At lunchtime, I overheard a conversation from the adjacent table. We had a visitor from another office and he was talking about his life to one of the managers; Jackie.
The visitor explained that he had an older brother but there was a 7 year age gap between them. Jackie exclaimed:
“You must have been a mistake!”
Jackie
The “joke” there – is that there’s usually a 1 or 2 year gap between siblings when parents plan to have a couple of children. A larger gap could mean the pregnancy was unplanned.
What an awful thing to say to someone. Even if you knew someone quite well, this seems inappropriate. To say that to someone you have just met; its unfathomable. To say it to someone at work; is probably a sackable offence.
Stranger Coding Tings 