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Couple wanting baby gives pregnant Wash. woman unusual tip

11:20 AM PDT on Thursday, May 22, 2008

By KGW Staff

SEATTLE, Wash. -- A pregnant waitress in Wasington state received more than a tip from one couple.

Pregnant woman, husband talk

They gave her a note saying they wanted to adopt her baby.

Julie Moore is five months pregnant and she doesn’t wear her wedding ring.

She was waiting tables last Friday night at a Seattle restaurant when a couple left her a card at the end of their meal. The card said: “We wish to adopt a baby. We are caring, happily married, financially secure and a loving couple. We want to share our joy and love for a child.”

The note also had a phone number on it.

Moore's husband, J.D. said he thought it was "really creepy" and both felt it was a rude slap in the face.

“I don’t wear a wedding ring at work and so for them to assume I’m not married or that I’m working in a service industry and that I maybe couldn’t afford to have a child or something, I don’t know. I just felt there were too many assumptions there,” Moore said.

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KING-TV called the phone number on the card, which was directed to the couple’s attorney. He said they have not gotten any negative responses to their unusual method of finding a baby to adopt. They were doing nothing illegal.

The Moores said they sympathize with people struggling to have a baby or adopt, but they felt this couple went too far.

"It was way out of bounds and it's just not right. It's not how you go about it," J.D. said