Review: Limited Batch Strawberry Cheesecake Fudge Stripes & GET UP FOR MY PREGNANT WIFE YOU @$$HOLE.
JFG Nation, sorry yesterday’s post never materialized. I had a nice beautiful funny post ready to go, and then Monday happened. And it was a shitty shitty day. Lots of things happened that were not good, but it started off with me pissed off more than normal.
Here in DC, we have a subway called the Metro. Also here in DC, we have the JFGal, who is very very pregnant. Here in DC, also, we have the JFG – your truly – who grew up with the etiquette that YOU GET YOUR ASS UP WHEN A PREGNANT WOMAN BOARDS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND OFFER HER YOUR SEAT.
We boarded the subway yesterday and in ALL of the surrounding seats were DUDES. DUDES. Look, I’m gonna be blunt – not older dudes who need to take a break from the tiresome world. Not injured or disabled dudes who clearly also deserve a seats. JUST. DUDES.
One guy was there with his clearly 18+ year old son, arms crossed, sitting there staring at the watermelon that is the JFGal’s stomach. WTF, man? What kind of manners are you teaching your son? Another guy, next to them, scooted to beat the JFGal to a seat when another woman stood up at a stop, and proceeded to Netflix and chill with huge headphones on.
Across from them, some nerdy guy (yeah I’m gonna be a jerk right now) SOME NERDY GUY was sitting there with his khakis and button shirt hugging a box of cereal to his chest like it was the nuclear football. He repeatedly glanced at the JFGal’s stomach sideways behind his thick glasses. I SEE YOU DUDE. PUT DOWN THE LUCKY CHARMS AND GIVE THE JFGAL YOUR SEAT, YOU INCONSIDERATE PRICK.
Finally, another guy sitting RIGHT IN FRONT of the standing JFGal was wear Ray-Ban sunglasses, gold chains, expensive watch, yet also wearing white t-shirt, cargo shorts, and loafers WITH HIGH SOCKS. HEY FASHION GAZPACHO, GET UP. He stared at the JFGal’s stomach, then would sigh and look around him quickly, before settling back in and staring.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE. I really don’t think this is a young, old, red, blue, progressive, conservative, feminist, anti-fem, issue. My wife is pregnant. It’s a long train ride. GET UP AND OFFER THE PREGNANT WOMAN YOUR SEAT. Why? BECAUSE THERE’S A F*CKING HUMAN INSIDE THAT HUMP THAT IS DAMN HEAVY. PLUS IF SHE FALLS IT COULD HURT THE BABY.
To top it all off, it wasn’t just her standing for the 30 min train ride we need to take into DC! There was a clearly elderly woman who they made stand the whole time too! WTF. Later on someone got up to offer the elderly woman a seat – and it was another woman. These dudes just sat there. I couldn’t believe it.
A bunch of my friends shared my anger but also said, “She should just ask them to get up.” SHE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO, especially since the lovely JFGal is the type who doesn’t want to upset other people. GREAT. BECAUSE SHE’S TOO NICE TO TROUBLE PEOPLE, ALL THESE JERKS GET TO CONTINUE BEING JERKS. Se kept telling me to let it go BECAUSE SHE IS PATIENT AS HELL. But then I felt like a punk for not standing up for her vocally. Instead I stood next to her, making sure she didn’t fall as the subway jerked through the stations. So you can see why I went plummeting down a pissy tunnel yesterday, and didn’t want to talk about the virtues of Strawberry Cheesecake Fudge Stripes.
What should I have done? Am I completely off base here? WHY ARE PEOPLE SO EFFING CLUELESS. I’m saying something from now on. JFG Nation, please give me your best passive aggressive things to say in this situation, below in the comments. I need it. SUPPLY ME WITH AMMO.
Today’s junk food: Limited Batch Strawberry Cheesecake Fudge Stripes!!
Keebler going to Oreo route, now adding Strawberry Cheesecake? Got it. Dig in.
DO THESE TASTE GOOD? Yes, and SERIOUSLY WHERE DO PEOPLE LEARN MANNERS THESE DAYS?! I’m not even that old and it’s startling how many people I see NOT holding doors open for each other, etc. I’M NOT THAT OLD AND EVEN I DO THIS ISH. WTF, society??? HEAL THY SELF.
WHY OR WHY NOT? Fudge Stripes are always SORT OF artificial tasting but I have to say I really really enjoyed these. Once I embraced the semi melted white confection on the back of the cookie and the super strong strawberry smell that was anything but natural, I could tell that they sort of nailed the strawberry cheesecake flavor – the creaminess, the berry mixed with confection flavor – it all worked for me. It tasted like the combo of fresh strawberries on cheesecake – that interaction of flavor was well represented. It lacked the strawberry tartness of the tang of cream cheese that you find in cheesecake, but that intersection; that momentary flavor you get with the two combined? Hooo, baby. That was there. It was a fake strawberry taste, for sure, but it had more notes TOWARDS strawberry cheese cake than not. The cookie served to support the “crust” flavor that a cheesecake has on the edges. All in all, these worked for me.
ANYTHING ELSE I SHOULD KNOW? I’m not sure why, but these cookies reminded me a lot of these:
And these:
GOOD STUFF.
PURCHASED AT: Walmart, Frederick, MD.
WHERE FOUND IN STORE? Cookie aisle.
COST? $2.00.
Sincerely,
The JFG
Discuss - 9 Comments
Excuse me sir..are you growing another human in your body? No. May this lady who obviously is have a seat. Thank you for your inconvenience.
Sorry about that! That’s awful. But when the baby is due? Congrats
That just makes me sad. Sad for your stress level, sad for the JF Gal and sad for society as a whole that its come to this. It costs nothing and takes no effort to show compassion to another person, yet nobody would do it. And that father should be ASHAMED of himself.
It’s good that you were there to support her.
I figure, since you’ve got those morons staring, call ’em out. Put them on the spot.
“Excuse me, I see you’re staring at my *pregnant wife*. Would you mind giving your seat to her so she can rest?”.
Hopefully he’ll feel obligated to adhere to social decencies and move (especially with everyone else staring at him now).
But if I were in that situation with a relative/friend who was pregnant, I would be continually scanning for a chance of an open seat/anyone looking like they’re getting off at the next stop. On the inside however, I would be fuming, wishing I had the strength to hoist rude starers over my head and throw them out the window. Yep, there’s my passive-aggressiveness.
This absolutely makes my blood boil. I used to ride the subway in L.A. and it would drive me absolutely nuts when I saw a woman standing and none of the men would offer her their seat.
If I were you I wouldn’t call out anyone in particular, maybe just make an announcement that your wife is pregnant and would any of the MEN that have a seat, be so kind as to let her take it. I’ve been on the subway in DC and depending on where you are, it can have some unsavory characters aboard.
I also get upset when men don’t hold the door open for women, when they don’t get up when a woman leaves the table in a formal dining environment, or when they don’t address elderly women as ma’am. I’m only 34 but I’m proud of the fact that I was raised old school.
Would you like to borrow my car for the duration of the pregnancy, so you don’t have to take the Metro? I am sorry that this happened. Sometimes I think that it is easier to get a work-around solution in the interim and find a more permanent solution when you don’t have to deal with DC’s 90+ degree heat. Just let me know…
I too rode the subway (but in LA) when I was pregnany. Men almost never gave up their seats but women frequently did. It is definitely an aggravating situation- it can be tough to. E on your feet like that when pregnant. Congrats too!
Maybe ply them with junk food? Stop being a jerk and get up and then you can have some Keebler Limited Batch Strawberry Cheesecake Fudge Stripes!
Meh, as the lone dissenter here AND a woman to boot who has spawned 2 children, I didn’t feel like BEING pregnant made me entitled to anyone’s seat. And I prolly wouldn’t offer mine up cuz you’re pregnant, big deal. Come back at me when you’re elderly or disabled.
Now i’m craving some cookies and wondering where I can find me some of those. Nom nom nom.