Rae opened her email the other day to a question.

“So, when are you due?”

It was from a friend of hers, B. And she hadn’t told him anything.

“Due for what?” she replied.

“The baby.” was the response.

She sat there for a while going through all the likely suspects in her head, checking them off one by one.

And came up blank. There is no way anyone could have told him.

Eventually she gave in an told him, he was going to be an ‘early tell’ any way, and it was only then she found out how he knew. It was no gossipy neighbour, no super secret internet spyware snooping scandle, not even good old fashioned random guess work.

The culprit was Ebay.

It tuns out he was looking at a pram on Ebay but had forgotten all about it until he logged on to check how much it had gone for.

“Lucky winner.” he thought and it was then he looked at the winners name and put ‘Where The Wild Thoughts Are’ and ‘Rae’ together to come up with ‘Baby on the way’.

So, all you expectant mums and dads be careful out there. Ebay knows your secrets and isn’t afraid to tell.

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