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That really made me laugh 😂

I got yelled at the other week by a random woman for letting my dog go up on someone's lawn and pee. It was MY lawn. I also got yelled at by another crazy lady when we first bought the house as it was a "family house". Errr, ok? So who do you think is living in it?!

And finally, the one that will always make me annoyed when I think about it is when I went to the hairdressers for the first time since DC3 was born, hadn't eaten and grabbed a chocolate bar on the way back to the car as that was all that was available. Ugly, fat man decided to tell me "You probably shouldn't eat that. You're fat enough". 4 weeks post partum. And yes, I did get in the car and cry and it still annoys the crap out me, 21 years later, that I didn't just kick him in the balls.

I'm not kidding you, this 100% happened to me the other week. I'd got my rain coat on because there was a bit of a shower and I needed to post a letter in the postbox 7-8 minutes walk away...

My raincoat comes down just past my bum at the back, and I was lifting it up slightly to get my phone out of my jeans pocket. This man - around 10 years older than me, (early-mid 60s,) was walking towards me on the opposite side of the road. He said 'I thought you were going to squat down for a piss then. Haha...' 😆

Who in the name of holy hell thinks it's okay to say this to a random woman that they've never met before? 'I thought you were going to squat down for a piss?!!!' (Just because I was lifting my jacket up slightly at the back, so that I could get my phone out of my jeans pocket!)

'What an absolute weird perve,' I thought. Never seen him before or since, even though this was in my village about 5 minutes walk from my house. As I said, who thinks it's OK to say something like this to a random woman he doesn't know?

I didn't say anything back by the way, I just looked at him for about 3 seconds like >>>> and carried on walking.

Fucking weirdo.

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Not a massively hilariously story, but this reminded me of something that happened this evening. Me and the children were buying school supplies in the range, when we got to the till there were barcodes missing off 3 of the items 🙄 so eldest ds was sent around the entire shop trying to find the barcodes (should have been the staffs job imo). Anyway while I was stood between the tills with the younger dc’s, one till worker loudly came out to the others with ‘I wonder what they do with severed limbs? Like so they just incinerate them? Or keep them somewhere to bury with them when they die’. And they all started discussing it. We were all stood there a bit bemused thinking what a weird convo to start across the tills at work. It might have been triggered by all the Halloween decs that were just put up in there 🤷🏼‍♀️

Welcomed a new coworker, five mins into the conversation she asked me if I were to put a fish in my foof, whether I'd pick head first or tail first.

I was told ‘Go back to your own country’
(When i was in a ‘nice’ pub that had sofa’s and cushions) in an area where i was born and grew up.
I laughed at her, (We were both white) and asked where she thought i was from.
She didnt answer the question but she threw a cushion at me 😂

A guy trying to chat me up when I worked in a pub years ago said to me, "You look familiar, were you on Blockbusters"?!!!

Welcomed a new coworker, five mins into the conversation she asked me if I were to put a fish in my foof, whether I'd pick head first or tail first.

'I'm a rather fat feathery owl called...Sage'
Yes, I too am THAT old 😂

Such weird responses on here to the story about pissing in the street. @HeySummerWhereAreYou found it rude, you may not have. So what? She didn't start a hate campaign against him over it! Why do people have to nitpick so much on MN?

I was in India once at an airport, and group of Indian people started talking to me/sharing their snacks with me. They asked how old I was and when I told them 26, they had a quick discussion in their own language before informing me that they thought I was older because I was [universal gesture for fat]. So that was nice.

She'd probably just sneezed and dribbled - thought she would pass it on to save you from future tena lady needs!

I was enroute to the park with my 18 month old in the stroller when a woman maybe in her 70’s was about to pass us in the opposite direction and she stopped and naturally I just presumed maybe she was going to say hi to my daughter or usual kind of pleasantries or something. She then just looks at me dead in the face and asks “have you been doing your pelvic floor?” And I felt a bit confused and awkwardly laughed and said “err yes” and she replied “oh please do!” and just walked straight off.
To this day I’ve found this interaction to be so odd to have with a complete stranger and wasn’t sure if she was just trying to give (unsolicited) advice or whether because my child is high percentile and I’m quite petite or maybe this is actually normal and I’m odd haha!

One morning when I was in my early 30s I was on the London Overground on my way to work and I was standing up as there weren't any seats available. A woman sitting near me offered me her seat. I didn't really need a seat so politely said no thank you. I was a bit confused as to why she'd offered it to me but didn't really think much of it other than maybe she was about to get off or something.

Then a few moments later she looked at me earnestly and said in what she probably thought was a kind, discreet way, "Are you pregnant?". I was mortified and really shocked. "No", I said. I was so embarrassed and felt like everyone was looking at me thinking how fat I was. I wanted to tell her how unwise it was to ask someone that but I couldn't even look at her. When I eventually got to work I cried. I knew I was a bit overweight (I was 5'8" and a size 14 at the time) but most of the excess weight was on my bum and thighs, I didn't have a big belly and I really didn't think I looked pregnant! Stupid woman. I'd already told her I didn't need a seat so why even ask me that?

@CherryBlo · Today 00:21

When I was a teenager I was waiting for a friend in town and an old bloke came up to me and started making small talk. He gave me weird vibes but it started off normal, chat about what I studied at college. I told him I was studying Shakespeare and he said that in Shakespeare's day when they hung people it gave them an erection.

It weirded me out and I moved away as soon as I could, but it wasn't until a few years later that I replayed the conversation in my head and realised he was probably getting off on it, and that walking round with my college ID on was probably not a good idea.

That's actually pretty grim, What a dirty bastard. 😖 Some dirty pervy men about aren't there?

I was enroute to the park with my 18 month old in the stroller when a woman maybe in her 70’s was about to pass us in the opposite direction and she stopped and naturally I just presumed maybe she was going to say hi to my daughter or usual kind of pleasantries or something. She then just looks at me dead in the face and asks “have you been doing your pelvic floor?” And I felt a bit confused and awkwardly laughed and said “err yes” and she replied “oh please do!” and just walked straight off.
To this day I’ve found this interaction to be so odd to have with a complete stranger and wasn’t sure if she was just trying to give (unsolicited) advice or whether because my child is high percentile and I’m quite petite or maybe this is actually normal and I’m odd haha!