People Say the Dumbest Things.

My 14 year old is 6 feet tall, and people constantly ask me "what are you feeding him?!?!"

It's funny when I say "no wheat, no dairy, and mostly organic food."

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I have Alopecia Universalis (no hair anywhere) and I had a woman stop me and ask me if I was buddhist. LOL I still get a good laugh out of that.

Oh my goodness! That's so funny! I know. Older people are still asking me if my son is a boy or a girl. Even though he has short hair and is usually wearing a blue shirt with balls or trucks on it. Boy type sandals. He is 22 mos- not like a tiny baby that you really can't tell. "Oh", they say, "What's her name?" All the time. He really doesn't look like a girl. Oh, well.

If that came from a woman, I wouldn't have been able to hold back. Coming from a man, well, men aren't women, and don't always think before speaking ;)

I posted about this a while ago, people always think my kids are twins (they're so not twins).

Even better, when I babysat for this family from Ghana, those kids were so black they were blue... and my kids are super white. People would ask me all the time if they were all mine (then I'd deny the white kids, LOL!!)

Stupid questions = stupid answers!!

People have asked me since my daughter was 2 if I highlight her hair.

Sure, every four weeks...

Maybe he was so smitten with YOUR beauty that he got tongue tied!! LOL that is a good one!!

IME, it's comment from childless people that top the chart on dumb.

Like an ex-coworker that asked me if my 9 mo was going to sit on the couch with us to watch the "ball drop" on TV for New Years Eve....ummm......yeah.....NO!

One day I said "hi" to a coworker as he went by. He said, "What? I can't hear I just went to the bathroom." We just looked at each other and burst out laughing.

My niece has had super curly, thick, beautiful red hair since like she turned 1. I always spent a lot of time with her and tooker places so this would happen to me too. My brother has blond hair and his wife is realy dark brown. People would ask them/me if we permed her hair or if we dyed it - I always wanted to say yes - I permed an 18 month olds hair, we tied her down so she couldn't move. Shake my head

Brain says, "Why yes good sir. They are indeed her natural eye color. We had looked into getting her unnatural eyes and the preternatural eyes tempted us for a while as well, but ultimately we decided that the natural eyes were best."

Mouth translates, "Why thank you so much! Yes her eyes have always been like that but you know kids, they are like the rising tide, always changing. Also, you are forced to move your things to higher ground lest they get swamped."

It's a good thing I have a filter from my brain to my mouth because sarcasm always pops in first.

Next time, say - "yes, they are her natural color - we ordered them special when we had her made"

My son had red hair for about 6 months... beautiful auburn color. My husband and I are both blonde (mine a little um... assisted). People would literally say to us, "Which one of you colors your hair?" My husband has no patience for that stuff, so he would respond "JD does."

Upon having my first born a friend of mines mom says "she doesn't look like either of you, are you sure they didn't switch her?"

lol....shes actually the spitting image of me but whatever.

Um, I think he was complimenting you.

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I hardly think he thought you put contacts in her eyes. What he probably meant is will her eyes stay that way. Little children do often change quite a bit in appearance, including the color of their eyes.

Maybe he watches a lot of Toddlers & Tiaras. (Worst.Show.Ever.)

i had someone tell my sister that my daugher at 6mos old looked like a b!tch. really, you can tell all this how? and once while shopping with her as a baby, i had her in a dress and an older woman came up and told me how cute my little boy was. well, she was half right :)

All I can say is Oh my word. Natural Eye color. Good grief. But then again, my natural eye color is Brown, but half the time they look hazel and I don't use contacts.

Don't have children yet, so I haven't run into those questions yet.. But I can agree that many people either don't stop to think, or they need help. Makes me wonder what schools are teaching some days.

Someone asked me if my youngest 2 were my grandchildren by my oldest 2. I have pictures of all my kids on my bulletin board at work. 2- 18 yr olds, a 4 and 5 yr old. Someone asked if the 2 oldest were married and the little ones were my grandkids.

Haha, too funny! I had a lady from my church come visit just after I had my first baby. She had not seen my then fiance (now husband) because whenever he came with me, they were apparently not there. Either way, she walks in to my place and looks at my daughter and says "Look how pretty her skin is, she looks like she has a tan!" And as if on queue, my husband walked out of the bedroom and she saw that since M. is white and daddy is black, this is why she looks tan! It was just too funny. The color drained from her face so fast. All 3 of my kids are extremely light skinned for mixed black and white, and even some people ask where they are from because they look more olive skin toned than anything...but it was just WAY too funny!

Lots of assumptions on your part.....before you cast judgment on folks, get clear first.

You: "I'm confused? Are you asking if her eye color is natural?"
Man: "Yes, but does your husband have blue eyes, or does this go back in DNA....sorry, that must have sounded funny, but I noticed you don't have blue eyes."

Disclaimer: if you have blue eyes as well......he's a bit off and it would be very interesting to hear his response!

S. (brown eyes with a blue eye daughter and brown eye boy)

LOL. My husband and I were shopping in walmart on thanksgiving day. There was this guy and a lady - very nice people talking to us. Guess they were awake all night. They asked us how we were related. And I said we are husband and wife. And the lady goes - really? oh my god. You both look so much alike. You look like brother and sister. She went on for a minute , she was telling it very nicely and din't seem drunk. lol.
No my husband and I don't look alike at all. Not even close. We were both wearing black winter coats and are both tall, but that's about it.

Yesterday we went out to eat and the host asked us how many in our group. I said, "there's four eating and we need a highchair for the baby (who is 6 months and NOT eating)". So he looked at me and said, "so there's five total?" To which I replied, "Yes" But what I WANTED to say was, "good job! 4 + 1 DOES equal 5!" I refrained.
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LMAO ~ I am guessing that he probably felt pretty stupid after he realized what he had said. Tee Hee

When people tell me that my sons are handsom. I have a son and a daughter. The funny thing is it always happens when my daughter is wearing a very girly outfit. This weekend she was wearing a pink dress, pink shoes and had a pink hairbow and yet twice she was mistaken for a boy....

When my daughter was a baby, I got onto an elevator with some older ladies and one said to me "He is SO cute!" So I said thanks and she said "it is a he right?" so I told her she was a girl and she said........... "Oh, well I just saw her blue eyes and thought she was a boy" ...........

Hhmm.... I didn't know what to say..... Should her eyes be PINK? :o)

In my family... we have a saying:

Ask a silly question... get a silly answer.

"Are we there yet?" has only happened 4 or 5 times, much to my sorrow. But I keep up the trend with strangers. I figure they either need a funny pick-me-up or their brain is asleep and needs a jumpstart. :)