Either I watch a lot of crappy girly TV shows (no comments) or there are just too many pregnancy test commercials on. Has there always been this many, or am I just noticing them now? Hmm.. Well here is a fascinating fact that most of the commercials want us all to know:
1 in 4 women misread an at home pregnancy test! Are you serious! 1 in 4! Holy shit friends! 1 in 4!
Now granted I’ve only ever used an at home pregnancy test once in my life, and I didn’t buy it, and sorta got pressured into it. One of my roommates in university used to have a stack of them (like she was an hour late and she would whip it out!) I used to joke with her “to bad they don’t have a bin of Preggo-Tests at Bulkbarn!” (right beside the gummy candy….!)
I’ve never really had a ‘scare’, in fact I’m starting to think that maybe I’m not even fertile! But I assume if I did have one I would walk myself over to a Duane Reade (they aren’t hard to find) and fill my basket up with every pregnancy test box I could get my hands on. And do them all! This is what bad girly TV and movies have taught us, you need to hydrate and pee on that stick till you know for sure!
So how in the hell do 1 in 4 women read this wrong? I mean it’s either yes or no, positive or negative, pregnant or not pregnant. (some actually print the words so you just have to know how to read)
Is it just me, or does reading a peed on stick seem as easy as a bad knock-knock joke?!
Knock-knock
Who’s there?
It ain’t Aunt Flo!
1 in 4 women need to CHECK THEMSELVES, cause you’re a hot mess, and the fact that you are actually getting laid makes me shake my head.
(reason #___why I’m single: I can read instructions while peeing on a stick ?)
You know, I was just thinking about this over the weekend. I saw a commercial that said, “x percent of women misread the plus sign on their pregnancy test.” I couldn’t help but think, if you can’t read the plus sign on the pregnancy test, then maybe you need to rethink this whole pregnancy thing.
yup!!!
LMAO. They are extremely easy to read, as I recall. But then, we have a lot of really stupid people in this country. Really. Stupid.
*shaking head*
Only stick I’ve ever peed on were in the woods. Can’t say I tired to read them. From what I remember from some tense moments from girlfriends of the past, there is a plus and a minus sign, right?
So maybe misreading is all about their predisposition or how good the pee-er is at math.
Oh god, that just reminded my of Crazy Girlfriend #3 that faked a pregnancy and miscarriage. Good times!
I hate when I don’t proof read.
honey, you read my site and you are worried about proof reading! HA HA……
They have the plus and minus yes, but like 30 different other kinds to no joke the WORD pregnant…. seriously! So basically the only people we have to blame here are teachers! Silly teachers not teaching our young ladies proper reading and math skills!!
AND, ps. you are soooo not a victim of the pregnant and then miscarriage! Dear lord! GIRLS ARE CRAZY!!!
Seriously. I’ve been a victim of the fake preggo/miscarriage AND the being asked money for an abortion for crazy gf#3 WHERE SHE GOT PREGNANT BY A DUDE THAT SHE CHEATED ON ME WITH WHILE SHE WAS LIVING THE HIGH-LIFE IN MY TOWNHOUSE FOR FREE.
It was about 3 weeks after I kicked her out.
Oh, the best story is Older GF #1 /Crazy GF #2:
She was… well, my age now when I was 22. Cool supposedly informal relationship with this real chill seeming artist; until she started stalking me at my work place and calling my moms house to see if I was there when she could not track me down.
After a particularly debauchery filled weekend where I blew her off to go party with my friends in school in NC, we ended the whole thing… er, or I did.
A few days later she dropped a box off, AT MY MOMS (because she did not want to be crushed if I had anyone over at my place [like she never heard of a phone?]), full of condoms and, best yet, her explicit artwork of me and us which, being the excellent artist, was very detailed, realistic, and graphic.
That was awesome. /sarcasm