#654 Everyone at Walmart is Pregnant
Welcome to Walmart. The store where everyone is pregnant. That 16 year old cashier is pregnant. The lady in aisle five is pregnant. That woman in the pickle aisle is pregnant. And those who aren’t pregnant have at least four children.
You can no longer go into a Walmart without running into someone who is (a) pregnant, (b) has at least five children or (c) works at the store, pregnant. And it’s not just the customers. All the employees are pregnant too. The door greeter who looks like she’s eighty appears to have a baby bump. Your cashier, who looks like she could be on the reality show, 16 and Pregnant, is expecting. It’s like you have to be pregnant in order to work there.
To make things worse, Walmart once introduced Midge, Barbie’s pregnant friend, in the toy department. Sure. Barbie’s friend can get pregnant but you are still stuck in the infertile aisle.
ATTENTION WALMART SHOPPERS. IF YOU ARE INFERTILE, PLEASE LEAVE THE STORE IMMEDIATELY!
I truly despise that store for many, many reasons but strangely this was not one of them. Things like my fellow shoppers with 5,758 poorly behaved children, the employees and the parking lot were amongst my previous complaints. However, I now have another valid reason for my distaste! Thank you!
That’s just wrong.
Irony….I am “friends” with this page on my facebook. I’m reading this posting and glance underneath it and what, of course, would be there but one of my facebook friends posting how far along she is in her pregnancy….FIGURES!
As far as walmart, EVERYONE is pregnant with their 5th kid & of course they can’t figure out yet how to control any of their obnoxious children. And then I always pick the line with the pregnant cashier who is complaining about how hard it is to work while pregnant. I just smile and nod. While my husband rubs my back cause he knows I’m a bit tense. At least I have that
I love this blog. It is saving my sanity.
once i was stupid enough to buy an ovulation test at walmart. the cashier (who was 16 and pregnant) got really excited and said, oh, are you hoping?! i don’t know what made me more angry, the fact that she didn’t have a clue that i wasn’t actually purchasing a pregnancy test or the fact that she wanted to have a conversation about it.
Christ on a bike, that Barbie thing is really disturbing! It’s going to give me nightmares.
Well, here”s a switch. My husband works for walmart and we are as infertile as the day is long. Hmmmmm….I wonder if this means he needs to be looking for a new job. Headline reads: Fired for infertility? Stay tuned. Lol!
i tot i was going crazy as i saw everyone pregnant every where i turned.
as if the world is mocking me for not being pregnant.
and now barbie? whattt?
Maybe I need to hang out at Walmart more. Maybe there’s something in the air over there.
And btw, Barbies come with babies in their bellies!! Plastic can get pregnant but I can’t?!
I work part time as a cashier at Lowe’s. I think it’s a larger epidemic there! All of the couples coming in to buy paint for the nursery. I can’t even pretend to be interested!
My back-up baby plan is to nab a child from a cart at Walmart. Really, it’s not, but that’s the answer I give all the well-meaning people who ask when we’re going to have kids.
thats why i always go to walmart at like 7:30 on a sunday morning.. less chance of running into that mom with the 5 children she can’t control… and those 16 year old and pregnant cashiers… far and few between. however, any other time in which i need to run in, its a nightmare… and of course, what is my walmart thinking, sticking the huge baby section right by the grocery aisles?! c’mon now.
I totally agree, but I don’t think it is just wal-mart. We went to the mall the other day and it was like stroller bumper cars. This does not hurt me as much as it used to, considering we finally have our little miracle, but I remember what it felt like while we were struggling for sooo long. If you would like to hear our story you can visit http://www.ivfsuccessstories.info I hope all of you will be one of those pregnant wal-mart people soon!
This couldn’t be more right. I was in Wal Mart one day and I saw a woman yelling at one of her kids, bottle feeding another and buying a pregnancy test. Oh, and I forgot to say- she paid for all her groceries with food stamps
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OMG it’s so true! Everywhere I turn there are pregnant women everywhere! Walmart is crawling with them! There is no escaping it! Wish this wasn’t so hard for all of us. I’m so tired of the emotional roller coaster. In 6 years we have had 8 miscarriages and 1 successful adoption. Who knew having a family would be so hard.
Here is my blog if you are interested in following. We are back on the fertility rollercoaster again
Today I went to barnes and noble and I was looking at teen books when I looked to my left and saw nothing but books about expecting a baby. All I wanted to do was cry.
Sushi Girl: Christ on a bike? Best new saying. Ever. Thank you.
Also…Pregnant Barbie!? She is so freaking skinny, she obviously didn’t go through any fertility treatments. LOL.
OMG I love this post! I have no idea how I am just hearing about this blog, you’re hilarious! Definitely makes me feel a teensy bit better about infertility!!
LOL…I’ve thought this many times! Walmart around Christmas time was the worst for me. Not only was everyone pregnant or had children already…but they were buying toys and gifts for said kids, while we were going through our first m/c a few days before Christmas. Yeah, that sucked.
When buying my ovulation test at Walmart I happened to get the 16 year old male cashier. He promptly told me “you know the pregnancy test from the dollar store works just as well, my girlfriend whet through like 17 before she would believe she was pregnant but now we have a 4 month old girl.” I wanted so badly to slap him!
Believe it or not, the Wal-Mart that I go to has burglar alarms on its pregnancy tests and its ovulation tests, The tests come in these specially rigged plastic boxes. When you go up to pay for them, the cashier has to use a special gizmo or something to get them out, and to deactivate the alarm. SMH. And the plastic boxes are practically the size Quaker oatmeal boxes! Short of a Costco sized bottle of preparation H, I can’t think of anything more embarrassing to be holding in the checkout line. So much for being discreet. I really wonder who they think is going to steal a pregnancy test. What, are First Responses the new Tommy Hilfiger jeans? Can you imagine if that alarm went off and the Greeter stops you to see what is in your bag? But anyhow, the whole bizarre situation got a chuckle out of me. (And thankfully, I didn’t get any nosy cashiers to ask about them!)
Oh I know right? We shop at Wally World and my hubby works there. Nope baby dust hasn’t rubbed off on me. I can’t tell you how many times I see women with five kids and one on the way there and all the kids are running around the store like little heathens. The movie Idiocracy alive and well….