To get wound up by random men making stupid, rude comments when I’m visibly struggling in public?

What an utter wanker.

I expect you should be ecstatic that you're not like the other girls ................

I was at home bargains parking up and a middle aged man came wandering over and said: I usually like to criticise women for their parking but that was actually very well done. I was totally rendered speechless what the fuck do you say to that, what goes through people's minds

I always wonder if they have girlfriends or wives, and what their evenings in must be like, given the rigour of their enquiries.

I still get the occasional remark, but a lot less often now I’m old, fat and grey. I find a carefully neutral “ thanks for your input” works well for me. Any further engagement gets the yes/no/okay/right one-word non-answer treatment, and it’s a very obtuse species of twat who’ll try to carry it on.

Utter bastards

Next door were having an extension done and the man who owned the property was very old, in all honesty I didn't know why he was getting it done, I was WFH in the room with the adjacent wall and suddenly a whole drill head came through the wall. I went out to the garden to tell them and they denied it and blamed the 90 year old neighbour. I have a cat house in my garden and was checking if the cat was in their, one of the builders proceeded to change the subject from the hole in my wall and asked, "what do you keep in that small house is it a Lion?" Much laughter from his colleagues. Yes, yes it's a Lion, if course it is. Don't worry yourselves about the massive hole that you have drilled through the wall and blamed the 90 year old resident for!! 🙄

I had a similar thing this morning. I bought a new dress that I really like, it's a floor length button-up shirt dress and it turns out that the lower buttons open when you walk. I was re-doing up one of the buttons on my way to work this morning, which was mid-thigh, and a man felt the need to shout "your muff's on show!"
I don't know why some men feel compelled to comment.

It’s never other men that these random men engage in their small talk / comments though, is it?

I do too but then you get the “oooh get you”. Funny how women don’t make these comments to men.

Sorry for your loss

I had similar, I got off a train and went to get a taxi. Driver made a remark along the lines of "who died". Actually a close relative had just passed.

While I do agree with a lot of the comments. I would tend to take this story of the man with the bread as a lonely person and would engage with a bit of chit chat. I often think you might be the only person they have talked to for the day/week. Maybe I'm encouraging them!

I wish, I'm 57 and a couple of evenings ago I walked to the local shop to pick up a drink. 2 men came out of a side road and one blew a raspberry and turned to me and said was that you that farted then blew another raspberry and said disgusting bitch. I completely blanked them

"Time of the month is it, darling?"

I find telling them to fuck off usually sorts it

I've had comments in a cafe when eating food alone. "You look like your enjoying that?!" and "oh think of the calories!"

I am enjoying it and no I do not care about the calories.

I also recently witnessed a group of three men, one of whom was a gobshite. Sat next to us in a bar. Two young women came in. They looked early 20s. The gobshite shouted over to one of the young ladies are you really that cold, take it off! Referring to her coat. I just glared at the tosser. Funnily enough he then did the missed a bit when the landlady was wiping down a table and was generally obnoxious and louder than a motorcycle until the fiesty barmaid came over to tell him to shut it or his drink was going over his head and he was going out of the door. He was silent as a mouse after that. Delicious!

Yeah, right!

I agree but the shark ninja was kinda funny.

"Can’t open his mouth to wish someone a good morning, but he can spare the breath to make them feel bad about themselves"

This just seems to sum up so many men and their casual hatred of women. It's depressing.

Or the ever useful fuck off. I don’t care if it’s rude sometimes needs must.

I got three stupid comments from strange men a few years ago when carrying a couple of garden canes home from my mother's house. You can imagine the sort of thing. For reference I am a 52 yr old woman and wasn't in fact dressed in bondage gear, but it doesn't seem to stop them. Twats. Attention seekers desperate to be heard and noticed, as pps have said.

It is a weird lack of impulse control. It’s so strange. Like they think every single thought / opinion they have is valuable and important, and they can’t help but share their superior thought processes with random women. 🙄.