Reply #33: When I was pregnant with my first, as an unmarried woman:

[Left Is Write]

"Are you going to go on welfare?" (Yes. I'm going to quit my well-paying job with benefits at a good company so that I can go on welfare. ???)

Also during that pregnancy, upon meeting a former co-worker at church:

She, seeing my 8-month pregnant belly: I didn't know you had gotten married.

Me: I didn't.

She, sneering: Oh. Well, since you're having a bastard, I'm afraid I can't offer you congratulations.


And the doozy question during that pregnancy, froma neighbor of my mother's:

She: Do you know who the father is? (Gee, lady, I suspect it's the fellow with whom I've been living for two years.)