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?

Continuing the vegetarian or not posts - when I was booking an event and asked for dietary requirements someone told me they were vegetarian on Mondays 🙄

When quite a lot of the eco protestors seem to believe all climate change is due to human beings, rather than considering other environmental and natural factors,

That made my night!

Tonsils can regrow.

I want your friend! Go get her a gold star badge right now!

I’m enjoying this thread a lot and have remembered one that makes me laugh everytime I think of it but was not funny at the time.

family wedding with 6 week old baby (gold star for me hanging on by a thread). Baby was a hit and people were kindling coming to me. The other side in laws came to say hello, remarked on his bruised and battered face. He did look like I’d dropped him a few times due to forceps etc but everyone had to good graces not to mention it. Then they asked if I was having him christened and I said no. There was a pause so I explained I wasn’t christened or religious, I wasn’t even sure if dp was christened. The exchanges a look (mother and adult daughter) and said that religious observance was very important in their family. And just sort of sat there like … ok.

what makes it funny is that the mother had 2 husbands except never divorced the first one men and the daughter had 5 kids by 5 different men none of whom they were married to. It was so weird that they just wanted to make me feel like shit but also that somehow I didn’t know their history.

anyway everytime I see them now (about twice a year) I ask how was church on Sunday and they look at me like I’m nuts. My dm tries to stop me cause I’ve told everyone so it creates “atmosphere” I don’t care - I’m going to hell anyway.

JFC

An ex-colleague once bought me some type of radiation cover as he was worried that my ovaries would be affected by mobile phone usage etc.
He went into quite some detail as to why this gift was particular to me, how it would be terrible for the population if I didn't breed and his concerns for my ageing eggs.

This was all overheard by several rows of my colleagues at their desks who pretended they weren't listening. Luckily one took pity and phoned me pretending to be a customer in the hope he'd leave. I got the piss taken out of me for quite a while 😄.

When I was 2 months pregnant and was leaving an event at 9pm having said I was tired.. a childless, single male friend said to me "have you been to the doctor because its not right youre so tired, you arent even that pregnant yet" I tried to tell him that tiredness in the first trimester was actually very common and that for many women this was the part of pregnancy when they do get most tired. He absolutely woukd not listen and in the end I had to promise him I'd make a doctors appointment to get him to shut up.
I did not make a doctors appointment. Both me and and the baby were fine.

A teenager to their 8 year old sibling in McDonalds “If you push down that on the lid of your drink you’ll turn your normal Coke into Diet Coke.”

I had DVT after dd1 was born and had to attend the INR clinic every week. I always had dd1 with me in the pram.
The second or third week I go in, the nurse asks if I'm pregnant. 😩

Dogs don't have navels?? WTF!

Someone on this site told me I wasn't working class because I sounded like a MC person.🤯

@TooBigForMyBoots omg I had someone, a complete stranger, on social media tell me I certainly could not be working class because the photos I took were too arty lmao!!

21, heavily pregnant and loading washing into the machine one evening. Not so "D"F (father, not fiancé) walked in, right up close in front of me with his hands on his hips, and said "On your knees, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, like a woman should be". Made me feel ill. Have been no contact for many years due to physical and mental abuse but that comment crossed a boundary even I didn’t think he was capable of. Still makes me feel sick thinking about it.

They do! They absolutely do. Whether they are actually homeless is another matter but I promise you, you get loads of beggars claiming homelessness / poverty with card machines ready to whip them out when you say ‘sorry mate, I haven’t got any change.’

Don't ever go to Moscow then. I'm like you, a very smiley person, and had to force myself to not smile while there as guys there thought a smile meant I was trying to pick them up. Bleugh...

That my genetic, inherited FND is "all in my mind" - which yes, physically it is... but she meant mentally/that I'm imagining it. Oh, and that HRT "will cure it". Which would (well...) be fine, were it not a physio who said it to me. One who works in the community, too, so her attitude towards the vulnerable/elderly may well have remained unchecked.

I complained formerly. But it did a number on my actual MH. To the point where I am now in therapy as a direct result. It's impeded the latest resetting of my brain somewhat - because I keep wondering if she was right (she's really not...) and maybe if I just pulled my socks up... the fact that my brain misfires to the point where it's essentially attempting to permanently shut down, might just... stop.

I actually took the weekend to think about whether or not I wanted to make a formal complaint. Because I'm the sort of person who tends to be "well, maybe they were just having a bad day..." about situations like this. But then I realised that it doesn't matter. As a medical health professional - she was so out of order, it's still not even slightly amusing. It's been 5 months, I'm still waiting for physio (but actually have figured things out myself - because I'm stubborn enough to not just wait for them...), and I doubt very much I will ever have a referred appointment with them again. But I still haven't picked up my "mindfulness" crafts again. It took 2 months for me to be able to resume online tutoring. My children, oldest brother and closest friends were so worried about me that (I found out the other week) they were essentially tag-teaming me as to suicide watch/would I need professional intervention at one point.

Which horrifies me. And I feel guilty about that. My disabilities aren't even "invisible" any more - but I'm still subjected to the "it's all in your mind, dearie, you're menopausal...!" nonsense. Which, nope; not unless I was menopausal at the age of 3 when my brain first started to misfire...

And to vote!

Explains why we're in the mess we're in though!

My mother and older sister argued that there is a third category of rhesus blood groups. One that isn’t negative or positive. My mother was a nurse. I remember shrieking at them with frustration but they stuck to their guns.

My father told me that a white man would never marry a black woman because men know better. Unbelievable.

Stupid rude woman at work asking “was it planned? when I told her I was pregnant.

Definitely my favourite so far

I’m from NI and came over to do a degree at an English university in the early 90s. At an evening event (in the days when unis still served wine) the rather inebriated Dean said to me, “What’s a lovely girl like you doing over here when you could be at home making bombs?” One of the few times in my life when I’ve been rendered speechless.

The vet looking at my cat, who was in great pain and holding her tail strangely, who said (after he'd terrified her by clapping his hands and whistling like she was a big, confident dog) that she'd just bruised her back jumping off something and would be fine.

She'd been bitten by another cat, the infection got into the bone and she had to have two thirds of her tail amputated.