I love how nice people are to pregnant people. You could be anywhere and people are 95% (that's just a guesstimate) more likely to strike up a conversation with you than they would normally. Just recently I've had the following encounters:

- A man at Home Depot struck up a conversation in the returns line in order to guess if I'm having a boy or a girl based on how I look (by the way, he guessed I was having a girl, which a lot of people tend to do).
- A woman stopped me while going to my car and asked how far along I was because she has a daughter who's "just about as big" as me, but she hadn't seen her in a couple of weeks and wanted to estimate how big she looked now.
- A group of about 4 women stopped me and another pregnant girl in the bathroom line at a wedding to get the details of our pregnancies and to relate theirs. (Side note: this other pregnant girl at the wedding is due in Oct. and had just run the Peachtree Road Race that morning. Can you believe that? Totally showed me up! )
- A salesperson at Circuit City who was 5 months pregnant wanted to evaluate how big she was going to look 3 months down the line.
- Multiple references in non-pregnancy-related random conversations with injected phrases like "when your baby comes", "take some more - you're eating for two", and "good luck!" when there hasn't been any reference to anything I'd need luck for.

Plus, people are always opening doors, smiling at me (or, rather, my stomach), helping me stand up, and offering to carry stuff for me (groceries, packages, slips of paper...just kidding about that last one...) I think when this is all over I'm just going to walk around with a pillow stuffed under my shirt. :)