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?

You're not smug at all. Transphobic, yes, ignorant, yes, offensive, yes, but not smug. So that's OK then.

That cuddling babies too much isn't good for them. Said to me by a very young nurse who works in a mental health mother and baby unit. 😵‍💫

I look after a boy with Down Syndrome. When he was born, his grandmother said that there must be some procedure they can do to take his extra chromosome away....

“Are you allergic to anything”
”yes Elastoplast”
”ok we shall put this red bracelet on you so it’s alerted to the staff”

after my procedure and my cannula is being taken out.

“are you allergic to anything”
”yes…Elastoplast. Which is why I’m wearing the bracelet”
”ok good”

puts an Elastoplast plaster on me anyway.. I had a lovely red square for two days after the player came off. I was lucky it wasn’t anaphylaxis allergy. Just a skin thing.

I considered 38 to 40 weeks full term. Apologies if I am wrong there

Full term is 37 - 42 weeks

Bananajuice so very sorry to hear this. What a dispicabld thing to say

I was once asked if I had ever considered going on a diet...
Yes, overweight but not hugely so

My daughter had loads of veruccas. Tried the usual home remedies, nothing worked, ended up going to a podiatrist.
she said there was too many to treat, the best way is for my daughter to go into a locked room and scream at them, tell them to leave your body, twice a day.

Then she charged me £25.

I was selling some trousers on ebay a few years ago and this French woman messaged me demanding I sell them to her as "there are no GAP stores in France"

They are correct. You aren’t smug. You are a judgemental ass. Why is it any of your business?

Oh yea, I have a twins as well.
Another one was that they know how hard it is, they have two kids as well...
Oh really do you?😸👏

This is an epic answer 🤣

That’s just because some people have soya milk because they prefer the taste/consistency not because of an allergy.

People still moaning about Brexit seven years after the referendum 🙄

My mother

She bought a cross stitch kit as she wanted to hang it up-this thing was a large kit

Only problem was,she's never done a kit in her life

I do it as a hobby-so she demanded I do it for her (fair enough)

She gave me it on the Monday and rang me on the Thursday asking 'if I'd finished it yet'

Oddly,due to the fact I had 2 small children,a part time job and could only do an hour or two on a night so the kids didn't destroy it,the answer was 'no'

She still tells people I took the piss-it took me almost 4 months but she wanted it in 4 days!

A small one can take up to a month so she had no chance

My SIL, at my late husband’s funeral said ‘you’re going to have to find someone new to give blow jobs to’
She was drunk and had been telling me all about how much my BIL liked getting a blow job. Like that wasn’t bad enough before the ‘someone new’ comment

I was selling a bookcase on local Facebook page. All measurements on the ad. Someone messaged to say they were interested and asked "Will it fit in my car?" I replied that it depends what car they have and to measure their boot. Next reply was "my boots are size 5". 😂😂

Not said to me, but when my husband died I received a Christmas card a few months after his death (it being Christmas) which read “Mr and Mrs ….” and then the writer clearly remembered what had happened. Rather than go to the trouble of writing a new card (ridiculous), the writer simply crossed out “Mr and”. Problem solved 👌

Ones I get every day at work

"The first date we can do is Thursday the 24th august"

Guaranteed the reply will be either
"What day is that?"
"Have you nothing sooner?"

Can't explain Mr Brexit, @IDontLikePinaColadas, but lots of maps do depict Alaska and Hawaii in boxes, very close together, for space reasons, so that's actually a more common question than you'd think!

Let me guess, are you a GP receptionist?

Only asking as this is very much what I say a lot of the time

Gp telling me I was a neurotic mother when my daughter age 4 was admitted to GT Ormond street
wouldnt mind but I had only taken her to the gp about 5 times at this point in her life and she was 4
Someone else threatened to report me to social services when I said I felt my son was on the autistic spectrum
Sadly there are some really ignorant people about even in this day and age!!

By the nurse at the gp surgery to just get on with it as “everybody has one miscarriage in there life , it’s no big thing”
i was blue lighted to hospital after leaving her room in floods of tears and collapsing. I lost my child’s twin

I used to know someone whose son has Down Syndrome who was asked when would he grow out of it.

Once went to see the GP because my migraine medication stopped working. She said that because my MRI scan was "normal" (normal for me) I'm imaging the pain. She then said it was all in my head. Well yes it would be, I mean where else would migraine pain be? (I know abdominal migraines are a thing)

There are certain medications you can't take if you have certain medical conditions or take certain medication.
Neurologist: because you have asthma I can't prescribe beta blockers. That was 2014.
Respiratory aren't sure if I have asthma or another breathing condition.
GP: have you tried beta blockers?
Me: the NHS website says I can't have them because of my breathing problems
GP: but you don't have asthma. You'd just come off them if they affect your breathing.

Why would I want to risk making my breathing worse? But this is the same GP who suggested paracetamol even though daily preventatives don't work

I'd call it transphobic rather than smug actually. Just because you choose not to believe in something doesn't mean it doesn't exist so you are in fact the person making ridiculous comments