What is the funniest thing a Non-Diabetic has said to you?

We've all heard some funny stuff coming from the mouths of Non-Ds. What was your favorite moment?



Mine was, I was out with some close friends, who all were aware of my diabetes, and the restroom in a restaurant was too crowded for me. So I figured I'd real quick-like shoot up at the table. I'm in the middle of my hasty process and my friend Adam says, "Spunk, you'd pop a ringe right here at the dinner table? Look at all these people!" and most of them turned to stare..

It's just diabetes folks, not SARS.



What's your story, morning glory?

What is the funniest thing a Non-Diabetic has said to you?
I'm on a pump and when people see my pump, they ask what kind of pager I have. When I tell them that I am a diabetic and that I'm on a pump, the respond with "Oooh, you have diabetes bad don't you?"
Reply:Lol I have two stories! One happened to me, and the other happened to my friend when I was with her at the mall, lol, good memories!!!



First my own experience:

I'm in my high schools marching band and I'm diabetic. Well one day after a marching contest hours away from home, we stopped at a buffet restaraunt called Ryans. Because there were so many of us, the waiters and waitresses were coming to our tables to get our drink orders so nobody would accidentely spill anything. When a waitress came to my table, all my friends ordered coke. I was last to order and, as I'm diabetic, I ordered a Diet coke. The waitress stepped back, looked me up and down, and said, "Girl! You do not need a diet coke! Please! You're not fat at all! You look good!" So then I said that I did need Diet because I was diabetic, and she turned BEET RED and started apologizing like crazy! lol!





And then one time, My friend, who is also diabetic, and I were just walking around at the mall. She has a black pump. I still take shots, ugh!! Anyways, She was talking on her cell phone because her mom had just called. So then some really cute guy walkes over to us with this..look..on his face. He said all nastily, "Oh look! A little rich girl, huh? Has a cell phone AND a pager!" So then she hung up and said in this sad, teary voice (she's a great actress, lol!). "What? This isn't a pager! this is an insulin pump? You're so horrible! You just insulted a handicap!!" Then her eyes tear up. All acting of course, and we all know that diabetes isn't really a hadicap at all, but hey, lets ignore that little fact, shall we??). So then he got this horrified look in his eyes and started apologizing to her. Then he offered to buy her a free coke. She said "make it diet?" He said sure. Well, I wasn't about to watch my friend get a free diet coke when I was as thirsty as a horse, so I mentioned I was also diabetic. He got me one too! lol.... I'm thirsty.. gonna go get a diet 7up...yummy!! lol!
Reply:My daughter has had diabetes since she was 2. She is almost 18 now.



When she was younger, people would ask me if she has to "take the needle ".



Then they would tell me not to give her shots since she was so young and it will hurt her.
Reply:My father in law is a diabetic (tho he will NOT follow his diet etc properly), he constantly calls me twiggy (as I am only about 66kg and 5'8") %26amp; I call him Shrek (got a big gut on him) or humpty dumpty. I now have a pump (praise my endo for that) which has changed my eating habits tremendously. I used to have to eat all the time as I am a brittle diabetic, now I can get away with a hell of a lot more than I used to. Well he is constantly saying to me, you can't eat that or what is wrong with you you haven't eaten anything. I am so sick of explaining to him why I can now eat as I do grrrr. Now that is certainly the pot calling the kettle black. My hubby has told me I need a utility belt so I can carry my pump, my mobile %26amp; my bsl moniter lol. I have a friend who also is a brittle diabetic %26amp; gets sooooo sick of peole saying (who are non diabetic) you shouldn't be eating THAT. That was a subway, salad (the one that they talk about from the biggest looser), this woman is HUGE she could probably eat a horse in one sitting. I also had an old fellow walk past me in town one day and muttered under his breath eat something, have also had a women say to me when I was buying a diet drink 'you don't need that you are too skinny' I turned to her %26amp; said I will swap you my health problems for your fat,she shut up pretty damn quick.
Reply:not diabetic, but I avoid sugar and carbs like the plague and they keep insisting on you eating things."just this time" or "its fruit-its good for you, you cant cut out fruit!" when visiting I refrain from lying and saying Im diabetic but judging from the comments here , it prob wouldnt help anyway! People are so ignorant. But on the other hand, many will be diabetic themselves sooner or later judging from the trends in health now.
Reply:Ha! That's a great story. I love having the diabetes police watching everything I eat - "should you be eating that?" "won't that put you in a coma?" "I didn't think you are allowed to eat ice cream"...
Reply:Doesn't that hurt? when seeing a blood test for the first time.

My former classmates were a riot, they knew a member of the class was a brittle diabetic, and ate all of her candy everyday. She brought extra. Still ate it all.

What do I do if you pass out? is a good one.
Reply:wait i dont get it...
Reply:I just read in a magazine about a teacher who got fired because she pulled out a student's insulin pump mistaking it for a cell phone. If you even look at those a little bit closely it is so obvious they are not cell phones or pagers.... what a B..... and you know the kid had to be saying "I swear it is my insulin pump... leave it alone" at least she got fired
Reply:well, not exactly to me, but to a pretty good friend.

she has a pump and ppl were trying to guess what it did.

apparently its a mp3 player, a thing for her ears, and a pda...
Reply:I have 2 diabetic daughters. One was diagnosed when she was 2 and she will be 9 next month. And my 4yr old was diagnosed last year 1 week before she turned 4. She will be 5 next month.

The one stupid question people always ask me is "They'll grow out of that won't they?"

NO NO NO!!! UGH! Diabetes is NOT something you grow out of! @@ They'll have it until there is a cure! How hard is that to understand? People are so uninformed!
Reply:A family member saw me giving my daughter insulin and asked, "Does it hurt? Why do you do that if it hurts?" I replied, "Well it was a tough one and I thought long and hard about it. In the end I chose this over death."
Reply:It is a sad kind of funny - but I get "I understand" a lot, and want to shout - "No you don't!"