So hubs comes home and tells me about an interaction he had with a co-worker the other day. A young man in his twenties stops by hubby's department regularly to shoot the breeze with the geek squad. One day the conversation goes like this:
Breeze Shooter: "Hey, Ron, you're married, right? You have kids don't cha?"
Hubs (cheerfully): "No, we don't but my wife and I are adopting!"
Breeze Shooter (in a solemn funeral home voice): "Oh, man, I'm sorry."
Hubs (not so jovial anymore): "Sorry? There's nothing to be sorry about. Why are you sorry?"
Breeze Shooter (with foot still in mouth mumbles): "Ah, um, sorry, dude."
Hubs (now with back turned to Breeze Shooter already sighs): "Yeah, whatever."
Another zinger to be added to the "well-meaning but inappropriate comment" list compiled by adoptive parents throughout the universe!
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