Did You Really Just Say That?

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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)?

Not ho. Ha ha ooops

I work in a hospital and did this once years ago! I was mortified but have never done it again. Now I just ask who it is they're with.

Years ago when I smoked, I went out to the smoking shelter for a cigarette and there was a few people there. Someone I vaguely knew congratulated me and said she never knew I was pregnant. You could have heard a pin drop. I wasn't pregnant.

Picking up my prescription, the young lady had checked my address. She automatically said 'do you pay for your prescriptions' but was already handing it over. When I said 'yes I do' and offered my card, she quickly snatched it back with a look of true surprise on her face and exclaimed 'do you really?!' She took a deep intake of breath and said 'sorry, its not that you look unemployed, it's just...' then went red and got busy with the till.

Out on a date. He points to our table number which was 27 and asks if that's how old I am. I was 23.

I'm not surprised he's now your exH!

I’ve just thought of a time I was on the receiving end, I worked on a makeup counter for a long time, one day a customer congratulated me and asked when I was due, I was quite proud of my quick response with a tinkly laugh “oh no, no congratulations needed, I’m just fat”
My colleagues couldn’t believe I’d said it once the lady had gone because she was so embarrassed but my point was that she shouldn’t comment if not 100% and why should I be embarrassed for her social fuck up-if it had been someone else she could have really upset them, as it is I have the skin of a rhino and don’t give two fucks but someone else might.

@Deathbywhy great response!!

I wonder what did your colleagues expected you to do to save the woman from being embarrassed?? Pretend you really were and say a fake due date?

Walking with three children (I’m a childminder) and an elderly man, I’m guessing mid-late 80s said to me, you look haggard and tired, probably all those kids you have. 🙄
should point out the children were clearly of different heritage to each other and to me!!!

I had that from a prospective date, he was dropped swiftly 🙄

My aunt when I was only a couple of months pregnant and not showing. I'm tiny 7st, 5' size 6. "You're going to really struggle to get that baby out with such narrow hips" - thanks, it worried me throughout the pregnancy. Thankfully all was fine and I had a natural delivery (and then another one).
Me, as a young woman, at work meeting with a solicitor colleague about an upcoming case we were preparing for. Me "he won't have a leg to stand on in court." Colleague has a prosthetic leg.

Oh and my dad when I was about 16 and thought I was rocking an Annie Lennox look with a new bleached blonde curled crop. Dad "You look like Ruth Ellis and she was hanged" thanks dad.

Not my stories but ones that made me laugh:
Asking for a blow job in a hair dressers.
Someone confusing centipede and paedophile ie 'I hate spiders but I don't mind paedophiles'
And on a more serious note, after telling a friend that I had just had a miscarriage (my first) she says sorry for your loss etc. followed by 'I think you should adopt'. I literally didn't know how to respond.