“Oh, commitment issues"

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Totally forgot to post about this one: a little over a month ago, before school started, at an island wide inservice (with multiple districts), I was in a group of teachers that I had never met. We were doing this silly ice breaker thing. Any who, a teacher from a different school district introduces himself: from Utah, brought his two younger kids with him (he has 7, of course), etc. So I’m thinking, “Mormon!” Who cares? I just think it’s funny that they’re so stereotypical. 

Later on in the day, at lunch, this guy (the Mormon) sits down next to me and asks me, “If I have any kids yet?” Of course I say NO, to which he follows up with, “…really? It seems like on an island like this you should have no problem finding a mate….oh I get it, commitment issues.” I just stared blankly at him, and then got up and moved to another table. This is funny for soooo many reasons. First, I like that he included ‘yet,’ because obviously I’m planning on having children, because I mean, like, what else are women for? Second, what an incredibly inappropriate question and response. I’ve experienced this a lot with people who move out of Utah (or really anywhere they’ve lived their whole life) and don’t understand social boundries. This guy is a f-ing adult. A professional! A teacher, no less! I saw him last weekend at a XC meet, and it totally made me laugh out loud.