Did You Really Just Say That?

[NaughtyBoyGeorgeMichaelJacksonBrown]

Idiot shit people say without think but hurts.

At MIL's for tea, 'D'P loudly pronounces these are the best carrots he's ever had. I cooked this fool carrots at least twice a week. Sure, he probably did find them better than mine but have some tact.

Went to the hairdresser when on maternity leave and she asked what I did - I told her was on ML at the moment and she said how exciting, when are you due...DC was about 4 months old by then 😖

MIL entering the house and exclaiming ooh it's really clean in here for once. I know that makes her sound like a witch but she caught what she'd said the split second after she said it and apologised but still, come on, Lynda!

I've forgiven (but never forgotten...love a good grudge) as they were thoughtless, not malicious.

Anyone else (lighthearted - serious stuff people have done and said that is meant to hurt deserves own thread)?

I had someone in a supermarket make a remark about my being pregnant. I chose to take it as a compliment since I was nearly 60 at the time and quite pleased to look young enough to be mistaken for a pregnant woman.

I got introduced to a new colleague in work who was clearly very stressed about making small talk with me. She said something about how stressful the project I was working on must be and how well I was doing especially with the baby being due soon. My youngest was 6 YEARS old.

I subsequently worked with her for 7 years and me and my team often wondered what she thought I did with the "baby" - her social skills never improved though

MIL - ineedcoffee2021 needs to put on baby weight

13 damn years and i still get the have a 2nd kid jibes. She 50/50 joking and not

Can I offer one where I’m the offender and not the victim?

A friend of the family had meningitis and had both legs amputated as a child. A few years later when I was a young teenager, he drove me to the shops and I said “oh you’re so lucky that you get to park so close.” (As in, in the disabled spaces.) Twenty years later and it still regularly crops into my mind. Such an idiot.

My friend when we were about 19: ‘People say you look like your dad, but I don’t think you do, because he’s dead skinny.’

This would be fair enough nowadays, but I was about 8 stone 4 at the time.

I'm sorry but I'm laughing at that one.

I do hope you replied "That's very well but what do you give to 'older' women who also don't want to be pregnant? The same pill???" add in a head tilt and wait for their response but you handled it brilliantly too.

I reminded DP once it was date night (horrid term but we are where we are) and he blurted “But I have chores every night of the week, when’s my night off?” I scorched the earth.

Lighthearted in retrospect, when my mother was diagnosed with something terminal, but with a lengthy prognosis, I said something to a friend about how strange it was knowing how she’d die. “Oh, don’t worry – she could die of loads of things before then!”

I once wore a black dress with some dark teal tights to work - both fairly normally smart (as I thought). Collegaue: "Did you wear that because it's Halloween?"
Found it quite funny though.

Idiot shit people say without think but hurts

Colleague - 'your mother died three months ago, it's time you were over it. Just pull yourself together.' (I had a deep depression after DM died, an ADP worthy one).

Well fuck me, Bernie, who knew it was that easy to get over the grief of a parent, eh?

I went into Boots with my then 3 week old dc. While in the queue, people were very complimentary towards the baby, which was nice to hear.

At the counter, this young guy asked if the baby was mine. I confirmed affirmatively. He then said I was lying. That the baby was Caucasian and therefore couldn't be mine (I'm not Caucasian). I found this bizarre, but suddenly, now (wrongly) felt I had to "prove" it was my baby to this dim-wit. So I said that my husband was Caucasian which made the baby mixed race.

He still didn't believe me and said the baby bore no resemblance to me. I had some choice words foe him but didn't want to be rude, especially as the people behind me in the queue had been so lovely to baby and me. So I just told him to read up on how babies get made and left the store. It happened a very long time ago but still annoys me to this day.

When I was on holiday one of the waiters assumed DP was my father. He was not amused. At all. Made it worse by saying PaPa loudly every morning at breakfast 🤣🤣🤣

Ugh
How can people be so ignorant?

Was at my bf's, who lived with his parents. His sister and family came over and I was introduced as our Dave's new gf. The elder GD, 12, piped up with I hope I'm dead before I get to your age ! Me too, you cheeky bitch

Cue from the proud dm/dgm - our Linda's always been funny. Cheeky more like. She was a spoilt obnoxious brat, and got worse.

"Omg, who ate all the pies??!". Said to me by a former colleague when we met some years later, unexpectedly. Went and cried in toilet for a while.

Earnest young cousin (then about 10yo) talking to our grandma about the Narnia books, which they both loved.
Earnest young cousin: "I read somewhere that these books are loved by people who are either very young or very ..." (she suddenly stopped talking in embarrassment)
Grandma (with twinkle in her eye): "Or very old, you mean, Mary?"

😂😂this is brilliant!! Literally laughed out loud

Some of these are so funny! Lots of quite hurtful ones, too - why are some people so mean?!

A funny one of mine:
Ten years ago my Nanny met my new girlfriend (now wife) for the first time. Important to note that I am a woman too. My Nan's first sentence was, "Wow, you look so alike, anybody would swear you were sisters"! Hahaha.(For the record, we look nothing alike!)

At my Mum's funeral a women turned to look at my teenage son and said 'oh, this must be your granddaughter.'!!

My younger cousin many years ago when dp and I had just bought our lovely house by the sea (not in the UK), had a baby and a toddler and had been together for 7 years but not married. We arranged a surprise party for my dad and he turned up with his new first girlfriend, who was being just plain rude and arrogant. Threw cigarette butts on our front lawn. My cousin kept going on and on about how my dp and I were not in a proper relationship, how he and his gf would get married before us etc. Whatever.

Dp and I have now been together for 29 yrs, same house, children grown up and finished uni, we’re still not married. Cousin and gf broke up a week later, years later he found a wife (I did not go to their wedding) and they divorced and he is very unhappy from what I’ve heard.

Hey ho.

*my cousin turned up with his new gf obviously, not my dad..he’s been married for 50 years with my mum. 😂

Ex husband ...used to make him sandwiches every day. I went out of my way to make them interesting. Different meats, salad stuff, different bread, and they were nice sandwiches. Then a canteen opened at work and he said, thank goodness, now I'll never have to eat your sandwiches again. Wtaf! Wish I'd put cyanide in them now.

@NaughtyBoyGeorgeMichaelJacksonBrown
Thank you for starting this thread. I'm sure I've had many 'foot in mouth' moments during my lifetime, but I'm old and seems I can't remember them, thank goodness.

Oh, I've thought of one that wasn't said directly to me...my DD and her Ex-DP are still on friendly terms after several years....recently he told her that he'd seen me in a shop and recognised me from the back without even seeing my face! To be fair, I do have an usually large bum( think Kardashians but mine is all me) and a small waist so I do stand out in a crowd.

I was out with a group of people and it was one woman's birthday and I asked her old she was turning and when she told me, instead of saying "oh you don't look that old" as I'd meant to, I for some reason said "is that all"?

It landed about as well as you'd expect.

@FrostyFifi 😂

Mil not long after we met describing how gorgeous DH EX was. Then saying I was more of a wash & ho girl
Another time giving me some shawl hint cos she'd ordered a medium but it was far too big for her and I could have it as I had bigger bones than her.
She's lovely though