Dear Baltimore,
What the hell is the deal with you people? Seriously. Mother's day was a month ago. There's no reason that random strangers in the street should still be wishing me happy mother's day. For serious, it's really old now. Knock it off.
Aside from that, why the fuck must it be assumed that because I am a female of childbearing age, that it means that I am a mother or am looking smilingly forward to the prospect of being one in the near future? It's not like anyone has ever seen me gaze longingly and sigh wistfully at the sight of a little bundle of er, joy. Stop it. Just cut it the hell out already.
Really irritated,
Fuego
So seriously, today on the way to the grove, some random guy walked up to me and wished me a happy belated mother's day. My bus was pulling up and I didn't want to miss it, so I didn't launch into a tirade, however difficult it was to resist.
Additionally, I heard him say as I got on the bus "You don't need to have kids to be a mother, you just need to be female."
Oh hell no.
Look. World. I'm not a mother. I have no interest in being a mother, I have no plans to have kids and I am thankful that I have a girlfriend who is even more actively disinterested in having kids than I am.
I am not a mother. I am an aunt. I am cool with that. I love my nieces. But for the love of Bob, that is NOT the same as being a fricken mother.
I'm now past the point of taking assumed good intentions into account. I'm really irritated by it. This isn't even a few days later, it's a blasted month.
I did get a little ironic amusement though, seeing a woman speaking to a man who appeared to be a stranger, and wishing him an early happy father's day, saying he didn't need kids to be a father, if he ever even babysat some kids, then he was a father. (If anyone cares, the guy didn't protest)
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