When one of my children was maybe 3 years old, we were in the checkout line at the grocery store.
He looked at the very pregnant woman standing behind us in line, pointed at her baby bump and said rather loudly, "I know what you've been doing"
The pregnant lady in line got a little red of face, and I may have also. The lady running the register just kinda looked shocked and disgusted that a child so young would be aware of such 'grown-up' information.
I apologized for his behavior, then I very calmly and quietly told him that it was rude to point at people and talk about them.
He said "Okay, But I know what she's been doing!!!" Louder and more emphatically. pointing at the ladies stomach again. Again I apologized to the lady and tried to ignore the look on the cashiers face that looked like she was ready to call child protective services because my child was obviously abused if he knew what a pregnant woman had been doing while I again told him that it was rude to do things like that . . . . . Especially in public. . . . . And at such a high volume.
The cashier is giving me death glares as she tells me the total and I pay and get my change.
As I start moving away from the checkout stand, having loaded my groceries in the cart, my child once again points at the pregnant woman's belly and says
"But Daddy, I know what she's been doing. She's been eating Cheetos!"
I looked at the woman's belly and notice the telltale orange residue from wiping her hands on her shirt. And I started laughing. The cashier looks, and her death glare changes to a look of acknowledgement that my child was right as she starts laughing.
The pregnant woman looks down at her shirt and tries to brush away the orange residue as she gets redder and starts laughing. She laughed so hard she suddenly stopped and said, "Damnit!"
I looked at her, apologized again for my son's behavior, and as I walked away I thought:
" I know what you just did"
To this day, whenever I see a pregnant woman, I think to myself "I know what you've been doing"
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