Worst accidental insult you've had?

[ImJustMadAboutSaffron]

I'm massively busy just now and on the train yesterday I was going through everything in my head, sort of a planning conversation with myself. A woman opposite asked if I was ok and when I asked why she said I was nodding my head a lot. Clearly answering myself in my head! We laughed about it and a woman across the aisle said "when you get to our age you start talking to yourself." I asked what her age was and she said 64.

I'm 42.

@ilkleymoorbartat My gran told me I had lovely legs, "just like your grandads". My grandad was a rugby player

That really did make me laugh

I was at work talking to a coworker about our grey work shirts and saying how I wished they were a nicer colour. We go over to the rest of the team and I didn’t know at the time, but they were all fussing over one of our coworkers newly cut and dyed hair and I say “oh Susan’s got a different shade of grey today!” Everyone stared at me, thinking I was being horrible about her hair when I was just noticing her uniform. Luckily, Susan is deaf.

Asking a client if her very quiet 'son' would like anything to drink, tea, coffee, water, before she corrected me and told me it was her boyfriend. (He looked all of about 20 to her 50).

I had to move the conversation on very quickly...

I had just picked up DC from school and was walking back to the car chatting to one of the dads.

In our DC’s year group there are two others with the same name as me, let’s say “Katie”, and we all know each other.

The dad said to me, “I was talking to nice Katie earlier…” referring to one of the other two Katies, then looked horrified as he realised what he’d done! I just laughed and said: “As opposed to me, Not-so-nice Katie, you mean?”

My son when he was about 5 had a good look at my face when I got out the shower and then said, yeah you do need that makeup don't you mummy.

I used to get Bridget Jones too

My fave backhanded was "oh I would love to be able to embrace the chaos like you Scissors, I just can't rest unless everything is tidy."

I have also had 'you look younger with your mask on'. I'll take it as a compliment. 😄

In terms of 'things you've said that made you want to curl up and die', I once asked a former colleague, who was born without their lower left arm, to 'lend me a hand' with some cables.

I wanted the floor to open up and swallow me, and my colleague ended themselves laughing at the sheer horror on my face as I realised what I'd said.

My dentist once asked me if I had any Grandchildren whist making general chit-chat. I was late 30s so I guess not impossible, but my oldest was 6 at the time!

'I bet you were gorgeous when you were younger'. I was 27....

A very old friend said to me last year " you're very stylish for someone so large". Nice.

I had very similar from my neighbour. Just after I'd given birth he said 'I didn't know you were pregnant'. I said but we chatted last Friday. He replied 'I just thought you weee still fat from the last one'.

My MIL who is known for her passive aggressive comments and eats nothing to stay as slim as possible passed a whole chocolate cake across an entire table of 12 to me saying " You take what you want first fifi - you obviously like cake"

I was a size 12 and not far past giving birth to my second baby at the time 🙄

Also a school mum friend of mine on examining brand new second baby said "ahh she so cute she looks just like a potato!" 🤔

A colleague, after learning I used to model: "Oh yes, plus size models were getting very popular then, weren't they."

Just arrived for a day shift , someone said 'oh have you just worked the night ?'

MIL visiting me and newborn DD in hospital after a traumatic birth and the only thing she says after a long awkward pause was "well at least she doesn't have your nose."

On the phone to a customer who during our conversation tells me he’s blind.
Me: ‘oh, I see’

Ground, swallow me up now please.

My friend said my hands were my best feature 😳

On a very packed BA shorthaul flight the attendant approached me and asked if I would move seats (I was in the back row) as they needed to "readjust the ballast", as if the placing of my 12 stone was fundamental to the ability of the plane to take off. Talk about a walk of shame to the front!

My Nan once said to me that my outfit "looks lovely from the back"

I met a really close friends new girlfriend for the first time and you know when you can tell someone just doesn't like you from the start. When she'd had a few drinks she made a comment about my boobs that I didn't quite catch. When I asked her to repeat it she said something like They looked great...for fakes, she'd never want to have surgery and was it a choice to go so big....? I've never had a boob job 😕

A friend once said to another friend who had a new outfit on 'That top's very you, nice though' 😂😂

I had to go into hospital and the nurse looking after me thought I was my DH's grandmother!! He's six years older than me and his actual grandmother is in her nineties!!

"Yes, you're fit, I agree, but you're fat-fit". From my GP.

Something similar happened when I taught in a FE college. A lad came in with his art and design portfolio and who we thought was his mum, and she turned out to be his girlfriend. The age difference was about the same. He was also wearing a baseball cap with "I'm Horny" on it ...

@ImJustMadAboutSaffron Could the woman across the aisle have been referring to the woman opposite and not you? Did they look a similar age? If so I would have understood it that she meant something like, first you nod to yourself then when you're older you actually start talking to yourself..?
(Clutching at straws here) 😄