It Doesn't Pass the Straight Face Test

In law school, we had this very distinct way of saying, "Yeah, that sounds like a load of bullshit to me." It was "that doesn't pass the straight face test." As in, how could you possibly say that with a straight face and expect anyone to believe you?

Today I got a message from the friend who somehow failed to mention to me, in the last nine months, that she was pregnant. (Would she ever have told me? Would I have found out she had a kid when invited to his wedding?) She wrote, "Sorry I didn't get a chance to tell you." That is a very nice way of absolving oneself of responsibility. As in, "It's a shame the Pony Express is so slow, as it did not give me adequate opportunity to send this message well in advance. But I assure you, I had ever intent of notifying you forthwith." That, versus "Sorry, I've been really busy with my sister's wedding" sent via iPhone, 3 months ago. Yeah, the sister's wedding...and maybe being 6 months pregnant?! Somehow she forgot...I mean didn't get a chance...to mention that.

I mean, at least be honest here. You don't forget you're pregnant. You don't forget to tell a friend when you don't call her back (I thought that was weird--she always calls back!) and then send a message like the one she sent. She mentioned her sister's wedding in her message today too, as if all she did in the last nine months was deal with that, an event that overshadowed bringing a baby into the world, somehow. Again, the straight face test tells me otherwise.

And I may be flattering myself here, but I feel like we know each other well enough that in other circumstances, circumstances in which she did not know I was infertile, I would probably know that she was having a baby. Like BEFORE the baby was born. Like not by reading it on Facebook.

It sounds really bitter, but it's not. In truth, I'm really sad. Cause how do you get over this--or really, what's the point? Sure, we've known each other ten years. But is it worth ten more, like this? Hard to imagine why--and that's sad.