Never Make Eye Contact
I’m not sure what it is this week with me and cashiers, perhaps it’s the smile and eye contact that I make when going through a checkout, or maybe it’s the bulk quantities of HPTs. Must be the smile and eye contact.
Anyhow, I stopped by Wal-Mart yesterday to get my last two HPTs, so I had enough to have one a day to get me through to the blood test. Ok, so I got three. It’s irrelevant.
I get to the checkout with my two boxes (a 2 pack and a 1 pack) of Equate brand HPTs (felt like trying something new) and the cashier says, “So are we hoping for a yes or a no?”
We? I guess somewhere along the line, she got stock in our baby making efforts and no one told me.
Trying to be polite, I smiled and said, “Yes, definately yes.” I should have said, “Well, I’ve already done 7 that were positive, so these are just to reconfirm” but I figured she’d think that was weird.
Then she asks if it’s my first or second baby and ever the sucker for trying to be nice, I said “Second”.
Then she wanted to know if my first was a boy or a girl, how old, etc, etc.
As she kept rambling on, I wondered had I gone through the line with other items, what would she have said?
- Super absorbent tampons: “Bleedin’ like a stuck pig?”
- Hemorrhoid cream: “Oooooh, sore ass?”
- Extra large condoms: “Wow, he must be hung like a horse!”
- Small condoms: “I’m sorry.”
Thankfully, all I had were the pee sticks so I got to avoid all those other fun scenarios. She wished me luck and I got the heck out of there.
I did an Equate today (ok, one last night, too) and though it’s obviously positive, I still deem Fact Plus my favorite.
I have to call the REs office today to check on some of the meds I am on because they are hand crossed off the calendar they gave me, so I need to make sure I am really supposed to stop them. Maybe I can sweet talk the nurse to let me have my Beta Friday. I won’t try unless it’s the other nurse, though — Monday’s nurse ain’t gonna budge on that one, I’m sure!
ETA ~ Dammit! I called the RE about my meds and the same nurse answered. You see, I had to call because I have conflicting info on my calendar of meds/tests that they give me and my post transfer instruction sheet. Anyhow, when I called about the meds to see what was right, the calendar or the post transfer instuctions, she asked ME when my pregnancy test is, and I told her my post transfer sheet says Monday but my calendar says Thursday. I told her Friday would be fine but she said, “No, Monday.” FINE… be that way. Hmpf.
