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?

When I was pregnant with my eldest daughter I was told by a midwife not to wear black knickers as it would depress the baby, I admit this was 40 years ago and I hope attitudes have changed🤔

What is a runner’s face? I run three times a week and as far as I know my face is perfectly normal. My arse is fabulous though, because of all the running. I don’t even talk out of it.

(PS if someone had ever said it to me I might have put it up on the thread😂🏃🏻‍♀️

There are times when physical violence is 100% justified.

This is the worst thing I've read on this thread. to your sister, what a horrifying thing to go through x

If anyone ever deserved a very hard slap, it’s her.

What issues? Like believing you can weigh 8 ounces at birth and survive? She sounds like a nut job 🤣

Some of them honestly do. No one Carrie cash anymore

The utter fuckwit in Tescos who was a covid conspiracy theorist who told me all about how it didn't exist.
It killed my dbro and was on his death certificate. Apparently all the doctors are in on it.
Do fuck off.

What issues? Like believing you can weigh 8 ounces at birth and survive? She sounds like a nut job 🤣

The smallest surviving baby was born in Singapore at 7.5oz.

The smallest baby born in Scotland was 11oz.

My cousin was born before 24 weeks and under 1lb.

It does happen.

Not in this case but you can actually survive at that weight!

@NameChangeEmbarressed nope! Similar role making appointments though

It's like an instant reaction

"Thursday the 16th"
Customer "what date is that"
The... 16th?

When my dad died, my now ex boyfriend said “what about me? Have they (my family) asked how I’m feeling?”

😶

I said no, why would they? (We’d been together about two years, they didn’t like him)

then I told him not to come to the funeral, I didn’t want him there (can’t think why 🤔)

he said he wanted to go, that he should be in the family car following the hearse.

I said no. He said “but that’s not fair! I’m family!” I said no you’re not.

and the absolute potato turned up anyway, and just stared at me from a short distance away. He even brought his bloody camera with him. At the wake, he had jumped into a mutual friend’s car as she was pulling out of the parking space and told her she didn’t mind giving him a lift as she was going there anyway. She knew I didn’t want him there, but he refused to get out.
at the wake, he approached me, didn’t ask how I was, just said he wanted to be there to support me, that I needed him, and noticed that my ex husband was there. They spent the rest of the wake staring at each other, and sulking, making it all about them.
I told boyfriend to go home, I don’t want him there, and to stay away from me.
ex husband said he was hurt that boyfriend was there, and was sulking in the corridor with our daughter.
so, I said to both of them, my dad died. This isn’t about you right now.
at the end, family got into a minibus to go to a restaurant, I asked my brother in law to make sure boyfriend didn’t get on board. I didn’t say goodbye, just left. As we pulled off, he was hurrying after the bus and looking annoyed, and I told the driver not to stop, just go as I didn’t want him there.

he kept calling me over and over again, but I ignored him.
I called him either on the day, or the day after, and broke up with him. He wouldn’t accept it. His mum said it was the shock of losing my dad…
he said but I’m the best you’ll have…
there’s more, but I ended up moving house as he stalked my mum and I for several months.

My friend and I were talking to her lodger , who appeared perfectly fine and healthy. They went up to their bedroom and came down a few minutes later with a bandage around their wrist. On asking what had happened , we were told that they had been bitten by a cobra, we laughed and were told off for not believing them.

This is true! Well, not the part about them being homeless necessarily, but some of the street beggars in London do have card readers…..

The delightful midwife who bellowed at me ‘you have just had a baby, dear!’ When I showed her my dark red urine bag from my catheter (c-section). I realise that, love, but the catheter leads to my bladder, not my fucking uterus.

I didn’t say that, just sat there, berated and scared, as some HCP can make you feel.

Turns out they’d nicked my bladder in a very tricky section. The damn catheter stayed in for 3 days, as they waited for the bleeding to stop 😑

It's a thing, apparently. Saggy cheeks or a skeletal appearance due to loss of facial fat. I'm safe, thank God...

My GP stating that women make up Menopausal symptoms and his wife sailed through it

‘You stink of dead flesh’
because I was wearing a leather jacket (in a charity shop in London)

> This is the worst thing I've read on this thread

In a thread full of devastating, heartbreaking things

Back off, @masterblaster . The nerve of you.

Oh my God

More worried about such irresponsible governments and party leaders, to be honest.

"I was in the SAS you know." From a guy who obviously wasn't.

Oh I've just thought of another really upsetting incident. My late Mum died at home. She had been battling oesophageal cancer and was skin and bone and bald. We made sure she had a painless, peaceful death in her own bed.

However, she died just after midnight so we had a locum GP rather than our family GP come out to certify her death. He walked into the bedroom where my poor little skeletal mum was lying and said "has she been ill then?". This was 20 years ago, he was also a young man, but I'll never forget his face when he realised what he'd said.