Today, I was selling personalised stockings at work. When handing a customer's order over to her, which had no name on, I joked, "Oooh this is a bit mysterious". She replied, "Actually, it's in memory of the baby I miscarried earlier this year." FML
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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, at work, I misheard a customer telling me a story. To be polite, I did a slight laugh and nodded my head. She actually told me her mum had died. FML
Today, I was at work, when a co-worker began to shake a near empty box. Without thinking, I shouted "What if there was a baby in there? You just killed it!" I then remembered she recently suffered a miscarriage. FML
Today, my family attended the funeral of an old family friend's baby, who died in childbirth. Afterwards, my husband went around snickering and quietly telling dead baby jokes to the other attendees. FML
Today, I gave a beautiful book of baby names to a friend of mine who's been trying to get pregnant for a while. She just burst into tears when she saw it. Just before meeting me, she'd found out she was sterile. FML
Today, a week after my miscarriage, my little sister thought it appropriate to wrap her belt around her neck and scream, "Hey look, it's your baby!" FML
Today, at work, I asked a lady how she was doing. When she replied, I didn't understand her, and instead of asking her what she'd said, I just replied with, "Oh, that's good." What she'd said that I didn't understand was that her husband had just died. FML
Today, on the first occasion I've seen my boss since her brief leave, I brought up how I got to hear all our customers' heartwarming plans for their moms on Mother's Day. Her mother just died. That's why she was on leave. FML
Today, after telling my mother-in-law about my recent miscarriage, she cheerfully made a cake to celebrate. FML
Today, I heard that one of our customers had passed away. Saddened, I told everyone who came into our shop about his death. Understandably, some customers got very upset and one even fainted. Suddenly, the "dead" man walked into the shop. Turns out I got the name wrong. FML
Today, I learned that when a heavily-pregnant friend asks about my progress with the baby socks I promised to knit, it's rather unwise to tell her, "Not to worry, we're set even if it comes out with a few feet too many." She's still crying. FML
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haha89 0
You didn't know. Although that would've hurt to talk about a lost baby.
DocBastard 40
That's a bit bizarre for a parent to do. Why leave the kid's name off if it's supposed to be in memory? What am I missing here?
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Comments (189)
TheB0a 5
Still mysterious because you didn't know that she had a miscarriage, also you were just tryin to joke around. Don't take it to hard.
xMexicanXJesusx 0
Was this edited or something?? 'Cause I read this one earlier today and it was different.
lola1313 9
you ppl are dumb. a Christmas stocking. it's the sock you hang over the fireplace that's filled with stuff on Christmas morning. you can go have one personalized with family members names cause everyone gets a stocking to hang up.
spatz447 3
Ugh I was first comment, this one is confusing!
kaity111 0
doc, i think the cute pic of your daughter (that is your daughter, right?) was the giveaway :P if that is your daughter, shes lovely! congrats on you having another!
FMLinNMI 0
The post said miscarried.
poppyseed420 9
don't worry about it, you didn't know and I doubt she blames you at all, it's just really hard to have a miscarriage and it's something you never really let go, speaking from personal experience here
angel55033 12
she still would have named the baby
manda_baby_rawr 4
so do you try, or does it come naturally to be a desperate wannabe?
wriptidez 0
u couldnt of known