The question never to ask of someone you don't know....

[Sliceanddice]

Yeah... I don't like to be touched period... if some one tried to touch my belly... they would be on the ground...

Sorry grand-ma, see you after you get that hip replaced

[tollbaby]

I'm like that with my hair. I HATE having my hair touched (except the bf.... and I can occasionally let one of my kids touch it, but I have to psych myself up for that). I also hate having my legs or feet touched....

[blas]

I hate being touched anywhere by strangers.........including shoulder taps/pats and head pats. Don't pat me like I'm a farking puppy. I may be "cute and adorable", but like puppies, I can bite and bark.

I'm a huge personal space bubble type person.

One of my biggest peeves is getting my rear end bumped at Wal-Mart or a similar store by a cart being pushed by some filthy toothless schmuck who is getting off on bumping my rear end.

Listen buddy, you wanna keep the few teeth you have left? I suggest you stop bumping my ass with that cart. I have no qualms about assaulting a dirtbag.

That or old people who try to elbow me to get me out of their way. I let that fly once, and that's because I was with my mother and she didn't want to make a scene.

Stop it, Ernie and Edna. You'll move heaven and earth to make sure your cart gets in my way by the freezers and will stop at nothing to block any forms of oncoming traffic.......I have no qualms about telling you to get your old asses out of my way, and keep your filthy wrinkled hands off of me. I'm younger, I'm faster, I'm first. If you want to go ahead of me, you ASK. Being old doesn't entitle you to jack shit.

[JustADude]

Heh. I must admit I've gotten in trouble with that once or twice. When it's noisy and hectic and I'm behind someone in a tight space who's likely to step back I tend to put my hand (fingertips, really) on their back as a warning. Most of the people I work with are the same way, which is how I picked up the habit, but one or two give me (and the other guys) death-glares when I forget. They don't mind when one of the girls does it, so I have a feeling they're just being homophobic. Wonder when they'll have their coming out parties?

[Just Ace]

Funny that I found this topic when i have just done what everyone (and myself) have said what they don't like.

This regular customer had come in. Now this customer is one of those people that will say hi to you outside of work and even have a chat. I feel comfortable in calling her her first name and I don't ignore her when i see her outside of work. Well when she had come in I walked over to her and started to have a chat. She is about 6 months pregnant and so I said to her "How's bubs coming along". Now as I said this i reached my hand out towards her stomach. My intention was to just sort of wave my hand near her stomach and not touch but i misjudged the distance and gently touch her bare stomach (she had on low pants and a tight short top). You should have seen my face when i made contact! I was motified that I had actually invaded her space and i think that she was a bit shocked as well cause she sort of stopped but kept talking to me. I couldn't get away quick enough.

The worst bit was that i was so eager to get out of there that i didn't appologise or anything so now when she comes in i just hide.

[Starlord]

Touching

If I were a woman and a perfect stranger touched my belly, I would tell them to remove their hand before I did it, and I had a supply of plastic bags for them to carry it in if I removed it.

[Tigress]

For some reason, a lot of my older classmates thought I was pregnant when I started high school. Their only evidence was that I was wearing loose clothing and the rest of my body hadn't quite caught up with my exploding chest and hips. It didn't help that I looked like I was 18 or 19 instead of my real age of 14.

One day, some of the God's Gifts to Women in my choir class were teasing me about acting like a prude while I was "obviously" pregnant. I finally yelled at them:

"I'm FOUR-TEEN! And a virgin! I've had ONE boyfriend my entire life. What makes you think that I would be pregnant, dumbass?!"

That stopped them pretty quickly. That and when I turned someone in for grabbing my butt during a performance. I was a total bitch to these wastes of skin. The older girls loved it and egged me on when I told them off for being pigs.

[Department stores *sigh*]

i figure if no one has told me anything about a woman being pregnant i wont say 'congrats' or anything unless i see her being rushed to the hospital after her water broke.

better safe then sorry!

[Kogarashi]

One Christmas break while I was home, I had something similar happen. Funny thing is it was still six months before my now-husband even *proposed* to me, and a whole 2+ years before I became pregnant with DD.

I was standing in a store, looking at Christmas decorations for my apartment at school, when a lady I didn't recognize came up. She gave me a cheerful "Hi!" I thought that she might be someone my mom knew, since she lives in a small town, one of those everybody-knows-everybody-else places, so I said "hi" back, and the lady asked me how school was going. I said, "Fine."

Then she put out her hand and patted my very flat tummy and asked when the baby was due.

I blinked at her for a bit, then stated flatly, "I'm not pregnant."

She immediately and profusely apologized, explaining she'd confused me for someone else she knew, and beat a hasty retreat. A few minutes later, it finally hit me what had happened, and I just burst into giggles.


Dang, I still need to make that "Pregnant, not Produce" T-shirt.

[AnqeiicDemise]

I can top that one.

I was getting in my car on Sunday after doing an errand for my sister when this guy flags me down. He's got this scared/unbelievable look on his face as he approaches the car.

I roll down my window thinking A) poor guy needs a jump or b) needs directions to get out of here.

The question that slips past his lips after I ask him if I could help him with something:

"Can I touch your breasts? Please? Pretty please?"

It took all I had not to run him over with the car.

[MadMike]

About a year after my ex and I started dating, she started putting on weight. She wasn't pregnant, but apparently something thought she looked like she was.

We were doing some shopping (actually, more like she dragged me along), and when she was at the register checking out, she accidently bumped her stomach on the counter. The guy running the register told her, "Oh, be careful! You don't want to hurt the baby!"



Neither of us had the heart to say anything. He seemed like a sweet old man, not one of the creepy ones we often vent about.

[Misanthropical]

MadMike, maybe that is why my oldest sometimes acts like he is brain damaged! I was always bumping into things with my HUGE stomach when I was pregnant with him!

[Rapscallion]

"Can I touch your breasts? Please? Pretty please?"

Part of me is saying at least he asked, but the rest of me is wishing I'd been there to leer at him and ask if I could pinch his arse.

Rapscallion

[Kogarashi]

Now see, if I'd been asked that, my response would've been a slap (or perhaps a fist to the face; whichever hit my mind first).

[AnqeiicDemise]

Part of me is saying at least he asked, but the rest of me is wishing I'd been there to leer at him and ask if I could pinch his arse.

Rapscallion

I would have held him down for you. Maybe offered some evil looking device to pinch him with too.