I have this coworker.  He drives me CRAZY!  Especially since I’ve become pregnant, he now considers himself the authority on pregnancy, child-rearing, etc.  He has two children, 2 and 4, but he never says anything but negative stuff about them.  After we came back from Thanksgiving (4 days off), he said, “I couldn’t wait to get back to the office and get some peace and quiet, they were driving me crazy!  You’ll see, Mikey.”  Mikey’s my boss whose wife is due next Thursday.  I think that’s just sick.  So I said, “well, I plan to love my children” and he said, “love has nothing to do with it!”.  I’ve met his children a few times, they are two boys 2 and 4 and they seem to be really well-behaved, normal kids.  Perhaps even better behaved than the average 2 and 4 year old.  I’ve never seen them throw a fit, or be rude, or anything.  When the 2-year-old got sleepy at a recent happy hour, it was so cute, he just kind of sat on the ground.  I think he was trying to put his shoe on but he kept forgetting how.  It was adorable.  Anyway, I guess all their good traits can be credited to their mother.  Not that his wife wasn’t driving Tim and I crazy, forcing us into a way-too-long and intimate discussion of breast feeding.  Yikes!  And did I mention Negative Man always crosses over the line with comments.  And he just KEEPS GOING!  I will not even print some of his comments here, they are too disgusting. And when you point out he’s going too far, it doesn’t matter, he continues.  You usually have to forcibly and dramatically change the subject.  And he always comments on my pregnancy.  This morning he was annoying me about my breakfast, then asking me about childbirth classes and talking about how lucky Tim would be if he didn’t have to take any.  Speak for yourself, Negative Man!  ARgh!

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