What's the most ridiculous thing anyone has said to you?

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I occasionally volunteer at a local community centre. It's managed by a woman who tells anyone who cares to listen that she has a medical condition that means she can't eat. She looks well-nourished but I've always been too polite to ask her questions about her condition.

I volunteered at an afternoon event today. I get the seniors to their seats and make pots of tea. Cake was served. The woman who never eats was standing there eating cake.

'Look at you, eating cake! Are you better?' I said. 'Oh,' she said, 'you know me, you know I can't eat because of my medical condition.' 'But you're eating...' She walked off and is apparently really pissed off with me. Apparently I'm rude.

There are some real weirdos around, aren't there?

That Brexit is a good thing.

Someone I know keeps talking about the time they were terminally ill as a child and was fed KFC through a tube in their wrist.

A mental health worker at MIND told.me that most women who have suffered domestic violence were asking for it.

That probiotics can cure autism.

That having 1 child than having several

It's not that ridiculous and I'm probably going to explain this terribly but the other day a friend refused to accept that the shops in the next town are closer to me than the shops in my town. Even though I live in the very last street in town X. The street after mine is in town Y and the shops are 2 minutes away from there. The shops in my town, town X are over ten minutes away but apparently it's not physically possible.

I do think it is a little rude to comment on what someone is or isn't eating - sorry, OP!

My daughter was recently diagnosed with a condition called mosaic Turner Syndrome after she fell right off her centiles and was sent for further investigation. It's a condition where some of her X chromosomes are partially missing - obviously a condition that only affects females. I was telling my mum about it and my stepdad was tutting away in the background, saying it was absolute nonsense that she'd been sent to have tests just because she was small. He then tried to insist that my brothers had the same condition when they were young and had "grown out of it".

Someone insisted we purchased our children from abroad, as any children who don’t have white British parents are deported as soon as they enter the care system. This person works in a professional capacity (health care) with children.

I had some random on a train come over and check my phone wasn’t connected to the train’s wifi, because “wifi radiation” makes her seriously ill.

I did not point out that the wifi is there regardless of which phones are connected to it, and just promised to stick to using my mobile signal.

2 weeks after my partner died last year at the age of 45 my neighbour said oh you're still young still plenty of time to find another...

With the “look at you, eating cake!” I was thinking the same 😬

I do think it is a little rude to comment on what someone is or isn't eating - sorry, OP!

It's not when the woman has been harping on to everyone that she 'doesn't eat'. Why should everyone placate ridiculous people.

When I was a teenager a insincere friend,who I mistaking thought was sophisticated,told me i had a nice fone number🙄🤣

My sister in law used to say that she weighed half a pound when she was born. She used to go on about it (she was in her 30s when we met) as the reason her life has always been so much harder than anyone else’s. I mean it wasn’t a passing comment, she used to bring it up all the time. ‘I get migraines because I was half a pound at birth’, ‘I had a miscarriage because I was half a pound at birth’, ‘I was bullied at school because I was half a pound at birth’ etc.

I never believed it so when I met her mum for the first time I asked her (mainly for my own entertainment). Four pounds. She weighed four pounds. I mean yes, tiny, and a bit premature but not life threateningly so and she has no lasting effects so it’s very much not the cause of all her woes.

When I was in university I worked part time at Tesco. I was kneeling on the floor stocking shelves. A random customer came over to me and went "god look at you, on your knees in Tesco, I bet you thought you'd achieve more than that in life"

Never spoken to the man before in my life. I was absolutely astonished.

Went to gp as I was having problems with my ears. GP decides there's nothing visibily wrong and sent me for a hearing test.

ENT claimed it was impossible for me to be hearing impaired as I'm visually impaired. Audiology looked at my hearing tests and asked a few questions. They decided it's a mix of mild hearing loss from the medication I'm on (it was suggested the beeps I was hearing was tinnitus) and a condition relating to the brain not processing sounds properly which isn't picked up in hearing tests

I do keep getting told to wear stronger glasses and then I could see properly. Because no one has ever considered that...

The A&E triage nurse telling me that my wheezing 2 year old o2 levels of 88% were because "he's just being lazy with his breathing"

I insisted on a 2nd opinion and that nurse pushed the emergency cord and he was rushed off to resus with an asthma attack.

A potential eBay buyer looking at trousers I was selling wrote, 'I don't know how long my legs are?'

"If you don't have children, you'll miss out in having grandchildren". If I didn't want children, why on earth would I want grandchildren?!

when leaving a crazy busy job for a quieter one, a client said "you won't like, most people who do things like this end up feeling they made the wrong decision".

Of course it isn't, op just assumed she was over her terrible affliction 😁
(how does she stay alive if she can't eat! )
It's not remotely the same as saying "Look at you gorging yourself on cake, Doris, aren't you supposed to be on a diet?"

My chiropodist offered to either burn a wart off my toe with liquid nitrogen, or ask a gypsy to buy it. My jaw literally hung open.

This wins

When I was struggling to get pregnant "It'll just happen" ... reader I am gay.