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

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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

A lady I used to work with told me one day that I "looked like someone her ex husband should have married".

When I asked her what she mean she replied "you know yourself". I said I had no idea what she meant and she said "well I'm not going to spell it out for you". She never spoke to me again for months before she left.

Still baffled.

Someone told me 'you are an interesting look to your face'
It's stayed with me forever and really knocked my confidence.
I've no idea what she even meant.

Omg

"You look like your name should be Lindsay"
It's not.

"What was the weather like the day you were born?"

I'm tiny - 5ft and 7 stone. My exH's aunt said to me 'I don't think you'll be able to have a baby as you're too small '

I was a bit shocked and it did worry me. I went on to have two healthy babies, naturally, thankfully

Why she said that, I don't know but it did concern me.

My friend and I had just checked into a swank hotel in Vegas and were in the elevator up to the room. Another group got on the elevator and one of the women turned to us and asked “are you here for the rodeo?”

We still laugh about it.

Between myself, yourself and the wall, we were actually there to see Tom Jones😂😂

My massively misogynistic, dense, infuriating ex boss… after being on sick leave for 2 weeks after emergency surgery, I had a call with HR and him to appeal a rejected request to WFH. I was in the middle of putting my case forward, and he had one of his usual outbursts and said ‘oh for gods sake, just stop beating around the bush; tell me directly, what is wrong with you, is it catching?’ I was so cross that he’d asked (legally he couldn’t!!) so I went into DEEETAIL about where my endometriosis was found, how much blood I thought I was vaginally losing (I exaggerated a ltr!) and how much I had struggled finding suitable menstrual products.
He was quiet for a split second and then asked me, how do I know you’re not lying?
Why the fuck would anyone lie about having emergency surgery or a gynae condition??!!!

My aunt after I got contact lenses, "you were hiding a big nose under your glasses"

Just what you want to hear at 14 🙄

I was saying to my mum how I was going to start teaching my son to read in the summer before he started Reception, just to give him a bit of a heads up. I was a very excited FTM.

Mum replied, saying how teachers don't like you to teach your kids to read.

I said 'but... I am a teacher.'

She said 'yeah, 'allegedly'.'

She had been at my graduation where I qualified as an Early Years teacher and had been going to work as a teacher ever since.

That's clearly just a joke based on how laid back they are, you've taken that way too seriously.

Friend after hearing my dad had died of a massive heart attack : "That's a very good way to go."

Having read all of the posts here a few have experienced encounters with really nasty people that like to put others down. These types are never happy unless you are unhappy. They are sad and not well in the head and best ignored and forgetten

A man came to buy a lawnmower off me.and just said I wish I had met you years ago.then left with the lawnmower

A very ex boyfriend 20 years ago, before sex, "I hope you've remembered to take the pill, because the last thing you need is an abortion". Sex didn't happen and neither did the relationship. OMG did he actually say that, what a monumentos prick?!

My lovely long term partner on first meeting me "What's your favourite monster?"

Omg - what an arsehole your ex was!!!!
Your current partner sounds lovely! Dying to know what your favourite monster is now though!

FIL's wife when we told them I was pregnant:

'I thought you'd be barren at your age'.

OK I was 35 but still very fertile thank you very much.

@Myotherdogsaballboy There's still time...he might still get you!

@HuwEdwardsraisedeyebrow Bloody hell, Bible John still hasn't been identified - I hope she told the police as well as a rabbit-in-the-headlights employee!

Mine was Mark Curry - he was filming at my workplace and out of nowhere made eye contact with me and said 'I think it's so unfair people are discriminated against just because they are overweight or unattractive'. Literally out of the blue - it didn't relate to the conversation, the programme or anything that had been said previously. Was he calling me fat and ugly but still deserving, was he just cracking out soundbites, had he got me mixed up with someone, was he on meth? I'll never know; I never replied and never saw him again. I was a bit porky, but definitely not documentary worthy fat and ugly!

I have what I call "Claire face".
My name is not Claire, it's doesn't even sound like it but my entire life people have called me Claire. Even though they know my name!

Teachers at school who knew me for years would call me Claire and then correct themselves, colleagues at every job I've had (even ones where I was wearing a name badge!) so I can only assume that there's something about my face that says Claire.

Oh another one: I told a friend my 19 year old neighbour had died in awful, tragic circumstances and he asked ‘but did she get to fuck beforehand, I’d hate to die a virgin’.

WTF?!

When my 3 DC were small, a man called at the house trying to sell something. My 3 DC rushed to the door in front of me and when I opened it, the man looked at the kids and back at me and asked “do they all have the same Dad?” WTF?

I’m not excusing him, but they do look different. One blonde, one brunette and one with the most amazing red ringlets.

He was still a cheeky f*cker

'Well, unlike you I respect MY husband!'

Said to me because I've used my own family name since birth.

I refrained from pointing out that asserting one small preference of identity made me no less a spouse than your average man, or that, unlike the speaker, I still happened to be married to mine.

Perhaps I should have!

Yeah you did!

My name is not Claire, it's doesn't even sound like it but my entire life people have called me Claire. Even though they know my name!

That's really odd. A colleague decided she didn't like my given name, that it didn't suit my face so she decided to rechristen me 'Emma'. And then promptly started addressing me by that name every time she spoke to me.

I corrected her, calmly, every time. Small stuff, it's true, but what kind of weirdo does that?

I had this problem years ago, 35 years ago, my friend Suzanne "looked like a Rachel". I got her name wrong a few times. We laughed. She understood there was a wormhole in my brain 🧠 🪱

At an elderly relative’s wake, I asked her son if he still worked in industry X and he said “Yes, and I loathe it. I loathe every single day of it”. I thought I’d obviously dropped some terrible clanger and was going to leave it there, but my mother felt obliged to keep making conversation, so said “Oh, maybe you need a new challenge”. He replied “Yes, I do; I need a new challenge. I mean, I’ve never killed anybody”. 😳😳😳

A man came up to me on a night out and asked if I’d heard Margaret Thatcher had died (a couple of years before she actually did). I said “No! When was that announced?” He said “Oh, it hasn’t been announced, but I KNOW. I know because I killed her”. I felt the sudden need for another drink…

I think there’s a theme to mine 😆