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?

When I was pregnant with my third child one of my Year 9 students asked me what species I’m having.

That smelling essential oils during labour would take away the pain of childbirth 😳🫤😨

I just recalled a work colleague who told me that Reiki could cure Down Syndrome.

“You do know you are meant to talk to them”

From my next door neighbour about my severely speech delayed 2 year old. A few months previously she had said “Do you think it’s because you talk so much?”

Also spent a lot of time talking about the remarkable verbal feats of her own pfb!

Can I ask how your new job went, I may have similar option soon and am bit nervous as I think I’ll miss the buzz but at same time looking forward to the peace

Snap @MissHavershamReturns .

The Queen Bee at the local groups I attended with my DS1 said the same to me. She said it with faux sypathy, her head on her side while tutting gently. (It took me ages to realise she was very competitive).

DS1 had global development delay, autism and a range of other issues that had not been diagnosed yet. When we then subsequently put him into an independent primary that had specialist SEN provision she snapped at me ; 'Well he won't have any friends, he's weird'. (He has a lovely core group of 5 or so friends).

Well, I believe that the climate change trend is caused by human activity, specifically the burning of fossil fuels to create more CO2 in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect. And I’m not an eco protestor, just an informed intelligent person.

A taxi driver once shared his view that the 'cure' for developing world poverty was 'voluntary euthanasia'. In his world, people living in poverty would basically line up at death clinics for an injection as 'surely that's got to be better than living in hunger and destitution'.

At the time I worked for an aid agency and ironically he'd picked me up from the airport as I was travelling home from visiting one of our projects. I'm not keen on confrontation but I was so riled, I told him how revolting his views were and that I'd like him to stop talking. Couldn't wait to get out that taxi.

The cure is to fix the problem, not kill people. 🙄

To be fair, there were a lot of very stupid comments made about Brexit.

One time is just finished my shopping and was sitting in the car sending a text, when a person pulled into the space beside me. She'd obviously parked too close and her passenger got out, huffing and puffing and moaning at me for 'being so close to other cars'. I was parked neatly inside the bay - it was the driver she was with who'd parked too close to me. 😂

That is bloody hilarious!

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I’m so sorry. That is just awful and unbelievable that anyone could be so cruel
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About twenty years ago all three of these.

job interview for an admin position in a factory. Middle aged man was big boss and sitting in. At the end: "please make sure you wear skirts and nylon tights or stockings, not trousers like you have on today. I prefer women to look like women."

job interview for bar staff: "sex sells. Unbutton your uniform shirt and wear short skirts."

Talking to a young headmaster of a local primary school at a careers type day at university (I was studying education and was mid twenties): "I'd have any children you want now before you finish your degree as I would never employ someone your age as they'll be off on maternity leave in the next five years. Oh, and wear a tight shirt and skirt and heels for your interview. No one is interested in the smart boring GIRLS, we want GIRLS who are nice to look at."

He was maybe five years older than me maximum!!!!

And to be fair, Brexit was an absolutely ridiculous thing. Still can’t believe we were dumb enough to believe all that bollocks.

No!
This one wins.
I hope you got some effective treatment, even so. What a nasty GP. And I've met some GP-bastards.

My MIL can't be in a room with a candle burning. They use up so much oxygen it makes her faint.
Apparently this actually happened to her a million years ago when she was in the Girl Guides.

@Hellocatshome Dear goodness, that would be awful coming from anyone, but from a refuge worker!!

I'm so sorry for your loss.

That reminds me of the woman who said I nearly touched her car when I opened my door - she shut up when I pointed out she was parked over the line.

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"
I had a very similar experience to this! I was a manager with a police force for a long time (almost 3 decades service) but moved 100 miles away when l took early retirement and work in a supermarket on a checkout now until l get my state pension.
Because my accent clearly isn't local, l get asked where l'm 'from' quite a lot. An (ostensibly very nice) older couple were at my till, chatting away, and the lady asked what l did 'back home'. When l told her, before she got a chance to reply, her husband remarked "And now you're REDUCED TO THIS!"
That poor woman. She looked utterly mortified. The look she gave him. I didn't even dignify it with a response.
I felt sorry for her. She has to live with him. Thank god I don't.

That Brexit was a bad thing.

I used to work for a company where the email address was [email protected]. The number of people who insisted that that was wrong and that I didn't know the email and it was really <companyname. co.uk and could I confirm it was really .co.uk? No I couldn't, because that wasn't the address.

I hate to be that person but Turner syndrome can also affect males, though not as severely as only one of their chromosomes is affected vs the two that females have.

They probably lit campfires to get rid of her.