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

[chimamandafan]

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 was possibly a translation error. The French word for time and for weather is the same - temps.

Ah yes that uncomprehending reaction in France - there is nothing quite like it 😀

Being veggie with veggie kids in France went a lot better when I stopped trying to explain vegetarianism and went with the tragic and sad tale that the children and I were unable to eat any meat or fish products for health reasons. Alas we had to miss out on all their wonderful meat and fish.

Suddenly it was no problem and a range of vegetarian food was available. It was a French colleague who told me to try it due to the national obsession with health!

I actually am veggie due to medical reasons. I say veggie as its easier because most people are baffled and feel the need to interrogate my medical history otherwise.

Oh in France you should definitely share that and get the good food! I've never been asked to explain further details.

For us its not medical reasons but in the UK we still get interrogated and asked to explain and justify not eating meat. I can imagine you getting the 8th degree here if you mentioned medical reasons (and probably suggestions that a lump of steak was known to cure whatever condition it is).

Alas no, I’m a French speaker and the conversation was all in French. His question was “donc c’est le même climat?” (climate). It was bizarre.

Our second had the most horrific colic & reflux. They literally cried hours on end for their first year of life. Colicky baby & a 2year old was eventful.

Met another mum who's first was the same age as my second. She said she understood how hard things were because she had a dog...Apparently it was basically the same as having a toddler & baby, if not harder. 🤨

We also have a dog, nothing like having a baby.

This was years ago but still one of the weirdest things someone's ever said to me.

A friend of mine couldn't find her passport when going on a rugby trip to France. It was a ferry trip and most of the group were male rugby players. A friend lent her her passport - she was 10 or so years older and apart from being fairish haired they didn't really look alike. But it worked - my friend made it to France and back.....! So maybe .....

Ugh. My ds when he was born would literally scream 90% of the time. He was later diagnosed as CMPA but it took 7 months.

All my family kept saying was, take him to the doctors. This isn’t normal!!

Well no it’s not and we had been back and forth to the doctors so much, they were getting sick of seeing us. “It’s just colic they would say”

Still my family was adamant we weren’t getting him medical help.

This also reminds me of one of the doctors.

Ds at 7 months suddenly refused all food and water. No milk, no snacks, nothing.

Took him to the doctor who said..and I shit you not, “it’s ok. He can go 3 days without food and water. He will get over it eventually. He’s just playing you”

Hes 7 months old!!

We went home and dh immediately called the HV who said, go back! Don’t let him fob you off like this.

So we rang the doctors back and he was still saying, it’s fine. It’s all a control. When dh said would you let your kids go like this!! The doctor admitted he wouldn’t and reluctantly told us to go to the hospital and we would be taken straight up to the children’s ward.

Lo and behold, he had CMPA and was in agony. We were furious.

😁

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An insensitive, condescending woman I worked with told me when my IVF failed that I wasn't getting pregnant because I wore too much black.
She had been through IVF herself so should have known better!

Identical twins could be opposite sexes

My GP said something similar about 20 years ago. I had some warts and she said - well you can buy xx over the counter, it can be quite good. Or you can bury a steak under a tree when there's a full moon, probably works just as well'.

It was tongue in cheek (I assume) but I went for the Bazooka option - and it did work....

Friend was told by mental health professionals that she was attention seeking, and didn't need help. She killed herself.

On a lighter note I've been amazed at the stupid things people have said to me now I'm trying to buy a property (first time buyer). I'll say I'm looking in roughly the area I live now (very affordable and pleasant enough) and they'll say "oh, what about [posh part of city that is twice the price for exactly the same property type]?" Or alternatively "What about [small town miles away with terrible reputation and no jobs]?" I asked why and they said I could buy a big house there instead of a flat where I live now - as if single/childless me wants to rattle around in a big house miles from everyone I know in a small town instead of this vibrant city!

@Mamette - I'm a widow and I had a woman I volunteered with at my kids school tell me she knew 'just how you feel' as her husband worked away during the week!

@dancemom isn’t this what mosaic Down syndrome is? Variations in the number of cells affected?

Still not a good thing to be saying though.

No

My mum was at the gp for something or other, and he sent her down to the nurse for her to do an examination of her cervix.

She thought this was odd but duly toddled off- the nurse got her notes and said ‘you had a total hysterectomy? You don’t have a cervix’ yes agreed my mum, I thought it was odd he sent me here but I didn’t like to make a fuss (😂)- and off she went back to the gp’s room.

Ive been sent back, says she- I’ve had a total hysterectomy.

I need an examination of your cervix says the gp… and here starts an age of;

but I don’t have one!
yes you do!
no I don’t!
yes you do! Go back to the nurse!
but the nurse says I don’t have one!
you must have!
well I don’t!

While I pissed myself laughing in the corner.

How unbelievably insensitive of her @mondaytosunday

My mum had a phone call from a company about conservatories once.
She pointed out she lived in a top floor flat.
The answer she got was ‘Nothings impossible madam’

I had similar. In GP lifelong asthmatic and I'm coughing blood. Nurse asks if I always suffered from panic attacks. I was later diagnosed with pneumonia

@SaladandGravyWithSlugs - "spray water isn't wet!" 🤣🤣🤣

Within 3 weeks I went from perfectly healthy through thinking I had a UTI, to being unable pee, to discovering I had a large ovarian tumour and undergoing a pelvic clearance, 4 days before Christmas.

Said the nurse on the gynae ward, "you're rather an anxious person, aren't you?"

WTAF, who wouldn't be anxious in that situation?

They really can't. All else aside, if one's got a penis and the other a vagina - they aren't identical, are they?

LOL! 😆