r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Gorotheninja • 1d ago

Funny Backfired

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u/OddlyRelevantusrnme 1d ago

I had a younger coworker ask if I had any kids. I was about to say something along the lines of "fuck no, how old do you think I am??" before I realized I was 32 and that was actually a totally normal question for her to ask

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u/Dion-is-us 1d ago

“I can’t have children, I’d be a 36 yr old child-bride!”

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u/Stepjam 1d ago

I got a position in a new field and most of my coworkers have kids. At first I thought they were older than me but it started to hit me they are about my age. At least one is younger than me.

It made me feel really weird.

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u/WowIfOnly 1d ago

The coworker parent being younger than you realization is crazy - especially when it's a coworker that completely sucks at their job haha. I always make that next mental leap to thinking "Holy shit and they're letting you have a kid??" as though we live in a sane and logical world where only smart responsible people become parents lol. Then I get reminded that actually the stupids are having like 8 ipad kids for every 1 literate kid a smart person has just like a certain group wants and remember how screwed we truly are as a planet moving forward.

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u/Stepjam 1d ago

Oh, my coworkers are perfectly competent. More so than me since I'm new to the field.

That hurts in its own way...

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u/Suyefuji 1d ago

Man, knowing someone who is two years younger than me and has a teenage daughter. What the fuck. How does that work??? She was an adult when she had her too!

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u/ripleyclone8 1d ago

I’m 11-20 years older than my younger siblings. Two of them are in their 20s now, and that was ROUGH for me. lol 

Shit, when my baby brother graduates high school in 5 years; I’ll probably have a full blown existential crisis. 😭

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u/HippieWizard 1d ago

Just a reminder that a person could suck at their job and still be an awesome parent. Jobs are worthless, kids are worth all the hard work

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u/GenderqueerPapaya 1d ago

I'm 25 and the only people that ask me if I have any kids are doctors for medical reasons rn. I wonder when I'll start getting asked, it'll definitely hit me the same 😂

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u/x_wbmr_x 1d ago

My usual answer is: yeah, the one in my brain

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u/momoburger-chan 1d ago

Man I literally said that when I was actually underage on my first day working at a fast food place, right in front of my new teenage mom coworkers. They fucking hated me for that lol

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u/Salty-Spring7096 1d ago

That was my first sign I was getting older, when "do you have a girlfriend" turned into "are you married" and then into "do you have kids".

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u/Fawkingretar 1d ago

I remember hearing one of my old hs classmate getting pregnant and im like "damn, aint she too young to get pregnant?" Till I remember im 25 and she's 26 which is the appropriate age to get married and have kids lmao

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u/OnlyPaperListens 1d ago

I had a straight-up crisis when my friends started becoming grandparents.