“Are you pregnant” was the first thing that came to my mind @elbanditoroso. There was a time you could actually tell the pregnant women from the non-pregnant women. But I guess that was about 20 years ago.
Wait, that’s not good for the phone. That’s better when you can peer into someone’s face in a presumptuously entitled way and speculate about their ancestry, ethnicity, race, age, gender, etc.
So if you ^^ wouldn’t take offense, does that mean that no one else would, or no one else should?
I had a Japanese-American friend who used to get asked that a lot, just standing in line somewhere like a bank or supermarket or walking around a store: a very quizzical “What ARE you?” as if she were some alien species. It was she who made me aware of how some people get approached when they don’t appear to fit neatly into some classification.
No. Doesn’t mean that at all @Jeruba. It’s just me. I wouldn’t be offended if I was in a predominately black country and was asked what my nationality is. Of course, it would also depend on how it was asked, and the tone of voice.
When I visit my family in the Pacific Northwest I am often asked where I’m from because, apparently, I have a bit of a Southern accent. It’s human nature to be curious about strangers.
“Where are you from?” doesn’t sound at all to me like “What ARE you?” but maybe it does to someone else. At any rate, a rudely inquisitive demand for an explanation of one’s appearance might well be received poorly by some.
However, none of that plays over the phone, which is what the OP asked about. Sorry, @lucillelucillelucille.
Has anyone said you look like Ted Cruz?
A cross between a permanently disappointed sitcom vampire and the high school yearbook photo of every serial killer of the modern era.
Could you lower your voice?
It sounds like you have marbles in your mouth, are you eating?
Did you just (insert body function here.)
Can I call you right back, have to let the dog our?
Can you hold, I have another call.
Lol! I have actually done that a few times. You hear them squirm around like they are looking for who’s watching. One of those times it was a friend, and she insisted I tell her how I knew what she was wearing. I said I’m right here, look, I’m waving. I wasn’t even in the same town.
“I don’t know of anything worse after an all night binge than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember her name, how she got there, and why she’s dead. That’s when I say “I’m never doing this again!” Followed by “And this time I mean it!”~ AstroChuck.
@Jeruba – I thought she needed to be energized.
I found a bike horn in the shed so I didn’t have to say much. XD
I’ll see her this weekend and I am bringing the bike horn so if you never see me back on this site,she did away with me.
She is my sister. (for suspect identification)
You call that a nose, or is that a banana glued to your face? Is it true that you used to dance in a flea circus? Is it true that your girlfriend left you when she regained her eyesight? If they put your brain in a matchbox. does it sound like a bb rolling around in a railroad box car?