amy!]

In my attempt to forget that I have a sink full of dishes that need to be washing I started a game of online monopoly a little while ago. I have become accustomed to perverts who think silly flash games are cyber foreplay but this is the first time I've been bingoed.

I learned:
It's okay not to want kids if you party a lot but not if you're a bookworm.

Unless you're hot, then it's okay if you don't want stretchmarks.

Adopting is good, but everybody should want their own.

Yes, it is gross to see a slimy blue thing exploding out of your wife's nether regions. Which might explain the what do you look like? and what's your bra size?line of questioning after we were done discussing how I'm evil for preferring the idea of adoption over turning my boobs into squirt guns.


Fun.
Now share your bingo stories!

[iciclespark]

Oh I have shared my worst one already.... although I thought I was about to have another when another co-worker started the exact same conversation this week.... "You don't drive? I suppose you'll have to learn soon, it's important when you have kids."

Thankfully, this one was calm, logical, embracing of the idea of people simply not wanting them, but just wanted to know why. And we had a great chat. Those good ones are so needed. Her only criticism was the "Well if you're aware enough to know you're impatient and have a bad temper like your mom, wouldn't that sort of make it easier to control with your own kids?" (I had pointed out its existence in relation to my sister) But she accepted that I just knew I was never going to be mother of the year material, and that was okay. (She even agreed that if people would stop having kids just because they feel they ought to, not necessarily because they love kids and want them, the world would be better! Hooray!)

It's okay not to want kids if you party a lot but not if you're a bookworm.

Unless you're hot, then it's okay if you don't want stretchmarks.


Oh for fuck's sake. Because partying is a good excuse not to spawn, but having a mind and genuinely enjoying life without them isn't? :r

I still say my favourite I've gotten is, "But we are meant to reproduce in this life! It's why we're here!" Yes, I'm sure Mother Nature is thrilled when another welfare mother gives birth, and evolution had no intentions of us using our rational brains and conscious choice beyond deciding what colour to paint the nursery.

[Kari]

My favorite:

"Breastfeeding is a wonderful experience. Why else do women have breasts?"

I'm thinking, "Uh, cause they're pretty, look good in tank tops and a major erogenous zone. But whatevs."

;l;l

[iciclespark]

^ To get what they want from pig-men in authority? You forgot that one ;)

[jeth]

Her only criticism was the "Well if you're aware enough to know you're impatient and have a bad temper like your mom, wouldn't that sort of make it easier to control with your own kids?" (I had pointed out its existence in relation to my sister)

Not so. My mother inherited her father's temper and disciplinary style and honestly admitted once that she'd sworn she would never be like that with her own kids, but she was. She couldn't help it. You may be aware that you carry on the same traits but when you get upset it's not so easy to take a step back and control your reaction.

I'm not saying people can't change, but if you recognize the risk factors and decide you are uncomfortable with them then more power to you for deciding not to put yourself in a situation that could trigger it.

My best friend bingoed me a few weeks ago as she's apparently missed the boat all these years in the respect to "I don't want kids." Even after making it perfectly clear that I don't want them (and her pretending to be shocked, me giving her the reasons, etc.) we went shopping the next day and something about "Well someday when you decide you want kids after all" slipped out. I think because she's so baby hungry herself it's hard for her to understand that there are people out there who genuinely want to go a different way with their lives. It's just going to take her time to get used to it.

[queensiefaerie]

Not so. My mother inherited her father's temper and disciplinary style and honestly admitted once that she'd sworn she would never be like that with her own kids, but she was. She couldn't help it. You may be aware that you carry on the same traits but when you get upset it's not so easy to take a step back and control your reaction.
Aside for many other reasons why I am childfree is for the fear of continuing the fucked-up-dysfunctional-family circle! Knowing how my mom was treated & how I was treated, it scares me that I might turn up like that.

[half1113]

Child Free Book (http://www.suburbansplendor.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=0-8118-4797-7&Category_Code=B)

I found this the other day and I had to post it here for you guys. I used to get bingoed all the time by everyone but my mom.

[jeth]

I want that book now!

[half1113]

I thought you might like it. :) I also like the parenting books on the site. There's one called The Three Martini Play Date. A book to remind you that you don't have to be child obsessed to be a good parent and give up yourself totally.

[empresskara]

I got Bingoed by a friend in an IM conversation. She brought up someone's kid and I said something and said, hence why I should not have kids. And her immediate reply was: "you'll change your mind one day". I replied back "Bingo". She thought I was agreeing with her. *shakes head*

[Master Shaman]

So. Today, ENT rotation, sprogs screaming all over the ward, probably to cause hearing problems for everyone and increase the number of patients. I had this talk with a female student:

Dan: I can't stand to hear the whinings of those botched abortions anymore!
FS: Oh, come on! You'll have kids some day too, you know!
Dan (with a big grin): Nope.
FS: Oh, sure you will!
Dan: *even bigger grin, looking at her and refraining from saying anything else*

[empresskara]

You should've said "Honey, it would take a MIRACLE." throw a limp wrist at her, and then walk off singing a Cher song. ;)

[jeth]

^ you forgot the obligatory hip wiggle and super springy stepping, maybe with a little impromptu dance number thrown in for fun.

[The March Hare]

I currently have a hispanic Catholic woman praying at her bedside every night for me to get pregnant. If I hadn't been too shocked by her overzealous bingo, I would have told her, "Could you pray for a large influx of coat hangers, while you're at it?"

Apparently, I will not be complete as a woman unless I have a child. Also, she claimed that the only reason why I don't want a child MUST be because my boyfriend doesn't want children. She also said that I was incredibly selfish to not have a child for my mother to care for, since one's parents tend to get lonely in their old age. WTF? The 'complete woman' thing I've heard before, but the last two? Can I not make decisions for myself? Must I be a baby factory to prevent the lonliness in my mum's life?

[Rinky vs.4.0]

^Cultural brainwashing is a wonderful thing, innit?

Meanwhile, I have a great CF co-worker now. So there's a total lack of bingoing in my corner at work. Hooray!

Oh, and my supervisor was going on today about how no-one believes him when he says he does NOT weant grandchildren. He's says he's had enough of kids for life with his own, has no interest in getting stuck with more of them and wants to enjoy later life doing fun stuff, not babysitting. Now there's a refreeshing viewpoint!

I also work with several older women who have gorwn-up kids but who pour scorn upon scorn upon this generation of teens whose entire ambition in life appears to be to birth children. To quote one, 'Is that ALL the ambition you have?''

[Red Ribboned Cub]

Fiance just got of the phone with his mother, my FMIL. She called to tell him that his father's cousin's daughter is having a baby tonight or tomorrow. She was all OMG SQUEEE BABY! BREEEEDING R0XX0RS!!!

His response was umm, okay, nice I guess. I barely know these people, and thousands of babies are born every day.

She says "Just wait til there's a little Michael (fiance) or Maryann (her name, not, say MY name (not that I'd name a kid after myself anyhow, but holy OMGWTFCREEPYINCESTUALOVERTONES!) running around, then you'll be excited.

I didn't know her exact words til he hung up the phone but I just KNEW that was the gist of it...so I shout something from the other room...He repeats it for her to hear... "Well, I am impotent, and Tracey's a seahorse..." and suddenly...end of phone call. :e

[SpiderTear]

"Well, I am impotent, and Tracey's a seahorse..." and suddenly...end of phone call. :e

Oh now I have to change myself. *bes wet*

FMIL I read this as Former Mother In-Law at first. Silly me. [pan]

[jeth]

I have a co-worker who had just snapped and gone baby crazy in the past week. I don't know how many times I've heard him absolutely gushing over babies. The air of "babies are the only life event that means anything" is just hanging around him and believe me, if you overheard some of the exchanges I did, you'd be gagging.

I feel bad because he's older and has grown children who will likely start getting the grandchild speeches very soon given the seismic shift in his baby googleyness.

[Heart of Moon]

^Ugh. I've been all baby-googley for the past week or so. I have no idea why. And I'm starting to make myself gag.

[Red Ribboned Cub]

Gahhhh. I will have my first child within five years. Apparently a psychic told her this, so it must be true. So sayeth she in the phone conversation that just ended, anyhow. :r

(See above posts re: FMIL).

[Steve SFM]

^If the psychic in question was Sylvia Browne, you're in luck!

[Red Ribboned Cub]

One can only hope...

[Trapper]

Sorry whats this board about lol

[Steve SFM]

Sorry whats this board about lol

It's about banning idiot spammers.

But you'll find that out soon enough. :)!