The strangest thing someone said to you that sticks in your mind

[JamesBondOO7]

Over 35 years ago a workmate of mine a bloke asked me why I was off the day before and I told him I went to a funeral of a relative.

As we talked he said his brother had died when they were both in their early 30's and then blurted out "I did not go to his funeral." (They both lived locally to the other) I asked him why not. He said, "he was dead he (his brother) would not of known.."

The guy was not joking and it has stuck in my mind since - the bloke was a good workmate we had laughs/chats but that made me feel uneasy and funny about him

I was on a Tube with my baby daughter. I was 40 when I had her. A pregnant teenage girl was on the same Tube. I only noticed her when she was getting off, as she said loudly, 'mothers are getting older every day!'

When I got to where I was going I went straight to the Ladies' to see if I was looking exceptionally haggard but I wasn't!

I also had someone yell out of a car window at me: 'I hope you're being careful with that baby' as I walked slowly along a slightly snowy pavement, with her in a sling. Irony being she (driver) nearly drove int

Into the car in front.

Ah, but DID you know what it was, BlankTimes?

@JamesBondOO7 that was an unusual way to rationalise not going to a friend's funeral! Logically it's true but it's cold! Not surprised it stuck with you.

I was pushing DS (2 at the time) in a buggy near my house when a (much) older woman came up to me and said "get your fucking buggy off this pavement now you selfish bitch. Don't you know people have miscarriages"??

I had just had MMC number 2 so she got incredibly short shrift from me!!!

When someone assumed my IVF baby was a designer baby, had I chosen the sex, eye colour etc...told them no,. explained the difference but they still didn't believe me, 🙄

At work a female colleague said to me out of the blue "am I right in thinking you're getting bigger" (not so subtly implying I was pregnant).
I wasn't pregnant, but I was trying and had a miscarriage the month before that no one knew about. I went home and cried. I wasn't even fat, I was a size 10 but a bit bloated and wearing a tight dress.
I was shocked that anyone would a) ask if a woman was pregnant without knowing for sure. b) say it in a way that calls them fat at the same time! Especially a woman who should know better.
I'm now pregnant but the same woman hasn't said anything this time!

A colleague that I'd never spoken to before (worked in another department) took me to one side and said 'I've been thinking about you and preying for you'. I was stunned as I had no idea why she said that to me and it took me by surprise, so I didn't ask what she meant by it. I can only guess it was a case of mistaken identity🤔

I was pushing my daughters buggy, she was around 2 at the time..carrying my daughter with my other arm as she wanted to be picked up..a woman stood outside a pub rabted about this, finishing off with 'she shoukd be walking' in a menacing tone!

@BayandBlonde ah bless you. It was a well meant compliment and you couldn't possibly have foreseen what happened. Don't beat yourself up any further

@YogaLite
I have been rather sleep deprived for years now but in the height of it found myself saying things I didn’t quite mean, or expressing things in a really clumsy way or being emotional about things that when rested wouldn’t get to me.

I can imagine your (ex) friend was just trying to express she values you. She just phrased it very badly. I would guess she might be sleep deprived/stressed/ whatever it is.

My dentist was chatting away amiably and she said "you got your dad's teeth". My dad has a gob full of fillings, crowns and a bridge. I nearly cried. I didn't think my teeth were bad.
When my son was 3 and refusing to brush his teeth, I'd say "do you want teeth like granddad's?" and he' run upstairs to brush his teeth.

When I told my manager I was pregnant with my 2nd child (19 months gap), "Was it a happy accidental?"

He's a lovely guy and I still work for him but it really stuck in my mind!!

I long to hear this!!

Either A) - "Are you sure she's yours?" when I was with my niece.. To which I said, "Hope not" or
B) - " You must earn a lot of money." When I walked with my Ex-GF. We heard that a few times. Her answer (after the first few times when we were both insulted) was taken from a film I think... "He has a 9 inch tounge and can breath through his ears".
Usually B) was said by men in their 50s.. A) was said by a 60 year old woman who I've only ever seen once when I was in the park.

In the local corner shop, the only other shopper (an older man) came up to me and said ‘that used to be your car’ and pointed to a random car parked outside that definitely did not used to be mine.
I replied with “No it wasn’t” assuming mistaken identity.
but he was insistent ‘yes it was’, ‘I know it was’, ‘you sold it to local car dealer’.
this went on for a few minutes before I agreed with him, quickly paid for my milk and left.

Wow, that is horrendous!

Around 15, in the car with my mum and some friends looking for a venue so mum pulls over to wind the window down and ask a man for directions. Before he even looks at us he digs his hand in to his jacket to get his wallet out and says ‘how much do you want’

WTF

My in laws came round when I came out of hospital to meet our DS2 and told us they were moving house 1 hour away because DS2 will be at school before we knew it. DS2 was 3 days old! This was 18 years ago and I've since found out they didn't want to babysit 2 children, they could have just declined babysitting!!

When dd was a new baby I went to visit an old school friend who I hadn’t seen for a number of years, and took dd with me. Old friend’s sister happened to pop in for something.

Old friend (whose children were tweens) was sitting with my dd on her lap and commented “Oh this is making me broody!”
Her sister snorted “At your age! Don’t be ridiculous!” and waltzed out of the door.

Old friend and me are the same age. (36 at the time).

@mrstea301 She said he was known as 'Bible John'

Oh another one - random lady when we were at the shopping centre on my DDs second birthday. We'd gone in as they had a little pop up play area with stalls, ice cream van, a carousel etc and thought DD might enjoy that before we went to lunch.

Bought DD an ice cream cone and random woman shouts at me "you could have got that cheaper down there you know" (I'm still not sure where the 'down there' she meant was as the only other place that sold ice cream was a sundae shop which would have a) been too much ice cream for a 2 year old and b) was likely more expensive).

I looked random lady directly in the eye and said "I'm quite happy to buy my daughter an ice cream thanks very much, it's not going to break the bank."

She then starts muttering to the person she's with "that's not the point with kids though, is it?"

Not quite sure what she expected me to do? Snatch the ice cream out of my 2 year old's hand, bin it and wander off looking for something cheaper?

Crackpot.

My friend said about my severely autistic severely learning disabled son " but at least he looks normal it would be much worse if he looked disabled "
😳

I cannot believe that. I'm so sorry that happened to you. As a fellow mum of a child with autism I'm so angry for you.