25 Dumbest Twin Comments

25. Complete strangers have said “Oh you have twins! My mother was twin or my friend has twins or my nephews are twins, etc.” (Do they really think I would find this bit of information interesting from someone I don't know?)

24. “Do they run in your family?” (I answer "They do now!").

23. "Were you trying/planning on having twins?" (Hello - Is this even possible?)

22. “How can you tell them apart?” ( Hello, they are fraternal which means they are NOT identical Einstein)

21. “Oh did you know it was twins?” (Like did you take fertility medicine?" I thought that was none of her business, and I was taken off guard.)

20. "Which one came out first?" (Like this would matter to anyone, yet still it seems that it does.)

19. "When are you going to have your next set of twins" which is usually followed up by an evil chuckle (Gee, I think I'll try tonight...what idiots, that the last thing I want to think about)

18. "Wow, baby twins, you better enjoy them while their little - they grow up so fast" (Oh, really I thought they were like chihuahuas and stayed small forever)

17. "You must have your hands full" (I respond - "Better full than empty" and their cunning smile becomes a frown)

16. "Better you than me" (I say "You are absolutely correct")

15. "I could never do it." (Oh, really. What would you do? Would you put them on the curb with signs around their necks that say, "Free to a good home. My mom can't do it."?)

14. "Do they have different personalities?" (No. They are the same human being divided into several parts.)

13. Said by a stranger, "They're identical, right?" Mom answers, "No. They're fraternal." Stranger response, "They are NOT!" (OK. You're right. I have no idea what I'm talking about. These are not my children. I thought it would be fun to borrow them from a mom down at Baby Gap. It's been more than an hour. I guess I should return them.)

12. "Are they 'paternal' twins?" (Yes. They have a father. There was only one virgin birth.)

11. "Just wait till they're older. It only gets harder." (Thank you. I woke up this morning hoping I'd receive a word of discouragement while pushing a cart of preschoolers down the cereal aisle.

10. "When one cries, does she wake the others?" (No. Multiples cannot hear each other's cries because they all communicate with their special telepathic language only.)

9. From a perfect stranger: "Were they in the same sac?" (Hello. Nice to meet you, too. Will you be sharing your gynecological history with me as well?)

8. "Are they developmentally behind?" (Well, let's see. They're 3 years old and thus far, all their graduate school applications have been denied. We'll get back with you on that.)

7. "How do you do it?" (Haven't you seen the Nike commercials?)

6. "Are they natural?" (Nope, their arms and legs are made of silicone.)

5. "You must be SO busy." (Are you volunteering to clean my house?)

4. "Did you take drugs?" (Well, there was this one time in college...)

3. "What do you do when they all cry at the same time?" (Sometimes I cry. Sometimes I go to Starbucks.)

2. Said to a mom of boy/girl twins: "Are they identical?" (Uh. Not exactly.)

1. Only one comment could be voted No. 1. Drum roll, please. After a stranger had been informed that the toddler boys were twins, she asked a simple question: "Are they brothers?" (Enough said.)

Edited - to change 15 to 25

Will definately be using a few of those comebacks, especially

LMAO

We have boy girl twins and I can't believe how many times I've had the following conversation....

"Are they twins?" (There is less than 200g weight difference).

"Are they boys or girls?" I answer a boy and a girl then "Oh are they identical?" WTF?

OMG I cant believe some of those things.

I used to get asked if they were both mine.

I also used to get asked if they were twins.

Mine are identical and up until one lost a front tooth, u couldnt tell them apart!

I was also known as 'the lady with one sac' by the girls in the sonography place.

I got one from a neighbour the other day.
Which one was born first? When I answered I was told 'Oh that'd be why he is later doing things: the first one out never gets enough nutrients'

I have been asked by my SIL if my twins share a spirit

As they get older you get asked less & less questions.

Belinda

These are great!!!

When out with my MIL one day we were asked if the Boys were twins and she said "No, they have different fathers" I couldn't stop laughing!!!

Ahhh the questions never stop!

that's hilarious..... so, so, true

I especially liked no. 17. "You must have your hands full" (I respond - "Better full than empty" and their cunning smile becomes a frown) [i] (i get asked this all the time), now i finally have an answer........ thank you...


There is a comment i occasionally get from strangers which i find really annoying, one of my girls was crying whilst in their pram and a stranger will look at them and say oh one good twin and one naughty twin, i find this odd because if she passed me half an hour later, the girls would change roles..... they would not comment on a singleton baby like that to a mum... very strange...

I had hoped this would be the case!!!

This is usually the "veiled" ivf question to which I just say with a smile "no just bad luck."

Mine are id but I say "easily" and then bore them to death with the details about how you can tell them apart. Hey they started the conversation not me.

I love it when I take my id girls out one dressed in light pink and the other in dark pink and someone says "oh how nice you got a girl and a boy." huh???

There are also a lot of "romantic notions" out there i.e - they must need to be near one another all the time to be happy or that they are really two halves of one whole.

The other one is "how do you get anything done?". We're here, we're dressed, we're clean and we're fed so obviously we do. What choice is there?

It is funny really some of the questions we get asked.

I can't beleive how often i get asked this:

[/quote]2. Said to a mom of boy/girl twins: "Are they identical?" (Uh. Not exactly.)

I usually answer with 'Yep, except for the dangly bit between his legs!'

Have to coment on these they are brilliant, I love the come backs I now have some to those innane twin questions Thank you. I always got the "are they identical?" after I said they were boy/girl too and my naughty answer was always nnnnoooooo one has a penis I just never got that!!!!

I got a comment recently that did my head in: on hearing I had b/g twins, I was asked "Will they become identical?" WTF? I felt like replying "yes they'll become hermaphrodites..."

N x

I have had a few comments but the one that really stands out the most is,

I was being served at Woolies and the checkout operator said to me "Wow you must of had your babies really close together, is one about 3 months older than the other?" WTF, I actually had to explain that they were twins and that there was only 2 mins difference bewteen them. He didn't say much after that, probably realised what a stupid thing he had said .

Kylie

I always get asked with my girls, who are not identical, 'Oh how nice, one of each'. WTF, They are both in Pink. I don't know about you love, but I certainly wouldn't be putting my son in pink.

Why is it that strange people I come across feel that they can comment on my twins.

I thought of some others ...

"Oh you got the double baby bonus and the multiple birth allowance." Wow what a windfall. I'd rather win lotto thanks. And no I don't get the multiple birth allowance as twins are not classed as multiple for that purpose.

"Do they do everything at exactly the same time?" Yep they came with a timer and I've programmed them to do that.

"Which one is the dominant one?" I say "me".

I also have a friend with boy / girl twins who was asked if they started out as identical. Hello?

Great come backs!

Mine are 4.5yrs now and fraternal. I still get "you have your hands full" and "are they twins?". I have also started getting the "gee you must have had them really close together".

But the one that left me completely stumped was:
Woman: Are they twins?
Me : Yes
Woman: No, they aren't
Me : Yes they are
Woman: They can't be, one is bigger than the other and they don't look alike...Then she walked off.

These come backs are too good!

Just have to add my "favourite" that I get ALL the time.
My boys are 14 months and one is two kilo's heavier than his brother.

Stranger to me: "Boy, you had them close in age together".

Me: "Yes, about 1 minute apart".

Stranger: "That's not possible, it takes 9 months".

Me: "Not when they are twins"

Stranger: "They can't be, that one (excuse me, would I ever refer to your singleton as "that one") is sooo much bigger. They should be the same size if they are really twins.

I'm a lot less subtle - when asked if my b/g twins are identical, I say, No, this one has a penis.

I actually had one old biddy tell me they couldn't possibly be twins because they weren't the same sex! had to just walk away from that one...

Do these people think that you just imagined your twin pregnancy, birth and newborn period? That you must have forgotten a second pregnancy to get the other child?

Maybe because mine are similar sized, same colouring and same sex I haven't really had many people tell me they aren't twins. I have people trying to tell me they are identical though!



Actually I got this quite a bit when they were little. One lady told me that Levi 'should' have been the little girl as he was so pretty and then they would have been perfect twins!

Thanks for the laugh

I dress my non-identical twins the same when we go out (in jeans and boy clothes) and when they were younger people would say to me 'oh a boy and a girl, how nice', I'd ask them which one they thought was the girl, it was funny to see the confused look on their face after I asked them that

I also got asked which one was older, when I told them they would say 'I thought so, he is the bigger twin'

OMg.. the things you twin Mums have to deal with!
Mind you I've been asked quite a few times if my son and daughter are twins.. um.. they are 17 months apart!! And look it!

i have a 4 yr old and 2 year old that get mistaken as twins all the ti me before people even notice the 1 year old twins i do have!

yesterday i was outside with all my children and my neighbour of 6 months asked if i was baby sitting the babies when i said they were mine he gave me a very odd look and said well i have never seen them before like i had stolen them or something????

oh my god
isnt sad what some peope say to us twin mothers!!!!

i hate it when they say"i dont know how you do it,i couldnt"
come on please they are your kids of corse you could do it.
you cant sent them back!!

i had a lady say "gee your boys look so a like you can tell they are brothers they could neally pass as twins"
YOU FOOL THEY ARE TWINS

got a great laugh at reading your post.
all VERY TRUE.

tracy

If you are going to repost my entire blog entry - at least give me credit for it. I wrote this 2 years ago.

You can read my entry at http://blog.case.edu/twinmomma/2006/02/15/...ments_revisited

Or the original one I copied and posted 2 weeks before that with 15 commments from someone else's blog.
http://blog.case.edu/twinmomma/2006/02/09/...t_twin_comments

Or the original that I cited in 2006
http://community.livejournal.com/parentsof...350.html#cutid1

oh those questions are too funny!!!!!!

I got asked the other day if my boys were triplets. The 10 month old twins were in the pram wearing all in one suits and drinking their bottles and DS1 who has just turned 3 was stomping around in jeans and boots. Ummm, no, I don't think so.

My boys look very different and I actually had another twin mum ask me if I shaved ones head so I could tell them apart.

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I've had the 'are you sure they're twins' conversation with a lady in Coles, she told me they couldn't be twins because they didn't look alike. Then she stood there and looked closer (I wish I wasn't at the check out becasue I would have walked away), and then said 'you know, I think you're right. I can see some similarities!'. I had to bite my tongue.

The same day, another lady asked 'how do you tell them apart'. I didn't know what to say at first then replied 'I look at them' - she was puzzled. I said they are so different I could tell them apart by just seeing their feet. She asked if I was joking so I peered over the hood of the pram to see their feet and said 'that's my son, that's my daughter'. She looked at me as if I was crazy!! Aparently it is impossible to tell twins apart just by their feet.

I have also been asked how I can tell them apart. I can tell them apart in the depths of the night by their cry. My 'smart' answer was "if all else fails I just take of their nappy"

I was at the doctors the other day and this grubby looking woman turned to me and said oh you have 2 sets of twins ah no i have one!!!!!! i was also asked by a lady if she could hold one of them ah no i don't think so why do people think that it is ok to annoy parents of multiples do they not think we get annoyed enough gone are the days of a quick trip into town!!!! at the same docters office after watching this lady coughing for 15 minutes she walked over to me and asked to look at the boys ah no you are sick lady are you going to help look after them once i get home and they have caught your diseases!!!!

I was telling my DH about this post and in particular the one where the response is "My husband has 2 testicles", he thought this was very funny but he said that if he was asked the same question he would say

"Well, my wife has 2 vaginas".

He had me in absolute stitches.