The colony Ganesh committee worked out I'm pregnant before my sister did

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We'd told our parents and nobody else. Then yesterday at the pandal planning meeting I said no to the laddoo, said I couldn't stay for the late puja rehearsal, and sat down while everyone else was carrying chairs. One of the aunties looked at me, then at my stomach, and asked "good news?" in front of about twenty people. My partner pretended to take a phone call. My sister lives in Pune and I now have to call her before the colony WhatsApp does.

4 comments

  • olive_window_6198

    Colony aunties have better detection than any test kit. With us it was my partner refusing tea at a cousin's engagement. By the time the snacks came round, three people had congratulated her.

    • bronze_kite_7134

      Refusing something is apparently the giveaway everywhere. I'm going to start accepting the tea and just holding it.

  • silver_kite_9534

    wait till they start telling you if it's a boy or girl from the way you walk

  • lemon_kite_4432

    Did you manage to reach your sister? I'd worry less about the aunties and more about her hearing it second-hand.

  • hazel_spoon_2904

    Call your sister today. Not after the next meeting. Today.

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