I propose a new rule:

[Elok]

When you are at work--or, for that matter, with a group of friends, attending a family reunion, on the subway, or in any other context other than those rare few, such as a doctor's visit, where such information might be both welcome and relevant--please refrain from mentioning any and all abortions you, your sexual partner or any other person may have had.

This should not need to be a rule. It really ought to be one of those things that everyone just knows, like how you don't step out of the bathroom and announce loudly, "boy, that was a big 'un, 'bout eight inches long, and there were chunks of corn in it too!" Really, it should. It's not a pro-life thing, or a pro-choice thing, it's a why-the-ever-living-****-would-I-ever-want-to-know-that-about-you thing. Yet apparently it does need to be a rule, because I just heard it broken for the second time today.

Please, don't be that person at the office who does this. If there is a forcible uterine eviction in your past, keep it to yourself, along with that time you were with that chick, and you were both really drunk, and you asked her to pee on you. No good can come of mentioning either. Thank you.

[SlowwHand]

Your point is merely the tip of the iceberg. Good point, though.

[loinburger]

When you are at work--or, for that matter, with a group of friends, attending a family reunion, on the subway, or in any other context other than those rare few, such as a doctor's visit, where such information might be both welcome and relevant--please refrain from mentioning any and all abortions you, your sexual partner or any other person may have had.

This should not need to be a rule. It really ought to be one of those things that everyone just knows, like how you don't step out of the bathroom and announce loudly, "boy, that was a big 'un, 'bout eight inches long, and there were chunks of corn in it too!" Really, it should. It's not a pro-life thing, or a pro-choice thing, it's a why-the-ever-living-****-would-I-ever-want-to-know-that-about-you thing. Yet apparently it does need to be a rule, because I just heard it broken for the second time today.

Please, don't be that person at the office who does this. If there is a forcible uterine eviction in your past, keep it to yourself, along with that time you were with that chick, and you were both really drunk, and you asked her to pee on you. No good can come of mentioning either. Thank you.

Sorry, but the first amendment obligates me to tell random strangers about all of the gory details of my personal life. If I don't then the Nazis win.

[DaShi]

Seriously, who doesn't announce their ****s? I'm proud of mine and want people to know it.

[Kidlicious]

Ewwww! I didn't know you ****!

[giblets]

I've had no abortions ever. Just thought you might like to know.

[Ecthy]

When you are at work--or, for that matter, with a group of friends, attending a family reunion, on the subway, or in any other context other than those rare few, such as a doctor's visit, where such information might be both welcome and relevant--please refrain from mentioning any and all abortions you, your sexual partner or any other person may have had.

This should not need to be a rule. It really ought to be one of those things that everyone just knows, like how you don't step out of the bathroom and announce loudly, "boy, that was a big 'un, 'bout eight inches long, and there were chunks of corn in it too!" Really, it should. It's not a pro-life thing, or a pro-choice thing, it's a why-the-ever-living-****-would-I-ever-want-to-know-that-about-you thing. Yet apparently it does need to be a rule, because I just heard it broken for the second time today.

Please, don't be that person at the office who does this. If there is a forcible uterine eviction in your past, keep it to yourself, along with that time you were with that chick, and you were both really drunk, and you asked her to pee on you. No good can come of mentioning either. Thank you.

I wasn't aware taking a crap is politically contested issue in the US. Thanks for clarifying.

[DinoDoc]

Yet apparently it does need to be a rule, because I just heard it broken for the second time today.

Why do you encourage this by tolerating it?

[Elok]

Well, by "second time today" I meant today was the second time ever--sorry if that was unclear. The first time the woman was my superior at the office and I was just an innocent bystander who overheard. This time the guy was slightly high off an unsafe cleaning product he'd been exposed to, plus he does martial arts, which made me reluctant to start an argument that might lead places. Mind you, I think he might have told me about it even if he hadn't been breathing concrete cleaner, just because he's one of Today's Youth. One of my other coworkers is also among Today's Youth, and he routinely tells me about the stupid/illegal crap he and his family get into. I feel myself growing more jaded and Republican every day I work at this place.

[loinburger]

I had a co-worker who kept losing her teeth because she'd never seen a dentist. She never talking about it, but she smiled much more than she ought to have.

[MrFun]

Hey, freedom of speech baby!

[loinburger]

Never change, MrFun

[Ben Kenobi]

I feel myself growing more jaded and Republican every day I work at this place.

Try working at a health food store.

[Asher]

When you are at work--or, for that matter, with a group of friends, attending a family reunion, on the subway, or in any other context other than those rare few, such as a doctor's visit, where such information might be both welcome and relevant--please refrain from mentioning any and all abortions you, your sexual partner or any other person may have had.

This should not need to be a rule. It really ought to be one of those things that everyone just knows, like how you don't step out of the bathroom and announce loudly, "boy, that was a big 'un, 'bout eight inches long, and there were chunks of corn in it too!" Really, it should. It's not a pro-life thing, or a pro-choice thing, it's a why-the-ever-living-****-would-I-ever-want-to-know-that-about-you thing. Yet apparently it does need to be a rule, because I just heard it broken for the second time today.

Please, don't be that person at the office who does this. If there is a forcible uterine eviction in your past, keep it to yourself, along with that time you were with that chick, and you were both really drunk, and you asked her to pee on you. No good can come of mentioning either. Thank you.

I'm on board with this.

Also, please add religion to the list. I don't ever want to hear about it.

[Aeson]

This should not need to be a rule. It really ought to be one of those things that everyone just knows, like how you don't step out of the bathroom and announce loudly, "boy, that was a big 'un, 'bout eight inches long, and there were chunks of corn in it too!" Really, it should. It's not a pro-life thing, or a pro-choice thing, it's a why-the-ever-living-****-would-I-ever-want-to-know-that-about-you thing.

I agree. For starters, a bathroom is a bad place for an abortion. People should know better. But mostly, I really don't want to have the mental image pop up about what you were doing to get chunks of corn into the fetus