Asking for "personal info" on a whole new level.

[edible_hat]

I would have answered with a straight face "Why yes, I do plan to breastfeed". (But then I'm a guy, and the smartarse who tells phone company telemarketers I don't have a phone.)

[Lace Neil Singer]

Excess heavy metal can lead to increased agression and a lack of emotional control.

Now they tell me; guess my heavy metal CDs are baddd. XD

Anyway, a mate of mine had the Breast Feeding Nazis descend on her after she said she wasn't going to breastfeed. Her choice, but by the reaction she got you'd have thought she'd said she was going to sacrifice her baby to Satan. O_o

[iradney]

What if the Mother WANTS to breastfeed, but cannot? It does happen, more often than we know, and now she's made to feel worse about something that's out of her control.
tsk tsk tsk.

[Bagga]

Iradney, I can't keep it back any longer, it's driving me up the wall! I find your avatar animation really creepy. But maybe that's why you like it, cos it creeps people out?

Who is it, anyway?

[sms001]

My guess is that a maternity store would ask in order to make better decisions about the specialty clothes some breast feeding mothers wear? (Aren't there snap tops or designs with holes in them for discreet public feeding?)

On the other hand, I am pretty fed up with companies doing their market research on my time. If you want to know how many of your customers are from 60655 or whatever, do a poll or some sort of voluntary analysis. Stop holding me hostage at the register until I comply. (I know, I know, it only takes a second, and I often lie, but sheesh.) And if I got a question that personal, I couldn't do the "do you shave...?" bit, cause I KNOW the clerk doesn't want to know, they're being made to ask.

[Gurndigarn]

On the other hand, I am pretty fed up with companies doing their market research on my time. If you want to know how many of your customers are from 60655 or whatever, do a poll or some sort of voluntary analysis. Stop holding me hostage at the register until I comply. (I know, I know, it only takes a second, and I often lie, but sheesh.)

OH, YES! I AM THERE WITH YOU!

I had an interesting experience recently. One of the places I went to had the parking attendents doing the zip code routine. Now, as a long-standing member here, I've learned a bit, so I didn't snap at him or ignore him or many of the things I've done in the past. I simply said in a perky voice "Oh, make something up!"

Apparently, he hates the system as much as I do. "I think I'll make you from Wyoming."

Wyoming is a nice place, I'm sure. However.... "Can I be from Hawaii?"

"I'm afraid I don't know any Hawaiian zip codes. I can maybe put you down as a Canadian, though."

"Canadian? Try T2J 1X8!" (My in-law's old postal code.)

By the big smile he gave me, I could tell that I had made the world a slightly better place that day.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Iradney, I can't keep it back any longer, it's driving me up the wall! I find your avatar animation really creepy. But maybe that's why you like it, cos it creeps people out?

Who is it, anyway?

Iradney's avatar rules in its awesomeness. All I can do is follow humbly in her footsteps with my hilarious, at least in my own mind, avatars.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Iradney, I can't keep it back any longer, it's driving me up the wall! I find your avatar animation really creepy. But maybe that's why you like it, cos it creeps people out?

Who is it, anyway?

Hal Sparks FTW